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* Workshop on Interdisciplinary Life Sciences, 21-25 October @ Leiden NL
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Lorentz Training Workshop: Interdisciplinary Life Sciences

Date: ? ? ? ? 2013 October 21-25 (Monday-Friday)
Location: ? ? Snellius Buiding (2nd floor), Lorentz Center, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333CA Leiden, The Netherlands
Organisers: ? Roel van Driel (UvA), Roeland Merks (CWI), Jaap Molenaar (WUR)
Contact: ? ? ?Jaap.Molenaar@wur.nl
Webpage: ? ? ?www.ncsb.nl/workshop/InterdisciplinaryLS
Registration: www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2013/598/application.php3?wsid=598&venue=Snellius
Deadline: ? ? 2013-08-23

The aim of this training workshop is to bring together 25 young
researchers from the life sciences and to train them in modelling of
biological systems based on 'learning by doing'. This will be achieved
by tackling carefully selected problems in modern life
sciences. Students will work together during one week in small
multidisciplinary groups supervised by experienced senior
scientists. Groups will identify the relevant system parameters and
catch the problem in quantitative and predictive models. Important is
that each participant is not only involved in the problem of his/her
own group. They also learn from modelling strategies and results of
other groups. This setup of actively involving young researchers in
problem solving is supported by lectures in which techniques and
concepts necessary to address modelling problems are presented.

We aim at about 25 student participants forming teams of 4 (or 5)
members. Each team will work on one specific modelling challenge
during the workshop. Possible topics might be: Sensitivity analysis of
a synthetic mammalian oscillator, Modelling of networks regulating
flowering time in plants, Modelling of blood vessel growth, and
Modelling of cell division. For more information, read the workshop
webpage: www.ncsb.nl/workshop/InterdisciplinaryLS