[BBC] Summer School: Computational and Mathematical Modeling for Plant Systems Biology

[Roeland Merks]

Summer school: Computational and Mathematical Modeling for Plant Systems
Biology
September 1-5, 2008, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology and Ghent
University, Ghent, Belgium

Plant science is evolving from a reductionistic view on gene function to
an integrated systems biology approach, in which gene functions are
studied in the context of the dynamic behavior of physiological,
cellular, or developmental processes. Mathematical and computational
modeling play a central role in this multiscale systems biology approach.

This summer school will bring together a wide range of computational
systems biologists, working on problems at different organizational
levels, relevant to plant biologists. The course will start with
phenomena occurring at the subcellular and cellular scale, including
photosynthesis, cell cycle regulation and the organization of the
cytoskeleton. Then it will gradually "scale up" to the tissue, organ,
and whole plant levels. It will conclude with pattern formation in
tissues, the mechanics of growth, and whole plant development and evolution.

Program

The course will include a series of general lectures aimed at a general
audience of plant biologists, and in-depth afternoon computer lab
sessions introducing participants to the underlying mathematical and
computational techniques.

A PDF poster is in the attachment.

For more information and registration, please go to
http://www.psb.ugent.be/plantmodels.


Organizers:
- Roeland Merks (roeland.merks at psb.ugent.be)
- Gerrit Beemster
- Dirk Inzé
- Xavier Draye

Speakers:

Genetic and metabolic networks
- Xin-Guang Zhu (Urbana, IL, USA). Photosynthesis
- Joe Pomerening (Bloomington, IN, USA). Cell cycle

Single cell shape and mechanics
- François Nédélec (Heidelberg, Germany). Cytoskeleton and mitosis
- Bela Mulder (Amsterdam/Wageningen, Netherlands). Cell wall
architecture and cytoskeleton

Multicellular pattern formation
- Hans Meinhardt (Tübingen, Germany). Reaction-diffusion models.
- Verônica Grieneisen (Utrecht, Netherlands). Auxin fluxes in the
developing root.
- Richard Smith (Bern, Switzerland). Auxin fluxes during phyllotactic
patterning.

Plant growth mechanics
- Alain Goriely (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA). Tip growth and
vine twining
- Roeland Merks (VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent,
Belgium). Cell-based modeling of plant tissues

Whole plant development and evolution.
- Xavier Draye (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Whole plant modeling, model
integration
- Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Calgary, Canada). Whole plant modeling and
evo-devo of plants


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Roeland Merks
Group Leader "Plant Systems Modeling"
Tel:32 (0)9 3313823                            Fax:32 (0)9 3313809
VIB DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, UGent
Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM
roeland.merks at psb.ugent.be                 http://www.psb.ugent.be
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