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Workshop Systems Biology for Plant Design |
The EU COST Action E50 in collaboration with CASPIC are organizing a workshop entitled
Systems Biology for Plant Design, July 8-11, 2009
in Wageningen. For details please visit www.pcb.wur.nl/UK/eucost-workshop or download the brochure.
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The acronym ‘CASPIC' stands for:
Cellulose Architecture Systems biology for Plant
Innovation Creation
Mission statement
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 CASPIC is an EU NEST Adventure project |
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Molecular cell biology is coming of age. The two
reasons for it are both rooted in technology: 1) the -omics
work provides a huge amount of data and 2) microscopy (and other methods) have
become quantitative, making it possible to integrate experimental life sciences
and mathematical modeling in a 'systems biology' approach that aims to
understand how the individual components determine the property of a whole
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| A whole system in this sense is nowadays not a whole organism yet, or
organ, tissue, or cell. However, every living system is composed of subsystems,
the so-called modules, i.e. processes, pathways, that themselves serve as
entities in the higher order modules. Molecular systems biology is rapidly developing for
improving human health, but has as much potential for agriculture and its
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The scientific and technological objectives of CASPIC are:
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Use an
integrated systems biology approach to understand and exploit plant cell wall
texture for the future production of (ligno)cellulosic (nano)materials with
unique multifunctional properties.
- Provide
a knowledge platform for future innovation in cell wall-based industrial
products, a step toward a knowledge based society.
- Contribute
to a paradigm shift from a reductionist to a systems biology approach for
generating innovation in fundamental and applied sciences.
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Communicate the scientific and
technological knowledge/breakthroughs generated in the project to scientific
and industrial end-users and the general public.
Specific Objectives
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