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1st Summer School and Scientific Workshop

(Second Announcement)

Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain September 5–10, 2005

Practical information

Focus on Dynamics of Tumour Growth, Signalling and Chemotaxis

Organizing Committee:

• Miguel Herrero (Madrid)
• Luigi Preziosi (Torino)
• Jose Sabina (Tenerife)

The aim of the summer school is to provide young researchers with an overview of the state-of-the-art and trends on mathematical modelling and analysis of tumor evolution. The school will involve contributions from biologists, mathematicians, and physicists to maximize the interdisciplinary exchange of informations and ideas.

List of Lectures

• R. Gatenby (Dept of Radiology - University Medical Center - Arizona State University)
  • "Diffusion reaction models for tumor microenvironment"
  • "Information theory applied to the dynamics of mutations during carcinogenesis"
  • "Evolutionary game theory applied to cellular and extracellular changes during intiation and progression of tumors"
• A. Fasano (University of Florence )
  • "Free boundary problems in tumour growth"
• T. Hillen (University of Alberta)
  • "Models of chemotaxis"
  • "Volume filling and quorum sensing"
• P.L. Lollini (Sezione di Cancerologia - University of Bologna)
  • "When signaling goes wrong - molecular alterations of tumor cells",
  • "Tumor immunology: from cells to patients"
  • "Modeling models in tumor immunology".

Featured reports

• U. an der Heiden (University of Witten/Herdecke)
  • "The role of stem cells in tumor development with special emphasis on mathematical models of leukemia"
• H. Byrne (University of Nottingham ),
  • "Multiscale modelling of solid tumour growth"
• M. Chaplain (University of Dundee)
  • to be announced
• A. Deutsch (University of Technology of Dresden)
  • to be announced
• Y. Kogan (IMBM, Israel)
  • to be announced
• M. Lachowicz (Warsaw University),
  • to be announced
• E. Mamontov (University of Gotenburg)
  • "Competition of homeorhesis with oncogenic hyperplasia: Two modelling paradigms and their integration with other approaches"
• D. Manoussaki (Foundation for Research and Technology, Crete)
  • "Cell dynamics at the subcellular and population level during chemotaxis"
• B. Perthame (Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris)
  • "Kinetic model for Chemotaxis"
• L. Preziosi (Politecnico di Torino)
  • Multiphase modelling of solid tumour growth
• C. Verdier (Grenoble)
  • to be announced