Workshop: Deconstructing Biochemical Networks

September 24-28, 2007

Program
 

Monday, September 24, 2007
08:30
Registration
Room 5345

08:30
Coffee
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Andrew Rutenberg
(Dalhousie University)
Clocking out: modelling phage induced lysis of bacteria
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Mads Kaern
(University of Ottawa )
The impact of gene regulatory noise on population fitness
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Felix Naef
(Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research)
Stochastic phase oscillators and circadian bioluminescence recordings
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Brian Ingalls
(University of Waterloo)
Exploiting Stoichiometric Structure for Steady State Analysis
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Nick Monk
(University of Nottingham)
Dissecting the dynamics of a simple genetic oscillator
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Eric Siggia
(Rockefeller University)
Predicting the course of evolution
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Michael Ellison
(University of Alberta)
Grass roots systems biology: a scientific Intifada
15:00 - 15:30
Eldon Emberly
(Simon Fraser University)
Structure and oscillations in biological networks
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair 2007
Meeting room : 1360

16:00 - 17:00
John Tyson
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
How Do Cells Compute?
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
James E. Ferrell, Jr.
(Stanford University School of Medicine)
Amplitude and frequency control in two classes of biological oscillator
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Peter Swain
(McGill University)
Stochasticity and designs of genetic networks
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
David McMillen
(University of Toronto)
Time evolution of gene expression distributions in perturbed bacterial populations
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
John Rinzel
(New York University )
Modeling the rhythmic dynamics of developing spinal cord
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Tim Elston
(Unniversity of North Carolina)
A kinetic switch underlies mating differentiation in yeast
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Eric Cytrynbaum
(University of British Columbia)
A Multi-stranded Polymer Model Explains MinDE Dynamics in E. coli Cell Division
Abstract

15:00
Coffee
Room 6245

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Jeff Hasty
(University of California, San Diego)
Engineered Genetic Oscillators
09:30 - 10:00
Ned Wingreen
(Princeton University)
Modeling adaptation in E. coli chemotaxis: precise, robust, and optimized?
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Sharad Ramanathan
(Harvard University)
Evolution of protein kinase pathways
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Terry Hwa
(University of California at San Diego)
Quantitative aspects of gene regulation by small RNA in bacteria
11:30 - 12:00
John Tyson
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
Cell Cycle Regulation in Eukaryotes
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Martin Howard
(Imperial College London)
Modelling noisy concentration gradients inside single cells
Abstract

14:30
Poster Session
Room 6245

14:30
Coffee
Room 6245

 

Thursday, September 27, 2007
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Anirvan Sengupta
(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Modeling Epigenetic Silencing
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Stephen Michnick
(Université de Montréal)
Dynamics of of protein complexes in living cells
10:00 - 10:30
Theodore J. Perkins
(McGill University)
Modeling Drosophila development at the molecular, promoter, and pattern-formation levels
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Edda Klipp
(Max Plank Institute for Molecular Genetics)
Dynamic modeling of signaling pathways and their interaction with cell cycle progression in budding yeast
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Pablo Iglesias
(Johns Hopkins University)
Information-theoretic characterization of cellular signaling pathways
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:30
Jackie Vogel
(McGill University)
Exploring the spectrum of function of essential genes at the genome scale
14:30 - 15:00
Chris Rao
(University of Illinois)
Coordinate regulation of motility and invasion in Salmonella typhimurium
Abstract

15:00
Coffee
Room 4361

 

Friday, September 28, 2007
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:30
Jose Vilar
(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute)
Stochastic dynamics of macromolecular-assembly networks
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Alexander Van Oudenaarden
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A signals-and-systems approach to the biology of osmo-adaptation in budding yeast
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Andre Levchenko
(Johns Hopkins University)
Positive feedback based differentiation switches in simple organisms
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Ron Weiss
(Princeton University)
Artificial signaling pathways for pattern formation and tissue engineering
Abstract

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