Seminars
Seminars are held once a fortnight (even weeks) on Wednesdays during term from 1-2p.m. in the Physics Right Hand (R-H) lecture theatre. Seminars are open to all staff and students at the University of Reading. Speakers are researchers working in the field of Systems Biology who are external to the University of Reading. Suggestions for seminar speakers are always welcome and should be e-mailed to m.tindall@reading.ac.uk
Spring 2012
8th February - "ITFOM: making ICT work for truly individualised Systems Medicine; £1G for 7 billion people" Further details on the project can be found at www.itfom.eu
Prof Hans Westerhoff (University of Manchester)
22nd February - "Systems Pharmacology: Bridging Systems Biology and Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics (PKPD) in Drug Discovery and Development"
Dr Piet van der Graaf (Pfizer)
7th March - To be announced
Dr Jennifer Hallinan (University of Newcastle)
21st March - "Chemotaxis: linking cell shape, behaviour and strategy"
Dr Robert Endres (Imperial College)
Past Seminars
Autumn 2011
2nd November - "Building and analyzing genome-scale metabolic models"
Prof David Fell (Oxford Brookes)
16th November - "Operating Data for Hollow Fibre Membrane Bioreactors for Tissue Engineering Applications: Combining Theory and Experiment"
Dr Rebecca Shipley (OCIAM, Oxford)
30th November - Cancelled
Spring 2011
23rd February - "A few examples of mathematical modelling in Syngenta, a world-leading plant science company"
Dr Domingo Salazar (Syngenta)
9th March - "Controlling mosquitoes by classical or transgenic sterile insect techniques"
Dr Steven White (CEH, Wallingford)
23rd March - "Operating Data for Hollow Fibre Membrane Bioreactors for Tissue Engineering Applications: Combining Theory and Experiment" - Cancelled
Dr Rebecca Shipley (OCIAM, Oxford)
Autumn 2010
20th October - "Bone remodeling and its role in bone metastases: a mathematical approach"
Mr Marc Ryser (McGill University, Canada)
3rd November - "An introduction to the Systems Biology Software Infrastructure and model parameter optimization"
Drs Stephen Gilmore and Richard Adams (Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh)
17th November - "Protein folding, function, visualisation and our approach to the global proteome"
Dr Lawrence Kelley (Imperial College, London)
15th December - "Biofilms versus chemostats: using individual-based modelling to study the effect of spatial structure on the fitness of competing strategies"
Dr Jan Kreft (Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham)
Summer 2010
12th May - "Multiscale modelling of plant root growth and development"
Dr Leah Band (Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham)
26th May - "Biofilms versus chemostats: using individual-based modelling to study the effect of spatial structure on the fitness of competing strategies"
Dr Jan Kreft (Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham)
9th June - Title
Dr Kevin Bryson (Department of Computer Science, University College London)
Spring 2010
20th January - "Single molecule in vivo imaging: Obtaining quantitative data for Systems Biology"
Dr Nick Delalez (Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford)
3rd February - "Bioinformatic and statistical methods for metabolomics"
Dr Tim Ebbels (Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Imperial College)
17th February - "Systems biology of streptococcus pneumoniae quorum sensing"
Dr Kevin Bryson (Department of Computer Science, University College London)
3rd March - "Modelling plant nutrient uptake"
Dr Tiina Roose (School of Mathematics, University of Southampton)
Autumn 2009
14th October - "High throughput approaches to biological signalling processes"
Dr Ben Hall (Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford)
28th October - "Structural identifiability and indistinguishability analyses: Tools for Systems Biology"
Dr Mike Chappell (School of Engineering, University of Warwick)
11th November - "System-level feedbacks control cell cycle progression"
Prof Bela Novak, Chair in Systems Biology (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
25th November - "Threshold models of intracellular calcium release"
Prof Stephen Coombes (Department of Mathematics, University of Nottingham)
Summer 2009
29th April - "How Systems Biology can benefit your research"
Dr Marcus Tindall and , University of Reading.
13th May - "Structure, dynamics and efficiency of tumour vascular networks"
Dr Tomas Alarcon (Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College, London). View abstract
27th May - "Molecular Logic Gates and Network Medicine"
Dr Rune Linding, The Institute of Cancer Research. View abstract.
10th June - "Mathematical models for tissue engineering"
Dr Sarah Waters (Oxford Centre for Industrial Applied Mathematics), Website: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~waters/Waters/Dr_Sarah_Waters.html