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Showing posts with label Events on Systems Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Events on Systems Biology. Show all posts

Sunday, May 27, 2012

3rd Annual Predictive In Vitro Models 2012 at USA

With the costs of discovering and developing a new drug spiralling to over $900m, the demand for more accurate and predictive in vitro models has never been greater.
By arming researchers with an in-depth toxicity and efficacy profile for candidate pipeline drugs, a new breed of models offer the prospect of saving drug developers millions. High potential compounds will be prioritized, animal use reduced and clinical strategy directed by progress in the predictive models field.
Realizing such immense potential will require thought leaders to address very specific challenges. Calls to action are being made to validate the utility and practicality of 3D culture, stem cell and organ-on-a-chip models and confront attendant issues in assay development. Industry and academia also agree that more must be done to productively integrate in vitro and in vivo acquired knowledge and translate that into clinical success.
By engaging with senior figures at Pfizer, Amgen, AstraZeneca, UCB, Novartis and many others, we have addressed these concerns and constructed an unbeatable agenda. As such, this meeting promises high level, commercially directed discussion of the most pressing technical and strategic issues at hand.

Attend this meeting to:
• Get an up-to-the-minute snapshot of cutting edge developments in in vitro models to boost preclinical accuracy and accelerate your drug discovery and development
• Avoid costly clinical attrition and maximize your profit by reducing development costs
• Understand the required criteria to achieve scientific validation of your model
• Benchmark yourself against industrial case studies on how in vitro models have performed in industry
• Meet the major industry players and most innovative start ups for unparalleled business development opportunities
• Increase efficiency by hearing from the leading solution providers and technology developers
Who should attend this meeting:
• Pharma companies interested in reducing drug development costs
• Scientists and academics working in tissue engineering, toxicology and systems biology
• Biotechs and solution providers developing exciting and innovative in vitro models

Further details and to register

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Russia BGRSSB-2012 : 8th International Conference on the Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructureSystems Biology

The Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia, will arrange the 8th International Conference on the Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructureSystems Biology (BGRSSB-2012). These regular conferences have been run since 1998. The young scientists' school “Bioinformatics and Systems Biology” will be arranged as part of the conference. Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing field of knowledge. Each of the past BGRS conferences concerned topics urgent at those times. To preserve this tradition, the BGRS-2012 conference will be dedicated to bioinformatics and systems biology. The principal task of systems biology is integrated experimental and computer-assisted investigation of regularities in the organization and functions of biologic systems at the molecular, cell, tissue, organ, and body levels on the base of the information encoded in genomes. Important sources of experimental data for systems biology are efficient technologies: high-throughput parallel sequencing of genomic DNA and analysis of its populational and evolutionary variability, analysis of the expression of genes and gene sets, structural and functional investigation of proteins and metabolites by methods of proteomics and mass spectrometry, study of the structures and functions of biologic objects (biomolecules, chromosomes, cells, tissues, organs, and organisms) by up-to-date microscopic methods and intravital tomography of laboratory animals, and construction of molecular systems by gene engineering methods. Bioinformatics methods are important for systems biology. They allow accumulation and consolidation of experimental data, computer-assisted analysis, and mathematical modeling of the structures, functions, and evolution of living systems. High-throughput (supercomputer-assisted and distributed) computation plays a great role in bioinformatics. Systems biology follows physics in that comprehensive theoretical and computerized analysis of systems and processes under study is essential for the design and interpretation of an experiment. For this reason, much attention will be placed on studies based on the integration of experimental and computer-assisted approaches. Here are the fields of bioinformatics and systems biology on which the conference will be focused: * Computer-assisted genomics, transcriptomics, and chromosomics. Genome-wide sequencing and personal genomes. Spatial organization of genetic material in cells. * Assembling algorithms. Annotation of genomes and metagenomes. * GWAS, associative criteria, and analysis of polymorphisms. * Bioinformatics of complex quantitative traits. * Bioinformatics and structural biology. Molecular dynamics of biomolecules and supramolecular complexes. * Bioinformatics and search for new pharmacological targets. * Reconstruction and modeling of gene networks. * Metabolism engineering and bioinformatics. * Synthetic computer biology and experimental design of artificial molecular systems. * Evolutionary bioinformatics. * Bioinformatics of the nervous system and the brain. * Bioinformatics of morphogenesis. * Bioinformatics of stem cells and epigenomics. * Supercomputer-assisted and distributed computation in bioinformatics. * Data consolidation and automated data mining in publications and databases. Recent achievements in these fields will be reported. The conference will include plenary, panel, and roundtable sessions. As before, the program will be made with regard to proposals from participants, who are encouraged to apply for organization of panels. Heads of panels will participate in the conference on special terms. You are invited to participate in the Eighth International Conference Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructureSystems Biology (BGRSSB-2012). Please contact us at bgrs2012@bionet.nsc.ru

Further Conference Details

Monday, March 12, 2012

2012 Germany SBMC - 4th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells

We are delighted to invite you to join us at the 4th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells to be held at the famous Gewandhaus in Leipzig from 9-11 July, 2012.

This international conference is the latest in a series, the previous ones having been held in Heidelberg, Dresden and Freiburg, all of which focus on various topics of systems biology of eukaryotic cells and beyond. Fuelled and inspired by the rapid advancement of ‘omics technologies, imaging techniques, novel bioinformatic tools and new computational, physical and engineering approaches, systems biology is now aiming at understanding and predicting not only the biochemical and cell biological processes within a cell, but also those at more complex levels of organization such as in tissues, organs, and even whole organisms. Modelling across scales of time and space is challenging, but may enable us to transform the exciting wealth of information on the physiological and patho-physiological behaviour of biological systems into holistic insight, on the one hand, and into novel therapeutic strategies, on the other.

SBMC 2012 will present cutting-edge experimental, theoretical and computational approaches as well as exciting examples of modelling complex biological systems across scales, in an evolutionary context and this year in particular, will span the range of interests from basic to biomedical research, and on towards industrial applications. The fundamentals and challenges of systems biology will be the focus of a keynote debate between Nobel-laureate Sydney Brenner and long-standing champion of systems biology Dennis Noble of Oxford University, chaired by Peter Hunter from the University of Auckland.

We would also like to welcome you in Leipzig, a city full of history, modernism, trade fairs and sports as well as the home of glorious poets, composers and writers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Sebastian Bach. Founded in 1409, its University looks back over an exciting history as the second oldest university in Germany, where the teaching, uninterrupted for more than 600 years, has been held in high esteem for its academic achievements in humanities and the natural sciences. In the last 20 years since the reunification of Germany, the University of Leipzig has also developed into a vivid centre of Systems Biology with an emerging international visibility.

Having satisfied yourselves intellectually at the stimulating scientific sessions, the city boasts many cosy little cafés in the old town around the Gewandhaus, that welcome you to relax and enjoy the beauty of Leipzig.

Visit us at SBMC 2012

Friday, February 10, 2012

Systems Biology Europe conference and exhibition - SBE2012 Spain

Welcome to our Systems Biology Europe conference and exhibition. This year's event will be held in Madrid, the capital and largest city of Spain.

The four conference tracks at this event include Cancer Proteomics, Informatics, Exosomes/Markers in Biological Fluids and Metabolic Profiling & Lipidomics. Registered delegates will have access to all four meetings ensuring a very cost-effective trip.

October 16, 2012