This is a rare opportunity to hear from one of the foremost scientists in the field about how computational biology can be used in both biomedical research and clinical applications.
 Peter J. Hunter |
Place: Agricultural University of Norway, Biotechnology building, room BT3A.16
Speaker: Peter J Hunter, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
The IUPS Physiome Project (IUPS: International Union of Physiological Sciences) is an internationally collaborative open-source project to provide a public domain framework for computational physiology, including the development of modeling standards, computational tools and web-accessible databases of models of structure and function at all spatial scales. It aims to develop an infrastructure for linking models of biological structure and function in human and other eukaryotic physiology across multiple levels of spatial organization and multiple time scales. The levels of biological organisation, from genes to the whole organism, includes gene regulatory networks, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions, protein pathways, integrative cell function, tissue and whole organ structure-function relations, and finally the integrative function of the whole organism.
We are very fortunate that Prof. Hunter has been able to make the time to visit Ås during his brief stay in Norway, between commitments in Trondheim and Oslo.
Peter Hunter was born and bred in New Zealand. He did his undergraduate BE degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Auckland and his PhD in Physiology at Oxford University. After a joint postdoc between the Rutherford laboratory and the Engineering Science Dept at Oxford he returned to New Zealand in 1980 to found the bioengineering research group in the Department of Engineering Science. He established the first undergraduate biomedical engineering programme in New Zealand in 2000 and the Bioengineering Institute in 2001. He is currently Professor of Engineering Science and Director of the Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland. He is co-Chair of the Physiome and Bioengineering Committee of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS).
For more information on Peter Hunter and his work, please see:
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The IUPS Physiome Project
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