Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology Meeting

摘要 癌症生物学系统方法(SACB)会议旨在将科学领袖和 癌症系统生物学的早期研究人员通过以下方式建立和培育一个蓬勃发展的合作领域 分享科学进步。从早期癌症系统生物学的草根努力开始 调查人员表示，SACB第一次会议于2016年举行，每隔一年举行一次。SACB一直被 由国家癌症研究所主办，并继续由癌症协会赞助 系统生物学家(ACSB)。这次会议只专注于解决癌症的研究主题，如 固有的复杂性，具有空间、时间和患者间的异质性，并具有多因素原因和 如果不将不同的方法结合起来，就无法理解后果 传统科学学科。SACB会议由六次全体会议组成，以及海报 会议、专题会议和许多机会为早期调查人员建立网络并获得 来自更资深调查人员的指导。SACB全体会议聚焦于癌症生物学的许多方面 并涵盖了各种计算/数学建模方法。此问题-以领域为中心(AS 与以方法为中心相反)编程特别有利于新思想的综合和 与会者之间的协作。鉴于这次会议的历史，我们强烈强调 发展和培养早期调查人员，包括至少一半的口头陈述 由学员讲授，并通过专题讲解早期调查人员感兴趣的主题 会话。会议的另一个重点是发展癌症系统生物学社区，我们将 通过瞄准服务不足的研究社区并在互补性研究中接触研究人员来实现 主题领域，如计算机科学或工程。我们还将为早期阶段提供资金支持 调查人员出席会议，以及为有其他家庭需要的调查人员提供资金支持。 SACB成功地帮助推进了许多早期调查人员的职业生涯，并将 志同道合的科学家分享研究成果。继续前进，并在非常成功的虚拟 在2020年的会议上，SACB将成为一种混合会议，既有面对面的会议选项，也有虚拟会议选项。这将是 为SACB提供一个与世界各地的同事接触的场所，同时仍然能够提供 促进未来癌症系统生物学研究所需的环境。

SUMMARY The Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology (SACB) meeting aims to bring together scientific leaders and early-stage investigators in Cancer Systems Biology to build and foster a thriving and collaborative field by sharing scientific advances. Started as a grassroots effort from early-stage Cancer Systems Biology investigators, the first SACB meeting was held in 2016 and is held every other year. SACB has been sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and continues to be sponsored by the Association for Cancer Systems Biologists (ACSB). The meeting is solely focused on research topics that address cancer as inherently complex, with spatial, temporal, and interpatient heterogeneity, and with multifactorial causes and consequences that cannot be understood without integrating diverse approaches from a combination of traditional scientific disciplines. The SACB meeting consists of six plenary sessions, as well as poster sessions, special topic sessions, and many opportunities for early-stage investigators to network and gain mentorship from more senior investigators. SACB plenary sessions focus on many aspects of cancer biology and cover a diversity of computational/mathematical modeling approaches. This problem-domain-focused (as opposed to methods-focused) programming is particularly conducive to the synthesis of new ideas and collaborations among attendees. Given the history of this meeting, there is a strong emphasis on the development and fostering of early-stage investigators, which includes at least half of the oral presentations being given by trainees and addressing topics of interest to early-stage investigators through special topic sessions. Another focus of the meeting is to grow the Cancer Systems Biology community, which we will accomplish by targeting underserved research communities and reaching out to researchers in complementary topic areas, such as computer science or engineering. We will also provide funding support for early-stage investigators to attend the meeting, as well as funding support for investigators with additional family needs. SACB has successfully helped to advance the careers of many early-stage investigators and brings together like-minded scientists to share research findings. Moving forward, and building on a very successful virtual meeting in 2020, SACB will become a hybrid meeting, with both in-person and virtual meeting options. This will provide a venue for SACB to reach colleagues across the world and still be able to provide the intimate environment needed to foster Cancer Systems Biology research into the future.