cell decision process center

The goals of the MIT CDP Center are to develop numerical models of the mammalian signal transduction networks that regulate cell death and proliferation and to test these models experimentally.

Conference - Systems Biology of Human Disease 2008

The Council for Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2), the Cell Decision Processes Center, and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School are pleased to announce the opening of registration for Systems Biology of Human Disease, an international conference scheduled for June 12-13 2008 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School.

Registration deadline: May 15

Weighing of biomolecules, single cells and single nanoparticles in fluid (2006) Burg et al.
CDP researchers Scott Manalis and colleagues demonstrate nanomechanical resonators able to weigh single cells and other sub-femtogram masses.
Read the Nature paper (April 26, 2007),
the Comment in Nature, and
the New York Times article (May 1, 2007)

research

New experimental approaches combined with fresh thinking are redefining how measurements of complex biological systems can add to scientific knowledge and impact human health.

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events

June 2007: Joint Meeting of the National Centers of Systems Biology

September 2006: Peter Sorger's presentation to the NIGMS Council, "Systems Biology at the Science-Engineering Interface"

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funding

The CDP Center is funded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant P50-GM68762.

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