MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
DRESDEN, GERMANY

1st Focus Meeting
Biological Aggregation

October 30, 2000

Coordinators:
Markus Bär and Andreas Deutsch
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme
Dresden, Germany

Recently, the ''Initiative Biology'' has been founded at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. This initiative is primarily devoted to the bundling of ongoing biology-related research at the institute. In particular, various activities as lectures, courses and focus meetings on carefully selected biological key topics are planned. The first Focus Meeting on ''Biological Aggregation'' shall address interesting biological model systems (e.g. Dictyostelium and Myxobacteria development, tissue formation and tumour growth) as well as appropriate mathematical/physical modeling approaches (PDEs, SDEs, Interacting Particle Systems, Cellular Automata).

Schedule:

09.00	Opening
09.05-09.55	Talk I
09.55-10.15	Discussion
10.15-10.45	Coffee Break
10.45-11.35	Talk II
11.35-11.55	Discussion
11.55-12.25	Contribution I
12.25-12.40	Discussion
12.40-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.50	Talk III
14.50-15.15	Discussion
15.15-15.45	Contribution II
15.45-16.00	Discussion
16.00-16.30	Coffee Break
16.30-17.20	Talk IV
17.20-17.45	Discussion

Talks:
I. Angela Stevens (Leipzig): From individual cell behaviour to partial differential equations
II. Dirk Drasdo (Leipzig): Tumour growth and development
III. Kota Miura (Munich): Aggregation in the slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum: how to measure individual cell behaviour
IV. Herbert Levine (La Jolla): Biological aggregation: experiments and models

Communications:
I. Uwe Boerner (Dresden): Formation of Myxobacterial rippling patterns
II. Till Bretschneider (Bonn): Modeling mechanical cell-matrix interactions and co-operative effects in tissue formation
III. Stan Maree (Utrecht): Dictyostelium discoideum morphogenesis: the culmination


For further information please contact: mtbio@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de