The ability to respond to unavoidable insults to our genetic material underpins human health and disease. This workshop will focus on the importance of quantitatively understanding the dynamics of the cellular responses to DNA damage. In particular, the complex biological responses to this damage and the current mathematical and computational modelling approaches used to understand and explain this complexity will be discussed. The workshop aims to bring biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists together, thereby creating a forum that will promote transdisciplinary interaction and foster future collaborations.
The meeting will provide an opportunity to address the need for bridging the gap between experimentalists and modellers during workshop sessions, and to critically discuss how current and future research interactions can be strengthened.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Dr Nadja Christina Souza-Pinto, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof Leona Samson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Dr Kevin Janes, University of Virginia, USA
Dr Sherif El-Khamisy, MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, UK
Dr Simon Reed, Institute of Cancer & Genetics, Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK
Dr Filippo Rosselli, Institut Goustave Roussy, France
Dr Yeyejide Adeleye, Unilever
Dr Peter Svensson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
ORGANISERS
Dr. Lisiane B. Meira (Department of Biochemistry and Physiology)
Dr Ruan Elliott (Department of Nutrition and Metabolism)
Dr. Philip Aston (Department of Mathematics)
