Agenda (with Presentations)

Day I:  Room C111 A&B, April 21, 2009

Time

Session/Speaker

Title

08:45-10:30

Introduction to Workshop and Virtual Tissues

8:45

Laurent Bochereau
Elaine Francis

EU-US Joint Task Force on Biotechnology

9:00

Robert Kavlock

Welcome: Vision and scope of the workshop

9:20

Rory Conolly

Chemical risk assessment and virtual tissues

9:40

Marco Viceconti

The role of virtual tissues in biomedical research at large

10:00-10:20

Break

10:20-12:00

Why Virtual Tissues?

10:20

Erik Mosekilde

Virtual Tissues: A link between cellular research and the treatment of patients

10:40

Anthony Hunt

Virtual Tissues: Linking pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

11:00

Andreas Schuppert

Multiscale modeling of biological systems using structured hybrid models

11:20

James Glazier

Multiscale three-dimensional modeling of morphogenesis

11:40

Dirk Drasdo

Modeling of liver regeneration after drug intoxication

12:00-13:00

Lunch / Cafeteria

13:00-17:00

Virtual Tissues in Practice

13:00

Lek Kadeli

Acting Assistant Administrator, ORD/EPA

13:20

Richard Corley

Bridging the Gap From Organ to Cell: Dose distribution in the lung

13:40

Richard Superfine

The Virtual Lung Project: Biochemistry and biophysics of lung defense

14:00

Filippo Castiglione

Tissue modeling and immunological research

14:20

Thomas Kepler

The Virtual Immune System: Vaccine development

14:40

Olivier Lorentz

The EVI-Genoret Database: Collecting, managing and publishing heterogeneous clinical and biological data to create and federate knowledge about retina

15:00-15:20

Break

15:20

Tim Otter

Simulation of developmental processes

15:40

Thomas Knudsen

The Virtual Embryo: Simulating developmental defects

16:00

Imran Shah

The Virtual Liver: Simulating hepatic lesion formation

16:20

Vittorio Cristini

Multiparameter computational modeling of tumor growth and response to treatment

16:40

Kostas Marias

The role of in multi-level clinically oriented modeling in cancer research

17:00

US/EU

Summary

18:00

End of Day I

Day II: Rooms C111 A&B, April 22, 2009

Time

Speaker

Title

08:30-10:00

Tissue Modeling Today

8:30

US/EU

Opening remarks

8:40

Jonathan Sexton

Multivariate Analysis in Multiplexed High-Content Screening: Characterizing peroxisomal biogenesis

9:00

Stephen Payne

What is the state of the art in experimental validation of multi-scale models?

9:20

Andres Kriete

Generating data on ex vivo tissues via histomorphometry

9:40

Ewan Birney

Integrating Organismal Measurements with Molecular and Disease Data: The use of intra species variations

10:00-10:20

Break

10:20

Peter Hunter

Challenges in multiscale heart modeling

10:40

Richard Newman

Virtual tissues and bridging technologies

11:00

Panos Georgopolous

Frameworks for linking exposure, dosimetry and toxicity

11:20

Ananth Kadambi

Integration of Modeling Approaches to Capture Multiscale Temporal Dynamics: The Entelos Cardiovascular PhysioLab platform

11:40

EU/US Chairs

Summary and closing remarks

12:00

Workshop Ends