What:

The goal of Q2M is to bridge Harvard Medical School’s Department of Systems Biology with the clinical trainees at the Harvard affiliated hospitals.  Each month, we will have an afternoon seminar illustrating how high priority problems in medicine can be tackled using quantitative and systematic approaches.  We will present examples of the application of mathematical and analytic models to disease and physiology with relevance to the practice of medicine.  Topics include rigorous, analytic studies that lead to clear, quantifiable, and falsifiable predictions regarding specific human diseases or physiology.

When and Where:

The seminar will take place on a designated Thursday each month 4-6 pm in the Cannon Room at the Harvard Medical School quadrangle. 

There are no Q2M seminars scheduled for the fall of 2009.

Schedule of Past Q2M Seminars:

2008
April	10	James J. Collins, PhD	“Tuning Up Your Patients: Noise-Enhanced Human Function”
May	8	Jeffrey Fredberg, PhD	“Frozen Objects: Small Airways, Big Breaths, and Asthma”
June	12	Local Conference	“Systems Biology of Human Disease”
July		Summer Break	Summer Break
August		Summer Break	Summer Break
September	11	Sally M. Blower, PhD	“Modeling Clinical Trials & Public Health Interventions”
October	2	Mark Daly, PhD	"Genetics of Common Human Disease"
November	13	William F. Crowley, MD	“The Importance of Pulsatile Secretion; Examples from Endocrinology”
December		Winter Break	Winter Break
2009
January	8	Winter Break	Winter Break
February	12	Richard Bergman, PhD	“Systems Biology and Glucose Homeostasis: Prediction, Prevention and Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes”
March	12	Marc Lipsitch, PhD	“Responding to Pandemics: Looking Back, Looking Forward and Trying to Do It Better On the Fly"
April	2	Nicholas Christakis, MD PhD	“Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Spread of Obesity, Substance Use, and Happiness in Longitudinally Resolved Social Networks”
May	14	Martin Nowak, PhD	“Somatic Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer”
June	25	Todd Golub, MD	“Genomic Information and Drug Discovery”

Organizers:

Q2M is directed by Vamsi Mootha, Associate Professor of Systems Biology at HMS, and co-directed by Ramy Arnaout, Instructor in Pathology at BIDMC, and John Higgins, Instructor in Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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