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Workshop IV: Systems Biology and Molecular Modeling

May 22 - 26, 2006

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, May 22, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

David Stocum (Indiana University - Purdue University)

"Self-Organization of the Amphibian Limb Regeneration Blastema: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms. "
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Armin Kaiser (Stanford University)

"Bacterial Cooperativity"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Hans Meinhardt (Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie (Developmental Biology))

"Models of biological pattern formation: from elementary steps to the patterning of the main body axes"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Jim McGrath (University of Rochester)

"From molecules to monolayers: solving sheet migration with models at every length scale"

4:30 - 5:30

Christoph Adami (Keck Graduate Institute)

"Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution"

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Christopher Rao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Modeling the developmental program for the flagellum and type III secretion apparatus in Salmonella typhimurium"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Michael Samoilov (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

"Quantitative Analysis of Genetic Regulation at Different Scales"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Joel Bader (Johns Hopkins University)

"Ab initio predictions of transcription factor binding"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Denise Wolf (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

"Diversity in times of adversity: probabilistic strategies in microbial survival games"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30

Arthur Lander (University of California, Irvine)

"Exploring the performance objectives of morphogen gradient systems"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)


Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Reka Albert (Pennsylvania State University)

"Qualitative modeling of gene regulatory networks"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Shayn Peirce-Cottler (University of Virginia)

"Using Agent-Based Models to Study Tissue Patterning Processes: Linking Molecular Pathways to Multi-Cell Behaviors in Tissues"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Claire Tomlin (Stanford University)

"Using the adjoint method for parameter identification of large scale protein regulatory networks. Application to planar cell polarity in Drosophila."
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Hans Meinhardt (Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie (Developmental Biology))

"Self-poisoning of just established signalling centers - a common mechanism in biology to generate highly dynamic patterns"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30

Armin Kaiser (Stanford University)

"Evolution of multicellular complexity"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

5:30 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Drew Endy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Foundations for Engineering Biology"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Raymond Goldstein (University of Arizona)

"Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 1:15 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:15 - 2:00

William Smith (UC Santa Barbara)

 

2:00 - 3:00

Ivet Bahar (University of Pittsburgh)

"Network Models for Understanding Biomolecular Systems Dynamics and Allostery"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Richard Dickinson (University of Florida)

"Models for Intracellular Particle Transport by Actin-Based Motility"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30

Sean Sun (Johns Hopkins University)

"Computational modeling of the cellular leading edge"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

5:30 - 6:30

James Glazier (Indiana University)

"Demo of Cell Oriented Modeling Using Coppucell 3D"


Friday, May 26, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Kevin Karplus (UC Santa Cruz)

"Protein prediction: not another optimization problem "

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

David Stocum (Indiana University - Purdue University)

"Self Organization of the Limb Regeneration Blastema: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Gaudenz Danuser (The Scripps Research Institute)

"Microtubule regulation by kinetochores: Experimental and numerical challenges"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Steven Gross (University of California, Irvine)

 

4:30 - 5:30

Daniel Kamei (UCLA)

"Engineering Therapeutic Proteins with Cell-Level Modeling"

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