SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Are there principles of noise and networks in biology? |
| Discussion Leader: Hong Qian (University of Washington) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Alex van Oudenaarden (MIT)
"Controlling Gene Expression Fluctuations During Development" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Kim Sneppen (Niehls Bohr, Denmark) "Biological Network Components" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Adam Arkin (UC Berkeley) "Physiology of Noise" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bifurcations, Avalanches & Clocks |
| Discussion Leader: Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Wallace Marshall (UCSF) "Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Flagellar length Control System" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Steven Altshuler (UT Southwestern) "Denial, Acceptance, and Loss of Cell Polarization for a Stochastic Model of Positive Feedback" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Rong Li (Stowers Institute)
"Cell polarity and block parties: A cell biologists's take on a complex dynamical system " |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 pm - 9:30 pm | Foundational Principles of Stochastic Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Michael C. Mackey (McGill University) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Kingshuk Ghosh (University of Denver) "Maximum Caliber in Small Systems" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Aaron Dinner (University of Chicago)
"Measuring, Calculating, and Interpreting Signatures of Biological Regulatory Interactions" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Pieter Rein ten Wolde (FOM Institute) "On the Importance of Spatio-Temporal Correlations in the Dynamics of Biochemical Networks" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Noise and control in gene expression and signaling |
| Discussion Leader: John Chodera (University of California, Berkeley) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Chris Voigt (UCSF) "Biophysical Models of Simple Genetic Parts" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Jane Kondev (Brandeis) "Control of Noise in Gene Expression" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Tobias Meyer (Stanford) "Calcium Dynamics and Cellular Signaling, Getting Accurate Parameters from Cell Signaling Model" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 pm - 9:30 pm | Single molecules & single cells |
| Discussion Leader: David Bensimon (UCLA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Carlos Bustamante (UC Berkeley) "Single Molecule Biophysics" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Alex Mogilner (UC Davis) "Stochastic Self-Assembly of Mitotic Spindle" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Sunney Xie (Harvard) "Single Molecules in Systems Biology" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Stochastic Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Dill (UCSF) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Hao Ge (Fudan University) "Biochemical Dynamical Landscapes" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Michael Elowitz (Caltech) "Signaling Dynamics at the Single-Cell Level" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Eugene Shaknovich (Harvard) "Stochasticity of Stochasticity: Fluctuations of Mutation Rates is Key to Adaptation" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Network structure and dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Ali Rana Atilgan (Sabanci University) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Yuhai Tu (IBM) "Noise and Filtering in Adaptive Signaling Networks" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Hana El-Samad (UCSF) "Correlated Fluctuations Reveal the Control Modes of the General Stress Response" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Jin Wang (Stony Brook University) "Potential and Flux Landscape Framework for Biological Networks" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cellular and network evolution |
| Discussion Leader: Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten (University of Illinois) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Terry Hwa (UCSD) "Growth Transition, Persistence and Rapid Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Provided by Growth-Mediated Intrinsic Feedback Loops" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Philippe Cluzel (Harvard) "Network Evolution" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Jie Xiao (Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine)
"Transcriptional bursting in gene regulation" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 pm - 9:30 pm | Dynamics in cell biology |
| Discussion Leader: George Oster (UC Berkeley) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Johan Paulsson (Harvard) "Fluctuations in Growth and Feedback" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Ed Munro (University of Chicago) "Dynamics of Actomyosin Contractility and Cell Polarization in Worm Embryos" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Linda Kenney (UIUC) "Bistability Contributes to Porin Gene Regulation in E. coli" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |