LEWIS-SIGLER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NIGMS-SUPPORTED NATIONAL CENTERS FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Princeton, New Jersey, July 10-11, 2008
Sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Hosted by the Center for Quantitative Biology
Registration for this Meeting is now closed.
For those of you who registered with a poster, there will be assigned spaces ready for you in the Carl Icahn Lab Atrium by late afternoon on Wednesday, July 9.
We announce the fourth annual meeting of the National Centers for Systems Biology. The meeting, which includes all of the eight Centers funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, is hosted this year by the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University, which houses the NIGMS Center for Quantitative Biology.
The Princeton Center has a mission that is typical of the Centers, but unique in its own way. We seek to discover not only how biological molecules work together to form functional complexes, but how these complexes come together and interact to produce functional systems that do something of biological importance. We seek especially to understand how these events happen in an orderly and well-organized way under constantly changing environmental influences.
The NIGMS Center at Princeton supports research directly, but also provides subsidized infrastructure support to Princeton faculty in key technologies at the state of the art in genomics. We have facilities for DNA microarray manufacture and analysis, genome-scale data collection, analysis and visualization, molecular imaging and mass spectrometry.
Another major component of the Princeton Center is support for innovative teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. We have a set of integrated introductory science courses that allow undergraduates to major in any of the sciences at Princeton with a good understanding of connections to all the others disciplines as well as a new graduate program in quantitative and computational biology, which represents a true collaboration among many different scientific disciplines.