Prof Feng will co-chair the 5th Shanghai International Symposium on Nonlinear Sciences and Applications (Shanghai NSA'12) will be held at Fudan University in Shanghai and on a Yangtze cruise from Yichang to Chongqing on June 27-July 3, 2012. The symposium will feature several keynote speakers including Prof James Yorke, winner of the prestigious Tokyo prize. More details

Prof Feng's group's research on depression published in Nature Molecular Psychiatry (October, 2011) was recently covered by major news sites such as CNN.

COMBI faculty Dr Yulia Timofeeva will chair a workshop titled 'Calcium dynamics in neuronal and glial cells' to be held at Warwick on April 4, 2011. This workshop will focus on the important role of calcium in controlling a great variety of neuronal and glial processes and on the bidirectional communication between glia and neurons. It will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working in the fields of neuroscience and cell biology for a critical discussion of recent results and future directions. For more info, click here.

Dr Rajpoot gave a keynote speech titled Image Computing for Life Sciences at the International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV'2010) held in Islamabad during December 29-31, 2010. His talk focussed on some recent developments in the rapidly emerging area of Bioimage Computing which is allowing us to study the dynamic processes of life in a new light.