Biosystems Task Force

• Goals• Members• FOSBE• Teaching Modules

Spring Trustees MeetingItasca, IL

14 June 2013

Task Force Goals

Develop educational materials for the undergraduate ChE curriculum

Provide training opportunities for graduate students interested in biological systems research

Offer the Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE) conference series

Increase the visibility of biosystems in ChE education

Task Force Members

Wayne Bequette (RPI, Chair) Mike Henson (UMass, Co-chair) Frank Doyle (UCSB) Marianthi Ierapetritou (Rutgers) David Balaban (Amgen) Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPFL) Juergen Hahn (RPI) Claire Komives (San Jose State) Bob Parker (Pittsburgh)

FOSBE Conference Series

FOSBE 2012 October 21-25, 2012 Keio University campus, Tsuruoka, Japan Chair – Masura Tomita, Keio University Educational session organized CACHE has no direct financial commitment

FOSBE 2015 Dates and location to be determined Chair – Bob Parker, University of Pittsburgh CACHE financially responsible

FOSBE, the Future Frank Doyle’s proposal for a partnership with

IFAC

Future Plans: Teaching Modules

Frank, Mike, Juergen and Wayne to flesh-out initial ideas for modules.

Wayne: pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models for subcutaneous delivery of insulin.

Mike: steady-state and dynamic modeling of the glycolytic pathway

Juergen: teaching modeling & numerical methods, systems biology

Future Plans: Teaching Modules

Teaching modules for ChE core curriculum Powerpoint lecture, simulation code, homework

assignment Place on CACHE website under “Biosystems”

Phase 1 5 modules to be developed by December 2013 Submit abstract to 2014 AIChE meeting

Phase 2 5 more modules to be developed by other task

force members by July 2014 Prepare submission for ChE Education by

December 2014 Phase 3 - develop mechanism for submission

of additional modules