Cancer as a Dynamical System

Understanding cancer in the context of evolutionary biology, how neoplasms evolve within the host organism, the nonlinear feedback between cancer cells and stroma, and how cancer behaves as a complex adaptive system. Emphasis will be on the application of dynamical systems theory, game theory, systems biology and related fields of inquiry to cancer and its progression to malignancy. The goal of the workshop is to determine how tumor growth, tissue invasion and metastasis might be understood and even controlled via these dynamical properties.

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Participants

Tibor Anatal
Harvard University

Paul Davies
Arizona State University

Jasmine Foo
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Stuart Kauffman
Santa Fe Institute

Kevin Leder
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Carlo Maley
The Wistar Institute

John Pepper
University of Arizona

Charley Lineweaver
Australian National University

John Nagy
Scottsdale Community College

Jim Elser
Arizona State University

Tim Newman
Arizona State University

Pier Luigi Luisi
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Athena Aktipis
University of Arizona

Chris Adami
California Institute of Technology