Preliminary Workshop Program
| Sunday, June 17 | |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome banquet |
| Monday, June 18 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening |
| Frank Jülicher (Managing Director MPIPKS) | |
| Session: NETWORKS | |
| Chair: Rob Russell | |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 09:05 - 09:50 | Daniel Segré (Boston University) |
| Evolutionary constraints in metabolic and genetic networks | |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | Marc-Thorsten Hütt (Jacobs University Bremen) |
| Network control in gene expression profiles | |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Johannes Berg (University Cologne) |
| Statistical analysis of networks: Clusters, motifs, cross-species correlations | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:55 | Michael Schroeder (Technical University Dresden) |
| From domain-domain to protein-protein interactions and back | |
| 11:55 - 12:40 | Pietro Liò (University of Cambridge) |
| Inferring transcriptional noise using protein dipole statistics | |
| 12:40 - 12:55 | Concluding discussion |
| 12:55 - 14:10 | Lunch break |
| Session: TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION | |
| Chair: Leonid Mirny | |
| 14:10 - 14:15 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Michael Lässig (University of Cologne) |
| Transcriptional regulation: From biophysics to evolution | |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Stefan Bornholdt (University of Bremen) |
| Physics of genetic networks: Reliable control of the living cell in the presence of biochemical stochasticity | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Concluding discussion |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | PCFBIM07 Colloquium |
| Eytan Domany (Weizman Institute) | |
| Predicting outcome in cancer: Hope, hype, physics and ... biology | |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner break |
| 20:30 - ... | Discussion session |
| Tuesday June 19 | |
| Session: PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION | |
| Chair: Michael Sternberg | |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 09:05 - 09:50 | Angel Ortíz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) |
| Merging physics and evolution in protein structure prediction by homology modelling | |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | Julián Echave (CONICET Argentina) |
| A model of protein structural divergence to explain why structures evolve along the slowest collective vibrational normal modes | |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Ugo Bastolla (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) |
| Selective and mutational constraints in the evolution of protein folding thermodynamics and kinetics | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:55 | Christine Orengo (University College London) |
| Comparative and structural genomics to explore the evolution of protein function | |
| 11:55 - 12:40 | Rob Russell (EMBL Heidelberg) |
| Predicting aspects of binding affinity from proteomics or structure data | |
| 12:40 - 12:55 | Concluding discussion |
| 12:55 - 14:10 | Lunch break |
| Session: PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FOLDING, AND COMPLEXES | |
| Chair: Christine Orengo | |
| 14:10 - 14:15 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Hunter Fraser (Broad Institute) |
| Protein complexes and human disease | |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Liisa Holm (University of Helsinki) |
| Sequence alignment detects as many remote homologues as sequence-structure threading | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Michael Sternberg (Imperial College) |
| The identification of similarities between biological networks | |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Amnon Horovitz (Weizman Institute) |
| Conformational changes in chaperonins: Function and mechanism | |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Concluding discussion |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner break |
| 20:30 - ... | Poster session |
| Wednesday June 20 | |
| Session: BIOINFORMATICS | |
| Chair: Liisa Holm | |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 09:05 - 09:50 | Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine) |
| Charting chemical space with computers: Challenges and opportunities for AI and machine learning | |
| 09:50 - 10:35 | Sarah Teichmann (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) |
| Evolution of protein-protein interactions in complexes and networks | |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Coffee break |
| 11:05 - 11:50 | Jens Meiler (Vanderbilt University) |
| Computational structural bio-chemistry: Methods and application | |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Concluding discussion |
| 12:05 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Excursion |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner at the restaurant ``Kurhaus Kleinschachwitz'' |
| Thursday June 21 | |
| Session: PROTEIN STRUCTURE SPACE | |
| Chair: Pierre Baldi | |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 09:05 - 09:50 | Sung-Hou Kim (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Mapping of the protein structure universe: Evolution of structure and function of proteins | |
| 09:50 - 10:35 | Dmitrij Frishman (Technical University Munich) |
| Structural genomics of membrane proteins: Fold space, target selection, and structure prediction | |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Coffee break |
| 11:05 - 11:50 | Andrew Lee (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
| Using intramolecular dynamics by NMR for understanding long-range effects in proteins | |
| 11:50 - 12:35 | Shmuel Pietrokovski (Weizman Institute) |
| Relations between protein sequence conservation, structure, and function | |
| 12:35 - 12:50 | Concluding discussion |
| 12:50 - 14:10 | Lunch break |
| Session: DNA AND RNA | |
| Chair: Dmitrij Frishman | |
| 14:10 - 14:15 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Ralf Bundschuh (The Ohio State University) |
| Quantitative models of RNA single molecule experiments | |
| 15:00 - 15:25 | Enrico Carlon (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) |
| Hybridization thermodynamics in DNA microarrays | |
| 15:25 - 15:55 | Coffee break |
| 15:55 - 16:40 | Leonid Mirny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| How genome structure is influenced by the biophysics of gene regulation | |
| 16:40 - 17:05 | Christina Kiel (Centre Regulacio Genomica) |
| Prediction of protein-protein interactions based on structural information | |
| 17:05 - 17:30 | Helge Roider (MPI for Molecular Genetics) |
| Predicting transcription factor affinities to DNA from a biophysical model | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Concluding discussion |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner break |
| 20:30 - ... | Poster session |
| Friday June 22 | |
| Session: GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS | |
| Chair: Sung-Hou Kim | |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 09:05 - 09:50 | Christos Ouzounis (EMBL Cambridge) |
| Quantifying vertical and horizontal gene flow across species and time | |
| 09:50 - 10:35 | Edo Kussell (New York University) |
| Population dynamics of phenotype-switching bacteria | |
| 10:35 - 10:50 | Concluding discussion |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| Session: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | |
| Chair: Sung-Hou Kim | |
| 11:20 - 11:25 | Chair: Introduction to the session |
| 11:25 - 12:10 | Hans Westerhoff (Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| Physicochemical foundations of systems biology: From self-organization to vertical genomics | |
| 12:10 - 12:25 | Concluding discussion |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Closing |
| 12:40 | Lunch/Departure |
Last updated: June 15, 2007
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