A Biochemical Society Linked Focus Meeting
Poster abstract deadline: 25 January 2010
Online abstract submission is now closed. If you wish to submit an abstract please contact the Conference Office. Late abstracts will not appear in the programme book.
Earlybird registration deadline: 22 February 2010
Registration is now closed. If you would like to attend the conference please contact the Conference Office.
Oral communication slots are available at this meeting. All attendees, particularly young researchers, are invited to submit a poster abstract for consideration as an oral communication.
Student travel grants are available for this meeting
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Systems biochemistry will be composed of three linked Biochemical Society Focused Meetings:
Systems analysis of metabolism
Signalling and control from a systems perspective
Systems approaches to health and disease
The meetings will run at the same time, coming together for plenary lectures, poster sessions and refreshments. The meetings will run with the same timing (facilitating movement between lecture theatres as and when desired) with a format of oral presentations by invited speakers and selected abstracts authors.
Registration for one meeting will allow attendance at either of the other two meetings (or both), depending on space availability.
Proceedings (invited speakers) will be published in Biochemical Society Transactions
Meeting Background
Systems Biology has emerged in recent years as an approach to biology that aims to discover how function at all levels of biological hierarchy emerges from the interactions between components of biological systems. It may start from the analysis of the patterns of dynamical behaviour of all system components together in a data-driven hypothesis generating mode (top-down systems biology), or from the analysis of how non-linear interactions between a limited number of interacting components generates functional properties where the goal is prediction and modelling of biology behaviour.
The meeting at York is the first Biochemical Society meeting to look at how this new research paradigm is being implemented in many different areas of biochemistry and molecular biology. It is planned as three linked focused meetings: on metabolism, on regulatory networks and signal transduction, and on implications for health and disease. In addition to these three parallel sessions, there will be plenary lectures and common poster sessions. Delegates will be free to move between the meetings, creating individual programmes focusing more on either bacterial or eukaryotic research, or on either experimental or modelling approaches.
In drawing up the programme, we have been able to benefit from the range of Systems Biology research initiated in the UK by the investments made by the BBSRC and EPSRC, which included the creation of six centres of Systems Biology and three doctoral training centres. In addition, collaborative research projects have been established with other European countries with System Biology programmes of their own.
Topics
Systems Biology
Computer simulation
Modelling
Metabolic control analysis
Cell signalling
Cancer