Overview Topics and Speakers

This is the list of topics covered in the summer school and the corresponding speakers.

  • videos of the conference talks
Cell Cycle Modelling
John Tyson, USARegulation and control of the cell cycle.website
Andrea Ciliberto, ItalyQuantitative approaches to modelling the cell cycle.website
 
Multiscale Modelling
John Lowengrub, USANonlinear simulations of solid tumour growth.website
Philip K. Maini, UKThe role of heterogeneity in multiscale tumour growth modelling.website
Helen Byrne, UKModelling the response of tumours to chemotherapy.website
Dirk Drasdo, FranceMulti-scale models of multi-cellular growth.website
 
The Cancer-Ageing Link
Manfred Kunz, Germanyp53-mediated 14-3-3 expression in response to DNA damage.website
Julio Vera, GermanyModelling p53-mediated 14-3-3 expression.website
 
Metabolomics & Fluxomics
Marta Cascante, SpainModelling dynamical metabolic fluxes.website
Ulrich Guenther, UKMetabolic profiling data obtained by GC/MS, LC/MS and NMRA.website
 
Stochastic Modelling
Santiago Schnell, USAMicroscopic, mesoscopic, macroscopic perspectives.website
Mukhtar Ullah, GermanyStochastic modelling and simulation: an overview.website
 
Live Cell Imaging
Michael White, UKSpatio-temporal protein dynamics in single living cells.website
 
Cancer (Epi)Genetics
Darryl Shibata, USAModelling DNA methylation in cancer cells.website
 
Industry Perspective
Brian Harms, USAComputational modelling to drive the development of targeted therapeutics.website
David Fell, UKApplications of systems biology in anti-cancer therapeutic development.website
 
The p53/mdm2 Network
Ingeborg van Leeuwen, SwedenComputational modelling of the p53/mdm2 network.website
 
EGF & MAPK Signalling
Philippe Lenormand, FranceThe role of phosphatases in MAP kinase signalling.website
Boris Kholodenko, USACell-signalling dynamics in time and space.website
James Ferrell, USAFeedback loops and bistability in the regulation of MAPK pathways.website
Christine Sers, GermanySignaling-mediated regulation of gene expression via DNA methylation.website
Nils Bluethgen, GermanyModelling MAP kinase signalling in oncogene-transformed cells.website
 
Chronotherapy
Francis Levi, FranceMotivation and basic principles of chronotherapy website
Hanspeter Herzel, GermanyComputational models of circadian timing systems in mammalian cells.website
 
Data & Model Integration
Charles Auffray, FranceData integration and network modelling for prediction of patient
responses to chemotherapy
Olaf Wolkenhauer, GermanyHandling uncertainty and complexity - an overview of modeling strategies.website
 
Mouse Genetic Models
Owen Sansom, UKMouse genetic models of cancer.website
 
Apoptosis
Boris Zhivotovsky, SwedenApoptotic pathways in human malignancies.website
 
Carcinogenesis
Robert Gatenby, USAApproaches to the modelling of initiation, promotion, and progression in carcinogenesis.website
 
Jak/Stat Signalling
Robert Jaster, GermanyGrowth-inhibitory signalling through STAT1 in the context of pancreatic cancer.website
Katja Rateitschak, GermanyModelling shuttling and translocation of cellular processes.website
 
Wnt Signalling
Trevor Dale, UKInvolvement of canonical Wnt signalling in tumourigenesis.website