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
  • "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

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
  • "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)