During the last years, modern biosciences have opened their doors widely: they do not only call for informatics and data processing techniques in order to master their huge amounts of experimental results, but they particularly need and want to implement appropriate tools of mathematical modelling and analysis. This minisymposium is intended to offer a selected view into this still growing field of "Biomathematics", by presenting a series of talks on some typical biological questions together with the suggested mathematical solutions. In-between the presentations, enough time will be reserved for critical discussion and fruitful exchange of ideas.

The talks shall show that, for modelling biological processes and for understanding their particular theoretical stuctures, interesting and often newly stimulated mathematical methods are required, used and invented. The presented topics include: Nonlinear renewal equations for structured population dynamics, models for cell-cell communication in immune systems, stochastic and continuum descriptions of cell movement and membrane deformation as well as statistics of polymer cleavage fragmentation, multiple sequence alignment, and genetic association analysis.

Auszug zu diesem Minisymposium aus dem Programmheft (Stand: 15. Juli 2006). Weitere nützliche Informationen rund um die Tagung können der verkürzten Ausgabe des Programmheftes entnommen werden.

Programm (Stand: 07.09.2006):