Event Details
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Date
04 November 2010 -
Time
8:30am to 5:00pm -
Venue
Bio21 Institute -
Price
This event is free of charge
About This Event
This Symposium brings together experts from diverse fields to answer the question:
"What is systems biology and what can a systems biology approach achieve?"
A wide range of speakers from various fields will provide practical examples of solving scientific problems using a systems biology approach.
Who should attend? The symposium will be of interest to scientists at all levels in the biomedical arena, including students, who wish to understand more about this emerging field and discover potential applications to their own research.
- Download the flyer
- Download the program.
- Download Peter Hunters Talk (5.3 Mb pdf)
- Download all of the talks (Except PH, 8.6 Mb Zip file)
About The Speakers
Plenary Speaker:
Professor Peter Hunter
Professor of Engineering Science and Director, Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Director of Computational Physiology at Oxford University
Professor Hunter's major research interests focus on modelling many aspects of the human body using specially developed computational algorithms that combine detailed anatomical and microstructural measurements and material properties.
As co-Chair of the Physiome Committee of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Professor Hunter helps lead the international Physiome Project, which uses compuational methods to understand integrated physiological functions.
Other Speakers:
Paul Chambers, AWRI, South Australia
Mark Cook, Dept Medicine, St Vincent's Health
Terry O'Brien, Dept Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital
David Bowtell, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Phil Hodgkin, Immunology Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Susie Nilsson, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering
Peter Harris, Dept Physiology, University of Melbourne
Liam O'Connor, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, La Trobe University