The University of Michigan
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
and
Center for Systems Biology
announce:
Signaling Across Scales: Life Sciences to Social Systems
A symposium free and open to the public
Tuesday 11 March 2014
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 4th Floor, University of Michigan
Speakers:
Neuromodulation of Neuronal Networks: Acetylcholine and Synaptic Renormalization
Victoria Booth – Mathematics & Anesthesiology, University of Michigan
Modeling Dynamic Interactions between Behavior, Networks and Disease Transmission
Selection as a Signal: Information from Time Past
Marisa Eisenberg – Epidemiology & Mathematics, University of Michigan
Excitable and Oscillatory Behavior in Directed Cell Migration
Pablo Iglesias – Electrical & Computer Engineering and Cellular Signaling Control Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University
David Krakauer – Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin
Value of Signals and Shannon Information
Michael Lachmann – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
In Vivo Systems Analysis: Intra-Cellular, Inter-Cellular, and Multi-Cellular
Douglas Lauffenburger – Biology, Biological Engineering, and Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Integrating Signaling Networks to Optimize Drug Treatment in Cancer
Santiago Schnell – Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan
Organizers: C.R. Doering and D.E. Kirschner
We will have a poster session. For more information, contact cscs@umich.edu
The order of speakers and start times for each talk will be posted on the Complex Systems website www.lsa.umich.edu/
