Yale Systems Biology Institute Symposium

Yale Systems Biology Institute Symposium
“Dynamics, fluctuations, and biological behavior”
Friday, September 16, 2011 8:45am – 4:15pm
Yale West Campus B-25
PROGRAM:
8:45 am
Opening Remarks
Continental Breakfast
8:55 am – 9:00am
Session I
9:00 am – 9:25 am
Murat Acar (CalTech)
“A General Mechanism for Network-Dosage Compensation in Gene Circuits”
9:35 am – 10:00 am
Hana El-Samad (UCSF)
“Cellular Noise Regulations Underlie Fluctuations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
10:10 am – 10:35 am
James Collins (Boston University, HHMI)
“Bacterial Network Biology”
10:45 am – 10:55 am
Coffee Break
10:55 am – 11:20 am
Christina Smolke (Stanford)
“Programming Cellular Behavior with RNA Controllers”
11:30 am – 11:55 am
Galit Lahav (Harvard Medical School)
“Encoding cellular information through position dynamics”
12:05 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
Session II
1:30 pm – 1:55 pm
John Tyson (Virginia Tech)
“Irreversible Transitions in the Cell Cycle are Due to Systems – Level Feedbacks”
2:05 pm – 2:30 pm
Arthur Lander (UC Irvine)
“The cost of control: Strategies and tradeoffs in robust tissue pattern formation”
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00 pm – 3:25 pm
Boris Shraiman (KITP UC Santa Barbara)
“Dynamics and Fluctuations in Natural Selection”
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm
Thierry Emonet (Yale University)
“Simultaneous coding of chemical identity and intensity by olfactory receptor neurons”
4:10 – 4:15pm
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Closing Remarks
10 minute discussion between each talk
Registration at: http://sysbio2011.commons.yale.edu/registration/
Additional information at: http://sysbio2011.commons.yale.edu/
Organizers: Thierry Emonet & Xiao-Jing Wang