The 2006 Northwest Symposium for Systems Biology will not be held this year. Please check back with us for details about the 2007 symposium. In the meantime, feel free to read about the speakers and topics of the 2005 symposium.

June 20 and 21 2005
EMSL Auditorium, PNNL campus
Richland, WA

The annual Northwest Symposium for Systems Biology Toward A Predictive Science was held on Monday, June 20, and Tuesday, June 21, on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus in Richland, Washington. The symposium focused on the process of driving systems biology toward the ability to predict via three engaging sessions.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Galas, V.P., Chancellor, Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Keck Graduate Institute
V.P., Chief Scientific Officer for Biological and Life Sciences Battelle Memorial Institute.

Symposium Chair: Dr. Karin D. Rodland,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The new approach to solving complex biological problems that has been named systems biology encompasses many different components. Some emphasize the computational, data-intensive aspects of systems biology, others emphasize the need for a truly multi-disciplinary, team-based approach to problem solving, while others emphasize the need to study multiple components of complex systems simultaneously to understand their relationships. Yet all these aspects of systems biology have one common thread: the desire to use these strategies to generate models of complex biological systems that predict the behavior of the system in response to perturbation. The ability to predict complex behaviors opens the possibility of modifying the outcome of a perturbation, whether it is disease or drug treatment, pollution, or global warming.

Featured Speakers

Alan Aderem, Institute for Systems Biology
David Galbraith, University of Arizona
Tim Galitski, Institute for Systems Biology
Gill Geesey, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University
Mariko Hatakeyama, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama, Japan
Joanne Kelleher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin McIntosh, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ken Nealson, University of Southern California
Peter Nelson, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Haluk Resat, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Brian Thrall, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

For additional information, email Marla Seguin.