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GEM⁴ Summer School 2007

Cell and Molecular Mechanics in BioMedicine
June 25– July 6, 2007
National University of Singapore

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This two-week long summer school will be the second in the series, following the successful inaugural summer school held at MIT in August 2006 (with a focus on infectious diseases). Strong laboratory experience and exposure to local research facilities will be provided in addition to introductory and advanced tutorials.

The objective of this summer school is to educate researchers and graduate students in the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics and its applications in medicine, to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of researchers with in-depth knowledge of biomechanics and molecular medicine and to help scientists and clinicians apply biomechanical approaches in biomolecular, cellular, tissue-level, animal-model and clinical studies.

The philosophy of the summer school is to emphasize basic concepts and problem-based learning in cell and molecular biomechanics, and integrating lecturing, in-class discussion, case-studies and hands-on experience. All teaching activities will have a focus on a particular, broad disease type each year: for example, infectious disease (2006), cancer (2007), and cardiovascular disease (2008). The core teaching material may remain the same, but the examples, case-studies and lab work may be chosen based on the focus topic. The summer school will also include laboratory sessions and interactions with local hospitals and medical research facilities.

The summer school is expected to be particularly appealing to:

• Engineering or biology faculty and post-docs/researchers who wish to expand their research horizons and move into biomechanics and related disease studies;
• Students who want to learn molecular and cell biomechanics, but could not do so at their own institutions, or who want to get a different perspective from what they have learned and a closer link to disease studies;

• Medical researchers who have the need to learn some basic biomechanics and are interested in applying biomechanics to their clinical investigations.

 

Organized by:

 

Supported by:

NUS Office of Life Sciences (OLS)

NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering (NGS)

Agilent Technologies Pte Ltd

Leica Microsystems Pte Ltd

Microlambda Pte Ltd

Nikon Singapore Pte Ltd

Olympus Singapore Pte Ltd

Singapore Tourism Board

 

Scientific Program & Organizing Committee:

Chair: C.T. Lim (NUS)
Co-chair: K.S.W. Tan (NUS)
Members:
    Y. Ito (NUS)
    P. Macary (NUS)
    C.N. Ong (NUS)
    C.H. Sow (NUS)
    Patrick Tan (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School & Genome Institute of Singapore , A*STAR)

 

International Advisory Committee:

S. Suresh (Chair) MIT, USA
G. Bao Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
D.E. Discher University of Pennsylvania, USA
Barry Halliwell NUS, Singapore
R. D. Kamm MIT, USA
G. Milon Institut Pasteur Paris
T. Saif University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
W. Schowalter NUS, Singapore
Michael P. Sheetz Columbia University, USA

 

Summer school venue:

Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS), NUS

 

Fees:

Fees per participant (in Singapore dollars): S$3,200.00 (overseas), S$1,000.00 (local), *S$700 (NUS), *S$600(NGS)

 

* NUS and NGS participants, please use the manual registration form.

 

Overall Organizational support:

GEM4 Secretariat , National University of Singapore B.V.R. Chowdari
Summer course organizational contact: Maureen Oliveiro

 

Summer School Dates

Period:
25 June to 6 July 2007

 

Total Duration:
8 days

 

The summer school will comprise 5 full days (25 – 29 June 2007) and 6 half-days (30 June and 2 – 6 July 2007). For 2 – 6 July 2007, the participants will attend the morning plenary lectures at the GEM4 Conference on Cancer and resume classes in the afternoons. On 30 June 2007, there will be a social outing in the evening.