Two Systems Biology related FEBS courses are being organised over the 2008 summer period:

New Developments in Quantitative Molecular Bioscience, Island of Spetses, Greece, 10-17 September 2008.

The 3rd International Course in Yeast Systems Biology, Lundberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, 2-19 June 2008.

Anyone interested can apply online using the above links.

The MCISB is organising a seminar by Dr Markus Kollmann from Humboldt University, Berlin.

The title of the lecture is: "Perfect Robustness against Non-Genetic Variations in Bacterial Signaling".

Time: 13.00

Place: Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre, Lecture Theatre (building 16 on the map).

The BioModelling Network is organising a meeting for researchers who are working on or are interested in modelling yeast gene expression and its regulation.

Time: 9.00

Place: Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre, Room G.010 (building 16 on the map).

CHEMICAL MARKUP, INFORMATICS AND DATA-DRIVEN SCIENCE

MCISB/NaCTeM Workshop

Programme (with speakers' notes)

Time: 10.30 - 17.00, Tuesday March 4th, 2008

Place: Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre, Room G.010 (building 16 on the map).

Some of our members are taking part in the Sport Relief Challenge.

To support our fundraising effort, please visit our team page.

Time: 9.00 - 17.00, Sunday March 16

Place: Albert Square, Manchester

The MCISB is organising a workshop entitled "Systems biology is a joined-up world". The workshop will cover several issues and viewpoints of Systems Biology, especially with regard to the perspectives for future research and funding opportunities.

For further information, please contact Dieter Weichart.

Time: 10.30 - 17.00, Monday January 21

Place: Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

The MCISB, the DTC and the BioModelling Network are jointly organising a meeting for researchers based in MIB who are working on or are interested in biological modelling. All are welcome.

Time: 14.00 - 16.00, Friday January 11

Place: LG.010, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

The MCISB is organising a workshop on Parameter Estimation and its application in Systems Biology.

If you plan to attend, or for further information, please contact Vangelis Simeonidis.

Time: 13.00 - 17.00, Wednesday November 7

Place: Lecture Theatre, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

The BioModelling Network is organising a tutorial on COPASI and its use. Our speaker will be Prof Pedro Mendes, Chair in Computational Systems Biology.

The title of the lecture is: "COPASI Tutorial".

If you plan to attend, or for further information, please contact Vangelis Simeonidis.

Time: 10.00pm - 12.00pm, Wednesday September 12

Place: Room LG.010, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

The BioModelling Network is organising a lecture by Clive Bowman, Chief Statistician at GlaxoSmithKline .

The title of the lecture is: "Statistical Bioinformatics: On using the correlations of divergences ".

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Time: 15.00pm - 16.00pm, Wednesday September 12

Place: Room LG.010, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

For further information, please contact Vangelis Simeonidis.

The BioModelling Network is organising a lecture on network dynamics by Ralf Steuer from Humboldt University, Berlin.

The title of the lecture is: "From Topology to Dynamics of Metabolic Networks".

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Time: 12.00pm - 13.00pm, Wednesday August 29

Place: Lecture Theatre, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

For further information, please contact Nils Bluthgen.

The MCISB is organising a workshop on Taverna and its use in a research environment.

Dates: Friday July 27 and Monday July 30

Place: Room LG.010, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

For further information, please contact Katya Tarasova.

The BioModelling Network is organising a Lecture on System Identification and Experimental Design by Dr Martin Brown.

The title of the lecture is: "System Identification and Experimental Design - How to best use your data".

Everyone is welcome to attend, and feel free to invite whomever else might have an interest in the topic.

Time: 14.00pm - 16.00pm, Tuesday March 13

Place: Lecture Theatre, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map).

For further information, please contact Vangelis Simeonidis.

The BioModelling Network is organising its second course on Enzyme Kinetics, which will be presented by Dr Jacky Snoep and will focus on Kinetic Modelling.

The title of the course is: "Construction and analysis of kinetic models of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Applications to glycolysis, cell cycle and mixed population studies".

Everyone is welcome to attend, and feel free to invite whomever else might have an interest in the topic.

Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm, Friday June 30

Place: Room LG010, Manchester Interdisicplinary Biocentre (building 16 on the map and the main entrance is opposite the Geo Begg building, or accessible via the stairs from Princess / Upper Brook Street)

For further information, please contact Vangelis Simeonidis.

On October 25th of this year begins a two day event to mark the official opening of the MIB. Over the two days a number of guest speakers along with key MIB researchers will deliver talks in the following subject areas:

Today the MIB building hosted an unofficial opening by the president of the University of Manchester Professor Alan Gilbert. The process of moving staff and equipment into the building will now begin in earnest.

The Times Higher Education Supplement, published 13th May 2005 [view article]

Scientists at the MIB have secured £6.3m of research council funding to create the Manchester Centre of Integrative Systems Biology as part of a larger initiative by the BBSRC/EPSRC.

The new centre will help to revolutionise the way that bioscientists think and work, by enabling multidisciplinary research combining theory, computer modelling and experiments in a systems approach across the life sciences and industry.

The majority of the funding has been provided by the BBSRC but in recognition of the importance of multidisciplinary research approaches the EPSRC will be providing £1M for the centre specifically to facilitate the integration of engineering, physical sciences and mathematics.

The Centre will be based in the MIB and will integrate cutting-edge bioscience research with theoretical modelling and mathematics.

This initiative has been led by Professor Douglas Kell. For further information please contact dbk [at] manchester.ac.uk.

Manchester Press (14 March, 2005) [view article]

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, vol 5, November 2004 [view article]

The ultimate goal for biology is to become a science that formulates out understanding of subcellular, cellular and multicellular systems in terms of quantitative, holistic models that are underpinned by the rigorous principles of physical science and mathematics. This can only be achieved through interdisciplinary research that draws heavily on the expertise and technologies of the physical sciences, engineering, computation and mathematics. Here, Professor John McCarthy discusses the benefits and challenges (both intellectual and practical) of interdisciplinary bioscience.

Education Guardian, 22nd October 2004 [goto website]

World-class academics and cutting-edge facilities sugest exciting times ahead for researchers in the north-west. Bioscience, cell research, tissue engineering...

Nature, vol 427, 5th February 2004 [view article]

The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre is scheduled to open in 2005. The Institute will be the first large-scale centre of its kind in the country. More than 500 staff, including up to 85 investigators, will pool their talents to study systems biology from the nano to the macro scales.

Nature, vol 425, 25th September 2003 [view article]

The merger of VUM and UMIST is creating a chance to break out of Universities that are solely organised around traditional disciplines. Perhaps the most tangible example of such thinking is one of the University's most ambitious building projects, the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB).