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Workshop 2: Stochastic Processes in Cell and Population Biology: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, October 24
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-8:45am Breakfast
8:45-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:00-9:50am Johan Paulsson
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:20am Linda Allen: Pathogen Extinction in Stochastic Models of Epidemics and Viral Dynamics
11:30-12:20pm Lev Tsimring: Accelerated stochastic simulation algorithm for modeling evolutionary population dynamics
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:20pm Hans Metz: Effective population sizes and the canonical equation of adaptive dynamics
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:50pm Gurol Suel: Cellular decision-making in the context of population dynamics
5:00-7:00pm Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, October 25
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Linda Petzold: Stochasticity in Circadian Clocks
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:20am Ilya Nemenmen: Stochastic processes in the adiabatic limit: applications to biochemistry and population genetics
11:30-12:20pm David Anderson: Computational methods for stochastically modeled biochemical reaction networks
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:20pm Peter Jagers: Simple, very simple, and not so simple models of populations lingering around a carrying capacity, and allowing evolutionary branching
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:50pm Judith Miller: Kinetic equations in spatial quantitative genetics
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, October 26
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am John Yin: Impacts of genetics, environment and noise on virus growth
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:20am Amandine Veber: Large-scale behaviour of the spatial Lambda-Fleming-Viot process
11:30-12:20pm Leor Weinberger
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:20pm Gabor Balazsi
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:50pm Sebastian Schreiber: Population persistence in the face of demographic and environmental uncertainty
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, October 27
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Ellen Baake: Recombination dynamics and ancestral recombination trees
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:20am David Karig: Cell-free synthetic biology in nanofabricated reaction devices
11:30-12:20pm John Fricks: Bridging Scales in Molecular Motor Models: From Diffusing Heads to Multiple Steps
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:20pm Garegin Papoian; Physico-Chemical Simulations of Eukaryotic Cell Motility
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:50pm Peter Kramer
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, October 28
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Mike Simpson
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:20am Hans Othmer: Stochastic Problems in Pattern Formation and Development
11:30-12:20pm Tim Elston: Stochastic models of cell movement
12:30pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)