From csbi-events at mit.edu Wed Oct 4 11:59:32 2006 From: csbi-events at mit.edu (CSBi events) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:59:32 -0400 Subject: [CSBi-events] MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR CSBI OKTOBERFEST!! Message-ID: <11c69f8e630877991604f62930e320b0@mit.edu> CSBi Oktoberfest October 19, 2006 12:00p - 4:00p 50 Walker Memorial Lounge, first floor CSBi Oktoberfest (3rd annual research get-together) an afternoon of brief research talks by faculty who are performing research in the area of Computational and Systems Biology. Graduate students and postdocs will also present posters on their current research. This event is open to anyone in the MIT community with an interest in systems biology. Poster abstract submission - Due Friday, Oct. 6 Poster submissions are open to any graduate students and post doctoral fellows affiliated with a faculty member who will be giving a talk at the event. Please go to the website: http://csbi.mit.edu/events/poster_sessions/2006oktoberfest Please contact Darlene Ray (dray at MIT.EDU) with any questions, we hope to see you there! From csbi-events at mit.edu Wed Oct 4 15:03:50 2006 From: csbi-events at mit.edu (CSBi events) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:03:50 -0400 Subject: [CSBi-events] Oktoberfest Invitation Message-ID: Good afternoon, regarding the earlier version of this invitation, Please note!: Any researchers or students that work in systems biology are invited to submit a poster and may do so on the following link: Thanks, the CSBi team! http://csbi.mit.edu/events/poster_sessions/2006oktoberfest CSBi Oktoberfest October 19, 2006 12:00p - 4:00p 50 Walker Memorial Lounge, first floor CSBi Oktoberfest (3rd annual research get-together) an afternoon of brief research talks by faculty who are performing research in the area of Computational and Systems Biology. Graduate students and postdocs will also present posters on their current research. This event is open to anyone in the MIT community with an interest in systems biology. Poster abstract submission - Due Friday, Oct. 6 Poster submissions are open to any graduate students and post doctoral fellows interested in systems biology affiliated with a faculty member who will be giving a talk at the event. Please go to the website: http://csbi.mit.edu/events/poster_sessions/2006oktoberfest Please contact Darlene Ray (dray at MIT.EDU) with any questions, we hope to see you there! From csbi-events at mit.edu Tue Oct 17 14:55:59 2006 From: csbi-events at mit.edu (CSBi events) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:55:59 -0400 Subject: [CSBi-events] Event of Interest Message-ID: <4a245912e96c693a0e06b926cb1b0377@mit.edu> Chris Surridge, managing editor of the new PLoS ONE, is speaking at 2pm on Friday, 10/20 in 32-141.? Students and post-docs are invited to lunch with Chris at noon on Friday.? If you are interested, please email Sri Kosuri (skosuri at mit.edu ).? Space is limited, so please respond as soon as possible. Details on room location will be sent to those attending.? Thanks, Sri Kosuri Chris Surridge, Managing Editor, PLoS ONE Open to the Public 2pm, Friday October 20, 2006 MIT Stata Center, 32-141 Part of OpenWetWare's Seminar Series on Open Science http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series Talk Overview Dr. Surridge is helping start PLoS ONE, an effort to democratize scientific contribution, access, review, and merit. This exciting new journal publishes scientifically sound research regardless of subjective criteria such as "likely impact" or "reader interest". Following publication, readers comment, annotate, and rate each paper, adding value to the work as time goes on. Dr. Surridge will talk of the progress to date, and the challenges that lie ahead. Biography Adapted from the PLoS Website: Christopher Surridge graduated with a degree in Biophysics from Leeds University in 1988 and went on to study the dynamics of microtubule assembly at Imperial College London. After a couple of years of post-doc research he moved into scientific publishing as Assistant Editor on Nature Structural Biology in December 1993. In 1995 he moved onto the editorial team at Nature where he handled an eclectic mix of subject areas mainly focusing on biophysics, mathematical and systems biology, and plant science. He also spent some time editing Nature's Brief Communication section which has never fully recovered. By mid-2005 the allure of reshaping scientific publishing to satisfy the needs of a new century became irresistible and he moved to PLoS's Cambridge office working on a new project called PLoS ONE to be launched in 2006. ---- This seminar series is sponsored by OpenWetWare (http://openwetware.org), a wiki serving the biological science and engineering community.? For more information, or online videos of past lectures, go to the Seminar Series website.? Those interested in meeting with Dr. Surridge, please contact Sri Kosuri (skosuri at mit.edu ). From csbi-events at mit.edu Tue Oct 17 15:19:58 2006 From: csbi-events at mit.edu (CSBi events) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:19:58 -0400 Subject: [CSBi-events] Event of Interest Message-ID: Hi Sri, I would like to attend. Best, Kapil. CSBi events cc: (bcc: Kapil Mayawala/PH/Novartis) Sent by: Subject: [CSBi-events] Event of Interest csbi-events-bounc es at MIT.EDU 10/17/2006 02:55 PM Please respond to csbi-events Chris Surridge, managing editor of the new PLoS ONE, is speaking at 2pm on Friday, 10/20 in 32-141.? Students and post-docs are invited to lunch with Chris at noon on Friday.? If you are interested, please email Sri Kosuri (skosuri at mit.edu ).? Space is limited, so please respond as soon as possible. Details on room location will be sent to those attending. Thanks, Sri Kosuri Chris Surridge, Managing Editor, PLoS ONE Open to the Public 2pm, Friday October 20, 2006 MIT Stata Center, 32-141 Part of OpenWetWare's Seminar Series on Open Science http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series Talk Overview Dr. Surridge is helping start PLoS ONE, an effort to democratize scientific contribution, access, review, and merit. This exciting new journal publishes scientifically sound research regardless of subjective criteria such as "likely impact" or "reader interest". Following publication, readers comment, annotate, and rate each paper, adding value to the work as time goes on. Dr. Surridge will talk of the progress to date, and the challenges that lie ahead. Biography Adapted from the PLoS Website: Christopher Surridge graduated with a degree in Biophysics from Leeds University in 1988 and went on to study the dynamics of microtubule assembly at Imperial College London. After a couple of years of post-doc research he moved into scientific publishing as Assistant Editor on Nature Structural Biology in December 1993. In 1995 he moved onto the editorial team at Nature where he handled an eclectic mix of subject areas mainly focusing on biophysics, mathematical and systems biology, and plant science. He also spent some time editing Nature's Brief Communication section which has never fully recovered. By mid-2005 the allure of reshaping scientific publishing to satisfy the needs of a new century became irresistible and he moved to PLoS's Cambridge office working on a new project called PLoS ONE to be launched in 2006. ---- This seminar series is sponsored by OpenWetWare (http://openwetware.org), a wiki serving the biological science and engineering community.? For more information, or online videos of past lectures, go to the Seminar Series website.? Those interested in meeting with Dr. Surridge, please contact Sri Kosuri (skosuri at mit.edu ). _______________________________________________ CSBi-events mailing list CSBi-events at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/csbi-events _________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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Graduate students and postdocs will also present posters on their current research. This event is open to anyone in the MIT community with an interest in systems biology. From csbi-events at mit.edu Wed Oct 18 09:48:58 2006 From: csbi-events at mit.edu (CSBi events) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:48:58 -0400 Subject: [CSBi-events] Fwd: Two Views on Teaching Quantitative Biology, 10/18/2006 Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20061018094714.03ef7da0@hesiod> >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:10:43 -0400 >To: dray at mit.edu >From: Douglas Lauffenburger >Subject: Fwd: Two Views on Teaching Quantitative Biology, 10/18/2006 >X-Spam-Score: -3.468 > > >Two Views on Teaching Quantitative Biology > >David Botstein, Ph.D. >Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics >Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton >University > >Linda G. Griffith, Ph.D. >Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering >Director, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, MIT > > >Wednesday, >October 18, 2006 > >3:00pm > >Room: 68-180 Darlene K. Ray Academic Administrator Computational and Systems Biology NIH/NIGMS Interdepartmental Biotechnology Training Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Mass Ave., Bldg. 16-429B Cambridge, MA 02139 Tele: 617-253-3874 Fax: 617 324-4870 From csbi-events at mit.edu Mon Oct 23 12:29:57 2006 From: csbi-events at mit.edu (CSBi events) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:29:57 -0400 Subject: [CSBi-events] Forum of Interest Message-ID: <647988a8603bdcb99bd6e35e47ce0ff1@mit.edu> Hello, This Thursday, Oct 26, room 68-181, 10:00-11:00, Martin Meier-Schellersheim Ph.D., from the NIH, Program in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Modeling, Laboratory of Immunology, will be presenting at the Cell Decision Processes Center's (CDP) weekly forum (see title and abstract below). You are invited to attend. Please feel free to pass this info on to your T cell list serves and groups. If you are interested in meeting with him, check out the times below and please let me know what time fits you best... If you want two time slots, that'd be great! 1:00-1:20 1:30-1:50 2:00-2:20 2:30-2:50 3:00-3:20 3:30-4:00 Many Thanks, -John Speaker: Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D. Program in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Modeling Laboratory of Immunology National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Title: Moving from 'computing in biology' to 'computational biology' Abstract: While the use of computers for data management or statistical analysis has become standard in biology, computers are much more rarely used by biologists as a tool to develop new hypothesis or models. The reason is that the computational models that emerge from most modeling efforts are - in contents and representation - too far away from the biological model they were based on. Most experimental biologists are neither capable (or willing) to recognize their research in abstract formalized representations nor do they have the necessary background in mathematics or computer science to deal with sets of differential equations or scripting languages. As a result, most computational modeling in biology is being conducted in a manner that is somewhat isolated from the input and scrutiny of 'real' biologists. In my talk I will present our work that aims at providing a bridge between the complexity of biological models and computational representations that can be used to perform quantitative analyses of the behavior of those models. The modeling and simulation software simmune (http://www.simmune.org) we developed offers an interface that allows experimental biologists to use graphical representations of familiar objects like molecules, interactions between molecular binding sites, molecule complexes etc. to define models of cellular behavior with great detail. The software automatically translates the user inputs into mathematical representations and simulates their dynamics, offering various graphical outputs and possibilities of interaction with running simulations. John M Burke, PhD Research Scientist-Biomathematician Cell Decision Process Center Scientific Coordinator email:burkey at mit.edu Phone: 617.253.8644 Fax: 617.258.0248