CCAM has organized two scientific meetings this October: the The 22nd International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB2023) October 8-12 co-chaired by Pedro Mendes and Ion Moraru, and the “Computational Modeling in Biology” Network (COMBINE) workshop 2023

October 5-8 organized by Michael Blinov and Ion Moraru. Both VCell and COPASI were highlighted at the meetings with tutorials, posters, and multiple models presented that were developed with these tools. CCAM students Milda, Siyu, Rudradeep, and Jinhong helped with organization, working at registration and presenting CCAM at a recruitment table.

08-14-2023. CCAM Faculty Yan, Acker and Loew publish a paper on near infrared fluorescent voltage sensors in PNAS. The organic synthesis of the new ElectroFluor dyes is described as well as an application to optogenetic activation and sensing of cardiac action potentials in live mouse hearts.

Yan, P.; Acker, C. D.; Biasci, V.; Judge, G.; Monroe, A.; Sacconi, L.; Loew, L. M. (2023). Near-Infrared Voltage-Sensitive Dyes Based on Chromene Donor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (34), e2305093120.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305093120

Michael Blinov and Sophia Pidvysotski, a high school senior student at Miss Porter’s, a research apprentice at CCAM, are featured in the UConn today devoted to  UConn Health’s High School Research Apprentice Program: 

Connecticut High School Students Conducting Research at UConn Health

Prof Margaret Johnson from John Hopkins University and Michael Blinov are hosting the Special Interest Subgroup session on Biophysical Modeling of the Cell at Cell Bio 2023 – an ASCB/EMBO (https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2023/) meeting in Boston, MA, December 2-6. The session will take place on Wednesday, December 6, 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM (https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2023/program/subgroups/).