University of Notre Dame/interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Biocomplexity/Colloquium

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
University of Notre Dame

March 1 - 3, 2009
(Sunday - Tuesday)

Organizers:
Mark Alber (Notre Dame), alber.1@nd.edu;
Holly Goodson (Notre Dame), hgoodson@nd.edu;
Danny Chen (Notre Dame), dchen@cse.nd.edu;
Glen Niebur (Notre Dame), gniebur@nd.edu;
Elliot Rosen (IUPUI), edrosen@iupui.edu

Complex biomedical modeling efforts include predictive multiscale simulations consisting of different submodels at each scale, scalable parallelism for heterogeneous dynamical simulations, a data-rich environment with experimentally determined model parameters and, finally, distributed multidisciplinary research teams and resources. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in biomedical field, biochemistry, bioengineering, biology, computational and mathematical biology and biophysics to discuss recent developments in biomedical modeling and experimental as well as current and possible future collaborations. Some of the topics to be discussed are: thrombus formation, bioimaging, study of osteoporosis.

Public Lecture
Anantha Shekhar
Director, Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI)
IUPUI
Sunday March 1 at 5:00 pm in the McKenna Hall Auditorium

Special Lecture
Milan Sonka
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Opthalmology and Visual Sciences
and Radiation Oncology
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Iowa
Monday March 2 at 11:00 am in the McKenna Hall Auditorium

Plenary Lecture
Kenneth G. Mann
Department of Biochemistry
University of Vermont - Burlington
Tuesday March 3 at 11:15 am in the McKenna Hall Auditorium

Invited Speakers

Brian Baker
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame

Paul Bohn
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame

David Brenner
President and CEO
Innovation Park at Notre Dame

Steve Buechler
Department of Mathematics
University of Notre Dame

Hsueh-Chia Chang
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Mayland Chang
Assistant Director
Walther Cancer Research Center
University of Notre Dame

Nitesh Chawla
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Danny Chen
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Gregory Crawford
Dean, College of Science
University of Notre Dame

Scott Emrich
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Alejandro Espinoza
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Rush Univesity Medical Center

Jawed Fareed
Departments of Pathology and Pharmacology
Director, Special Coagulation Laboratory and the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Program
Loyola University Chicago

Michael Ferdig
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame

Anthony Firulli
Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
IUPUI

Yunlong Huo
Department of Biomedical Engineering
IUPUI

Greg Madey
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Keith March
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Director, Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

Shahriar Mobashery
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame

Sean Mooney
Co-Director, School of Medicine Bioinformatics Core
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Division of Hereditary Genomics, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Indiana University School of Medicine

Eric Nauman
School of Mechanical Engineering
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Basic Medical Sciences
Purdue University

Jeffrey Peng
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame

Victoria Ploplis
Associate Director
W.M. Keck Center for Transgene Research
University of Notre Dame

Mary Prorok
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
W.M. Keck Center for Transgene Research
University of Notre Dame

Brooke Pyne
IEDC SBIR Director
Indiana Economic Development Corporation

Elliot Rosen
Division of Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Indiana University School of Medicine

Mark Suckow
Director, Freimann Animal Care Facility
University of Notre Dame

Philippe Sucosky
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Vikas Tomar
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Diane Wagner
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame