DIMACS Workshop on Control Theory and Dynamics in Systems Biology

May 18 - 20, 2009
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:
Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University, sontag at math.rutgers.edu
Patrick De Leenheer, University of Florida, deleenhe at math.ufl.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 (MB Center).


Workshop Program:


Monday, May 18, 2009 

 8:15 -  8:55  Breakfast and Registration 

 8:55 -  9:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Tami Carpenter, DIMACS Associate Director

 9:00 -  9:45  An Additive D-Stability Condition and Application to Reaction-Diffusion Systems
               Murat Arcak, University of California-Berkeley 

 9:45 - 10:00  Break

10:00 - 10:45  Using Algebraic Geometry to Study Protein Phosphorylation
               Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard Medical School

10:45 - 11:15  Break

11:15 - 12:00  Complete Networks of Reversible Binding Reactions
               Gilles Gnacadja, Amgen

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  2:45  Metabolic Flux Balance Analysis and Related Computational Challenges
               A. Agung Julius, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

 2:45 -  3:00  Break

 3:00 -  3:45  Predicting injectivity in interaction networks from their structure
               Murad Banaji, University of Essex and University College London 

 3:45 -  4:15  Break

 4:15 -  5:00  Asymptotic Behaviors in Multisite Phosphorylation-dephosphorylation Cycles
               Liming Wang, University of California-Irvine 

 5:00          Dinner

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration 

 9:00 -  9:45  Analysing Stochasticity in Regulatory Networks: The Evolvability of
               Gene Auto-regulation in the Presence of Noise
               Joao Hespanha, University of California- Santa Barbara 

 9:45 - 10:00  Break

10:00 - 10:45  Input-output Behaviour of Stoichiometric Systems
               Brian Ingalls, University of Waterloo 

10:45 - 11:15  Break

11:15 - 12:00  Structure and qualitative dynamics in an apoptosis network
               Madalena Chaves, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  2:45  The deficiency zero theorem for stochastically modeled systems
               David Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 2:45 -  3:00  Break

 3:00 -  3:45  Stochastic control analysis
               Herbert Sauro, University of Washington

 3:45 -  4:15  Break

 4:15 -  5:00  Recent progresses on the metabolism  modelling of  Bacteria: definition
               of local and global modules and a first explanation of their emergence
               Vincent Fromion, INRA Jouy-En-Josas

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration 

 9:00 -  9:45  Relaxation Oscillations and a Cell Cycle Oscillator
               Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University 

 9:45 - 10:00  Break

10:00 - 10:45  Modular Cell Biology: Retroactivity and Insulation
               Domitilla Del Vecchio, University of Michigan 

10:45 - 11:15  Break

11:15 - 12:00  Kinetics of the cell cycle
               Sergei Pilyugin, University of Florida

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  2:45  Identifiability of Chemical Reaction Networks
               Gheorghe Craciun, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

 2:45 -  3:00  Break

 3:00 -  3:45  Bifurcations in Systems with Mass Action Kinetics
               Carsten Conradi, Max Planck Institute 



Posters
  
  TinkerCell, a flexible application for analysis of biological systems
  Deepak Chandran, Frank Bergmann, Herbert Sauro, University of Washington

  Density-Profile Processes Describing Biological Signaling Networks:
  Almost Sure Convergence to Deterministic Trajectories
  Eduardo Jordao Neves, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

  Stochastic Control Analysis for Biochemical Reaction Systems
  Kyung Hyuk Kim, University of Washington

  Comprehending Biochemical Network Dynamics through Automatic Inference of State Transition Diagrams
  Debprakash Patnaik, Vandana Sreedharan, Yang Cao, and Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech

  An algorithm for proving global entrainment and
  synchronization of biological systems
  Giovanni Russo, University of Naples 

  Reconciling a Biochemical Switch Catalog with Network Theories of Bistability
  Vandana Sreedharan, Virginia Tech

  Permanent Coexistence for an Intraguild Predation Model with Predator Stage Structure
  James A. Vance, The University of Virginia's College at Wise



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