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Following the success of the series of meetings on Computational Cell Biology that began in 2007, a fourth Joint Cold Spring Harbor/Wellcome Trust conference will be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. The meeting will begin in the afternoon of Wednesday February 10th (3pm), and end with a banquet on Saturday evening February 13th, with normal departure on Sunday morning February 14, 2010.

The specific goal for this meeting is to foster fruitful and creative dialogs between experimental cell biologists and mathematical - computational modelers with common interests in the regulation of cell physiology. Emphasis will be placed on areas of greatest current interest and importance, such cell signaling, motility, cell proliferation and death, calcium dynamics, microbial physiology, and development. Sessions will also be devoted to new experimental technologies and software developments.

Tentative Topics:

* Biochemical circuits
* Intracellular signalling
* New tools & software
* Self-organization in cells
* Cell motility
* Patterns in development
* Cell biophysics


Keynote Speakers:
James Ferrell, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Ben Scheres, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Discussion Leaders:
Karsten Kruse, University of Saalandes, Germany
Nicolas Le Novere, EMBL/EBI, Wellcome Trust, UK
Bela Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic & Molecular Physics,The Netherlands
Francois Nedelec, EMBL, Germany
Jan Traas, Ecole Normale Superleure de Lyon, France
Michael White, University of Liverpool, UK

The format of the meeting will consist of oral sessions including a combination of invited talks and talks selected from the abstracts, plus sessions devoted to posters and new software development.

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have some funds to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

Pricing
Academic Package Single Occupancy* GBP735
Academic Package Double Occupancy* GBP655
Graduate/PhD Student Package Double Occupancy* GBP595
Corporate Package Single Occupancy* GBP945
Academic/Student No-Housing Package GBP470
Corporate No-Housing Package GBP620
Double Occupancy = Shared Accommodations

A delegate rate of £319.00 is available for local delegates, this includes access to all sessions, refreshments, lunch and a shuttle service to and from Cambridge.
Please Note: this rate excludes dinner and accommodations

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting. Where applicable, payments will be processed using the daily exchange rate.

*Housing
Both single and double occupancy accomodation is available at Hinxton on a first-come-first-served basis. Once accomodations are full, delegates will be advised to make their own housing arrangements. The conference center will provide coaches for departure to airports and Central Cambridge only.
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