Cells and Materials Tutorials - IPAM

Cells and Materials Tutorials

Part of the Long Program Cells and Materials: At the Interface between Mathematics, Biology and Engineering
March 14 - 17, 2006

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
Toshikazu Hamasaki (UCLA)
What is a Cell? - Basic cell types, cells and tissues, poloarization, ultrastructure, organelles
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Toshikazu Hamasaki (UCLA)
The Biological Membrane - Organization, structure, synthesis, transport, membrane proteins, function
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Continuum Methods I
14:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:30
John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Continuum Methods II
15:30-17:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-08:30
Continental Breakfast
08:30-09:30
Patricia Zuk-Deslippe (UCLA)
Receptor-ligand interactions - cell signaling, adhesion, motility, cell migration
09:30-10:00
Break
10:00-11:00
Patricia Zuk-Deslippe (UCLA)
Cell differentiation and apotosis
11:00-12:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Elliot Landaw (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Reaction Networks and Identifiability I
13:00-14:00
Elliot Landaw (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Reaction Networks and Identifiability II

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Toshikazu Hamasaki (UCLA)
Protein Biochemistry 1 - Protein structure, function (binding, enzyme), regulation
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Toshikazu Hamasaki (UCLA)
Protein Biochemistry 2 - Genes to proteins: Protein synthesis, transport, targeting, and degradation
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
James Glazier (Indiana University)
Cell level modeling of developmental biology, Part I
14:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:30
James Glazier (Indiana University)
Cell level modeling of developmental biology, Part II

Friday, March 17, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
David Needham (Duke University)
Lipid Bilayer Membranes: Materials Science and Materials Engineering
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Continuum Methods III
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
Philip Pincus (UC Santa Barbara)
Electrostatics of Charged Surfaces
14:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:30
Philip Pincus (UC Santa Barbara)
Fluctuating Membrane Physics
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