Videoclips
from the
CSBi
2004 Annual Conference in Systems Biology
At The
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Topics:
Systems, Proteins and Mechanisms
Manipulating and Measuring Biological Systems
Systematic Experiments and Numerical Models
Gene and Protein Networks
Academic
Perspectives in System Biology
The Panel Discussion
List of Speakers in the Panel Discussion(use
Real-Player
to stream the video clips)
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Moderation: Douglas A. Lauffenburger @ MIT (complete
video), (homepage)
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David Botstein @ Princeton (video),
(homepage)
and (the
talk on laws in biology)
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Jim Cassatt @ NIH (video),
(homepage)
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Leroy Hood @ Institute for Systems Biology (video),
(homepage)
and (the
talk on dimensions and scales)
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Mark Kirschner @ Harvard (video),
(homepage)
and (the
talk on systematics in biology)
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George Poste @ Arizona State University (video),
(homepage)
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Alan Saltiel @ University of Michigan (video),
(homepage)
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Matt Scott @ Stanford (video),
(homepage)
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Peter Sorger @ MIT (video),
(homepage)
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Steve Wiley @ Pacific Northwest Labs (video),
(homepage)
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Huntington Willard @ Duke (video),
(homepage)
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Peter Sorger @ MIT CONCLUDING
REMARKS and RESULTS (video)
ABOUT THE PANEL DISCUSSION:
In this wide-ranging discussion, panelists seized
on redesigning science education as a way of ensuring the success of systems
biology. The first challenge lies in improving instruction in the earliest
years. David Botstein said, "K-12 education has never been that great,
(kids) don't need to know everything in excruciating detail". Anything
they find out by themselves is worth 10 or 20 of anything you tell them
to do." Mark Kirschner remarked, "What's left out is appropriate kinds
of inquiry, and at the appropriate age." Leroy Hood spoke with master teachers
and "understood that the worst way to teach was lecture." Another obstacle
lies with the culture of higher education, where scientists are rewarded
for focusing on a single specialty and for research, not teaching. George
Poste pointed to "rampant egotism that's destructive," preventing collaboration.
Peter Sorger commented, "Autonomy is given to faculty members in classroom.
We need expectations. Students will gravitate to those courses that are
taught well." A major hurdle for budding systems biologists involves embracing
a larger biology. Matt Scott spoke of building "excitement about things
beautiful and mysterious." Other panelists expressed hope that the diversity
of living things would generate a passion not only to understand the fundamental
interdependence among all living things but to preserve species as well.
Videoclips
from the CSBi 2003 Annual Conference in Systems Biology, "From Bioinformatics
to Biofabrication"
all Videos are encoded with the latest Sorensen Video
CoDec. You need Quicktime
for (Mac or Win, no way to run this on Linux et. al.) .
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President Charles M. Vest and CSBi Executive
Committee, Excerpts from CSBi
Symposium 2003 : Statements on the CSBi
Mission, Vision and Approach. (8.7 MB / 14 min)
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Professor Douglas Lauffenburger, MIT "Systems
and Computational Biology" : What is System Biology? A good introduction
to the challenges and chances of of a cutting edge science. (12 MB / 21
min)
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Professor Martin Schmidt, MIT "MEMS-A
technology Overview" : The technology of making small things ...( 9
MB / 16 min)
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Professor Anthony Sinskey, MIT "Drug
Discovery and the New Biology": The situation of the pharmaceutical
markets and risk analysis of investments in new drugs discovery. (15 MB
/ 26 min)
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Professor Stephen Harrison, HHMI "Adding
a Fourth Dimension to Structural Biology" : Dynamics and
Context as new aspects in pathway analysis. (11 MB / 19 min)
Conference Summary
In its 2003 Conference, CSBi looked inward at systems and computational
biology research currently underway at MIT and at collaborating institutions.
Research talks covered a wide variety of science and engineering topics
from bioinformatics to the fabrication of biology-based nano-machines.
Research talks were supplemented by five invited "Perspectives" talks that
presented historical, technical and scientific overviews of research relevant
to systems biology.
Program
Download a pdf file of the CSBi 2003
Conference program.