CSB2: Council for Systems Biology in Boston
Cells, Circuits, and Computation 2012: Bauer Fellows Program
Thursday, January 19, 2012
8:15am – 8pm
CCC2012 celebrates a decade of the Bauer Fellows Program at the Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology. Bauer Fellows are young scientists, usually straight out of a PhD, who get the opportunity to run small research groups for up to 5 years. They come from a variety of backgrounds, including biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and engineering and bring broad scientific interests and a taste for collaboration. The conference will feature the research of former and current Bauer Fellows.
Location
Harvard University
Northwest Science Building, B1 level, lecture hall B103
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA
Schedule
| Coffee & Registration | 8:15 – 8:45 |
| Dean Jeremy Bloxham, Dean of Science, Harvard
Welcome and opening remarks |
8:45 – 8:55 |
| Andrew Murray
A decade and more of the Bauer Fellows program |
8:55 – 9:10 |
| Session 1: Social microbes |
9:10 – 9:45 |
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Chair: Rachel Dutton Kevin Foster (Oxford) Social evolution in microbes Rachel Dutton Food for thought: Cheese as a model microbial ecosystem |
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| Session 2: Microbes and man | 9:45 – 10:40 |
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Chair: Peter Turnbaugh Duccio Cavalieri (Trento, Italy) Friend or Foe: Systems Biology of Host microbe interactions Roy Kishony (HMS) Microbial evolution within the human body Peter Turnbaugh Drug metabolism by gut microbes |
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| Coffee Break | 10:40 – 11:10 |
| Session 3: From in silico to in vitro and in vivo |
11:10 – 12:05 |
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Chair: Irene Chen Aviv Regev (MIT and Broad) Reconstructing regulatory circuits: lessons from the immune system Allan Drummond (U of Chicago) Evolutionary and cellular responses to protein misfolding Irene Chen Fitness landscapes of RNA |
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| Lunch: lunch available outside the lecture hall | 12:05 – 1:30 |
| Session 4: Evolutionary biology of metazoans |
1:30 – 2:35 |
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Chair: Marcus Kronforst Christine Queitsch (U of Washington) Genomic footprints of the evolutionary capacitors HSP90 and RNA polymerase V Hans Hofmann (UT Austin) Variations on a theme: Molecular and neural universals underlying social behavior Marcus Kronforst Wing patterning and speciation in tropical butterflies |
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| Session 5: Looking at cells in new ways |
2:35 – 3:50 |
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Chair: Suckjoon Jun Sharad Ramanathan (Harvard FAS) Controlling fluctuating neural activity and turning in C.elegans Kurt Thorn (UCSF) Programmable synthesis of spectrally encoded beads for peptide array experiment Steve Altschuler (UT Southwestern) Denial, Acceptance, and Loss of Cell Polarization in a Stochastic Model of Positive Feedback Suckjoon Jun The “intangible forces” that shape the genome |
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| Coffee Break |
3:50 – 4:20 |
| Session 6: Molecular systems biology | 4:20 – 5:55 |
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Chair: John Calarco Mike Laub (MIT) Specificity and evolution of signaling pathways in bacteria Kevin Verstrepen (VIB, Belgium) Reconstruction of prehistorical fungal enzymes reveals molecular details of evolutionary innovation through gene duplication Katharina Ribbeck (MIT) Biological hydrogels as selective diffusion barriers Gavin MacBeath (HMS and Merrimack Pharmaceuticals) Uncovering network topology through systematic perturbations John Calarco Shining a light on alternative splicing in the nervous system |
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| Reception | 5:55 – 7:00 |
Registration
| Online registration discount rate until Jan 13 |
On-site registration on Jan 19 |
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| Undergraduates and graduate students | $25 (first-year grad students free, see below) |
$40 |
| Non-students (postdocs, fellows, PIs etc) | $40 | $60 |
First year graduate students and undergraduate students can request free registration by writing to Adriana Gallegos at agg@cgr.harvard.edu before January 13 (please mention your university and PhD program). More senior graduate students should be able to get reimbursed from their labs. If that turns out to be difficult, please write to Adriana Gallegos (again, please mention university, program and lab).
Poster
Download the 8.5″ × 11″ poster here:
