Conference Program
 
BIOINFORMATICS

August 19-24, 2001
Tilton School
Tilton, NH

Chairs:
Adam P. Arkin & Ruth Van Bogelen


Sunday
2:00-11:00pmArrival and Registration
4:00-6:00pmReception
6:00pmDinner
7:30-9:40pmSurveying Molecular Information in Cells
Discussion Leader: Jeffrey Thomas
7:30pmWelcome and Orientation
7:40pmToni Kazic, Washington University, St. Louis
Understanding Biochemical Networks
8:10pmDiscussion
8:20pmNeil Clarke, Johns Hopkins University
DNA Binding specificity in a genome sequence context: Understanding transcriptional regulation
8:50pmDiscussion
9:00pmJohn Tyson, Virginia Tech
Modeling the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Example of the 'Last Step' in Computational Molecular Biology
9:30pmDiscussion
Monday
7:30-8:30amBreakfast
8:30am Conference Photo
9:00am-12:30pmBiophysics of Molecular Interaction
Discussion Leader: James Anderson
9:00am Peter Uetz, University of Washington
Protein interactions and prediction of protein function in yeast
9:45amDiscussion
10:00amCoffee Break
10:30amAndrey Levchenko, Cal Tech
Scaffold and Adaptor Proteins in Signal Transduction: Helping to Decide Where, When and How Much
11:15amDiscussion
11:30amDagmar Ringe, Brandeis University
From Sequence to Function, How Easy Is It?
12:15pmDiscussion
12:30-1:30pmLunch
4:00-6:00pmPoster Session I
6:00Dinner
7:30-9:30pmNew Biological Insights from Primary Measurements
Discussion Leader: Andrey Rzhetsky
7:30pm Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College of Medicine
Metabonomics, an Integrated Systems Approach to Understanding Metabolic Responses to Disease Processes and Gene Function
8:15pmDiscussion
8:30pmJoerg Bernhardt, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Greifswald
Accessing and analysing a bacterial proteome - Proteomics of Bacillus subtilis
9:15pm Discussion
Tuesday
7:30-8:30amBreakfast
9:00am-12:30pmDesigning Data Relations for Optimal Understanding
Discussion Leader: Ruth VanBogelen
9:00am Brian Davis, Proteome, Inc.
From Information to Knowledge: Coupling curation technologies with data relations and presentation format for optimal understanding of protein functions and pathways.
9:45amDiscussion
10:00amCoffee Break
10:30amShankar Subramanian, UCSD
Designing knowledge bases for cellular signaling
11:15amDiscussion
11:30amPedro Romero, SRI International
The EcoCyc Database and the Pathway Tools Software.
12:15pmDiscussion
12:30-1:30pmLunch
4:00-6:00pmPoster Session II
6:00Dinner
7:30-9:30pmDeduction of Biological Networks
Discussion Leader: Greg Stephanopoulos
7:30pm David Gifford, MIT
Principled Techniques for Genetic Regulatory Circuit Discovery.
8:15pmDiscussion
8:30pmTrey Ideker, Univ Washington
Prediction of gene expression using integrated physical-interaction networks
9:15pmDiscussion
Wednesday
7:30-8:30amBreakfast
9:00am-12:30pmPredictive Algorithms and Computational Methods
Discussion Leader: Shankar Subramanian
9:00amKimmen Sjolander, Celera Genomics
High-throughput functional classification of proteins
9:45am Discussion
10:00amCoffee Break
10:30amInna Dubchak, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
Comparative Genomics Tools for Biological Discovery.
11:15amDiscussion
11:30amGreg Stephanopoulos, MIT, Boston
Pattern discovery in DNA microarray data
12:15pmDiscussion
12:30-1:30pmLunch
5:00-6:00pmBusiness Meeting
6:00Dinner
7:30-9:30pmModeling Single Cells
Discussion Leader: Leslie Loew
7:30pmAdam Arkin, University of California, Berkeley
Convergent Behavior in Divergent Pathways: Comparative Signal Transduction in Bacteria
8:15pmDiscussion
8:30pmJose Vilar, Princeton University
Computational Molecular Biology: Networking with noise at the molecular, cellular, and population level.
9:15pmDiscussion
Thursday
7:30-8:30amBreakfast
9:00am-12:30pmSpatial and Whole-Genome Modeling
Discussion Leader: Robert Stengel
9:00amDrew Endy, Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley
Models and Experiments for Bacteriophage T7 Development and Yeast Pheromone Signal Transduction
9:45amDiscussion
10:00amCoffee Break
10:30amMasura Tomita, Keio University
E-CELL Project: Towards whole cell simulation
11:15amDiscussion
11:30amLeslie Loew, University of Connecticut
The Virtual Cell: A software environment for cell biological modeling.
12:15pmDiscussion
12:30-1:30pmLunch
4:00-6:00pmPoster Session III
6:00Dinner
7:30-9:30pmCross-Scale Modeling
Discussion Leader: Adam Arkin
7:30pm TBA
Discussion
8:30pmCynthia Stokes, Entellos, Inc.
Predictive model of asthma: from genes to physiology.
9:15pmDiscussion
Friday
7:30-8:30amBreakfast

Last Updated: May 4, 2006