BioSysBio:Conference Programme With Videos

=BioSysBio, 11th-13th January 2007, Manchester, UK.=

Kick-off

 * 12.00 – 13.00 Registration
 * 13.00 – 13.15 Opening and Welcome

Opening plenary speakers:

 * 13.15 – 14.00 Hans Westerhoff - University of Manchester -
 * "Systems Biology, hierarchies and robustness: bringing information to Life".
 * 14.00– 14.45 Alfonso Valencia - Universidad Autonoma Madrid
 * "Coevolution, Networks & Text Mining"
 * 14.45 – 15.15 Refreshments

Session 1: Gene regulation and profiling

 * 15.15 - 15.55 Roland Eils - DKFZ (German Cancer Research Centre)
 * "Network based microarray data analysis".
 * 15.55 - 16.20 Martino Barenco - Institute of Child Health UCL (University College London) -
 * "rHVDM – A fast and user-friendly R package to predict transcription factor targets from microarray time series data."
 * 16.20 - 16.45 Alok Mishra - Imperial College London
 * Effect of microarray data heterogeneity on gene regulatory module discovery"
 * 16.45 - 17.30 Rapid Fire Session
 * 18.00 – 21.00 Industry Partnership Fair and Welcome party sponsored by the Doctoral Training Centre

Session 2: Metabolomics and machine learning: quantitative bioanalysis for systems biology

 * 08.00 - 8.45: Breakfast
 * 08.45– 09.25 Douglas Kell - University of Manchester, UK
 * "Metabolomics and Machine Learning for Systems Biology"
 * 09.25 - 09.50 Raul Munoz Hernandez - University of Manchester, UK
 * "Metabolic flux analysis to study the production of a non-ribosomal lipopeptide, cda, by streptomyces coelicolor"
 * 09.50 - 10.15 Daniel Mateus - CEA/List Saclay, France
 * "Modeling Genetic Regulatory Networks from specified behaviors"

10.15– 11.45 Break & poster session 1

Session 3: Synthetic Biology and iGEM.

 * 11.45– 12.15 Randy Rettberg - MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA
 * Introduction to iGEM and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts
 * 12.15– 12.35 University of Edinburgh iGEM, UK
 * "Modeling Arsenic Biosensor System"
 * 12.35– 12.55 iGEM Imperial College London
 * "Engineering a synthetic molecular oscillator based on the Lotka-Volterra dynamic"
 * 12.55– 13.15 University of Cambridge iGEM team, UK
 * Autonomous pattern formation between bacterial populations

13.15– 14.15 Lunch + iGEM workshop - What do I need to do to take part in iGEM 2007?

Session 4: Modeling and databases in systems Biology.

 * 14.15– 14.55 Nicolas Le Novere - European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
 * Modeling and databases in systems Biology
 * 14.55– 15.20 Michael Lees - University of Nottingham
 * "BacGrid: Simulations of Bacteria using the GRID"
 * 15.20– 15.45 Isabel Rojas - EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
 * "SABIO-RK: a database of biochemical reactions and their kinetics."

15.45– 17.15 Break & poster session 2

Session 5: Modeling and modularity, tools for systems biology.

 * 17.15– 17.55 Herbert Sauro - University of Washington, USA
 * "Modeling & modularity, tools for Systems Biology"
 * 17.55– 18.20 Martin Hemberg - Imperial College London
 * "A study of the properties of stochastic genetic oscillators"
 * 18.20– 18.45 Nuno Lages - Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon
 * "Potential role of the glyoxalase pathway as a drug target in L infantum"

20.00– onwards, Conference meal at Tai Wu, Manchester- sponsored by Chemical Computing Group.

Programme: Saturday 13th Jan

 * 08.00 - 8.45: Breakfast

Session 6: Gene regulatory networks, Structural and Computational Genomics.

 * 08.45– 09.25 Sarah Teichmann - Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
 * 09.25– 09.50 Sanne Abeln - University of Oxford
 * "Linking evolution of protein structures through fragments"
 * 09.50– 10.15 Emily Jefferson - University of Dundee
 * "The relationship between domain-domain interaction orientation and sequence similarity"
 * 10.15– 10.45 Refreshments break

Session 7: Synthetic Biology

 * 10.45– 11.25 Chris Voigt - UCSD (University of California, San Diego) USA
 * "Genetic System Design"
 * 11.25– 11.50 James Brown - Univeristy of Cambridge
 * "Navigational Control of Bacteria"
 * 11.50– 12.15 Alfonso Jaramillo - Ecole Polytechnique, France
 * "Computational Design of Proteins With New Functions"
 * 12.15– 13.00 Closing Plenary: Ron Weiss - Princeton University
 * "Developments in Synthetic Biology"
 * 13.00– 13.15 Prize giving and conference close
 * (for video see end of Ron Weiss' talk)