Integrating
physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology to understand living systems (IPCMB
2008)
A symposium celebrating 150 years of the birth
of Acharya J.C. Bose
and 90 years of Bose Institute
Acharya Jagadis
Chandra Bose was not only a scientist but also a visionary who thought well
ahead of his time. Beginning his career
as a physicist of ingenuity endowed with the remarkable ability to fabricate
his own instruments for the execution of his ideas, he used his extraordinary
talents to demonstrate the response of plants to external stimuli. His work vindicated the need to bridge
disciplines in the quest for knowledge.
It is this spirit of bridging disciplines that we endeavour to celebrate
in this symposium cutting across disciplines, on the occasion of the 150th
birth anniversary of Acharya Bose and 90 years of this Institute that he
dedicated to the nation as a temple of learning.
The symposium is intended to cover a somewhat
broad range of topics. It reflects our
own areas of interest in recent years, interdisciplinary areas where we feel
the need to strengthen our resources in keeping with the spirit of our founder,
and areas of obvious importance in our quest to better the quality of life on
this planet. Among our speakers we hope
to project young researchers who have recently launched their careers as well
as established experts working in
frontline areas bridging biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and
engineering. We urge you to join us in
this celebration of the remarkable advances in biology in recent years made
possible by technological advances and by removing the boundaries of
disciplines.
An area
that we plan to project in this symposium is systems biology, an emerging field
with its focus on understanding the function of a biological system through
understanding how networks of interacting molecules govern the behavior of the
system. It has been greatly facilitated by the development of powerful tools
such as those used for high throughput
genome and proteome analysis and imaging
to name a few, coupled with quantitative approaches that aim at system-level understanding of
biological systems. Bose Institute has initiated a programme on Systems biology
focusing presently on quantitative modeling and experimental approaches for
understanding gene regulatory networks.
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