SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF HEARING: SATELLITE SESSION AT THE ICSB 2008
27th of August, 13:30 - 18:30 - Göteborg, Sweden
A deeper understanding of hearing and deafness can only be brought forward by a multidisciplinary effort: from molecular dissection to physiology and computational biology. During the past years structural and functional aspects of hearing have been studied quantitatively and modeled at at various scales. A large number of deafness genes has been identified, whose mutations individually or collectively perturb the system to various degrees. Functional genomics has succeeded to elucidate some of the underlying pathways. These efforts have led to the discovery of protein networks that mediate complex processes like those involved in hair cell function or inner ear ionic homeostasis. Genetic approaches have been combined with comprehensive structural and functional analysis and modeling of hearing to study the auditory system's responses to molecular perturbations. The challenge is now to integrate the various findings into a comprehensive model of hearing
Speakers:
Jonathan Ashmore, University College London, London – UK
Benedikt Grothe, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich –Germany
Frank Jülicher, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden - Germany
Fabio Mammano, University of Padua, Padova - Italy
Tobias Moser, University of Goettingen, Goettingen - Germany
Christine Petit, Institut Pasteur, Paris - France
William Roberts, University of Oregon, Eugene - USA
Ian Russell, University of Sussex, Brighton - UK
Poster of the event
To register, please sendan e-mail to the Organising Committee contact point: Laurent Charvin, laurent.charvin@inserm-transfert.fr |
HEARING AND SEEING : European research to fight deafness and blindness
Paris, France, July 2nd - 3rd 2007
Presentations of the 2nd of July will be available soon
Programme,
presentations and photos of the press conference
of the 3rd of July are available on the EC website.
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