Last updated on: Aug. 13, 2004
Schedule and Scientific Program
Dynamics, control and computation in biochemical networks
BIRS Workshop August 21-26, 2004
Afternoons have been left open to allow for a
variety of outings, informal discussions, and self-organized
sessions on topics of interest to participants.
MEALS
- Breakfast (Continental): 7:00 - 9:00 am, 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall,
Sunday - Thursday
- *Lunch (Buffet): 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, Donald Cameron Hall,
Sunday - Thursday
- *Dinner (Buffet): 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Donald Cameron Hall,
Saturday - Wednesday
- Coffee Breaks: As per daily schedule, 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall
*Please sign in with the host/hostess in the dining room for every lunch
and dinner.
MEETING ROOMS
All lectures are held in the main lecture hall, Max Bell 159.
Please note that the meeting space designated for BIRS is
the lower level of Max Bell, Rooms 155-159.
Please respect that all other space has been contracted to
other Banff Centre guests, including any Food and Beverage
in those areas.
Tentative Schedule:
Sat. August 21
9:00pm. Informal gathering in the lounge in Corbett Hall.
Sun. August 22
8:15. Andrea Lundquist: Introduction to BIRS
8:30. James Ferrell: Experimental studies of bistable biological signaling systems
9:00. Hans Othmer: Robustness in signal transduction and gene control networks
9:30. Bernard Yurke: Designing DNA-based reaction networks
10:00. Break
10:30. Pablo Iglesias: Gradient sensing in Dictyostelium: Moving
forward on two LEGIs
11:00. Michael Surette: Cis and Trans Variability in Gene Networks: Simple Experimental
Approaches to Examine Natural Variation
11:30. Erik Winfree: Reliable Computation by Circuits of
Unreliable Biochemical Gates
Afternoon: Free
8:00. Stuart Kauffman: A Proposal for Use of the Ensemble Approach to Understand
Genetic Regulatory Networks
8:30. Hamid Bolouri: Dynamic design motifs in biochemical
networks
9:00. Eduardo Sontag: Qualitative/quantitative analysis of a class
of biological networks
Mon. August 23
8:30. Frank Doyle: Sensitivity Approach to
Robustness Analysis in Regulatory Networks
9:00. Tim Elston: Computational Analysis of Protein Kinase Activation in the Pheromone
Response Pathway of Yeast
9:30. Ron Weiss: Engineering digital, analog, and transient
behavior in individual cells and cell communities
10:00. Break
10:30. Nadrian Seeman: Structural DNA Nanotechnology
11:00. Milan Stojanovic: Deoxyribozyme-based Logic Gates, Circuits
and Automata
11:30. Michael Elowitz: Noisy machines: Gene regulation in single
cells
12:00. Group Photo. Meet on the front steps of Corbett Hall.
Afternoon: Free
8:00. Peter Swain: Efficient attenuation of stochasticity in gene expression through
post-transcriptional control
8:30. Brian Ingalls: A Control-theoretic Approach to Sensitivity
Analysis of Biochemical Systems
9:00. Alexander Van Oudenaarden: Information storage and propagation
in gene networks
Tues. August 24
8:30. Drew Endy: Design of Self-Replicating Machines
9:00. Johannes Jaeger: Dynamic control of positional information by the Drosophila
gap gene network
9:30. Wolfgang Maass: Online computing with
dynamical systems
10:00. Break
10:30. Leon Glass: Evolution of complex oscillations in
an electronic models of gene networks
11:00. Matthieu Louis: Control of sex determination in Drosophila melanogaster: A theoretical
model for the regulation of Sex-lethal
11:30. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz: Modeling the development of
multicellular organisms using genetic L-systems
Afternoon: Free
8:00 Carsten Peterson:Random Boolean Transcriptional Networks with
Nested Canalyzing Functions
8:30 Hana El-Samad: Noise Rejection and Exploitation in Gene
Networks: From Regulated
Proteolysis to Resonance
9:00 Konstantin Kozlov: Technique for Optimization in Regulatory
Gene Networks
Wed. August 25
8:30. Andre Levchenko: Signal processing in the GSK-3-calcineurin
cross-talk
9:00. Madalena Chaves: A Model for Receptor-Ligand Interactions
and Cell Signaling
9:30. Tomas Gedeon: Structure theorems and the mathematics
of gene regulation in NCR circuit
10:00. Break
10:30. Mustafa Khammash: Surviving heat-shock: strategies for
robustness and performance
11:00. Atul Narang: Gene regulation in mixed-substrate microbial growth
11:30. Roderick Edwards: Dynamical principles for biochemical and
gene networks
Afternoon: Free
8:00. Rodolphe Sepulchre: Oscillators as systems: a dissipativity
approach
8:30. German Enciso: Monotone systems and a small gain theorem
9:00. Jongmin Kim: Neural network computation by in vitro
transcriptional circuits
Thurs. August 26
8:30. Follow-up talks: to be decided
based on participants'interest
10:00. Break
10:30. Wrap-up discussion: Main themes and directions for future work