Society for Mathematical Biology Conference

July 30 - August 2, 2008, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

Hosted by the Centre for Mathematical Medicine (CMM). This is one of the premier conferences on mathematics in biology and the biomedical sciences. This conference will integrate into the activities of the Fields Thematic Program on Mathematical and Quantitative Oncology with Cancer being one of the major themes of the conference.
The themes for the meeting will include:

Immunology
Epidememiology
Cancer Modelling
Cancer Therapies
Systems Biology
Ecology
Developmental Biology

Cell Biology
Environmental and Evolutionary Biology
Imaging
Neuroscience
Physiology
Genomics
Undergraduate Education

Plenary speakers

M. Golubitsky (Houston)
M. Knothe Tate (Case Western)
N. Komarova (UC Irvine)
H. Levine (UC San Diego) M. Lewis (Alberta)
L. Mahadevan (Harvard)
T. Secomb (Arizona)
Y. Zhou (China)

For more information, visit: https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/08-09/SMB/index.html

Registration fees

Member Non-members

Early registration
(before July 1)
$290 CDN
$350 CDN

On or after July 1
$390 CDN $450 CDN

Student Registration
$100 CDN $130 CDN

*Conference Banquet Tickets are $50 and are purchased through on-line registration
A Niagara Falls excursion is also being arranged with tickets available through on-line registration.

Associated meetings

Fields Thematic Program on Mathematical and Quantitative Oncology
July -August 2008

Call for submissions

Minisymposium proposals Minisymposium proposals deadline to submit was January 31, 2008

Contributed talk proposals and poster proposals.
Contributed talk proposals deadline to submit was May 15, 2008
Poster proposals willbe accepted until July 15, 2008

	Tuesday, July 29,2008
5:00-7:00 pm	5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Early registration and welcoming reception the Fields Institute, 222 College Street

	Wednesday, July 30, 2008
7:45-8:15 a.m.	Registration on -site
8:15-8:30 am	Welcome & opening remarks
8:30-9:30 am	Auditorium Chair: S. Sivaloganathan Plenary Talk: L. Mahadevan (Harvard) Mechanochemistry and motility
9:30-10:00 am	Lobby McLeod Auditorium, Morning Coffee Break Mentors/Mentees Meeting and Introductions (Auditorium)
10:00-12 noon	Auditorium	MedSci 2172	MedSci 2173	MedSci 3163	MedSci 3264	MedSci 3268
	MiniSymposium 5 Chair: J. Lowengrub	MiniSymposium 11 Chair: Robert Smith?	MiniSymposium 10 (I) Chair:Brian Ingall	CT1 Immunology Chair: V. Venturi	CT2 Epidemiology I Chair: C. Bauch	CT4 Physiological Systems Chair: A. Layton
	Multiscale modeling of solid tumor growth and angiogenesis	OptAIDS: Can we halt the AIDS epidemic using optimal donor spending models	Theoretical approaches to systems biology I	V. Venturi	K. Eames	D. Cromer
				F. Lipsmeier	S. Bell	J. Barber
				O. Dushek	F. Chamchod	A. T. Layton
				N. Sepúlveda	R.Kao	B. Fendler
				R. Mehr	L. Yeghiazarian	X. Wang
				A. M. Smith		J. Lu
noon-1:30 pm	Lunch Break noon-1:30 pm
1:30-2:30 pm	Auditorium, Chair : M. Mackey Plenary talk: T. Secomb (Arizona) Growth and structural adaptation of blood vessels in normal and tumor tissues
2:30-3:00 pm	Auditorium Lobby Afternoon Tea Break
3:00-5:00 pm	Auditorium	MedSci 2172	MedSci 2173	MedSci 3163	MedSci 3264	MedSci 3268
	MiniSymposium 9 Chair:Yangjin Kim	MiniSymposium 13 Chair: Jane Heffernan	MiniSymposium 10 (II) Chair: John Parkinson	CT5 Cancer I Chair: T. Roose	CT3 Epidemiology II Chair: S. Webb	CT8 Cell Biology Chair: J. Watts
	Tumor microenvironment: Influence on cancer progression	Mathematical immunology and infectious disease	Theoretical approaches to systems biology II	B. Szomolay	S.Selmane	R. Mehr
				A. Eladdadi	V. Brown	S.Waters (S.Eastburn)
				J. Jeon	Z. Patwa	A. Chauvière
				J-P. Voroney	R D van Gaalen	J. Wattis
				R. Rockne	P. Budu-Grajdeanu	A. Rashidi
				H. Hatzikirou	S. Webb	M. Stolarska

	Thursday, July 31
8:30-9:30 am	Auditorium Chair: J. Tuszynski Plenary Talk:Herb Levine (UC San Diego) *Models of Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: How cells use stochastic Pde's to figure out where to go*
9:30-10:00 am	Lobby McLeod Auditorium Morning Coffee Break
10:00-12 noon	Auditorium	MedSci 2173	MedSci 3163	MedSci 3171	MedSci 3264	MedSci 3268
	MiniSymposium 3 Chair: H. Gaff & R. Fister	MiniSymposium 6 Chair: Yi Jiang	MiniSymposium 8 Chair: Jose Luis Perez Velazquez	MiniSymposium 1 (I) Chair:Helen Moore	CT 9 Theoretical and Comp. Methods Chair: H.Zhu	CT 10 Population Dynamics Chair: I. Pressman
	Application of optimal control theory to oncology, ecology and epidemiology	Multiscale modeling of biological systems	Does neuroscience have a logic? - Limitations of brain and machine information processing	Viral dynamics - Mathematical models of viral infection and treatment I	J. Chiu	K. Cuddington
					C. DeHaan	S. Rottenstreich
					J. Wan	J. M. Grant
					S. Merchant	B.Yurk
					R. Ruiz Baier	D.Hiebeler
					R. P. Mondaini	Q. Zheng
noon-2:00 pm	Lunch Break	MedSci 2173 Chair: Rebecca Tyson	Lunch Break
		Minisymposium on Women's Issues & Luncheon Gender Equity in Grant Awards: NSERC & NSF
2:00-3:00 pm	Auditorium Chair : P. Maini Plenary Talk: N. Komarova (UC Irvine) *Stochastic modeling of cancer*
3:00-3:30 pm	Auditorium Lobby Afternoon Tea Break
3:30-5:00 pm	Auditorium SMB General Meeting
5:00-6:00	McLeod Auditorium Lee Segel Prize Winners Talks
6:00 p.m.	6:00-8:00 p.m. Lee Segel Prize Reception Sponsored by Society for Mathematical Biology and Springer Secaucus Location Massey College

	Friday, August 1 (poster boards available for set up in Medical Science Stone Lobby)
8:30-9:30 am	Auditorium Chair: J. Wu Plenary Talk: Y. Zhou (China) Discrete TB Transmission Model with Age and Infection Age Structures
9:30-10:00 am	Auditorium Lobby Morning Coffee Break (viewing of posters)
10:00-12	Auditorium	MedSci 2172	MedSci 2173	MedSci 3163	MedSci 3264	MedSci 3268
	MiniSymposium 15 (I) Chair: Jianhong Wu	MiniSymposium 1(II) Chair:Mark Dresser	MiniSymposium 2 Chair:Ruth Baker	CT 6 Cancer II Chair: T. Carr	CT 11 Biological Systems Chair: E. Flach	CT 12 Neuroscience I Chair: A.Kane
	Canada-China Minisymposium Session on Mathematical Epidemiology(I)	Viral dynamics - Mathematical models of viral infection and treatment II	Pattern formation on continuously deforming domains I	T. W. Carr	C. Jupp	S.A. Campbell
				H. Enderling	E. Flach	C. E. Smith
				C. Turner	R. Williams	F. Skinner
				M. J. Simpson	G. Thorn	L. Rogers
				T. Roose	C. Postlethwaite	D. A. Drew
				R. Gunawan	T. Schlub	D.B Forger
noon-1:30 pm	Lunch Break (viewing of posters)
noon-1:30 pm		MedSci 2172 MiniSymposium 17 How to get a Tenure Track Job
1:30-2:30 pm	Auditorium Chair: N. Britton Plenary Talk: M. Lewis (Alberta) *Dynamics of emerging wildlife diseases*
2:30-3:00 pm	Auditorium Lobby Afternoon Tea (viewing of posters)
2:30-3:00 pm	Auditorium	MedSci 2172	MedSci 2173	MedSci 3163	MedSci 3264	MedSci 3268
3:00-5:00 pm	MiniSymposium 15 (II) Chair: Yican Zhou	MiniSymposium 12 Chair: Yuriy Zibnchenko	MiniSymposium 16 Chair: Timothy Reluga	CT 15 Signalling Pathways & Biochemical Networks I Chair: S. Schnell	CT 14 Biofluid Dynamics Chair: S. Waters	CT 13 Neuroscience II Chair: J. Tuszynski
	Canada-China Minisymposium Session on Mathematical Epidemiology(II)	Minimizing the adverse effects of uncertainities in external radiation therapy	Game-Theory Approaches in Epidemiology	D. Irons	S. Waters	J.A. Tuszynski
				S. MacNamara	N. El Khatib	J.L. Perez Velasquez
				M. Domijan	S. Speziale	A. Kane
				S. Sinha	R. Shipley	E. Stone
				S. Jeyaraman	K. Wilkie	V. Luria
				C.M. Fortmann	A. Kumar	J. Mazzeo
5:00-6:00 pm	Auditorium "Torcom Chorbajian" Lecture Chair: A. Friedman Plenary talk: M. Knothe Tate (Case Western) Engineering an Ecosystem: Taking Cues from Nature's Paradigm to Build Tissue in the Lab and the Body
6:00-7:15 p.m	Poster Session Torcom Reception Sponsored by the Society for Mathematical Biology Location: Hart House
7:30 p.m.	Conference Banquet, Banquet Speaker: Vito Quaranta, Director VICBC Location:Hart House (ticket purchase required)

	Saturday , August 2
8:30-9:30 am	Auditorium Chair: F. Skinner Plenary Talk: M. Golubitsky (Houston) Coupled Systems in Neuroscience
9:30-10:00 am	Auditorium Lobby Morning Coffee Break
10:00-12 noon	McLeod Auditorium	MedSci 2172	MedSci 2173	MedSci 3163	MedSci 3264	MedSci 3268
	MiniSymposium 15 (III) Chair:Xingfu Zou	MiniSymposium 7 Chair: Richard Schugart	MiniSymposium 4 Chair: Tim Comar	MiniSymposium 2 (II) Chair: Anotida Madzvamuse	CT 7 Cancer III Chair M . Kohandel	CT 16 Signalling Pathways & Biochemical Networks II Chair: M. Roussel
	Canada-China Minisymposium Session on Mathematical Epidemiology(III)	Mathematical modeling in wound healing	Current trends in undergraduate biomathematics education	Pattern formation on continuously deforming domains II	C. Deroulers	M. Tindall
					M. Badoual	C. H. Lee
					S.C.Massey	M. Roussel
					G. Powathil	S. Mueller
					J. Osborne	X. Liu
					M. Schuette
noon-1:00 pm	Lunch Break
1:00-9:00 p.m.	End of Conference 1 p.m Trip to Niagara Falls, box lunch provided, tickets required purchased in advance when registering

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Organizing Committee

Mohammad Kohandel - University of Waterloo

Irwin Pressman - Carleton University

Siv Sivaloganathan - The Fields Institute and University of Waterloo

Frances Skinner - Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network

Hongmei Zhu - York University

Scientific Advisory Committee

Mark Chaplain - University of St Andrews

Eric Cytrynbaum - University of British Columbia

Avner Friedman - The Ohio State University

James Keener - University of Utah

Mohammad Kohandel - University of Waterloo

Michael Mackey - McGill University

Philip Maini - University of Oxford

Michael Milosevic - Princess Margaret Hospital

Vito Quaranta - Vanderbilt University

Siv Sivaloganathan - The Fields Institute and University of Waterloo

Kristin Swanson - Mayo Clinic

Jack Tuszynski - University of Alberta

Gail Wolkowicz - McMaster University

Jianhong Wu - York University

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	Member	Non-members
Early registration (before July 1)	$290 CDN	$350 CDN
On or after July 1	$390 CDN	$450 CDN
Student Registration	$100 CDN	$130 CDN