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Paper Submission Deadline: 29 May 2016
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Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine
hosted by CIBB 2016<http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/cibb2016/index.html>
1-3 September 2016, Stirling, UK
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Call For Papers
Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* analysis of robustness of cellular networks
* biomedical model parameterization
* cancer progression models
* clinical image analysis
* emergent properties in complex biological systems
* flux balance analysis
* metabolic engineering
* metabolic pathway analysis
* model verification and refinement methods
* models of neural activity
* multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems
* parameter estimation methods
* personalized models
* reverse engineering of reaction networks
* software tools for systems biology
* spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems
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Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 29th May 2016
Acceptance notification: 22nd June 2016
Camera ready due: 8th July 2016
Authors registration due: 8th July 2016
Conference: 1st - 3rd September 2016
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Organizers
Paolo Cazzaniga, University of Bergamo, Italy
Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Riccardo Colombo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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Submission guidelines
Prospective authors should submit papers prepared according to the following instructions:
* Papers should be submitted in PDF format (this is the only accepted format)
* Papers length should be at least 4 pages and should not exceed 6 pages
* We warmly recommend the use of the provided latex template and instructions<http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/cibb2016/cibb2016-sample-v.1.3.zip>. Should this not be possible, authors should reproduce the format and style of the sample paper available with the latex style.
* Papers should adhere, as much as appropriate, to the following structure and sections
* Scientific background
* Materials and methods
* Results
* Conclusions
* References
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Contacts
Paolo Cazzaniga, PhD
University of Bergamo
email: paolo.cazzaniga from unibg.it<mailto:paolo.cazzaniga from unibg.it>
tel: +390352052933
Chiara Damiani, Ph.D.
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milan Bicocca
Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) -
phone: +39 02 64487918
mail: chiara.damiani from unimib.it<mailto:chiara.damiani from unimib.it>
