| Sunday |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Phylogenetic Trees |
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Discussion Leader: John R. Jungck (Beloit College) |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | Peter Lockhart (Massey University)
Phylogenetic reconstruction and LBA |
| 8:30 - 9:30 pm | Martijn Huynen (University Medical Center Nijmegen)
Genome phylogenies based on gene content |
| Monday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Structure and function of primary visual cortex |
| Discussion Leader: P. C. Bressloff (University of Utah) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am | Y. Fregnac(Institut Ald Fessard, CNRS)
Shunting inhibition, a silent step in visual cortical computation |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | L. F. Abbott (Brandeis University)
Mechanism and Applications of Gain Modulation in Cortical Circuits |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | M. Pugh (University of Toronto)
A Dissipative Approach to the Figure/Ground Problem |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Modeling Parkinsonian Rhythms |
| Discussion Leader: Jon Rubin (Univ. of Pittsburgh) |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | Karen Sigvardt (University of California - Davis)
Dynamic aspects of brain and behavior in Parkinson's Disease |
| 8:30 - 9:30 pm | Alice Yew (Ohio State University)
Patterns of neuronal activity in a basal ganglia model network |
| Tuesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm: | Modeling Chemotaxis |
| Discussion Leader: Hans Othmer (University of Minnesota) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am | Reka Albert (University of Minnesota) & Sima Setayeshgar (Princeton University)
Signal transduction and motor response in bacterial chemotaxis |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Dean C Bottino (Physiome Sciences)
A Computational Study of Ameboid Polarity and Chemotaxis |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Andre Levchenko (Johns Hopkins University)
Comparative modeling and experimental study of gradient sensing in yeast
and amoeba: to move or not to move |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Morphogenesis and Gene Regulation Networks |
| Discussion Leader: Lance Davidson (University of Virginia) |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | Edwin Munro (Univ. of Washington)
The cellular and mechanical basis for convergent extension of epithelial sheets |
| 8:30 - 9:30 pm | Paulien Hogeweg (Utrecht Univ)
Evolution of gene regulation networks for morhogenesis by differential adhesion |
| Wednesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Global Environmental Change |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Lewis (University of Alberta) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am | Mercedes Pascual (University of Michigan)
Disease-climate couplings in a nonlinear world: a case study on cholera and ENSO |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Paul Moorcroft (Harvard University)
Scaling vegetation dynamics: how population and community level processes affect ecosystem structure and function |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | James S. Clark (Duke University)
Information and uncertainty in ecological forecasts |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Gene regulation networks: robustness and disease |
| Discussion Leader: Craig Benham (University of California - Davis) |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | David C. Krakauer (Institute for Advanced Studies)
Co-existence of redundant and anti-redundant mechanisms of selection |
| 8:30 - 9:30 pm | Anirvan Sengupta (Lucent Technologies Inc.)
Specificity and Robustness in Transcription Control Network |
| Thursday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Transcriptional Regulation |
| Discussion Leader: Tim Elston (North Carolina State University) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am | Drew Endy
(The Molecular Sciences Institute)
Considering the representational framework of molecular biology |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Alexander van Oudenaarden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Source and function of noise at the level of transcription and translation of a single gene |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | J.J. Collins (Boston University)
Designer Gene Networks |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Computational Biology in a Changing Scientific Culture |
| Discussion Leader: Ray Mejia
(National Institutes of Health) |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | Charles DeLisi (Boston University)
Toward an Integrative Biology of the Cell |
| 8:30 - 9:30 pm | Marvin Cassman (National Institutes of Health)
Hunter-Gatherers and Harvesters: The Role of Computational Biology in a Changing Scientific Culture |
| Friday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |