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Workshop 3: Robustness in Biological Systems: Schedule

Schedule
Monday, February 6
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 Fred Nijhout (Biology, Duke), Mechanisms of Robustness in Metabolic Systems
9:50-10:40am Neda Bagheri (Biological Eng, MIT), Dynamic cytokine signaling responses by individual primary T cells
10:40-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Qing Nie (Math, Irvine), Noise attenuation and robustness
12:10-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Kunihiko Kaneko (Basic Science, Tokyo): Evolution of Robustness formulated in terms of Phenotypic Variances
2:50-3:40pm Ilya Nemenman (Physics, Emory), Robust completion time distributions in complex biological networks
3:40-4:10pm Break
4:10-4:35pm Maxim Artyomov: Systematic identification of topologically essential interactions in regulatory networks
4:35-5:00pm Casey Diekman: Using noisy inputs to prevent infant apnea
5:00-7:00pm Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, February 7
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Aviv Bergman (Systems & Comput Biology, Albert Einstein College of Med), Genetic versus Environmental Robustness
9:50-10:40am Buzz Baum (Molecular Cell Biology, University College London), Stochasticity in robust developmental tissue refinement
10:40-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Joanna Masel (Ecology & Evolutionary Biol, Arizona), Robustness to molecular errors
12:10-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Jon Wilkins (Evolutionary Theory, Santa Fe Inst), Robustness and Intragenomic Conflict
2:50-3:15pm Emilie Snell-Rood (University of Minnesota) Developmental selection as a mechanism of robustness: implications for genetic assimilation and life history evolution
3:15-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:25pm David Holloway: The Control of Gene Expression Noise in Embryonic Spatial Patterning
4:40pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, February 8
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Ricardo Azevedo (Biology and Biochemistry, U Houston), Recombination and the evolution of robustness
9:50-10:40am Break
10:40-11:30am Arthur Lander: What price robustness?
11:30-1:20pm Lunch break
1:20-1:45pm Ryan Gutenkunst (University of Arizona) Protein domain evolution is constrained by? network robustness to rate constant changes.
1:45-2:10pm Jeremy Draghi (University of Pennsylvania) Epistasis links robustness to adaptation
2:10-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:50pm Suzanne Gaudet (Genetics, Harvard), Lyapunov exponent analysis of an extrinsic apoptosis signaling network
3:50-4:40pm Andreas Wagner: Robustness and the space of possible metabolisms
5:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, February 9
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Paul Turner, (Ecology & Evolutionary Biol, Yale), Robustness and evolvability in RNA viruses
9:50-10:40am Mark Siegal (Biology, NYU), The robustness continuum: yeast cells hedge their bets against unpredictable environmental change
10:40-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Stephanie Taylor (Computer Science, Colby), Robustness of Biological Oscillators
12:10-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:45pm Discussion (Leader: Fred Nijhout)
2:45-3:20pm Break
3:20-3:45pm Kathryn Miller-Jensen (Yale) Analysis of context-dependent stochastic phenotypes in HIV-1 latency
3:45-4:10pm Sayak Mukherjee: Robustness of the Cell Signaling Network as a Means to Discriminate Among the Different Models of Itk Kinase Regulation in T cells
4:10-5:00pm Chris Myers (Biotechnology Center, Cornell), Robustness in pathogen-host interactions and dynamics
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, February 10
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Declan Bates (Math & Computer Sci, Exeter), Polyamine biosynthesis and translational frameshifting in yeast: characterising a cellular feedback controller
9:50-10:40am Jörg Stelling (Biosystems Sci, Zurich), Robustness and systems identification
10:40-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Scott McKinley, (U. of Florida) Robustness in intracellular transport
12:45pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)