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===8<==============Original message text=============== Dear colleague, please find appended the announcement of an EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute on "Complex biological networks: Gene regulations and protein interaction" which will take place in September/October in Turin, Italy. We will be able to accept a limited number of applications, for further details visit http://isiosf.isi.it/~bionet/TI.htm. Please forward this message to other potentially interested persons. Sincerely yours, Johannes Berg, Michele Leone, Andrea Pagnani, Martin Weigt ==================================================================== EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS: GENE REGULATION AND PROTEIN INTERACTION September 19th - October 8th 2005 ISI Foundation, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy The traditional approach to molecular biology has been an inherently local one, collecting and examining data on a single gene, a single protein, a single biochemical reaction at a time, or at most of a small number of factors believed to contribute to one specific function. In the last decades, however, biology experienced fundamental changes. Rapid and continuing progress of biotechnology has made fundamental biological mechanisms experimentally accessible on a genome-wide scale. This "Age of Genomics" is characterized by an unprecedented wealth of data. The challenge to utilize this data and turn it into an enhanced understanding of biological systems is, however, wide open. Global, systemic, or network perspectives are becoming increasingly important. Only a highly integrated level of investigation can hope to be able to address the richness of phenomena observed on the molecular, on the cellular as well as on the organism scale. Answering these questions requires a huge interdisciplinary effort. Therefore, the Thematic Institute aims at bringing together researchers from biology, bio-informatics and statistical physics involved in this interdisciplinary field. In the first week, a series of lectures covering the main issues of biological networks will be given to establish a common ground among the different communities, and to fix a minimal "language" that will enable a fruitful cooperation of the participants. The second and third weeks are dedicated to free discussion and cooperation between the participants, and some seminars will allow for the presentation of related working results. For more detailled information please visit http://isiosf.isi.it/~bionet/TI.htm ====================================================================== ===8<===========End of original message text=========== Carlos Gershenson... Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/ “Knowledge brings more questions than answers”
