BioSysBio:Conference Programme With Videos

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

Programme: Thursday 11th Jan

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 -
• 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"
• 18.00 – 21.00 Industry Partnership Fair and Welcome party sponsored by the Doctoral Training Centre

Programme: Friday 12th Jan 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 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 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 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 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 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