Workshops

Modeling Workshops

June 7, 2007 (Jefferson Hotel and VCU)
10:30-5:30

Most biomedical scientists are unaware of or untrained in the mathematics and informatics based approaches of Systems Biology. We have elected to offer two parallel one day workshops designed to familiarize biomedical researchers with these approaches. These workshops will be available for a fraction of the attendees at the Summit, but will be a very valuable ‘add-on’ for those who choose to participate. One of the two workshops is aimed a clinical and translational scientists, and the second is aimed at more basic scientists. A short description is provided below:

Opening Lectures:

10:30-11:30 Tarynn M. Witten: Overview of Modeling Complex Biomedical Systems

11:30-12:30 Richard Summers: General Approaches to Modeling in Basic, Clinical and Translational Research

Hands-on Workshops

Workshop I. Fast Start Modeling and Simulation Tools for Basic Biological Research: - In this workshop biological research scientists will be exposed to both free and pay-ware software products that can be used to facilitate modeling and simulation of biological and biomedical systems. Participants will learn about various software packages available for doing "omic" research, biomedical systems simulation, and image processing/scientific visualization. We anticipate twenty participants in this workshop. It will be held in the Teaching and Video Conferencing Laboratory of the Engineering Building at VCU. The workshop will run from 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Thursday June 6.

Workshop II. Modeling And Simulation Of Organ Systems For Clinical Researchers:  - In this workshop clinical researchers will be exposed to mathematical and computational modeling/simulation methods for modeling individual organ dynamics as well as organ system dynamics. Examples will be drawn from neurobiological, cardio-pulmonary, endocrine, and trauma modeling. We anticipate twelve participants in this workshop. It will be held in the Teaching and Video Conferencing Laboratory of the Bioinformatics Computational Core Lab at VCU (see description below). The workshop will run from 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Thursday June 6. Participants in this workshop can receive CME credits.

Preliminary Workshop Agenda

Time

Topic Area

Workshop I: Basic Science

Workshop II: Clinical Science

1:00-2:30

Structure

Introduction to Biological Network Modeling: Basic Software Packages
Danail Bonchev/VCU

Introduction to Clinical Network Modeling: Basic Software Packages
Nathan Menke/VCU

2:30-4:00

Function

Modeling from the Experimentalist's Perspective: How to Mine the Literature and Design Experiments to Provide Data that Informs Mathematical Models of Signaling Networks
 Jill Sible/Virgina Tech

Multi-Cell Modeling of Tissue Patterning Processes
Shayn Peirce-Cottler/UVA

4:00-5:30

Modeling & Simulation

Real-time Simulations of Protein-Protein and Peptide-Protein Interactions
Pete Peters/VCU

Complex Patterns of Abnormal Heartbeats
Marilyn Bishop & Tom McMullen/VCU