Workshop on Logic and Systems Biology
associated with LICS
Overview
Modern biology has made great advances in our knowledge of the workings of organisms at the molecular level. Although there is still much to be learned in this area, many biologists believe that the next major effort in their discipline will be to understand how these cellular components work together, in much the same way that the components of a computer are integrated. This system-level knowledge is essential to solving important problems like understanding the causes of diseases and discovering new drugs. As models of biological systems grow in complexity, researchers are experiencing some of the same problems that beset software designers and computer engineers. The topics of this workshop reflect the interdisciplinary approach needed to solve these problems. Some of the lecturers are biologists who use computer models to develop and test their hypotheses, and others are computer scientists who are applying formal methods to build and analyze models of biological systems.
All speakers and attendees are invited to submit an article to a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science.
More information can be found here.
Programme
Invited Talks
- Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
- Peter Gennemark, University of Gothenburg and Uppsala University
- John K Heath, University of Birmingham
- Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University
- Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi University
- Steven Watterson, The University of Edinburgh