This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MB Center). This meeting is also sponsored by The Center for the Development of a Virtual Tumor (CViT), and The National Cancer Institute's Integrated Cancer Biology Program.
Thursday, August 3, 2006 7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast + Registration, Poster Setup 8:00 - 8:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director 8:10 - 9:00 Introducing NCI's Integrative Cancer Biology Program Daniel Gallahan, NIH-NCI Summary ICBP Working Group Meeting: Opportunities & Challenges for Computational Cancer Modeling Thomas S. Deisboeck, Massachusetts General Hospital 9:00 - 9:45 Modeling carcinogenesis Robert Gatenby, University of Arizona 9:45 - 10:30 A mathematical model of the digital response of p53 to DNA damage in single cells John Wagner, IBM Computational Biology 10:30 - 11:00 Break and Poster Session 11:00 - 11:45 Improving breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis by computational modeling and image analysis David E. Axelrod, Rutgers University 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Poster Session 1:30 - 2:15 Multiscale Analysis of Genetic Networks in Cancer Cells Adam Margolin, Columbia University 2:15 - 3:00 Towards a collaborative formulation of the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Living Matter. The paradigm of In Silico Oncology Georgios Stamatakos, National Technical University of Athens 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 4:00 Modeling the migration of glioma cells with a cellular automaton M. Aubert, University of Paris 4:00 - 4:30 Modeling the effects of vasculature evolution on early brain tumor growth Jana Gevertz, Princeton University 4:30 - 5:00 Extrapolating tumor invasion margins for physiologically determined radiotherapy regions Ender Konukoglu, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France 5:00 - 5:30 Modeling chemotherapeutic dose response curves via cell cycle effects Charles Roth, Rutgers University 5:45 - 6:45 Buffet and Poster Session 7:00 Shuttle to Hotel Friday, August 4, 2006 (1/2 day session) 8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast and Poster Session 8:30 - 9:15 Discrete and continuous modeling of cell migration in the ECM and applications to tumor invasion Kevin Painter, Heriot-Watt University 9:15 - 10:00 Multiscale modeling of vascular tumor growth Helen M. Byrne, University of Nottingham 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:00 Molecular profiles of breast cancer progression Gabriela Alexe, IBM Research 11:00 - 11:30 A cell-based model of the development of ductal carcinomas Katarzyna Rejniak, University of Dundee 11:30 - 12:00 Simulated morphogenesis of papilloform ductal carcinoma Troy Shinbrot, Rutgers University 12:00 - 12:30 Simulating tumor growth models using particle methods Michael Bergdorf, ETHZ 12:30 Meeting Adjourn - Lunch Poster Presentations Graph theory and microvascular research Michael L. Gargano, Pace University Louis V. Quintas, Pace University Eric M. Wahl, New York Institute for Bioengineering and Health Science Analysis of large-scale alterations in tumor genomes B. Raphael, University of California Development of a three-dimensional multiscale agent-based tumor model L Zhang, Massachusetts General Hospital Dense cell packing in tumor spheroids C. Strouthos, Massachusetts General Hospital TBA J. Jeon, Vanderbilt University Cellular dynamics simulations of MCF10A cell random migration in two dimensions A. Potdar, Vanderbilt University Branching Out: A Cell-Based Model of Tumor-Induced Angiogenesis Amy L. Bauer, Trachette L. Jackson, Yi Jiang, University of Michigan