ICB
10 September 2001 to 19 December 2001
In recent years there has been an explosive growth in our knowledge of biological processes, especially at the molecular and cellular level. However, understanding the behaviour of an individual chemical reaction or cell (or organism) in isolation is only a first step in understanding the collective behaviour of a population of such individuals. The situation is complicated by the fact that the individual behaviour is in many cases stochastic, and even if it were intrinsically deterministic, the environment is not. Therefore probabilistic methods are essential in deriving a population-level description from models of individual behaviour, though it is unlikely that the same mathematical approach will be applicable in all systems.
Biology is too broad for one programme to cover all systems susceptible to mathematical analysis. Therefore this programme will concentrate on four biological topics: (1) Physiology. The emphasis will be on bringing together those who have established detailed descriptions of individual cells and then put them together into a whole organ on a parallel computer, one cell per processor, and those who try to establish average or continuum models, based on the same microscopic data, in advance of computation. (2) Development biology. This topic covers all aspects of pattern-formation in populations of cells. Given that we know more and more about what chemical and other processes are switched on or off by which genes, it is increasingly desirable to understand how the cells act and interact to produce observed structures. (3) Stochastic spatial ecology. In this time of unprecedented environmental change it is crucial for scientists to formulate a mechanistic (stochastic) description of the change based on underlying ecological processes: examples include the spatial spread of introduced pests; the shift of species ranges as a result of environmental change (climatic or directly man-made), etc. (4) Theoretical immunology. New techniques have led to an increasing stream of kinetic data on the populations of various types of immune cells. However, proper understanding of the dynamics of these populations will come only in the framework of a formal theoretical model.
The specific program in each of the four major areas is formulated with the advice and assistance of a leading biologist:
Each month of the programme will be devoted to one of the topics, beginning with a workshop on both the biological problems and those mathematical approaches which might be expected to be fruitful. While most biological participants will probably wish to stay for only one of the topics, it is hoped that key mathematical scientists will stay for the whole four-month period.
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Title | Year | Programme | |
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Pattern formation in reaction-diffusion models with nonuniform domain growthAuthors: ET Al, WW Hackborn, EJ Crampin, PK Maini |
2001 | ICB | 21 October 2016 |
Mathematical modelling of tumour angiogenesis and the action of angiostatin as a protease inhibitorAuthors: S Pamuk, BD Sleeman, ET Al, Howard Levine |
2001 | ICB | 21 October 2016 |
Making sense of complex phenomena in biologyAuthors: PK Maini |
2001 | ICB | 21 October 2016 |
A mathematical model for germinal centre kinetics and affinity maturationAuthors: PK Maini, D Iber |
2001 | ICB | 21 October 2016 |
24 September 2001 to 28 September 2001
25 September 2001 to 25 September 2001
3 December 2001 to 5 December 2001
7 December 2001 to 8 December 2001
9 December 2001 to 15 December 2001
Wednesday 12th September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 |
Hans Othmer University of Minnesota |
Room 2 |
Thursday 13th September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 | Room 2 |
Friday 14th September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 |
Johannes Jaeger |
Room 2 |
Monday 17th September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 |
Hans Othmer University of Minnesota |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 18th September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 |
Nick Monk University of Sheffield |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 19th September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 | Room 2 |
Thursday 20th September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 |
Peter Hunter University of Auckland |
Room 1 |
Friday 21st September 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 17:30 | Room 2 |
Monday 1st October 2001 | |||
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09:00 to 10:00 |
Paul Kulesa CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) |
Room 2 | |
10:30 to 11:30 | Room 2 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Peter Hunter University of Auckland |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 2nd October 2001 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 2 |
Wednesday 3rd October 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Ray Keller University of Virginia |
Room 2 |
Thursday 4th October 2001 | |||
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14:30 to 15:30 |
Pedro Ponte Castaneda University of Pennsylvania |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 9th October 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Sima Setayeshgar |
Room 2 |
Thursday 11th October 2001 | |||
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13:30 to 14:30 |
Stephen Grand Aalborg Universitet |
Room 1 |
Monday 15th October 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Pedro Ponte Castaneda University of Pennsylvania |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 16th October 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Robert Dillon Washington State University |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 17th October 2001 | |||
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13:30 to 14:30 |
Dirk Drasdo Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena |
Room 1 |
Thursday 18th October 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 14:45 |
Eric Cytrynbaum University of Utah |
Room 1 | |
14:45 to 15:30 |
Robert Hinch University of Oxford |
Room 1 |
Monday 22nd October 2001 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Edith Geigant University of Bonn |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 23rd October 2001 | |||
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11:00 to 13:00 | Room 1 | ||
13:30 to 14:15 |
Kevin Painter |
Room 1 | |
14:15 to 15:30 |
Faustino Sanchez-Garduno Aalborg Universitet |
Room 1 |
Monday 29th October 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 16:30 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 30th October 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Matthieu Louis |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 31st October 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 1st November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 17:00 | Room 1 |
Friday 2nd November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 1 |
Monday 5th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:30 | Discussion Room |
Tuesday 6th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Pejman Rohani University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
Friday 9th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:30 | Discussion Room |
Monday 12th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Discussion Room | ||
15:00 to 17:00 | Discussion Room |
Tuesday 13th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Nick Barton University of Edinburgh |
Room 1 |
Thursday 15th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Joel Peck University of Sussex |
Room 1 |
Friday 16th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 16:00 |
Nigel John Burroughs University of Warwick |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 20th November 2001 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Discussion Room | ||
14:00 to 16:00 |
Vincenzo Capasso University of Milan |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 21st November 2001 | |||
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13:30 to 14:30 |
Andreas Deutsch |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 16:00 | Discussion Room |
Thursday 22nd November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Mark Chaplain University of Dundee |
Room 1 |
Monday 26th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
David Sumpter |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 27th November 2001 | |||
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11:00 to 17:30 | Discussion Room | ||
11:30 to 13:00 | Room 2 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Francis Ratnieks University of Sheffield |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 28th November 2001 | |||
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13:30 to 14:30 | Discussion Room |
Thursday 29th November 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 |
Monday 3rd December 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Stephen Martin University of Sheffield |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 4th December 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 |
Wednesday 5th December 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Soldier aphids - the evolution of co-operation in a clonal animal |
Room 2 |
Thursday 6th December 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Spatiotemporal spread of the GB foot and mouth disease epidemic and implications for control |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 17:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 13th December 2001 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Discussion Room |
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