The Art and Science of Systems Biology

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The Art and Science of Systems Biology is scheduled for March 26 and 27. It will feature public lectures on quantitative biology and an exhibition of winning pieces in the NSF-sponsored 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Click here to visit the web site for this event hosted by Santa Fe Complex.

Contents

Location

This event will take place at Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Free parking is available but limited. Additional nearby parking is available in the Railyard area.

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Schedule

Friday, March 26, 2010

16:30-17:30 Private reception for registered participants
Register here (registration is fast and free, but limited)
17:30-20:00 Public Lecture 1
17:30-17:45 Welcome, TBA
17:35-17:40 Welcome, Dr. Katharine Chartrand, Executive Director, New Mexico Consortium
17:40-17:45 Welcome, TBA
17:45-18:00 Introduction of speakers, Dr. Elaine L. Bearer, Professor, Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
18:00-18:40 Part I, How the sea urchin embryo gets its cleavage furrows (in the right place), Dr. Garrett M. Odell and Dr. Victoria E. Foe, University of Washington
18:40-18:50 Break
18:50-19:30 Part II, How the sea urchin embryo gets its cleavage furrows (in the right place), Dr. Garrett M. Odell and Dr. Victoria E. Foe, University of Washington
19:30-19:45 Questions & Answers
19:45-21:00 Viewing
ARTS Lab dome projections
Winning pieces from the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (Branching Morphogenesis; Kuen's Surface: a Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Quantum Fields; Jellyfish Burger; Save our Earth, Let's Go Green; Flower Power), additional information about the winning pieces is available online from the NY Times here, from Science magazine here, and from NSF here

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

12:00-13:00 Kid-friendly opening reception and viewing
12:00 Doors open - viewing of ARTS Lab dome projections of Molecularium videos
12:45-13:00 Welcome, TBA
13:00-16:00 Workshop 1 - Nanoscience (abstract)
Interactive experiments for kids of all ages - a national NanoDays event, detailed information about hands-on activities is available here (Heather Armstrong, Program Coordinator, UNM Nanoscience and Microsystems Graduate Program)
Exhibits are on display all afternoon, learn about liquid crystals and ferro fluids
14:00-15:00 Workshop 2 - Agent-based modeling (abstract)
14:00-14:30 A brief introduction to agent-based modeling of molecular interactions (Dr. William S. Hlavacek)
14:30-15:00 Software tutorial - learn what executable biology is all about! (Drs. Bin Hu and Ryan N. Gutenkunst)
15:00-16:00 Workshop 3 - Imaging
Take a peek at the molecular world
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Private reception for registered participants
Register here (registration is fast and free, but limited)
17:30-19:00 Public Lecture 2
17:30-17:35 Welcome, Dr. Edward Angel, Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Complex
17:35-17:45 Welcome, Dr. Robert E. Ecke, Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies
17:45-18:00 Introduction of speakers, Dr. Angela Wandinger-Ness, Professor, Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
18:00-18:45 Talk, Journey through the cell, Dr. Bridget S. Wilson, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
18:45-19:00 Questions & Answers
19:00-21:00 Viewing
ARTS Lab dome projections
Winning pieces from the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (Branching Morphogenesis; Kuen's Surface: a Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Quantum Fields; Jellyfish Burger; Save our Earth, Let's Go Green; Flower Power), additional information about the winning pieces is available online from the NY Times here a, from Science magazine here, and from NSF here

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Speakers

Art

Click here to see a video about the winners of the 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

  • Branching Morphogenesis (First Place, Illustration), Peter Lloyd Jones, Andrew Lucia, and Jenny E. Sabin, University of Pennsylvania's Sabin + Jones LabStudio
  • Kuen's Surface: a Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Quantum Fields (First Place, Illustration), Richard Palais and Luc Benard, University of California, Irvine
  • Jellyfish Burger (Honorable Mention, Illustration), Dave Beck, Clarkson University, and Jennifer Jacquet, University of British Columbia
  • Save our Earth, Let's Go Green (First Place, Photography), Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy, and Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
  • Flower Power (Honorable Mention, Photography), Russel Tayloy, Briana K. Whitaker, and Briana L. Cartens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Other pieces contributed by Tom Greenbaum (Albuquerque kiln-cast glass artist), Lynda Burch (Albuquerque and Santa Fe graphic artist), Seth Ruffins and Rusty Lansford (Los Angeles artists and visualization scientists), Noel Harvey (Santa Fe grapic artist), Lauren Ehrlich (Palo Alto/ Stanford visualization scientist), Elaine Bearer (Albuquerque scientist), David Laidlaw (Brown/Providence Rhode Island visualization computer scientist), Russ Jacobs (Caltech imaging scientist), Diane Lidke (Albuquerque visualization scientist), and Anand Krishna Tiwari (Zeiss microscopy and imaging contest winner in 2008, Indian visualization student).

Organizers and Event Coordinators

Sponsors

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