ESF Science Meeting "Cardiac Dynamics"
Workshop to discuss theoretical and expermintal approaches to the study of cardiac dynamics.
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Aug 24, 2009 01:30
to Aug 27, 2009 01:00 |
| Where | Smolenice castle, the Congress Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences |
| Contact Name | Alexandra Zahradnikova |
| Contact Phone | +4212 908 069 796 |
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The Cardiac Dynamics Workshop is sponsored by the European Science Foundation under the supervision of the FuncDyn Programme (Functional Dynamics in Complex Biological and Chemical Systems). The organizer of the meeting is Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics. The workshop will take place in the Smolenice Castle, the congress centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, on August 24 – 27, 2009.
Cardiac dynamics is of large importance to cardiology. During the last decade it accrued into a new field that bridges the gap between basic and applied research, using both, theoretical and experimental approaches. Models of cardiac dynamics are indispensable to deal with problems that cannot be approached experimentally and to provide interpretation of data of clinical or laboratory origin. This workshop will bring together leading scientists in this field to discuss both, established and emerging aspects of modelling cardiac dynamics in a workshop format.
The topics will cover theoretical and experimental approaches to studying intracellular calcium dynamics, excitation-contraction coupling, mechano-electric feedback, and arrhytmias, and how these processes are controlled by gating of ion channels, generation of the action potential, diffusion and binding of calcium, and spreading of excitation. We hope that it will be an exciting program that brings experimentalists, theoretical biologists, and mathematical scientists together.
The program schedule consists of keynote lectures and poster sessions. Plenty of time and space will be available for discussions. Attendees will be limited to 50 using a first-come first-served policy, provided that the abstract relates to the topics of the workshop. There will be no parallel sessions, and posters will be on display during the entire meeting. We hope to attract young scientists by the low registration fees and short deadlines. Young scientists may compete for poster awards.
Selected full papers originating from the meeting and reflecting the state of the art in cardiac dynamics will be published in book form. All participants of the symposium will receive the book after it is published (in 2010) free of charge.
The registration fee of EUR 100 covers all conference materials as well as accommodation and meals.
International Organizing Committee
A. Zahradníková (Slovakia), Scientific Organizer; M. Bär (Germany); B. Echebarria (Spain); S. Luther (Germany); I. Zahradník (Slovakia)
Local Organizing Committee:
A. Zahradníková; M. Gaburjáková; A. Zahradníková, jr.; R. Janíček; M. Novotová
Program Committee:
M. Bär (Germany), B. Echebarria (Spain); S. Luther (Germany); A. Panfilov (The Netherlands); I. Zahradník (Slovakia)
