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About SIQBIS
The complexity of biological systems limits our ability to understand these systems without the tools of physics, mathematics and information theory, which have important roles to play in analyzing and characterizing the increasingly quantitative data of experimental biology. We are developing a cooperative student research program between the Los Alamos Center for Nonlinear Studies and researchers at many UC campuses covering a range of problems in biological systems, from the mechanisms of macromolecular dynamics including, for example, DNA, RNA and proteins, through the complex biochemical processes that determine function at the cellular level, to cooperative inter-cellular phenomena such as morphogenesis or computation of networks of neurons. We have chosen to focus on a particular subset of this vast array of challenges that interfaces effectively with developing tools of applied statistical physics, and also have strong interplay with emerging national security missions.
Ongoing Activities:
- Annual q-bio Conference
- q-bio Summer School 2009
- SIQBIS Summer Student Application
Recent Related CNLS Conferences:
- Grand Challenges in Neural Computation (February 2007)
- Algorithms, Inference, and Statistical Physics (May 2008)
- Complexity of Biological and Soft Materials (May 2007)
- Excited States in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials (October 2007)
- Proteins Under Pressure (January 2008)
- Classical and Quantum Information Theory (March 2008)
- 15th International HIV Dynamics and Evolution (April 2008)
- Information Science and Technology (May 2008)
- Nuclear Pore Complex (August 2008)
* Image Credit: Center for Network Neuroscience, University of North Texas