Glasgow/Edinburgh Workshop on Systems Biology

This informal workshop took place on Thursday 24th February.
The objective was to increase awareness of Systems Biology activity and opportunities,
both within Edinburgh, and between the Edinburgh and Glasgow communities.

10:00Welcome
Prof Gordon Plotkin, LFCS, University of Edinburgh
10:00Signal Transduction Modelling
Prof Igor Goryanin, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
10:30Biological clocks in theory and experiments
Prof Andrew Millar, IMPS, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
11:00Coffee Break
11:30Towards Grid-based Systems Biology
Dr Richard Sinnott, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
11:50Genes 2 Cognition: protein complexes in the mammalian brain
Dr Douglas Armstrong, ANC, University of Edinburgh
12:10SyntenyVista -- a viewer for mammalian synteny
Dr Ela Hunt, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Glasgow
12:30Buffet Lunch
1:30The Biochemical Pathway Simulator Project
Prof David Gilbert, Dr Richard Orton, Dr Oliver Sturm, Mr Vlad Vyshemirsky,
Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Glasgow
Prof Muffy Calder, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
2:30Process algebra
Prof Gordon Plotkin, LFCS, University of Edinburgh
2:50Coffee Break
3:20RNA processing in yeast
Prof Jean Beggs, ICMB, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
3:40Inferring networks using Bayesian reasoning
Dr Mark Girolami, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Glasgow

A follow-on meeting in Glasgow is being planned for the early summer.
If you are interested in attending, and did not attend the February 24th meeting, please let me, Jane Hillston, know.


Jane Hillston
Last modified: Thu Apr 14 16:58:10 BST 2005