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Host: International Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Homepage: http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/icms/1999/cells/home.html
Organizers: Jonathan Sherratt (Heriot-Watt University), Mark Chaplain (Dundee), Philip Maini (Oxford), Hans Othmer (Utah)
Description:
Biological cells are discrete objects, yet most mathematical models for cell populations neglect this discreteness and use continuum averages. Although such models
have been highly successful at predicting a wide range of biological and medical phenomena, it is increasingly clear that in a number of biomedical contexts discrete
cellularity plays a crucial role.
This four-day interdisciplinary workshop will bring together mathematicians and biologists to examine the various discrete modelling approaches now in use in cell biology, and their connection with more established continuum frameworks. The workshop will highlight the wide range of biological phenomena that depend on cellularity and will identify the key challenges for theoreticians in this exciting new area of mathematical biology.
Each of the four days will be organised around a specific area of application, namely: Bacterial Motion and Biofilms, Aggregation in Cellular Slime Moulds, Developmental Dynamics, and Applications of Micro-Scale Modelling.
Speakers: Robert Dillon (Washington State), Hilary Lappin-Scott (Exeter), Hans Othmer (Utah), Angela Stevens (Leipzig), Pauline Hogeweg (Utrecht), Cornelius Weijer (Dundee), Pejman Rohani (Cambridge), David Rand (Warwick), Steve Baigent and Anne Warner (UCL ), Philip Maini (Oxford), Julian Lewis (ICRF, London), Mark Chaplain (Dundee), John Dallon (Heriot-Watt), Thomas Hoefer (Berlin), Jem Rashbass (Cambridge)
Date received: February 24, 1999
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