BioMaPS/DIMACS/MBBC/PMMB Short Course: Biological Development

May 22 - 26, 2006
Life Science Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

Organizers:
Richard Padgett, Rutgers University, padgett@waksman.rutgers.edu
Andrei Ruckenstein, Rutgers University, andreir@physics.rutgers.edu
Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS/BioMaPS/MB Center Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology.

This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MBBC) and the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (based at Florida State University).

Workshop Program:

This is a preliminary program. 


Monday, May 22, 2006

 8:30 -  9:00 Breakfast and Registration 
      
 9:00 -  9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
              Introduction to the course

 9:30 - 10:45 Introduction to Development
              Eric Wieschaus, Molecular Biology; Princeton University

10:45 - 11:00 Break 

11:00 - 12:30 Eric Wieschaus (continued) 

12:30 -  2:00 Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00 Patterning in the Early Fly Embryo
              John Reinitz, SUNY Stony Brook

 3:00 -  3:15 Break

 3:15 -  4:15 John Reinitz (continued)

 5:15         Reception

 6:00         Dinner                      

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 

 9:30 - 10:45 Pattern formation in Drosophila oogenesis
              Stanislav Shvartsman, Genomics Institute & Chem. Eng; Princeton University

10:45 - 11:00 Break 

11:00 - 12:30 Stanislav Shvartsman (continued) 

12:30 -  2:00 Lunch 

 2:00 -  3:15 Gene networks for fly gastrulation and sea squirt cardiogenesis
              Michael Levine, Molecular & Cell Biology; University of California, Berkeley 

 3:15 -  3:30 Break 

 3:30 -  5:00 Michael Levine (continued) 

Wednesday, May 24, 2006  

 9:30 - 10:45 Evo-devo: how do various embryos pattern their axis?
              Claude Desplan, Biology; NYU 

10:45 - 11:00 Break 

11:00 - 12:30 Claude Desplan (continued) 

12:30 -  2:00 Lunch 

 2:00 -  3:15 Left-right asymmetry in the zebrafish
              Rebecca Burdine, Molecular Biology; Princeton University

 3:15 -  3:30 Break 

 3:30 -  5:00 Rebecca Burdine (continued)
     
Thursday, May 25, 2006  

 9:30 - 10:45 Growth and Patterning in the Fly
              Kenneth Irvine, Waksman Institute; Rutgers University

10:45 - 11:00 Break 

11:00 - 12:30 Kenneth Irvine (continued)

12:30 -  2:00 Lunch 

 2:00 -  3:15 Modeling the onset of cell polarity in development
              Michel Kerszberg, Systematique, Adaptation, Evolution; Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie

 3:15 -  3:30 Break 

 3:30 -  5:00 Michel Kerszberg (continued) 

Friday, May 26, 2006 

 9:30 - 10:45 Aging and neuro-degeneration 
              Monica Driscoll, Rutgers University

10:45 - 11:00 Break 

11:00 - 12:00 Monica Driscoll (continued)
                     
12:00 - 12:30 Closing Remarks
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