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).
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