MEBI 591 (1 credit)
(Crosslisted as CSE 590R)
Health Services I-132 (Rotunda classroom)
Wed, 3:30 - 4:20pm. Spring, 2008
Instructor / course lead: John Gennari
Our theme this quarter will be "Biosimulation that makes a difference". Thus, we will read about and discuss examples of research where mathematical modeling and biosimulation is actually applied in some domain. The classic example would be in a clinical application, where the results of a biosimulation would affect diagnosis or assist with some treatment decision.
Thus, I am planning that about half of the presentations over the quarter will be in Journal Club format -- where one of us critically evaluates and presents a recent journal article that might be an instance of "biosimulation that makes a difference". See my preferences on how to do a journal club presentation, and the mechanics of a journal club, or any teaching presentation. The other half will be more research-style presentations where folk present their current research work in progress, or use this group as a sounding board for new ideas.
More generally, this colloquia will look at a range of issues for Knowledge Representation and simulation modeling. Our aim is to think about and hopefully add formal semantics to biosimulation models.
Schedule:
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| April 2 |
John Gennari |
Introduction / selection of literature |
| April 9 |
Michal Galdzicki |
Bones! |
| April 16 |
Dan Cook |
Minimal Models in the Diagnosis of Insulin Resistance, see Bergman '05 |
| April 23 |
Dhileep Sivam |
Semantic Annotation of Whole Genome Sequence Comparisons |
| April 30 |
Canceled |
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| May 7 |
John Gennari |
Mathmatical models of folate metabolism, see Reed et al, '06 |
| May 14 |
Max Neal |
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| May 21 |
Antoine Puget |
Spatial-symbolic query engine in anatomy |
| May 28 |
Casey Overby |
Development of a Virtual Tumor: see www.cvit.org, and http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=204 |
| June 4 |
Mark Minie |