VPH NoE SG Nottingham 2009
The meeting took place at the University of Nottingham, from Monday 29th June to Friday 3rd July 2009, as part of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence Study Groups series.
Problems
- Alveolar epithelial cell injury and repair in fibrotic lung disease
- (Lung Research, University Hospital of North Staffordshire)
- Modelling doming in epithelial monolayers
- (Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Dundee)
- (Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Dundee)
- (Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Dundee)
- Modelling radiation effects in the gastrointestinal epithelium: Applications to radiotherapy scheduling optimisation
- (Department of Surgery and Oncology, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee)
- (Department of Surgery and Oncology, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee)
- Tensegrity as a main determinant of tissue morphogenesis
- (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham)
- (University of Ulster)
- (Department of Anatomy & Cellular Biology School of Medicine, Tufts University)
- (School of Medicine, Tufts University)
The subject for this study group is chosen to be that of regenerative medicine with a focus on epithelial cells across different organs (e.g. skin, bladder, gut, lungs, heart, breast etc). Ideally, five-six different problems (one from each organ) will be presented on the first day and groups comprised of theoretical modellers and experimentalists will spend the rest of the week tackling the particular problem.
An interesting aspect of the epithelial cells is the different properties they exhibit depending on their environment. Thus a novel additional feature of this study group will be to promote a discussion to explore the commonalities and differences of epithelial cells across the body.