National Seminar on Cancer Biology :A Mathematical Approach.
Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, 10th November 2017.
College name : Kongu Engineering College
Event Date : 10th November
2017
Last Date to Register :
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Last Date for Registration : 1st November 2017
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Intimation to the Participants : 3rd November 2017.
Address : Perundurai,Erode, Tamil Nadu.
For Department of : Bio Technology
Registration Fee : Rs.200/-
Contact Mail Address :kecmathematics@gmail.com
Events
List :
COURSE
TOPICS
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Molecular
Basis to Cancer
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Modelling
the Interaction of Dietary Fibres and Carcinogens Causing Colorectal Cancer
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Recent
Advances and Research Issues in Cancer Biology
About
Event :
Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells caused by multiple
changes in gene expression leading to deregulated balance of cell proliferation
and cell death and ultimately evolving into a population of cells that can
invade tissues and metastasize to distant sites, causing significant morbidity
and, if untreated, death of the host. Cancer is caused when cells within the
body accumulate genetic mutations and start to grow in an uncontrolled manner.
Understanding how cancer develops and progresses, including how gene mutations
drive the growth and spread of cancer cells, and how tumours interact with
their surrounding environment, is vital for the discovery of new targeted
cancer treatments.
Over the past 15 years, drugs have emerged that target cancer metabolism, either directly through enzymes that facilitate metabolic reactions or indirectly through signaling pathways. Targeted therapy is typically less damaging to normal cells than chemotherapy. However, cancer cells are extremely robust for survival and often completely insensitive to perturbations or develop resistance over time. Assessing and improving the utility of mathematical models in the context of systems biology will continue to be an active area of research.
Mathematical and statistical models are capable of integrating biological knowledge that is outside of the observational data. Cancer is a complex process that changes in space and in time. Even the same cancer can be different between two patients. Mathematics, as the language of the physical universe, is very good at describing and predicting phenomena that change over time. A major challenge in cancer research is that our data is a static snapshot of a dynamic process. Mathematics is used to understand the dynamics.
Aim of the seminar is to apply mathematical methods and theories to the study of cancer and describe recent developments in mathematical modeling and mathematical analysis of certain problems arising from cell biology. This seminar acts as a forum for the intersection of mathematics and biology, and increasingly in the research setting, the push to have engineers and mathematicians talking to biologists, thus improving communication among the disciplines. While interdisciplinary training has generally been frowned upon, this broadening of awareness, can produce a deeper understanding of how the physical, mathematical, clinical and biological sciences are linked.
Over the past 15 years, drugs have emerged that target cancer metabolism, either directly through enzymes that facilitate metabolic reactions or indirectly through signaling pathways. Targeted therapy is typically less damaging to normal cells than chemotherapy. However, cancer cells are extremely robust for survival and often completely insensitive to perturbations or develop resistance over time. Assessing and improving the utility of mathematical models in the context of systems biology will continue to be an active area of research.
Mathematical and statistical models are capable of integrating biological knowledge that is outside of the observational data. Cancer is a complex process that changes in space and in time. Even the same cancer can be different between two patients. Mathematics, as the language of the physical universe, is very good at describing and predicting phenomena that change over time. A major challenge in cancer research is that our data is a static snapshot of a dynamic process. Mathematics is used to understand the dynamics.
Aim of the seminar is to apply mathematical methods and theories to the study of cancer and describe recent developments in mathematical modeling and mathematical analysis of certain problems arising from cell biology. This seminar acts as a forum for the intersection of mathematics and biology, and increasingly in the research setting, the push to have engineers and mathematicians talking to biologists, thus improving communication among the disciplines. While interdisciplinary training has generally been frowned upon, this broadening of awareness, can produce a deeper understanding of how the physical, mathematical, clinical and biological sciences are linked.
Accommodation :
Boarding and lodging
will be provided for all the participants in the college campus on a chargeable
basis. Participants are required to make arrangements on their own for those
who accompany them, if any.
For More
Contact :
Dr. M.Dhavamani,
Convener,
Cancer Biology: A Mathematical Approach Department of Mathematics,
School of Science & Humanities,
Kongu Engineering College Perundurai,
Erode – 638 060, Tamilnadu.
Mobile : 9842740601
Convener,
Cancer Biology: A Mathematical Approach Department of Mathematics,
School of Science & Humanities,
Kongu Engineering College Perundurai,
Erode – 638 060, Tamilnadu.
Mobile : 9842740601
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