From owner-bphyssoc@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Feb 1 15:40:53 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3084E17B5A; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:40:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 1) id E4D0317B4B; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:40:39 +0000 (GMT) To: bphyssoc@net.bio.net Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics From: Kathy King Subject: The Virtual Cell: An Annual Meeting Tutorial Message-Id: <20000201154039.E4D0317B4B@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:40:39 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-bphyssoc@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Tutorial Title: The Virtual Cell - a web-based environment for compartmental and spatial modeling of cell biological events. Organized by: Les Loew, John Wagner, Jim Schaff, Boris Slepchenko and Ion Moraru, National Resource For Cell Analysis and Modeling, U. Conn. Health Center. Description: The Virtual Cell is a software environment to enable cell biologists and biophysicists to build and test complex hypotheses. Numerical methods for both single point (i.e. compartment) models and spatial models are provided as part of the infrastructure. Spatial models can be based on geometries derived from microscope images. The model building and simulation tools are accessible over the WWW via a server at the University of Connecticut Health Center. The development of this technology is supported by the NIH/NCRR and is free to all academic users. The tutorial will consist of an introduction, results from several example simulations, and a demonstration of the user interface. Time: Monday, 2/14/00, 8:30-10:00AM Place: New Orleans Convention Center, Room 211 .