[BBC] Lecture series on computational modeling of plants, next week in Ghent, 1-5 september, 10:00 - 12:30 daily (9:00 on Tuesday)

[Roeland Merks]

Next week, from September 1st to September 5th, the VIB Department for
Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Ghent, Belgium, will
host a one-week summer school on mathematical and computational modeling
for plant systems biology: http://www.psb.ugent.be/plantmodels.

The course features a series of general lectures by international
experts on computational modeling of plants.
The week 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.

The morning lectures are accessible to a general audience of plant
biologists and are open to everyone without registration. Unfortunately,
afternoon computer lab sessions will be accessible only to registered
attendants and registration has closed.

Lectures will start at 10:00 in the Jozef Schell seminar room on all
days except for Tuesday, when the lectures will start at 9:00.

The full program is included below. For more information and abstracts,
please visit http://www.psb.ugent.be/plantmodels.

Best wishes,

Roeland Merks
Gerrit Beemster
Dirk Inzé
Xavier Draye

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Monday, 1st September 2008
Genetic and metabolic networks

10:00-11:00 Xin-Guang Zhu (Shanghai, China). Dynamic models of
photosynthetic metabolism

11:15-12:15 Joe Pomerening (Bloomington, IN, USA). Coupled positive and
negative feedback loops drive transitions in embryonic and somatic cell
cycles


Tuesday, 2nd September 2008
Single cell shape and mechanics

9:00-10:00 François Nédélec (Heidelberg, Germany). Models of microtubule
organization in fission yeast

10:15-11:15 Bela Mulder (Amsterdam/Wageningen, Netherlands). Modelling
cellulose biosynthesis and plant cell wall architecture

11:15-12:15 Verônica Grieneisen (Utrecht, Netherlands). Auxin gradients
in root development

Wednesday, 3rd September 2008
Multicellular pattern formation

10:00-11:00 Hans Meinhardt (Tübingen, Germany). Models of biological
pattern formation applied to plant development

11:15-12:15 Richard Smith (Bern, Switzerland). Simulation models of
auxin transport-based patterning in plants.


Thursday, 4th September 2008
Plant growth mechanics

10:00-11:00 Alain Goriely (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA).
Continuum models of plant growth and remodeling

11:15-12:15 Roeland Merks (VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology,
Ghent, Belgium). Cell-centered modeling of plant tissues


Friday, 5th September 2008
Whole plant development and evolution.

10:00-11:00 Xavier Draye (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Model integration:
building multidisciplinary, soil, plant and atmosphere models

11:15-12:15 Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Calgary, Canada). Cells to
ecosystems: multiscale modeling of plant development and form