ESF workshop CARDIAC DYNAMICS
International Organizing Committee:
A. Zahradníková
(Slovakia), Scientific Organizer
B. Echebarria (Spain)
S. Luther (Germany)
I. Zahradník (Slovakia)
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, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. 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 arrhythmias, 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
and will be selected by the Program Committee. 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 keynote lectures 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.
Registration
The registration fee of EUR
100 covers all conference materials as well as accommodation and meals.
Participants are expected to present a poster, which will be displayed
throughout the meeting.
Registration deadline
(Friday, June 12, 2009) has already passed and the accepted participants, selected by
the program committee, were notified. Accepted participants will have to submit
their abstracts by July 6, 2009. The
instructions for submission of abstracts, preparation of posters and for
payment of the registration fee can be found here.
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)
LIST OF
SPEAKERS
E.
Cherry (USA);
P.
Colli-Franzone (Italy);
G.
Dupont (Belgium);
B.
Echebarria (Spain);
M.
Falcke (Germany);
F.
Fenton (USA);
S.
Luther (Germany);
A.
Panfilov (The Netherlands);
G.
Plank (UK);
Y.
Shiferaw (USA);
P.
Swietach (UK);
A.
Trafford (UK);
E.
White (UK);
I.
Zahradník (Slovakia);
A.
Zahradnikova (Slovakia);