Second CSIRO Symposium on "COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES IN LIFE SCIENCES"
5-7 February 1996
Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
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Second Circular and Call for Papers
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Visit Melbourne for three days during the Southern Summer and hear reports
of some of the most fascinating research in computational biology, medicine,
neurophysiology, agronomy... Life Sciences in general.
Or tell others about your research!
Have you seen "The Visible Man"? How can it be used to simulate deformation of
the body to simulate obesity, musclebuilding, infection and trauma?
How is Visible Human used in a surgical simulation?
Can the human brain be thought of as a computer or a dynamical system?
Can computation help us understand the functioning of a nervous system -
from a neuron to the whole system?
... and lots more in protein biology, plant modelling, drug design, etc.
The (continually updated) information on the 2nd CSIRO SYMPOSIUM ON
"COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES IN LIFE SCIENCES", 5-7 FEBRUARY 1996, MELBOURNE
is available on WWW. For general information, list of invited speakers,
titles of talks and abstracts, call for papers,
ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION (as easy as a mouse click),
and other items please browse through:
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Programme
Invited speakers:
Day 1: Monday 5-Feb-1996: - Computational Neurosciences Symposium
Professor Max Bennett
University of Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Modelling the synapse
Professor Steve Redman,
Australian National University, ACT, AUSTRALIA
Modelling individual neurons
Dr Joel Bornstein
University of Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Large scale computational reconstruction of enteric nerve circuits
Professor James Wright
Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Models of cerebral dynamics
Dr Timothy van Gelder
University of Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Computation and dynamics in Cognitive Science: An Overview
Day 2: Tuesday 6-Feb-1996 : - Virtual Plants, Agronomy
Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
University of Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
L-systems: from the theory to plant modeling methodology
Dr Jim Hanan
CSIRO Division of Entomology, Plant Insect Group, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Practical aspects of virtual plant research
Professor W R Remphrey
University of Manitoba, Manitoba, CANADA
Architectural modelling of trees: A question of detail and complexity
Professor David Green
Charles Sturt University, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Modelling plants in landscapes
Dr Art Diggle
University of Western Australia, WA, AUSTRALIA
Examples of agronomic processes represented with collections
of interacting objects
Day 3: Wednesday 7-Feb-1996 : - Visible Human, Biomolecular Engineering, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics
Professor V Spitzer
University of Colorado, Colorado, USA
The Visible Human Project - Male and Female
Professor Carmay Lim
Academia Sinica, TAIWAN
Protein Dynamics: Correlation between NMR Spectroscopy, X-ray
Crystallography and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Dr Geoffrey J. Barton
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Protein Structure Prediction: Meeting the challenge of genome projects
Dr Tim Littlejohn
Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS), AUSTRALIA
Delivering the goods: putting solutions to computational problems
into the hands of biologists
Dr Jill E. Gready
Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
Reaction mechanisms in enzyme active sites using a "divide and conquer"
approach: mixed quantum and molecular mechanics (qm/MM)
Dr Georg F. Weiller
Australian National University, ACT, AUSTRALIA
Graphical Representations in Sequence Analysis
Professor Benoit Roux
Universite de Montreal, CANADA
Molecular Dynamics simulations of membrane proteins
Professor Matthew Witten
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Recent Advances In Computational Medicine: The Man In The Machine Revisited
Hoping to meet you at the Symposium!
Sincerely,
Dr Marek Michalewicz,
Organising and Program Committees Secretary,
CSIRO Supercomputing Support Group,
Division of Information Technology,
723 Swanston Street, Carlton,
Vic. 3053, Australia
phone: +61 3 9282 2621; fax: +61 3 9282 2600
e-mail: marek at mel.dit.csiro.au
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Marek T. Michalewicz
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tel: +61 (03) 9574 9697 (home)
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