Workshop 6: Algebraic Methods in Systems and Evolutionary Biology (May 7-11, 2012)
Organizers: Reinhard Laubenbacher, Ilya Shmulevich, Seth Sullivant, and Ruriko Yoshido
Molecular networks drive many of the cellular and organismal processes that influence the phenotype of an organism, and have become a central focus of systems biology. To understand the complex dynamics underlying these processes, dynamic mathematical and computational models are needed. Several different approaches have been used successfully for this purpose. Beyond differential equations models, a range of discrete models has been used for this purpose, both deterministic and stochastic, for instance Boolean networks and their generalizations, and dynamic Bayesian networks. This workshop will focus on modeling of molecular networks, in particular gene regulatory networks, with an emphasis on discrete modeling approaches, including stochastic aspects of networks. In addition to models of specific molecular networks, it will explore questions such as the relationship between network structure and their dynamics, design principles of molecular networks, and the evolution of networks. Both mathematical and biological aspects of molecular network modeling will be discussed, and the workshop will open with tutorial talks on both.
Accepted Speakers
- Eva Ackermann (TU Darmstadt)
- Reka Albert (Physics, Pennsylvania State University)
- Maximino Aldana (Instituto de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
- Ziv Bar-Joseph (Computational Biology, Carnegie-Mellon University)
- Gheorghe Craciun (Mathematics and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Aniruddha Datta (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M)
- Edward Dougherty (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M)
- Jeremy Gunawardena (Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School)
- Heather Harrington (Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Imperial College London)
- David Haws (Statistics, University of Kentucky)
- Monika Heiner (Computer Science, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus)
- Franziska Hinkelmann (Mathematical Biosciences Institute)
- Aziz Mithani (Biology, School Of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan)
- Elizabeth Remy (Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy, CNRS)
- Anne Shiu (Mathematics, University of Chicago)
- Joshua Socolar (Physics, Duke University)
- Alan Veliz-Cuba (Mathematics, University of Nebraska)
- Paola Vera-Licona (Institut Curie "Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology of Cancer", Paris)
