Forum on Biological Networks

Monday, June 21


Chair: Chao Tang

08:30-09:40 Gary Stormo£¨Washington University Medical School£©

Experimental and Computational Methods for Studying Gene Regulation

09:40-10:30 Gene Bryant (Sloan-Kettering)

The dynamics of chromatin structure and transcription complex assembly upon gene induction

10:30-10:50 Break

10:50-11:40 Debora Marks£¨Harvard University£©

Gene Regulation by MicroRNAs

11:40-12:30 Runsheng Chen£¨Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science£©

Protein-protein Interaction Network


Chair: Chris Sander

14:30-15:40 Erin O¡¯Shea£¨Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC-San Francisco£©

Systems Analysis of Signaling in Budding Yeast

15:40-16:00 Break

16:00-16:50 Leihan Tang£¨Hong Kong Baptist University£©

Intra and inter-pathway correlations from microarray gene expression data

16:50-17:40 analysisYuhai Tu£¨IBM£©

Towards quantitative understanding of bacterial chemotaxis


Wednesday, June 23


Chair: Erin O¡¯Shea

08:30-09:40 Liping Zhao£¨Shanghai Jiao Tong University£©

Ecological Genomics for Structural Dissection of Complex Microbial Communities

09:40-10:30 Hongkui Deng£¨College of Life Science, PKU£©

To be confirmed

10:30-10:50 Break

10:50-11:40 Chao Tang£¨NEC Laboratories America£©

The cell cycle of the budding yeast

11:40-12:30 Qi Ouyang£¨Center for Theoretical Biology, Peking University£©

Stability Analysis of Cell Cycle Network


Chair: Yunyu Shi

14:30-15:40 Chris Sander£¨Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center £©

Pathways

15:40-16:00 Break

16:00-16:30 Zuhong Lu£¨Southeast University£©

Some Considerations of Biomolecular Networks: Features and Methods

16:30-17:10 Yaoqi Zhou£¨University at Buffalo, State University of New York£©

Structure-based mapping of protein-protein interaction network

17:10-17:40 Luhua Lai£¨Center for Theoretical Biology, Peking University£©

The metabolic network of arachidonic acid and drug design against inflammation


Friday, June 25


Chair: Leihan Tang

08:30-09:40 Brian Yeh (University of California, San Francisco)

Construction of Synthetic Signaling Circuits Using Modular Recombination

09:40-10:30 David Arnosti£¨Michigan State University£©

Information display by transcriptional enhancers: intelligent enhanceosomes or flexible billboards?

10:30-10:50 Break

10:50-11:40 Fengzhu Sun£¨University of Southern California£©

Integrative approaches for protein function prediction

11:40-12:30 Ping Ao£¨University of Washington£©

Phage as the "hydrogen atom" in modern molecular biology: what we have learnt and what we can learn


Chair: Luhua Lai

14:00-14:50 Shoudan Liang£¨NASA Advanced Supercomputing£©

Simple Math Is Enough: Two Examples of Inferring Functional Associations from Genomic Data

14:50-15:40 Jin Wang£¨Citigroup, US£©

Stochastic dynamics of genes