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Mike Tyers Public Lecture
e-Science Institute 11th June 04
Dr Mike Tyers (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital and Department of
Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto) gave a seminar entitled "Navigating
the networks: systems biology for one and all".
In his talk Dr Tyers aimed to give an overview of how his lab has moved from studying the cell
cycle of the yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae from a biochemical point of view to a more
multidisciplinary systems approach involving high-throughput proteomics, informatics, chemical
genetics, visualization platforms and mathematical modelling. The results he presented were
largely obtained with yeast but he explained how lessons from this model organism could be
extrapolated to more complex systems and their implications for medical diagnosis and drug
discovery.
This was an outstanding talk on a topic of wide interest, and was attended by computer scientists,
informaticists, medical geneticists and cell biologists.
National e-Science Centre