Scope
A major objective in contemporary plant biology is to understand how biological systems (including single cells, organs, whole organisms and communities) function as operational units and display properties that are greater than the sum of their individual constituent components. The emerging discipline of systems biology uses mathematical and statistical analyses of the large data sets generated from post-genomic investigations or field based studies to address these and related questions. Several common themes appear to be emerging from these investigations one of which is that a network based topology appears to underlie the operation of many biological systems. The objective of this meeting is to focus on networks in plant biology. To do this we shall bring together plant scientists whose interests range from community to cell based studies and mathematicians/ statisticians with interests in network theory.
Abstract book
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Scale and Scalability, a meeting report on the 15th New Phytologist Networks in Plant Biology Symposium
by Christopher Surridge
Organising committee
Claire Grierson, University of Bristol, UK
Alistair Hetherington, Lancaster University, UK
Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh, UK
Holly Slater, New Phytologist, Lancaster, UK
Ian Woodward, University of Sheffield, UK