Links From IPCAT 95

• cellular automata models
• morphogenesis
• reaction and metabolism models
• cellular signalling and Calmoduluin
• dynamical models and networks
• cellular structure and coherence
• cell behaviour and carciongenesis,
• neural systems
• non-linear physiology
• cellular information processing

Programme Committee

• Georg Brabant, Endocrinology (Hanover)
• Michael Conrad, Computer Science (Detroit)
• Roy Cuthbertson, Cell Biology (Liverpool)
• Claus Emmeche, Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies (Copenhagen)
• Mike Holcombe, Computer Science (Sheffield)
• George Kampis, Ethology and Philosophy of Science (Budapest)
• Douglas Kell, Biological Sciences (Aberystwyth)
• Gareth Leng, Physiology (Edinburgh)
• Pedro Marijuan, Electronics & Informatics (Zaragoza)
• Koichiro Matsuno, BioEngineering (Nagaoka)
• Ray Paton, Computer Science (Liverpool)
• Hans-Paul Schwefel, Computer Science (Dortmund)
• Idan Segev, Neurobiology (Jerusalem)
• Gordon Sheperd, Neurobiology (Yale)
• W Richard Stark, Mathematics (Tampa)
• Rene Thomas, Molecular Biology (Brussels)
• Chris Tofts, Computer Science (Manchester)
• John Tucker, Computer Science (Swansea)
• G Rickey Welch, Biological Science (New Orleans)
• Gershom Zajicek, Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research (Jerusalem)

Papers Presented

• Cellular Automata Models
  • P. Marchal, P. Nussbaum, C. Piguet, S. Durand, CSEM (Neuchatel) and D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempestu, Logic Systems Laboratory (Lausanne) presented "Genomic Cellular Automata Transposed in Silicon: Experiments in Synthetic Life".

• Morphogenesis
  • Thomas Hofer and Philip K. Maini, Centre for Mathematical Biology (Oxford) presented "Interplay of cell-cell signalling and multicellular morphogenesis during Dictyostelium aggregation".

  • Nick Jakobi, COGS (Sussex) presented a paper "Harnessing Morphogenesis".

  • Maria Lantin and F. David Fracchia, Computer Science (Simon Fraser University) presented "Generalized Context-Sensitive Cell Systems".

• Reaction Models and Metabolism
  • Denise E. Cooke and John E. Hunt, Computer Science (Wales) presented "Modelling Photosynthesis using a Qualtitative Reasoning System for Plants".

  • Pedro Mendes, Biological Science (Wales), Phillippe Marmillot, Chemistry (Bowling Green State University) Jean-Francois Hervagault, Unite de Recherche Associee (Universite de Compiegne) and G. Rickey Welch, Biological Sciences (New Orleans) presented "Long-Range Metabolic Signalling in Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems: Computer Simulation Study".

  • Stefan Schuster, Biophysics (Humboldt University Berlin), Claus Hilgetag, Psychology (Newcastle), John Woods and David A. Fell, Biological and Molecular Sciences (Oxford Brookes University) presented "Elementary Modes of Functioning in Biochemical Reaction Networks: Aspects of Interpretation and Application".

  • Alex Bell and Mike Holcombe, Computer Science (Sheffield) presented "Computational models of cellular processing".

  • Marc Weininger, Chemistry (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) and Harry A. Smith, Biological Sciences (Tallahassee Community College) presented "Pattern Formation In An Allosteric Enzyme Reaction: Effects of Enzyme Heterogeneity".

• Cellular Signalling and Calmodulin
  • Takako Igarashi, Tsuguchika Kaminuma, National Institute of Health Sciences (Tokyo) and Yoko Nadoka, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science presented "A Data and Knowledge Base for Cell Signalling Networks".

  • Rolf Kotter, Dirk Schirok and Karl Zilles, C & O Vogt Institute for Brain Research (Heinrich Heine University) presented "Concerted regulation of cyclic AMP by calcium, calmodulin and dopamine: A kinetic modelling approach".

  • Jurgen Nauroschat and Uwe an der Heiden, Mathematics (University of Witten / Herdecke) presented "A Mathematical Model of Transmembrane Signalling Via G-Proteins".

  • Hiroshi Okamoto and Kazuhisa Ichikawa, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd, Japan presented "A role of calcium / calmodulin-dependant protein kinase II in the induction of long-term potentiation".

• Dynamical Models and Networks
  • Karl Swann, Adrienne James and Michael Reece, Anatomy and Developmental Biology (University College London) presented "A dynamical model of the distributed interaction of intracellular signals".

  • Franco A. Bignone and Marco Propato, Animal Biology and Genetics (Universita degli Studie di Firenze) presented "Coupled map lattices as theoretical models for gene-networks dynamics".

  • M. J. Hatcher, A. M. Dunn, Biology (Leeds) and C. Tofts, Computer Science (Manchester) presented "The effect of the embryonic bottleneck on vertical microparasite transmission".

  • Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA (Brussels Free University) presented "Frustration In Biological Networks: A Source Of Diversity And Instability".

  • Emmanuel Chiva and Philippe Tarroux, Groupe de BioInformatique (E.N.S. Paris) presented "Modelling the emergence of co-regulated proteins in biological regulation networks".

  • Eugen Gheorghiu, Biophysics (Bucharest) presented "Towards a new method to derive the invariant measures of (chaotic) dynamical systems; Application to living cell dynamics".

• Cellular Structure and Coherence
  • M. A. Aon, S. Cortassa, A. Caceres, Departmento de Bioquimica de la Nutricion, Argentia presented "Models Of Cytoplasmic Architecture and Function".

  • Mae-Wan Ho, Bioelectrodynamics Laboratory (Open University) presented "Bioenergetics and the Coherence of Organisms".

  • Koichiro Matsuno, Department of BioEngineering (Nagaoka University Of Technology) presented "Cohesive Interaction in Biomolecules and their Organizations as Energy Consumers".

• Cell Behaviour and Carcinogenesis
  • Neil R. Smalheiser, Dept. of Pediatrics and Kennedy Center, University Of Chicago, USA presented "Detecting Hidden Stimuli that Regulate Behaviour Of Cells and Tissues: A parametric approach".

  • G. Zajicek, H. H. Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research (Hebrew University) presented "Tissue Automat: An A-Life Form With Feedback".

  • Martial Guillaud, Raphael MarcelPoil, Peter Payne, Calum MacAualay, Steven Lam and Branko Palcic, B. C. Cancer Research Center (Vancouver) presented "Multi-scale cellular Sociological analysis: Application to the Bronchial Epithelium".

  • Larry D. Greller, Frank L. Tobin, George Post, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (Pennyslvania) and Xianun Wang, Mechanical Engineering (Delaware) presented "Genetic Instability And Progression Interactions In Tumor Dynamics".

• Neural Systems
  • Martin Bogdan, Alexei Babanine, Jorg Kaniecki, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Computer Engineering (Tubingen) presented "Nerve Signal Processing using Artificial Neural Nets".

  • K. Gurney, Human Sciences (Brunel) presented "Toward a theory of neural-processing complexity".

  • Satish Iyengar, Mathematics and Statistics (Pittsburgh) "Parameter Estimation For A Diffusion Approximation To Stein's Model".

  • Masahiro Okamoto, Kouji Tanaka, Yukihiro Maki, Satoshi Yoshida, Biochemical Engineering (Kyushu Institute Of Technology) presented "Information Processing of Neural Network System Composed of Biochemical Neurons: Recognition of Pattern Similarity in Time-variant External Analog Signals".

  • A. V. Rossokhin, Brain Research Institute, Moscow, Russia and L. E. Tsitolovsky, Life Sciences (Bar-Ilan University) presented "Biophysical model of a neuron. Numerical investigations of the information properties of the model".

  • E. A. Stephens, D. Brown, Neurobiology (Babraham Institute Cambridge) G. Leng, Physiology (Edinburgh) and R. G. Smith, Merck Research Laboratories (Rahway New Jersey) presented "A model of pituitary release of growth hormone".

  • J. P. A. Foweraker and D. Brown, Neurobiology, (Babraham Institute Cambridge) presented "The effects of random variation in stimulation timing and magnitude on excitable and oscillatory forms of a lutenizing hormone pulse generator model".

  • V. D. Barseghyan, V. G. Vahradian, A. R. Sarkisyan, Neurophysiology (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia) presented "Some Aspects of Information Processing By Rubrospinal Neuron of Red Nucleus".

  • Lev E. Tsitolovsky, Life Sciences (Bar-Ilan University) presented "A Model of Motivation With Chaotic Neuronal Dynamics".

• Non-linear Physiology
  • M. R. Boyett, A. V. Holden and H. Zhang, Physiology (Leeds) presented "Reconstruction of excitable tissue physiology and pathophysiology from cellular models".

  • Teresa Ree Chay, Biological Sciences (Pittsburgh) presented "Roles of the Ion Channels in Reentrant Cardiac Arrhytmias".

• Cellular Information Processing
  • Peter Hartmann, Computer Science (Darmstadt) presented "Models of Information Processing in Inhomogeneous Cellular Structures".

  • Pedro C. Marijuan, Electronic Engineering (Zaragoza) presented "The Cell as a Problem-Solving Engine".

  • Ray Paton, Geof Staniford and Geoff Kendall, Computer Science (Liverpool) presented "Specifying Logical Agents in Cellular Hierarchies".

  • Karl Javorszky presented "The Logic of Self-sustaining Sampling Systems".

  • Domingos Alves, Electronic Engineering (Zaragoza) presented "Information Processing In Cells: Revisiting The Molecular Automata Hypothesis".