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Focus Group Meeting: Multiscale Methods in Biology: Schedule

Schedule
Sunday, November 2
8:45-9:00am Welcome and overview of workshop: Marty Golubitsky and Mark Alber
9:00-9:45am Philip Maini: Three Multiscale models for tumor growth
9:45-10:30am Mark Alber: Multiscale Model of Thrombus Development
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Timothy Newman: Looking ahead: connecting scales in models of embryogenesis
12:00-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:45pm Markos Katsoulakis: Hybrid couplings of microscopic stochastic systems to large-scale dynamics
2:45-4:15pm Discussion of hybrid systems and connections between discrete and continuous models
Monday, November 3
9:00-9:45am Jianzhong Su: Multiscale issues from molecular and cellular level modeling
9:45-10:30am Leonard M. Sander: A generalized Cahn-Hilliard equation for biological applications
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Herbert Levine: Pre-synaptic calcium dynamics - cellular biophysics and possible neural system consequences
12:00-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:45pm Andre Levchenko: Iterative computational/experimental analysis of signaling pathways: the tools and the paradigms
2:45-4:15pm Discussion of coupling experimental data and simulations at different scales
Tuesday, November 4
9:00-9:45am Bjorn Birnir: A Dynamical Systems Simulation of Myxobacteria, regulated by Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) Theory
9:45-10:30am Melissa Knothe Tate: Understanding Mechanical Adaptation of Self-Assembling Cellular Contructs: The Need for Mathematical Models
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45pm Andy Stein: The Micromechanics of 3d Collagen Gel
11:45-12:30pm Alethea Barbaro: An interacting particle model of fish migration and associated scaling laws
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Discussion on biological problems suitable for multiscale modeling