CSB2: Council for Systems Biology in Boston
Cells, Circuits, and Computation 2009
UPDATE: Over 30 posters were presented at Cells, Circuits, and Computation on January 23. CSB2 is happy to announce that Luke Thompson (MIT Biology) and Yoram Burak (Harvard Center for Brain Science) won the two poster prizes. Abstracts of their poster presentations can be found here.
January 23, 2009
8am – 6pm
Harvard University
Northwest Science Building, Room B103
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA
The conference concludes with a poster session and light appetizers. An award of $200 will be presented to each of the top 2 poster presenters.
Schedule
| Coffee and Registration | 8:15 – 8:50 |
| Doug Lauffenburger, MIT
Welcome and opening remarks |
8:50 – 9:00 |
| Session 1: Computational Systems Biology | |
| Session chair: Fred Berkovitch | |
| Ernest Fraenkel, MIT
Mechanistic models from high-throughput data |
9:00 – 9:40 |
| James Galagan, Boston University and Broad Institute
Systems Biology for Tuberculosis |
9:40 – 10:20 |
| Coffee Break | 10:20 -10:50 |
| Session 2: Cell Fate: Imaging, Computation, and Theory | |
| Session chair: Bodo Stern | |
| Sean Megason, Harvard Medical School
The Digital Fish Project: in toto imaging and FlipTraps for digitizing embryogenesis |
10:50 – 11: 30 |
| Heiko Enderling
Improved Understanding of Tumor Progression through Computational Tracking of Cancer Cell Dynamics |
11:30 – 12:10 |
| Lunch | 12:10 – 1:10 |
| Session 3: From Genomes to Mechanism | |
| Session chair: Andrew Murray | |
| Vlad Denic
Biology without a bias (or is it Biology without a focus?) |
1:10 – 1:50 |
| Michael Laub
Rewiring the Specificity of Bacterial Signal Transduction Pathways |
1:50 – 2:30 |
| Coffee Break | 2:30 – 2:50 |
| Session 4: Biologically Inspired Engineering | |
| Session chair: Douglas Lauffenburger | |
| Joanna Aizenberg
Bio-inspired substrates for cellular studies |
2:50 – 3:30 |
| Keynote lecture: James Collins
Engineering Gene Networks: Integrating Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology |
3:30 – 4:20 |
| Poster Session + appetizers/drinks | 4:20 – 6:20 |
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