MGDC NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND DOSE RESPONSE MODELING

NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND DOSE RESPONSE MODELING

2 - 4 March, 2012

Organized by

Mahatma Gandhi – Doerenkamp Center (MGDC)

For Alternatives to Use of Animals in Life Science Education,

Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 620 024, India

[Established by Doerenkamp - Zbinden Foundation (DZF), Switzerland

&

In collaboration with People for Animals (PfA), Chennai]

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

· Current computational modeling techniques for the quantitative investigation of how biological systems respond to perturbations at the cellular level

· Common motifs in signal transduction and gene regulatory networks that underlie systems-level cellular behaviors including homeostasis, adaptation, threshold response, binary and irreversible cell fate decisions, and oscillatory behaviors

· To use these techniques to develop computational tools for understanding and predicting nonlinear dose response behaviors for drug and chemical entities

TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN LECTURES & EXERCISES

Computational dose response modeling – background
Network motifs in quantitative cell signaling and dose response
Binary decision-making in biological systems: positive feedback, bi - stability, irreversibility, and cellular memory
MAPK-mediated ultra sensitivity and bi - stability
Cellular homeostasis, stress response and adaptation
Stochastic gene expression, its biological function, and implication for dose response

· Exercises on the Berkeley Madonna® software program accompanying each lecture

WHO CAN APPLY

B.Tech. & PG students, Research Scholars, Technicians, Scientists, Faculties and Personnel from Industries, with Bio-informatics/Computational Biology background

REGISTRATION FEE & DEADLINE

CATEGORY	Till 31/01/2012	After 31/01/2012
Students/Scholars/Technicians	2000	3000
Scientists/Faculties/Industry Personnel	3000	5000

Note: Registration closes after 15/02/2012. The registration fee includes food and accommodation for 3 days.

** Enrollment will be limited to 100 participants.

HOW TO APPLY

The registration form may be downloaded from MGDC’s website www.mgdcaua.org. The filled - in registration form, along with the Demand draft obtained in favor of “Director, MGDC”, payable at Tiruchirappalli, may be sent by post / courier to the convener.

Further details can be had from http://www.mgdcaua.org/docs/workshop_csbdrm.pdf

For downloading Registration form http://www.mgdcaua.org/docs/registration_form_csbdrm.pdf