The first annual Biologically Accurate Modeling Meeting and second GUM Meeting will take place in Spring 2006 in beautiful San Antonio, Texas. Unique in its structure, this meeting will combine introductory, intermediate, and advanced tutorials in realistic modeling techniques with a full agenda of scientific presentations. The meeting's overall objective will be to promote communication and collaboration between users and others involved in realistic biological modeling and to provide an introduction to other interested scientists. All computational biologists, not only those using GENESIS, are invited to present scientific as well as technical work.
Meeting objective: To bring together modelers and experimentalists using Realistic Modeling techniques to better understand biological systems.
Subjects considered: Modeling techniques, simulator design, modeling results, modeling inspired biological experimentation, and world modeling community coordination.
Meeting Structure: NEW!Thursday March 23rd will be devoted to a series of tutorials and round table discussions on Biological Modeling. Tutorials will be offered by leading experts in realistic modeling and the interaction between modeling and experimental biology. Friday, March 24th, will be devoted to oral presentations by both invited speakers and speakers selected from proposed research presentations submitted to the meeting. The latter will be in a poster/demonstration format. Also on Friday will be a special tribute to Wil Rall and his pioneering work on the compartmental modeling of dendrites. Saturday, March 25th, will be devoted to presentations and discussions focusing on modeling, simulation, and analysis of the olfactory system.
Schedule with Titles and Abstracts
Invited Speakers:
Gordon Shepherd (Yale University)
Wil Rall (NIH - retired)
Mike Hasselmo (Boston University)
Phil Ulinski (University of Chicago)
Upinder Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore India)
John Rinzel (New York University)
John Miller (Montana State University)
Posterboard will be provoided for posters measuring 4 feet (high) and 8 feet (wide).
Poster presenters will have 5 minutes to summarize their work durring the meeting, before the poster session.
Deadline for proposed research presentations: Midnight, January 27,
2006.
Please use the Paper Submission Form to enter the presentation title and abstract.
Although there will be no formal
published proceedings, these abstracts will be posted on the web and printed
in the program booklet.
Student registration deadline for travel grants: February 1, 2006
Funding is available for student travel grants. (See registration form).
Deadline for early registration: February 24, 2006
Advanced registration is $99 for students, $149 for
all others (30% increase after deadline).
Deadline for guaranteed housing at the conference rate: Feburary 24,
2006
The meeting will be held at the historic Menger Hotel
in Downtown San Antonio, next to the Alamo and the famous San Antonio River
Walk. Room rates for WAM-BAMM*05 participants are $109 (single or double), $
119 (for 3-4).
Arrival date for the meeting: Wednesday, March 22th, 2006
The famous WAM-BAM Banquet, Rodeo, and Blue Bonnet Festival: Saturday, March 25, 2006
Depart from San Antonio: Sunday, March 26, 2006
Information on the Olfaction Portion of the Meeting (Sat, March 25)