Life Science Research and Education have witnessed a spectacular evolution over the last 20 years. While this is not uncommon across scientific disciplines, transformative changes that occurred in the Life Sciences are rooted in the technological advances making a flurry of novel data types available to researcher in exponentially growing amounts. Among those, the most obvious are genomes and accompanying functional genomics data, quantitative imaging of incredibly diverse types, but also increasingly cyber data on human behaviors and diseases or epidemic spreading. On the one hand this revolution has encouraged biology to reach out towards other disciplines such as applied mathematics, statistics, computer science and computer vision, which had overall quite significant impact on the typical composition of Biology faculties across the world. But importantly it has also spontaneously attracted researchers from fields such as physics or engineering who perceived an opportunity to adapt either theoretical ideas, quantitative models or new tools, to extract new biological knowledge and principles. Today, computational and more generally dry activities are becoming an integral part of Life Sciences Research and Education. Such new interdisciplinary approaches are needed to cope with the sensational complexity of biological systems and promise to yield some of the most exciting breakthroughs in the years to come.
The one day symposium aims at bringing together an exciting lineup of leaders who have made and are making key contributions in Biology using computational approaches in fields as diverse as
Cancer & Immunology
Genetics & Evolution
Genomics & Gene Regulation
Microbiolgy & Epidemiology
Neuroscience & Computation
Development & Biological Physics
Meeting Format:
Invited talks by ten high profile speakers (see below)
Poster session (poster papers contributed by participants)
