IPM Biological Sciences

Amir Sanati-Nezhad
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Eng/ University of Calgary

Title: The nexus of computational and experimental models of tumor microenvironment

Abstract:
Emerging evidence shows that endothelial cells are not only the building blocks of vascular networks that enable oxygen and nutrient delivery throughout a tissue but they also serve as a rich resource of angiocrine factors. The endothelial cells, in terms of cancer, play key roles in determining cancer progression and response to anti-cancer drugs. Furthermore, the endothelium-specific deposition of extracellular matrix is a key modulator of the availability of angiocrine factors to both stromal and cancer cells...

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Ali Naji
School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

Title: Swimming in shear flow: Rheo-/chemotactic behavior of active particles in confinement

Abstract:
Life, as we know it, represents a complex, robust and, at the same time, an extremely fine-tuned organization of molecules and molecular processes that make use of stored and/or ambient free energy (and, as such, they are often referred to as ‘active’ processes), driving themselves into a hierarchy of nonequilibrium spatiotemporal forms known as the living matter...

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Mohammad Kohandel
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Title: Current challenges in Cancer Treatment and Application of Mathematical Modeling

Biography:
Dr. Kohandel has been graduated from Kharazmi University (Teacher Training University) and Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan. He did his PhD under supervision of Dr. Kardar (of MIT). Dr. Kohandel is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo...

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Ali Ghodsi
Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo

Title: Deep learning and bioinformatics

Biography:
Dr. Ali Ghodsi is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. He is also a member of the Centre for Computational Mathematics in Industry and Commerce and the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the University of Waterloo. He was a researcher at the University of Toronto with the Probabilistic and Statistical Inference Group and at the University of Alberta at the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning...

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Iman Hajirasouliha
Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University

Title: characterizing whole genome sequences using advanced sequencing technologies

Biography:
Iman Hajirasouliha is Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University and a member of the Institute for Precision Medicine, New York, USA. He completed a Postdoctoral Scholarship at the Computer Science Department, Stanford University, and a Simons Research Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on computational genomics, computational digital pathology, large-scale sequence analysis, and characterizing somatic variations and intra-tumor heterogeneity in cancer.

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Babak Momeni
Assistant Professor of the Department of Biology at Boston College

Title: Synthetic ecology: using microbes as model systems for studies in community ecology

Biography:
Babak joined the department of biology at Boston College in 2015 as an Assistant Professor. He has a background in engineering and physics. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He then moved to Georgia Tech where he received an M.S. degree in Physics. He received his doctoral training in Photonics Research Group (Electrical Engineering) at Georgia Tech, where he designed and implemented compact on-chip photonic demultiplexers...

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Ali Shojaie
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington

Title: A Statistical Framework for Differential Network Biology

Biography:
Ali Shojaie is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington. Originally trained in Industrial and Systems Engineering, he obtained his PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan, while completing Masters degrees in Applied Mathematics and Human Genetics...

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Amin Rostami-Hodjegan
Professor of Systems Pharmacology, Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetics Research (CAPKR), University of Manchester, UK and Chief Scietific Officer & Vice President of R&D, Certara, Princeton, USA

Title: Reverse Translation in Physiologicaly-Based Pharmacokinetics (PBPK) and Quantiotative Systems Pharmacology (QSP): Going Backwards in Order to Go Forward with Confidence

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پژوهشگاه دانش‌های بنیادی (IPM) برگزار می‌کند: نخستین همایش‌ مرزهای علوم زیستی، با حضور پژوهشگران برجسته ایرانی مقیم خارج از کشور.

زمان : 4-7 دی ماه ۱۳۹۶
مکان: ساختمان پژوهشکده علوم زیستی - فرمانیه - تهران
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