International Conference on Morphogenesis and
Pattern Formation in Biological Systems - Experiments and Models

In memory of the 50th anniversary of Turing's "seminal paper"
(The chemical basis for morphogenesis)
September 24-27, 2002, Chubu University, Nagoya, Japan

Scope:
The international meeting mpb2002 is an integrative (experiments and theories) and interdisciplinary (from gene to medicine, ecology) meeting. We hope that mpb2002 will be a stepping-stone or a trigger for a new research field in the future. The meeting is held in the special year 2002 of the 50th anniversary of Turing's "seminal paper" (The chemical basis for morphogenesis), which is the subtitle of the meeting.

Advisory board:
Atsuo Iiyoshi (President of Chubu University, Japan),
Tadashi Noguchi (Dean, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu Univ., Japan),
James D. Murray (Professor, Univ. of Washington, USA)

Organizing committee:
T. Sekimura (Chubu U. Japan) (chair), P. Maini (U. Oxford, UK) (co-chair),
S. Noji (Tokushima U., Japan), M. Kakehashi (Hiroshima U., Japan),
M. Chaplain (U. Dundee, UK), J. Sherratt (Heriot-Watt U., UK),
K. Okada (Kyoto U., Japan), N. Ueno (National Inst. Basic Biology, Japan),
K. Inouye (Kyoto U., Japan), T. Hara (Hokkaido U. Japan),
R. Morita (Natural History Museum, Chiba, Japan).

Sponsor:
Chubu University - Cosponsored by the Japanese Association for Mathematical Biology (JAMB), the UK Society for Mathematical Biology, Research Project on Dynamics of Developmental Systems funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Project on Dynamics of Developmental Systems funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, The Wellcome Trust, UK, and the Society for Science on Form, Japan.

Main topics:

  1. Morphogenesis and pattern formation in animals (Molecular basis, gene expression, developmental genetics, and models)
  2. Morphogenesis and pattern formation in plants (Molecular basis, gene expression, molecular genetics, and models)
  3. Morphogenesis and differentiation pattern formation in multi-cellular organisms. (Experiments and models)
  4. Models for pattern formation and experiments (Positional information, Turing instability, etc.)
  5. Spatial pattern and structure formation in ecological systems (Experiments and models)
  6. Spatio-temporal pattern formation in epidemiology (Spread of disease, Viral (HIV virus) dynamics, etc.)
  7. Morphogenesis and pattern formation in medicine (Cancer, wound healing, heart, etc.)
  8. Diversity of biological patterns in the fossil record and their meaning in morphological evolution (Aspects from Cambrian explosion, functional and theoretical morphology, etc.)
  9. Relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny (Linking experimental or genetic aspect to pattern formation model)

Invited persons from outside of Japan:
H. Meinhardt (Max-Planck Inst., Germany), H. Othmer (U. Minnesota, USA), F. Nijhout (Duke U., USA), M. Lewis (U. Alberta, Canada), V. Capasso (U. Milano, Italy), D. Heckel (U. Melbourne, Australia), A. Vogler (The Natural History Museum, London and Imperial College, UK), V. Nanjundiah (Indian Institute of Science, India), E. Savazzi (Uppsala U., Sweden), T. Herben (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), D. Tautz (U. Koeln, Germany), M.J. Everhart (Fort Hays State U., Kansas, USA), B. Grenfell (U. Cambridge, UK), T. Pedley (Cambridge U., UK) and others.

Japanese invited persons:
M. Mimura (Hiroshima U.), N. Shigesada (Nara Women's U.), H. Honda (Hyogo U.), S. Kondo (Tokushima U.), S. Kuratani (Okayama U.), R. Takaki (Tokyo U. Agriculture and Technology), S. Mawatari (Hokkaido U.), H. Inaba (U. Tokyo), A. Sasaki (Kyushu U.), Y. Usami (Kanagawa U.), T. Tabata (U. Tokyo), S. Hayashi (National Institute for Genetics, Mishima), M. Hasebe (National Inst. Basic Biology, Japan), T. Ubukata (Shizuoka U.), K. Endo (U. Tokyo), M. Matsushita (Chuo U.), S. Miyazima (Chubu U.), M. Yokozawa (National Inst. for Agricultural Environment), and others.

Contact addresses:
Web page: http://mpb2002.chubu.ac.jp
E-mail: mpb2002@isc.chubu.ac.jp

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