CSB2: Council for Systems Biology in Boston
Cells, Circuits, and Computation 2010: Biophysics in Boston
Friday, January 15, 2010
8am – 6pm
CCC2010 is a day-long conference on biophysics research in the Boston area. There are two sessions with faculty speakers, one session with graduate student speakers selected from submitted abstracts, and a poster session to end the day. (Graduate students who submit their poster abstract should indicate whether they are prepared to speak in the graduate student session if selected) The keynote speaker is David Walt of Tufts University.
UPDATE: CSB2 is happy to announce that Melanie Müller from the Harvard Physics Department and Kenneth Evan Thompson from the MIT Biology Department won the two poster prizes. Abstracts of their poster presentations can be found here.
The program book is now available for download.
Location
Harvard University
Northwest Science Building, B1 level, lecture hall B103
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA
Speakers
Keynote: David Walt (Tufts University)
Jeff Gore (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)
Scott Manalis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Katharina Ribbeck (Harvard University)
Jennifer Ross (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Azadeh Samadani (Brandeis University)
Information for students and postdocs
- Four graduate student speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.
- Two poster prizes will be awarded.
Schedule
| Coffee and Registration | 8:15 – 8:50 |
| Doug Lauffenburger, MIT
Welcome and opening remarks |
8:50 – 9:00 |
| Session 1 | |
| Session chair: Zeev Waks, Harvard Systems Biology graduate program | |
| L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
Shape in biology – from macromolecules to morphogenesis |
9:00 – 9:30 |
| Azadeh Samadani, Brandeis University
A geometric model for the chromosome architecture in budding yeast |
9:30 – 10:00 |
| Scott Manalis, MIT
Coordination of cell growth and division in normal and cancer cells |
10:00 – 10:30 |
| Coffee Break | 10:30 – 11:00 |
| Session 2: graduate student speakers | |
| Session chair: Mary Wahl, Harvard MCO graduate program | |
| Hyun Youk, MIT Physics graduate program
Growth landscape formed by perception and import of glucose in yeast |
11:00 – 11:20 |
| K. S. Korolev, Harvard Physics graduate program
Spatial assays for microbial evolution |
11:20 – 11:40 |
| Rachel Patton McCord, Harvard Biophysics graduate program
Linking detailed yeast transcription factor binding preferences with in vivo DNA binding and regulatory function |
11:40 – 12:00 |
| Martin Wühr, Harvard Systems Biology program
Astral microtubules pull with dynein on cytoplasm to center nucleus and mitotic spindle |
12:00 – 12:20 |
| Lunch: Box lunch available outside the lecture hall | 12:20 – 2:00 |
| Session 3 | |
| Session chair: Filipe Grácio, MIT-Portugal graduate program | |
| Katharina Ribbeck, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Charge as a selection criterion for translocation through biological hydrogel filters |
2:00 – 2:30 |
| Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Building complexity in cytoskeletal networks |
2:30 – 3:00 |
| Jeff Gore, MIT
Cooperation and reversibility in microbial evolution |
3:00 – 3:30 |
| Coffee Break | 3:30 – 4:00 |
| Keynote | |
| Introduction: Luke Bruneaux, Harvard Physics graduate program | |
| David Walt, Tufts University
Optical fiber microarrays as a platform for understanding biology |
4:00 – 4:45 |
| Poster Session + appetizers/drinks | 4:45 – 7:00 |
Registration
The event is now over and registration is closed.
| Early registration discount rate, extended to Jan 6 | Late registration, through Jan 8 | On-site registration on Jan 15 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduates and graduate students | $25 (first-year students free) | $40 | $40 |
| Non-students (postdocs, fellows, PIs etc) | $50 | $60 | $60 |
