Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing

Carnegie Mellon University

The Salk Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

National Institute of Health

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

National Science Foundation

2012 MCell and CellBlender Workshop


Markus Dittrich presenting a lecture on MCell. Click image to enlarge.

Click image to enlarge.

From May 7-9, 2012 we held an MCell workshop at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. 18 particpants from around the country and local universities attended and learned about MCell and our new model creation and visualization tool CellBlender. In addition we introduced rule-based modeling capabilities which are currently being added to MCell and will be available in future MCell releases. All three days consisted of morning lectures and discussions, followed by hands-on tutorials and training in the afternoon (see agenda below).

Instructors were Tom Bartol (Salk Institute), Jacob Czech (NRBSC), Markus Dittrich (NRBSC), Jim Faeder (Univ. of Pittsburgh), and Jose Juan Tapia (Univ. of Pittsburgh).


Group photo.

A group photo of instructors and particpants. Click image to enlarge.

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July 11-15, 2022: Cell Modeling Workshop

The 2022 Cell Modeling Workshop will be held as a virtual workshop on July 11th-15th, 2022.

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A brand new release of MCell with CellBlender with many new improvements such as Python API, native BioNetGen lanuage support and integration with Blender 2.93 is available for download here.

The 2021 Cell Modeling Workshop will be held as a virtual workshop on July 12th-16th, 2021.

July 12-16, 2021: Cell Modeling Workshop

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June 22-26, 2020: Cell Modeling Workshop

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