Institute of Systems Biology launch symposium With keynote lecture by Denis Noble: ‘The Principles of Systems Biology Illustrated with Multi-level Modelling of the Heart.’
Symposium 14.00–17.00 • Lecture Theatre G34, Sir Alexander Fleming Building,
Keynote lecture 17.45–18.45 • Lecture Theatre G16
Programme:
12.45 – 1.45 CISBIC Seminar: Unwinding the Biological Clock with Systems and Synthetic Biology – Andrew Millar
2.00 – 2.10 Introduction – Richard Kitney
2.10 – 2.15 The Programme for the day – Richard Kitney
2.15 – 3.15 Overview of the new Institute – Richard Kitney
3.15 – 3.40 Systems Biology – a view from Big Pharma – Adriano Henney
3.40- 4.05 ’Metabolic contributions to Systems Biology’ or ‘Microbes, mice and men’ – Elaine Holmes
4.05 – 4.30 New Imaging Technologies – Paul French
4.30 – 4.55 Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems – Jaroslav Stark
4.55 – 5.00 Closing Remarks – Richard Kitney
5.00 - 5.45 Tea
5.45 – 6.45 The Principles of Systems Biology Illustrated with Multi- Level Modelling of the Heart – Denis Noble
6.45 - 7.30 Reception
7.30 – 9.30 Dinner
Denis Nobel Biography: Denis Noble was educated at University College London, where he obtained his PhD in 1961. This concerned one of the very first computer models of the heart. The work was published in two articles in Nature in 1960. From 1984 to 2004, he was the Burdon Sanderson Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Oxford University. Denis is now Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology at Oxford. His research is focussed on using computer models of biological organs and systems to interpret function from the molecular to the whole body levels. With international collaborators, his team has used supercomputers to create the first virtual organ, the virtual heart.
As Secretary-General of the International Union of Physiological Scientists, Denis played a major role in launching the Physiome Project, an international project to use computer simulations to create the quantitative physiological models necessary to interpret the genome.
Denis is one of the pioneers of Systems Biology. He is author of a number of books – the latest being The Music of Life, which explains how genes work in groups and systems.
Pre-lecture tea reception from 17.00 • Lower ground foyer, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
A post-lecture drinks reception will follow the lecture