BioMaPS/DIMACS/MBBC/PMMB/SYCON Short Course:
Molecular Mechanisms and Models of Bacterial Signal Transduction

June 6 - 10, 2005
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:
Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University, sontag@control.rutgers.edu
Ann Stock, UMDNJ/HHMI, stock@cabm.rutgers.edu

This course is presented as part of the BioMaPS Summer School. It is jointly sponsored by the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MBBC), the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology based at Florida State University (PMMB) and the Rutgers Center for Systems and Control (SYCON).

Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS/BioMaPS/MB Center Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology.


Workshop Program:

The following is a preliminary program.

Monday, June 6, 2005

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 -  9:15  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Paul Ehrlich, BioMaPS Administrative & Assoc. Graduate Program Director 

               Introduction to the course

 9:30 - 10:30  What is signal transduction?
               Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University - 
               Genomics Institute, Chem. Eng.

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Stanislav Shvartsman (continued)

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Overview of signaling in bacteria
               Igor Zhulin, Georgia Tech- Biology
               	
 3:00 -  3:15  Break

 3:15 -  4:15  Igor Zhulin (continued)

 5:15          Reception

 6:00          Dinner

Tuesday, June 7, 2005

 9:30 - 10:30  Introduction to two-component signaling
               Ann Stock, UMDNJ - Biochemistry
	     	
10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Ann Stock (continued)

12:00 -  1:15  Lunch
 
 1:15 -  2:15  Introduction to bacterial motility & chemotaxis
               Robert Bourret, University of North Carolina - Microbiology
	   	
 2:15 -  2:30  Break

 2:30 -  3:30  Robert Bourret (continued)

 3:30 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  4:30  Molecular evolution of the MCP signaling domain
               Roger Alexander, Georgia Tech-Biology

 4:30 -  5:00  Significance of alternate binding modes of chemotaxis regulator,
               cheY with C-terminal peptide of its phosphatase, cheZ 
               Jayita Guhaniyogi, University of Medicine and Denistry of NJ-Biochemistry

Wednesday, June 8, 2005

 9:30 - 10:00  Practical lessons concerning collaboration between 
               experimentalists & modelers
               Robert Bourret, University of North Carolina - Microbiology
     	
10:00 - 11:00  Adaptation and signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis
               Ned Wingreen, Princeton University - Molecular Biology
	        	
11:00 - 11:30  Break

11:30 - 12:30  Ned Wingreen (continued)

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Receptor interaction and signal amplification in 
               bacterial chemotaxis
               Yuhai Tu, IBM
	
 3:00 -  3:15  Break

 3:15 -  4:15  Introduction to noise in biological systems
               William Bialek, Princeton University - Physics
		
 4:15 -  4:30  Break

 4:30 -  5:30  Noise in bacterial gene expression
               Alexander van Oudenaarden, MIT - Physics
		
Thursday, June 9, 2005 

 9:30 - 10:30  Pushing the envelope: How E. coli copes with external stress
               Tom Silhavy, Princeton University - Molecular Biology
		
10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Continuous control in bacterial regulatory circuits
               Mark Goulian, University of Pennsylvania - Physics
		
12:00 -  4:00  Lunch and Poster Session

Friday, June 10, 2005

 9:30 - 10:00  Modeling spatial oscillations of Min proteins in round bacteria
               Kerwyn Huang, Princeton University- Molecular Biology

10:00 - 10:30  Evolutionary design principles of a bacterial signaling network
               Kilian Bartholome, University of Freiburg-Molecular Biology

10:30 - 11:30  Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria
               Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University - Molecular Biology
		
11:30 - 11:45  Closing Remarks



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