Welcome

The IPCAT series of conferences began in 1995 as a venue to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists interested in modelling the processes that take place within biological cells and tissues. The conferences aim to bring together researchers in both the biological and physical sciences who have a common interest in the nature of biological information processing; whether this interest is for the purpose of understanding biology or for developing new algorithms or engineered systems based upon biological principles. This year's conference will take place in Cambridge, the centre of the UK's software and biotechnology industry.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Synthetic, executable and computational biology
  • Natural computation and artificial life
  • Computational intelligence and machine learning
  • Neural modelling, neural implants and neural computation
  • Evolving, adapting, and neural hardware
  • Autonomous, evolutionary, and biochemical robotics
  • Artificial tissues and organs
  • Molecular evolution and theoretical biology
  • Artificial bio-sensor and vision implementations
  • Quantum computation in cells and tissues
  • Modeling of metabolic pathways and responses
  • Developmental and morphogenetic systems
  • Simulation of genetic and ecological systems
  • Biological applications of nanotechnology
  • DNA, chemical and bacterial computing
  • Systems biology and bioinformatics
  • Genome biology and mathematical biology

Organisers

The IPCAT 2012 conference is organised by: Trinity College, Cambridge, the Intelligent Systems Group in the Department of Electronics, University of York, and the Institute of Bioengineering at EPFL, Lausanne.

Keynote Speakers

Madan Babu
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK		 Anne-Claude Gavin
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany		 Leonid A. Mirny
MIT, Cambridge, USA
Madan Babu Anne-Claude Gavin Leonid Mirny

Intrinsically Disordered Segments and the Evolution of Protein Half-life

Biochemical Approaches to Biomolecular Networks

Higher-order Chromatin Architecture:
Bridging Physics and Biology

Karla Neugebauer
Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics,
Dresden, Germany		 Yitzhak Pilpel
Weizmann Institute, Israel		 Pieter Rein ten Wolde
FOM Institute AMOLF,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Karla Neugebauer Yitzhak Pilpel Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Dynamics of Transcription and RNA Processing in Living Cells

Gene Expression Evolution Revealed from Lab Evolution Experiments

Multiplexing Biochemical Signals

Conference Proceedings

The IPCAT 2012 proceedings have been published by Springer in their Lecture Notes of Computer Science series, volume 7223. The online version of the proceedings can be accessed via Springerlink.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a special issue of BioSystems journal (Elsevier Science).

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at Trinity College, Cambridge, which was founded by Henry VIII in 1546 as part of the University of Cambridge, UK. Since then Trinity has flourished and grown, and is now a home to around 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 160 Fellows.

A printable PDF map of the venue, highlighting the rooms used by IPCAT 2012 at Trinity College is now available for download.