Bringing Maths to Life: all geneticists want to know about maths and viceversa
Dal 27/10/2014 ore 09.00 al 29/10/2014 ore 18.00
Partenope Conference Centre
Via Partenope 36 - 80121 Napoli - Italy
Unfortunately, often life scientists are not always fully aware of the power that mathematical models have to answer biological research questions and make predictions. They have a clear view of the problem, they know the questions, they have identified ways to answer, so far all good. Than they produce the data to be analyzed: they use novel high throughput technologies that give rise to unprecedented quantity of data but all is noisy and the answer to every question seems to be well hidden under terabytes of incomprehensible text files.
Here comes mathematicians, they know ‘how’ do things, the love the ugly huge text files, they foresee hundreds of statistics that could be calculated, they want try all of them because there is always uncertainty, they see paths, trends, connections, correlations. But soon come the time when they have to identify the beautiful hidden biological mechanisms, and here they got stuck, lost among protein’s sticks, bubbles, helices and sheets.
This is where six enthusiastic researchers from different disciplines, institutions and countries have came together and started a discussion to improve the interface between Life Science and Maths. They felt that a good solution would have been a workshop to establish connections between the two fields and pinpoints needs,broaden views, exchange ideas and share knowledge. The workshop entitled “Bringing Maths to Life” (http://www.bmtl.it/ ), will be held in Naples (Italy) on October 27-29 2014, with a list of confirmed speakers coming from leading European universities. Participants from the international scientific community, especially Computational Biology, Mathematics, and Life Science disciplines are expected.
This workshop lets biologists and mathematicians join forces to address key areas in biology that face demanding mathematical challenges. Discussing existing cases to identify gaps or to share existing solutions should help these disciplines in successfully linking up. Finding the best mathematical resolution to interpret data from a biological perspective, or – inversely – understanding the biological issue and its real-life constraints from a mathematical viewpoint, require both communities to closely engage.
Organizzato da:
CNR - Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica
CNR - Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Napoli - Italy
VU University, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Università la Sapienza, Rome - Italy
Referente organizzativo:
Vincenza Colonna
CNR - Istituto di genetica e biofisica "Adriano Buzzati Traverso"
via Pietro Castellino 111 - 80131 Napoli - IT
vincenza.colonna@igb.cnr.it
0816132254
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