Just a reminder of tomorrow's IIC Colloquium:
Multiscale Cancer Modeling
October 28, 2009, 4:00 pm
Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Thomas S. Deisboeck
Director, Complex Biosystems Modeling Laboratory, Harvard-MIT
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts
General Hospital-East
Abstract
This talk will focus on modeling cancer as a complex dynamic,
multiscaled biosystem where macroscopic behavior is determined by
microscopic cell-cell and cell-microenvironment interactions that in
turn are guided by dynamics on the sub-cellular level. Deisboeck will
discuss applications to several cancer types as well as introduce a
related international research effort,
CViT.org.
Bio
Thomas S. Deisboeck received his M.D. degree from the Technical
University in Munich, Germany. He began his highly collaborative,
interdisciplinary tumor modeling work in 1997, after being recruited
for a postdoctoral fellowship by the Neurosurgical Service at
Massachusetts General Hospital. Now part of the Harvard-MIT Martinos
Center for Biomedical Imaging (MGH), Dr. Deisboeck’s laboratory is
studying cancer as a complex dynamic, adaptive and self-organizing
biosystem. The work involves methods and techniques from oncology
research, bioengineering, mathematical biology, computational and
complex systems science. Dr. Deisboeck is currently associate
professor of radiology and is affiliated with the MGH Center for
Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Work in his laboratory is supported by the National Cancer
Institute.
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Mark your calendar for upcoming IIC colloquia:
Nov. 4, 4:00 pm: Lorena Barber, Boston University
Nov. 18, 4:00 pm: Joe Futrelle, National Center for Supercomputing
Applications
Also please note the following upcoming special event:
"Rethinking Computing"--a discussion of how computer science is
enhancing scientific exploration and discovery to help solve the most
pressing global challenges. by Craig Mundie, Chief Research & Strategy
Officer, Microsoft
Tuesday, November 3, New College Theater, 10-12 Holyoke Street, 2:30
PM (doors open at 2:15)
For more information about IIC colloquia and other events :
http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming
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