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.
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 7:15 - 7:45 Breakfast and Registration 7:45 - 7:55 Welcome and Opening Remarks Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director 7:55 - 10:00 Modeling Cancer Systems Biology 15 min short presentations from the 9 ICBP teams Moderated by Thomas S. Deisboeck, Massachusetts General Hospital and David E. Axelrod, Rutgers University 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:15 Cell fate decisions and the epigenetic landscape Sui Huang, Harvard Medical School 11:15 - 12:00 Instability in the cancer process Carlos Rodriguez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:15 Models of clonal expansion and wound healing in carcinogenesis Carlo Maley, The Wistar Institute 2:15 - 3:00 Cancer as somatic evolution Natalia Komarova, University of California 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 4:15 CancerSim Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico 4:15 - 5:00 Multiscale cancer modeling Thomas S. Deisboeck, Massachusetts General Hospital 5:00 - 5:45 What do we learn from monitoring tumor growth? Caterina Guiot, University of Turin 5:45 - 6:15 Summary: Working Group & Mini-Symposium Thomas S. Deisboeck, Massachusetts General Hospital and David E. Axelrod, Rutgers University 6:15 - 7:15 Buffet Dinner 7:30 Shuttle to Hotel