The First Argentine School of Mathematics and Biology will take place in the town of La Cumbre, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, from December 1st to 10th, 2005. It will constitute a core activity of the Argentine Biomat Program, which has been working since the end of 2002 to encourage inter-disciplinary collaboration between bio-researchers and mathematicians in Argentina.
The aim of the School is to foster inter-disciplinary collaboration and the creation of research groups in bio-mathematics. The general theme of the School will be mathematical modeling in biology. More specifically, the mathematical aspects of computational biology.
One of the main barriers to inter-disciplinary work are the different languages and cultures. We hope that living together for 10 days with a significant number of the leaders in biomathematical research, will bring researchers with different backgrounds closer together, and will enable the crossing of disciplinary frontiers. This will help to give rise to new work groups and stimulate collaboration between them. At the same time, it will help to make young doctors and doctoral students enthusiastic about new lines of research, through being exposed to a wide range of mathematical approaches of interest in biology, attending classes and interactive workshops, as well as seeing specific contributions of mathematics to biology.The first version of the human genome published in the year 2000 and the sequencing finished in 2003, were widely considered one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century. The culmination of this magnificent project was made possible by an unprecedented effort of collaboration between researchers who provided tools from computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, mathematics, statistics, computational sciences and engineering. The next stage is to understand how the huge variety of biochemical components, including proteins and metabolic products, interact to form the complex networks of reactions. These networks include the cellular interaction and cellular metabolism networks. The school will focus on the genome and on the intracellular biochemical reaction networks, including the genetic regulation networks.
There will be three courses based on:
- Algebraic statistics for computational biology, (see abstract) coordinated by el Prof. Lior Pachter, Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics of the University of California at Berkeley.
- Computational algebra methods in systems biology (see abstract) coordinated by Reinhard Laubenbacher, Research Professor of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
- Algorithm analysis in functional genomics, coordinated by Osvaldo Podhajcer, Professor of the Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires.
The school will start with three introductory courses in molecular and cellular biology, in algebraic statistics and in computational algebra.
One or two daily plenary conferences are also planned of broad, multi-disciplinary interest, and some brief conferences, selected by the scientific committee from among participants' proposals.
- Francisco Bezanilla
University of California, Los Angeles- Sergio Cannas
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Rosana Chehin
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán- Dante Chialvo
Northwestern University, Chicago- Carlos Condat
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Nicholas Eriksson
Universidad de California, Berkeley- Marisa Gutiérrez
Universidad Nacional de La Plata- Abdul Jarrah
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute- Alberto Kornblihtt
Universidad de Buenos Aires- Ezequiel Leiva
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Reinhard Laubenbacher
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute- Bruno Maggio
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Peter Marcowich
Universitaet Wien, Viena- Jorge Negroni
Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires- Lior Pachter
University of California, Berkeley- Osvaldo Podhajcer
Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires- José Puglisi
Loyola University, Chicago- Andrea Rotnitzky
Universidad Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston- Gustavo Stolovitzky
Watson Research Center, IBM, New York- Jorge Passamani Zubelli
IMPA, Rio de JaneiroThe First Argentine School of Mathematics and Biology is sponsored by the following institutions:
- Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
- Academia Nacional de Ciencias
- Agencia Córdoba Ciencia
- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, UNC
- Reinhard Laubenbacher
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute- Lior Pachter
Universtity of California, Berkeley- Osvaldo Podhajcer
Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires- Juan Tirao
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
- Jorge Adrover
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Alicia Dickenstein
Universidad de Buenos Aires- Héctor López
Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra, Córdoba- Inés Pacharoni
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Francisco Tamarit
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Juan Tirao
Universidad Nacional de CórdobaThe First Argentine School of Mathematics and Biology will take place in the Gran Hotel La Cumbre, in the town of La Cumbre, in the hills 90 km from the city of Córdoba, in the northernmost part of the Punilla Valley. Full board and lodging per person per day in a shared room is AR$71 or US$25.
The organization of the School has a limited number of scholarships and half-scholarships available, which will cover only the cost of full board and lodging in a shared room. The scholarships will be granted preferably to undergraduates, post-graduates and young researchers who are willing to take part in the whole duration of the School. Those interested in obtaining financial assistance, as well as completing the enrollment form, should send to ebiomat@mate.uncor.edu , before October 31th, 2005, a curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages), a brief description of their reasons, and the name, position and e-mail of a referee.
There will also be a limited amount of financial assistance for trained researchers presenting papers. Those interested should send a curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages) and a brief description of their reasons.
All those interested in taking part in the School must complete the enrollment form before October 31st, 2005.
A limited number of scientific communications are expected to be presented, which will be selected by the scientific committee from among proposals from the participants. Those interested should send an abstract of the paper on the appropriate form
The conferences and the scientific communications are to be published in the series "Actas de Congresos" of the National Academy of Sciences.
Don't forget the following closing dates!
In all cases, an enrollment fee will be charged at the time of registering, in accordance with the following table: