Atlantic Coast Symposium on the
Mathematical Sciences in Biology and Biomedicine
April 24-26,2008Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel and Conference Center
Raleigh, NC
The symposium was sponsored jointly by the Center for
Quantitative Sciences in Biomedicine and the Center for
Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State
University.
John Burns, Virginia Tech
Alun Lloyd, North Carolina
State University
Christopher
Portier, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Eric Rosenberg, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical
School
Jeff
Sachs, Merck Research Laboratories
Butch Tsiatis,
North Carolina State University
Glenn
Webb, Vanderbilt University
M. Davidian, H.T. Banks, North
Carolina State University, Co-Chairs
This symposium brought together leading researchers devoted to
advancing interdisciplinary efforts at the interface of the
quantitative, biological, and biomedical sciences to address key
challenges in biology and biomedicine. A follow-up to the successful
First Atlantic Coast Conference on Mathematics in the Life and
Biological Sciences held at Virginia Tech in May 2007, the symposium
featured plenary lectures focused on "big picture" ideas by
seven distinguished scientists as well as invited lectures by a host
of researchers representing a diverse range of disciplines. The
conference followed a single-session format, with no parallel
presentations, to promote discussion and interaction among all
attendees. Participansts included mathematical scientists, including
applied mathematicians, biomathematicians, and statisticians;
engineers; and biological and medical scientists interested in
exploring the role of quantitative principles in biology and
biomedicine.
Program
The program featured invited talks by leading researchers in
the quantitative and biomedical sciences (see below for list of
plenary lectures).
Click here for the full program and slides from
presentations
Plenary lectures
Sensitivity Analysis of a Cancer Model with Drug Treatment
Genetic Strategies for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Identifying Toxicity Pathways for High-Throughput Screening
Acute HIV-1 Infection: Translating Pathogenesis into Opportunity
Mathematical Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry
An Overview of Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Modeling Antibiotic Resistance Epidemics in Hospitals
Organizing committee
J.A. Burns, Virginia Tech
M.E. Csete, Emory University
M.A. Horn, National Science Foundation