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<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5ec253e3-bf7c-c290-0599-0e842d0ad2d7" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">XV Giambiagi Winter School</span><br class="kix-line-break">
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Information processing in Biological Systems:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">From cells to equations, and back.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Buenos Aires, Argentina</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">July 15-19, 2013</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://giambiagi.df.uba.ar/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://giambiagi.df.uba.ar/</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Scope of the School</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Recent advances in our understanding of biological systems have largely benefited from interdisciplinary approaches. Physics has played a fundamental role in this dialogue between disciplines, providing quantitative methods that allow the precise formulation and testing of theories.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The central theme of the meeting is information processing in biological systems. The meeting includes a one week school of several mini-courses, and a short workshop where young participants will be able to interact among themselves and with the lecturers. Courses will cover different key aspects of the proposed theme, such as gene regulatory networks, dynamical aspects of signaling pathways, molecular noise, the quantification of information in cellular processes and the physics of the cell. The school will provide students with an accessible and contemporary view of the most interesting questions in the field, and introduce them to the some of the experimental and theoretical approaches used to answer these questions, and the tools used to comprehend the complex dynamics of cellular behavior. In summary, the school will bring students closer to these themes and to the tools necessary to tackle a variety of questions of great interest.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Confirmed short courses</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Cellular responses to combinations of signals.<br class="kix-line-break">
Tobias Bollenbach (IST Austria)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Modeling simple signaling networks.<br class="kix-line-break">
James Ferrell (CCSR Stanford)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Intrinsic noise in chemical-reaction networks.<br class="kix-line-break">
Ivo Sbalzarini (MPI-CBG Dresden)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Evolutionary transitions to multicellularity.<br class="kix-line-break">
Ray Goldstein (University of Cambridge)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Information processing in tissues.<br class="kix-line-break">
Marcos González-Gaitán (University of Geneva)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Organizing committee</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ariel Chernomoretz, Physics Department, University of Buenos Aires, and IFIBA - CONICET</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Alejandro Colman-Lerner, IFIBYNE - CONICET, UBA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hernán E. Grecco, Physics Department, University of Buenos Aires, and IFIBA - CONICET</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Luis G. Morelli, Physics Department, University of Buenos Aires, and IFIBA - CONICET</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Financial Support and registration fees</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">There are no registration fees to attend the School. Partial financial support will be available for a limited number of students covering transportation and lodging.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">More information</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">For information, please visit: </span> <a href="http://giambiagi.df.uba.ar/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://www.giambiagi.df.uba.ar</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Contact: </span> <a href="mailto:giambiagi@df.uba.ar" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">giambiagi@df.uba.ar</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We gratefully acknowledge the generous grants for this school and workshop provided by:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">International Center for Theoretical Physics.</span></p>
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Universidad de Buenos Aires</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We would also like to thank all the staff from "Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires" without whom this school would not have been possible.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#696969;">______________________________________________<br>
<em>Giambiagi Winter School-2013- Organizing Committee<br>
Buenos Aires - Argentina<br>
giambiagi@df.uba.ar<br>
www.giambiagi.df.uba.ar</em></span></div>
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