A Systems Approach to Inflammation: Course Syllabus
As of October 15, 2008
Wednesdays from 9-11 in 15th Floor BST Conference Room (E1595 BST)
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Date |
Topic |
Tentative lecturer |
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8/27/08 |
I. A Systems Approach to Inflammation: Basic and Applied Concepts; II. Facilitating Interdisciplinary research Using Electronic Tools |
Al Cecchetti (Center for Clinical Pharmacology) |
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9/3/08 |
I. Modeling Biological Processes with Differential Equations; II.Stochastic Models |
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9/10/08 |
Agent-based Modeling Of Inflammation: Concepts and Practicum |
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9/17/08 (9am) |
I. Perspectives on Modeling Complex Biological Systems II. Ordinary Differential Equations of Inflammation |
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| 9/24/08 |
The Acute inflammatory Response to Bacteria and Tissue Damage |
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10/01/08 |
Group Discussion/Modeling Practicum |
Vodovotz/Clermont |
| 10/08/08 (9am) |
Challenges and Methods to Modeling Individulals |
R. Bies (School of Pharmacy) |
| 10/15/08 (9am) |
Calibration of complex mathematical models I. Non-linear optimization II. Monte Carlo methods |
J. Bartels (Immunetrics, Inc.) |
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10/22/08 |
Modeling if Inflammation and Healing |
Qi Mi (Sports Medicine and Nutrition/ CIRM) |
| 10/29/08 | Modeling Signal transduction Pathways in Inflammation | J Faeder (Computational Biology / CIRM) |
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11/5/08 |
Modeling the Dynamics and Control of Infections in the ICU | John Hotchkiss (Critical Care Medicine) |
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11/12/08 |
I. Modeling Adaptive Immunity II. Data-driven Modeling
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Penny Morel (Immunology) Shlomo Ta'asan (CMU / CIRM) |
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11/19/08 |
Modeling the Spread of Infectious Disease | D. Burke (Graduate school of Public Health) |
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11/26/08 |
Thanksgiving Recess (no class) | |
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12/3/08 |
Group Presentations of Final Projects (last day of class) |
Students |