Midwest Quantitative Biology Conference
Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island, MIFriday, September 29 - Sunday, October 1, 2006
The Midwest Quantitative Biology Conference was held on September 29 - October 1, 2006 at Mission Point Resort on beautiful Mackinac Island.
Objective:
A major feature of biological science in the 21st century will be its transition from phenomenological and descriptive science to quantitative science. Revolutionary opportunities have emerged for mathematically driven advances in biological research. In the past four years, the Department of Mathematics and the Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative (QBMI) at Michigan State University have identified mathematical biology as a research area of focus. Our mathematical biology program emphasizes collaborations between the mathematical scientists and appropriate biological scientists. We feel strongly that the time has come to reach out beyond MSU by sponsoring a meeting to bring together researchers from mathematics and biological sciences to exchange ideas and to foster collaborations. We expect this to be the first in a series of annual meetings with this objective.
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Participant List
Organizing Committee:
Peter Bates (Chair), Mathematics Department
Leslie Kuhn (Co-chair), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
Guowei Wei (Co-chair), Mathematics Department
Chichia Chiu, Mathematics Department
Moxun Tang, Mathematics Department
Sponsors:
Quantitative Biology Initiative (QBI)
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI)
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics