Research & Training: Workshop 2011
Cancer is a complex disease involving interactions at many spatial and temporal scales. Many of the same problems that arise in considering a multiscale view of cancer biology are similar to problems faced by physicists in understanding the behavior of complex systems, raising the question of whether the conceptual, experimental and computational approaches used for understanding physical systems might provide useful insights into the behavior of cancer cells and tumors.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the interface between biology and physics, who might not necessarily be working on cancer biology, together with active cancer researchers, to explore ways in which physical and computational approaches could be applied to extending our multi-scale view of cancer biology. One special feature of this workshop will be a series of “duets” - joint presentations by teams consisting of physicists/computational biologists and cancer researchers conducting collaborative research together.
Image courtesy of Susanne Rafelski, UCSF
