Cumberland Lodge Workshop

Cumberland Lodge, 28th - 29th April 2008

All CoMPLEX members are attending a workshop at Cumberland Lodge in April.

As a guideline, last years programme can be found here.

Doctoral Training Centres Joint Training Course

Scalford Hall Hotel, 17th - 20th March 2008

From the 17th to 20th March, the CoMPLEX PhD students are all attending a Doctoral Training Centres Joint Training Course held in Melton Mowbray.

A rough timetable for the event can be found here.

CoMPLEX Workshops

CoMPLEX Systems Biology Workshop. 18th December 2006.

UCLID 2003

CoMPLEX Annual Meeting. 9th November 2007.

CoMPLEX will hold a ONE-DAY MEETING on Friday 9 November 2007 from 10a.m-6p.m. The Meeting aims to strengthen contacts between new and existing Members of CoMPLEX, and to foster new collaborations within the research community that cross the physical/ biological science divide. The Meeting will begin with a brief introduction to CoMPLEX and will include a keynote talk, together with research talks from groups at UCL.

Date: 9 November 2007
Time: 10a.m to 6p.m
Venue: Anatomy Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre

There is no registration fee. To register and book your place,
please email: CoMPLEX@ucl.ac.uk to confirm attendance.
Coffee, lunch and tea will be provided for those who register
by 5 November 2007. (Wine Reception will follow meeting at 6pm, location TBC).

link to schedule for meeting (word document)

Old CoMPLEX Events

11.15 a.m., Monday 1st October

Chze Ling Wee, Department of Biohemistry, University of Oxford

Cruciform Foyer, Seminar Room 1

'A Kv Channel Toxin and a Lipid Bilayer - Insights from
Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Simulations'

Abstract: Gating-modifier toxins which act on voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels can be used to probe the structure and dynamics of the voltage-sensors (VS). These toxins are thought to gain access to their target channels via the lipid bilayer phase. Here, we perform atomistic (AT) and (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to probe the interaction of one such toxin from spider venom (VSTx1 which binds the VS of the archaebacterial Kv channel KvAP) with lipid bilayers. Our results provide insights into the state-dependent conformations of the voltage-sensors of KvAP in a membrane environment.

24th September 2007, 4pm

CoMPLEX Seminar

Sean Megason from Caltech,
(before taking up a position at Harvard Institute for Systems Biology.)

LMCB seminar room

'The Digital Fish Project- Enabling Systems Biology in a Vertebrate Embryo"

21st August 2007, 4pm.

CoMPLEX seminar

Dr. Yitzhak Pilpel from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

H.O. Schild Lecture Theatre, Pharmacology

"Coping with genetic and non-genetic perturbations"

Abstract

26th July 2007

Joint CEE/CoMPLEX seminar

Prof. Mark Blows, Integrative Biology School, University of Queensland

"Genetic limits to evolutionary change"

4:30pm, Wolfson House 3rd floor library

Info: http://profiles.bacs.uq.edu.au/Mark.Blows.html

21st June 2007

CEE Seminar

Dr. Patricia Beldade, Inst. of Biology, University of Leiden

"Evolutionary diversification of form: butterfly wing patterns"

1pm, Wolfson House 3rd floor library

Info: http://www.beldade.nl

G23 in the Pearson Building

Abstracts

H.O. Schild Lecture Theatre, Pharmacology

Chadwick Lecture Theatre

Wednesday 19th July 2006 1pm

Dr Eamonn Gaffney, University of Birmingham

Modelling Chemotherapy Protocol Scheduling

Anatomy Gavin de Beer (aka Embryology) Lecture Theatre

Wednesday 8th Feb 2006, 1pm

Dr John Skoyles, CoMPLEX , UCL

The human journey from quadrupedalism into bipedalism: towards a new biology of the human balance faculty.

Abstract

JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower Street, UCL

CoMPLEX Seminar - Weds Jan 11th 2006, 1-2pm

Prof Tay Joc Cing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Visiting Professor UCL.

Title: "Simulation and Modeling of the Immune System "

Embryology Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower Street, UCL

CoMPLEX Seminar - Weds Dec 14th 2005, 1-2pm

Dr Mark Thomas, Department of Biology, UCL

Title: The Evolution of Milk Drinking.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

CoMPLEX Seminar - Weds Nov 30th 2005. 1-2pm

Dr Mark Herbster, Department of Computer Science, UCL

Title: Learning over graphs.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

Abstract

CoMPLEX seminar - Wednesday 26th October, 1pm

Prof. Doug Kell, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester

"Metabolomics, machine learning & modelling: towards an understanding of the language of cells"

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of the Darwin building, Gower Street

CoMPLEX seminar - Wednesday 13th July 2005 at 1pm.

Dr Angeles de Cara (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh)

"Evolution of assortative mating"

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

Abstract

CoMPLEX seminar - Wednesday 15th June 2005 at 1pm

Prof. Simon Tavare, USC, Cambridge.

"Variation in gene expression: adventures with Illumina arrays"

VENUE

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

CoMPLEX Seminar - Wednesday 25th May 2005 at 1pm

Dr Tomas Alarcon, Dept of Computer Science, UCL

"Modelling vascular networks:
structural adaptation and design principles''.

VENUE

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

CoMPLEX seminar - 1pm on Wednesday 23rd March 2005.

Prof. Shinya Kuroda, University of Tokyo.

" Systems analysis of ERK signaling networks."

Embryology Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower Street.

CoMPLEX seminar - Wednesday 16th February 2005. 1pm.

Dr John Skoyles, CoMPLEX, UCL.

"M-cells and knowing your microbial friends."

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

Seminar - Wednesday 19th January 2005 at 1pm.

Dr. Tiina Roose, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

"Tissue mechanics of tumour growth and frog development"

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

Seminar - Wednesday 8th December 2004 at 1pm.

Dr Marcus Tindall, University of Oxford.

"Modelling cell death in tumour growth: apoptosis versus necrosis"

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

First CoMPLEX seminar for the academic year 2004-5 - Wednesday 13th October 2004 at 1pm.

Dr. Vivek Dua (Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL.)

"Explicit Model Based Control for Drug Delivery Systems"

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, basement of Darwin building, Gower Street

For more details or details of forthcoming seminars contact