FYI

[Raul Valdes-Perez]

			SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CELLS AND TISSUES
                         
                Liverpool 6th - 8th September 1995


The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a multidisciplinary
group of scientists working in the general area of modelling cells and
tissues.  A central theme will be the nature of biological information
and the ways it is processed in cells and tissues. We hope that the
workshop will draw together researchers from a range of disciplines
including: Computer Science, Cell Biology, Mathematics, Physiology,
Biophysics, Experimental Medicine, Biochemistry, Electronic
Engineering and Biotechnology.

The workshop is intended to provide a forum to report research,
discuss emerging topics and gain new insights into information
processing in biological and computational systems.

Subjects areas are likely to include but not be restricted to:

* Cellular information processing systems
* Enzyme networks, Gene networks, Metabolic channeling
* Second messenger systems
* Signal Transduction and Cellular Pattern Recognition 
* Automata models 
* Parallel Distributed Processing models 
* Cellular Automata models 
* Single Neuron Computation  
* Biomolecular computing
* Inter-cellular communication, Multi-cellularity
* Information Processing in Developmental Systems 
* Information Processing in Immune networks
* Endocrine-immune-nervous interactions
* Information processing in neural tissue systems
* Information processing in non-neural tissue systems
* Communication and gap-junctions
* Asynchronous processing, MIMD, SIMD and NIMD systems
* Cell and tissues oscillators
* Fractals and Chaos 
* Emergent phenomena and self-organisation


Programme Committee
 
Georg Brabant Endocrinology (Hanover)
Michael Conrad Computer Science (Detroit)
Roy Cuthbertson Cell Biology (Liverpool)
Claus Emmeche Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies (Copenhagen)
Mike Holcombe Computer Science (Sheffield)  
George Kampis Ethology and Philosophy of Science (Budapest)
Douglas Kell Biological Sciences (Aberystwyth)
Gareth Leng Physiology (Edinburgh)
Pedro Marijuan Electronics & Informatics (Zaragoza)
Koichiro Matsuno BioEngineering (Nagaoka)
Ray Paton Computer Science (Liverpool)
Hans-Paul Schwefel Computer Science (Dortmund)
Idan Segev Neurobiology (Jerusalem)
Gordon Shepherd Neurobiology (Yale)
W Richard Stark Mathematics (Tampa)  
Rene Thomas Molecular Biology (Brussels) 
Chris Tofts Computer Science (Manchester)
John Tucker Computer Science (Swansea)
G Rickey Welch Biological Sciences (New Orleans)
Gershom Zajicek Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research (Jerusalem)


Organizing Committee
Ray Paton, Roy Cuthbertson Mike Holcombe and 'Trina Houghton


Submission Details
All authors must submit 4 copies of the full technical
paper by mail or delivery service to:

Ray Paton
Department of Computer Science
The University of Liverpool 
A
Liverpool L69 3BX
UK

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT PAPERS BY FAX. 

The paper should be in English, double-spaced in 12 point using Times
or similar font. The paper should be a maximum of 16 pages including
the first page.

The first page must contain: title of the paper, author's names
including affiliations, complete mailing address, telephone and FAX
numbers, email address, and a 250 word (maximum) abstract.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:      Friday April 14th 1995
Acceptance Notification:  Friday May 26th 1995
Deadline for final paper: Friday June 23rd 1995

PROCEEDINGS
The papers accepted for the workshop will be bound into an unpublished
collection for delegates.

PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS
It is intended that a post workshop proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag and will appear after the workshop.

Enquiries
Enquires should be addressed to Ray Paton at the above address or
FAX +44 51 794 3715 or 
email tissues at csc.liv.ac.uk