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INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES TO COMPUTATIONAL BIOMEDICINE


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Raimond Winslow
Director, Centre for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

Professor Salvador Moncada
Director, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
University College London, UK

Professor Douglas Kell
Chief Executive, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK

Professor Hiroaki Kitano
President, The Systems Biology Institute, Japan Principal Investigator, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, JP

Stephen Friend
President, Sage Bionetworks, USA


MEETING INFORMATION

The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) will hold the second of the series of VPH Conferences (VPH 2012) on 18 – 20 September 2012. VPH2012 will be an international conference on computational biomedicine, with a clear focus on the integrative aspects of VPH. Special attention will be given to the 'Digital Patient' as well as 'health forecasts'. VPH2012 aims at reaching outside of the VPH community to other equally important communities: systems biology and genomics. In this respect, our vision is to have a conference that truly encompasses all possible scales to model physio/pathology with a clear ICT focus.

The second meeting will take place at the Savoy Place, set beside the Thames in London’s city centre. VPH2012 is supported by the European Commission ICT for Health / DG Information Society and Media. The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence is an umbrella project representing the Virtual Physiological Human Initiative set up by the European Commission with a budget of ~ 207 million Euros for the Framework 7 Program.

Four parallel sessions will be held on all days with talks and dedicated poster sessions. Similar to the format of the VPH2010 – where after the meeting, the best VPH2010 talks and posters were invited to submit a full paper to Interface Focus in a special themed issue on the Virtual Physiological Human, the best VPH2012 abstracts submitted for both talks and posters sessions will also be invited to submit a full paper for peer review for publication in a special Interface Focus issue entitled "Integrative Approaches to Computational Biomedicine".

WORKSHOPS:

As part of VPH2012, workshops will take place alongside the main conference. There are two types of workshops which will be held in VPH2012. Sessional workshops are those which focus on a particular theme with keynote speakers and an open call for abstracts. Hands-on workshops have invited speakers, their aim is to  give attendees a deeper knowledge and familiarity of a specific set of tools or concepts, and will have a more interactive format.

Please click on the individual workshop link below to find out more information on each workshop

Sessional workshops at VPH2012

Please note that the abstract submission process for these workshops is exactly the same as for the main conference.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is 29th February 2012 and  authors of selected talks will be notified by 31st May 2012. Should you wish to submit an abstract for one of these workshops please indicate this in the EasyChair submission and please also contact the workshop organiser.

  1. Cardiovascular Applications and Medical Device Design and Assessment: the MeDDiCA workshop Cardiovascular applications and medical device design and assessment. For this workshop - all papers must be submitted by a “young researcher” (as first or second author).For further details please click the link above and contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  2. The Mathematics of Multiscale Modelling This workshop has the theme of fundamental mathematical techniques in multiscale modelling for the VPH. For further details please click the link above and contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  3. Modelling for Patient Safety This workshop will concentrate on identification of future paradigms and challenges for the application of simulation technologies in interventional procedures.   For further details please  click the link above and contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Hands on Workshops at VPH2012

  1. ScalaLife: High Performance Atomistic Simulations of Physiological Processes This workshop will present state of the art computational methods for the simulation of biological moledules using three software packages: Dalton (QM), Gromacs (MD) and Discrete (CG). The emphasis will be on both the simulation capacity of these packages and the possibilities they bring to the life sciences research as well as on their efficient use of High Performance supercomputer systems. For further details please click the link above and contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  2. VPH-SHARE: Sharing Data, Tools and Models Workflows in Biomedical Research workshop This workshop aims to reach out to potential first end users of the first important outcomes of the VPH-Share project and will feature keynote speakers and a demonstration session of the software developed in the project which has a focus on biomedical data, tools and model sharing, VPH workflows composition and execution and multiscale modelling. For further details please click the link above and contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  3. RICORDO: Semantic interoperability for clinical data and VPH models workshop This workshop aims to demonstrate the tools of RICORDO and will focus on metadata and standards, model annotation, model semantics, multi-scale, granularity, semantic interoperability and visualization. For further details please click the link above and contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  4. VPHOP: Multiscale modelling of the skeleton to predict the risk of fracture in osteoporotic elders workshop This workshop aims to present the most important outcomes of the VPHOP Integrated Project with a series of keynote speakers based on Multiscale modelling of the musculoskeletal system and hypermodelling technologies. For further details please click the link above and contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

CONFERENCE THEME TRACKS:

1. Physiome: multiscale modelling of physiology and pathology

(Track chairs: Peter Hunter and S Randall Thomas)

  1. Neuromusculoskeletal system
  2. Cardiovascular and respiratory systems
  3. Internal organs and metabolic modelling
  4. Lymphatic and immune systems
  5. Neurocognitive modelling
  6. …(any other system)

2. Virtual Physiological Human: infrastructures and technologies for integrative biomedical research

(Track chairs: Rod Hose and Ryutaro Himeno)

  1. VPH Infostructure technologies
  2. Data and model repositories
  3. Multiscale modelling technologies
  4. Clinical applications of multiscale modelling
  5. Software, platforms and workflows

3. Digital Patient: ICT for integrating data, information, and knowledge in the clinical practice

(Track Chairs: Dipak Kalra and Marco Viceconti)

  1. Multiscale visualisation
  2. Integrative user interfaces for medical professionals
  3. Clinical data fusion and integration
  4. Integrative management of clinical information & health informatics
  5. Hybrid personalised / population modelling
  6. …(other)

4. System Medicine: bridging Physiome / VPH and Systems Biology

(Track chairs: Adriano Henney and Hans Westerhoff)

  1. Tissue modelling: missing link between cells and organs
  2. PDE – ODE integration in tissue-cell multiscale models
  3. Downward causation

5. Genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics

(Track chairs: Paul Kellam, Ferran Sanz & Nour Shublaq)

  1. “Omics” research and its connection to the medical/clinical context. Case studies
  2. Whole-genome analysis
  3. Disease-based genomic studies
  4. Tools and techniques
  5. Integrated high-throughput analysis

6. Personal Health Forecasting: next-generation technology for Active and Healthy Ageing

(Track chairs: Filippo Castiglione and Emanuela Merelli)

  1. Technology for Active and Healthy Ageing
  2. Sensor-model integrated systems
  3. Design of Public Health Interventions
  4. Data security and storage in clinical applications in this context
  5. Case studies – applications in clinical practice
  6. …(other)

7. In-silico clinical trials: integrative information management and integrative modelling to develop and assess medicines, medical devices, tissue engineering, and biotechnology products

(Track Chairs: Norbert Graf and Peter Kohl)

  1. Toward deployment: technical assessment and clinical assessment
  2. Verification, sensitivity, validation, benchmarking, accuracy, efficacy
  3. Cost-benefit analysis & case studies
  4. Regulatory aspects

 

VPH2012 Scientific Committee

Peter Coveney, University College London (Chair), UK

Vanessa Diaz, University College London (Vice-Chair), UK

Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research Laboratory, UK

Norbert Graf, University of Saarland, DE

Peter Hunter, University of Auckland, NZ

Paul Kellam, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

Peter Kohl, Imperial College London, UK

Ferran Sanz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES

Jesper Tegner, Karolinska Institutet, SE

Marco Viceconti, University of Sheffield, UK

 

VPH2012 Organisation Office

Tara Chapman, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BE

Katherine Fletcher, University of Oxford, UK

Miriam Mendes, University College London, UK