International visibility
The 6. EU framework programme
The Specific Supporting Action (SSA) EUSYSBIO was initiated within the 6. EU framework programme together with participants from the BMBF funding initiative HepatoSys to bundle existing systems biology competences in Europe and to initiate further research activities within the 6. EU framework programme. From this initiative in 2008 the ERASysBio Coordination Action arose to work out the suggestions from the SSA.
2nd International Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells
During the second Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells (SBMC), which took place in Dresden, Germany from May 22nd – 24th, 2008, about 350 scientists from all over the world discussed the latest insights in Systems Biology. They illustrated the great importance of this young scientific discipline, particularly for medical research, which was underlined by the first ever formal assignment of the MTZ®-Award for Medical Systems Biology during the conference on May 23rd. Three junior scientists were honoured for their outstanding dissertations in this field of research with the MTZ-Award for Systems Biology. Streaming files of the conference talks you find here.
1st International Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells
From July, 12th to 14th 2006 HepatoSys as an organizer invited to the first international conference on Systems Biology of mammalian cells (SBMC). More than 300 participants from 18 countries were visiting the talks and poster presentations. Industrial companies showed themselves at an exhibition. Streaming files of the talks you get here. Because of the great interest and the positiv feed back the conference will be repeated now every second year.
5th International Conference on Systems Biology in Heidelberg
From October 9-13, 2004 the 5th International Conference on Systems Biology was hosted in Heidelberg/Germany. Round about 800 international experts presented and discussed their work in numerous poster sessions, workshops, and oral presentations, reaching from microbial systems biology to methods and software, and systems biology for medicine.
Participants from 37 countries with a regional emphasis on the USA, Great Britain and Japan visited Heidelberg for this conference. The doubling in number of posters presented and participants as well as the enormous industry interest indicate the increasing importance of systems biology for research and development in life sciences.
This notion was also supported by State Secretary Wolf-Michael Catenhusen:"Life sciences are in the best sense investments into our future." Therefore the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research had started its funding initiative "Systems of Life - Systems Biology" as one of the first world-wide.
Thus, special importance comes to the European and international collaboration to develop this fascinating research area and to the interdisciplinary education of young scientists who have to be trained with biological, mathematical, systems science and computational skills.
"By hosting this international conference on systems biology under the auspices of the Federal Minister of Education and Research Ms Edelgard Bulmahn, Germany has made a significant step towards a prominent positioning in the international systems biology research arena", said conference chairman Prof. Roland Eils from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg on the occasion of the opening of the meeting. From the conference he expected an important impulse not only for the individual research of the participants but also for the organization of research alliances between Europe, Asia, and North America.