This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MB Center). This meeting is also sponsored by The Center for the Development of a Virtual Tumor (CViT), and The National Cancer Institute's Integrated Cancer Biology Program.
Thursday, August 3, 2006
7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast + Registration, Poster Setup
8:00 - 8:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
8:10 - 9:00 Introducing NCI's Integrative Cancer Biology Program
Daniel Gallahan, NIH-NCI
Summary ICBP Working Group Meeting: Opportunities &
Challenges for Computational Cancer Modeling
Thomas S. Deisboeck, Massachusetts General Hospital
9:00 - 9:45 Modeling carcinogenesis
Robert Gatenby, University of Arizona
9:45 - 10:30 A mathematical model of the digital response of p53 to DNA damage in single cells
John Wagner, IBM Computational Biology
10:30 - 11:00 Break and Poster Session
11:00 - 11:45 Improving breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis by
computational modeling and image analysis
David E. Axelrod, Rutgers University
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Poster Session
1:30 - 2:15 Multiscale Analysis of Genetic Networks in Cancer Cells
Adam Margolin, Columbia University
2:15 - 3:00 Towards a collaborative formulation of the Mathematical
Principles of Natural Philosophy: Living Matter.
The paradigm of In Silico Oncology
Georgios Stamatakos, National Technical University of Athens
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 Modeling the migration of glioma cells with a cellular automaton
M. Aubert, University of Paris
4:00 - 4:30 Modeling the effects of vasculature evolution on early brain tumor growth
Jana Gevertz, Princeton University
4:30 - 5:00 Extrapolating tumor invasion margins for physiologically determined radiotherapy regions
Ender Konukoglu, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
5:00 - 5:30 Modeling chemotherapeutic dose response curves via cell cycle effects
Charles Roth, Rutgers University
5:45 - 6:45 Buffet and Poster Session
7:00 Shuttle to Hotel
Friday, August 4, 2006 (1/2 day session)
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast and Poster Session
8:30 - 9:15 Discrete and continuous modeling of cell migration in
the ECM and applications to tumor invasion
Kevin Painter, Heriot-Watt University
9:15 - 10:00 Multiscale modeling of vascular tumor growth
Helen M. Byrne, University of Nottingham
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Molecular profiles of breast cancer progression
Gabriela Alexe, IBM Research
11:00 - 11:30 A cell-based model of the development of ductal carcinomas
Katarzyna Rejniak, University of Dundee
11:30 - 12:00 Simulated morphogenesis of papilloform ductal carcinoma
Troy Shinbrot, Rutgers University
12:00 - 12:30 Simulating tumor growth models using particle methods
Michael Bergdorf, ETHZ
12:30 Meeting Adjourn - Lunch
Poster Presentations
Graph theory and microvascular research
Michael L. Gargano, Pace University
Louis V. Quintas, Pace University
Eric M. Wahl, New York Institute for Bioengineering and Health Science
Analysis of large-scale alterations in tumor genomes
B. Raphael, University of California
Development of a three-dimensional multiscale agent-based tumor model
L Zhang, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dense cell packing in tumor spheroids
C. Strouthos, Massachusetts General Hospital
TBA
J. Jeon, Vanderbilt University
Cellular dynamics simulations of MCF10A cell random migration in two dimensions
A. Potdar, Vanderbilt University
Branching Out: A Cell-Based Model of Tumor-Induced Angiogenesis
Amy L. Bauer, Trachette L. Jackson, Yi Jiang, University of Michigan
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