CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

All lectures will take place in Auditorium 236 (2nd floor) of the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center (connected to the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center)

Thursday, November 13, 2003
17:00 - 20:00
Registration
20:00 - 22:00
Reception
Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, Conference Room A (2nd floor)
   
Friday, November 14, 2003
7:00 - 8:00
Continental Breakfast
7:30 - 9:30
Registration (continued)
Session 1
(8:00 - 9:40)
Chair: Mark Borodovsky (Georgia Tech)
8:00 - 8:20
John McDonald (University of Georgia)
Welcome & Introduction
8:20 - 9:00
John Tyson (Virginia Polytechnic)
Computational Cell Biology: From Molecular Networks to Cell Physiology
9:00 - 9:40

Adam Arkin, (University of California, Berkeley)
Playing Practical Games with Bacteria and Viruses.
Exploring the Molecular Mechanisms behind Clever Cellular Stratagems

9:40 - 10:00
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Session 2
(10:00 - 12:40)
Chair: Andrey Rzhetsky (Columbia University)
Keynote Talk
10:00 - 11:00
Laszlo Barabasi (University of Notre Dame)
The Architecture of Complexity: Structure and Modularity in Cellular Networks
11:00 - 11:20 Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
11:20 - 12:00 M. Elizabeth Halloran (Emory University)
Graph Theory and Community Structure in Infectious Disease Models
12:00 - 12:40
Michael Gelfand (State Scientific Center "GosNIIGenetica")
Riboswitches: Possibly the Oldest Regulatory System
12:40 - 14:00
Lunch (Conference Dining Room)
Session 3
(14:00 - 15:20)
Chair: John Logsdon (University of Iowa)
14:00 - 14:40
Richard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Emergence and Selection in Genome Evolution
14:40 - 15:20

Eugene Koonin (NCBI, NIH)
Simple Stochastic Birth and Death Models of Genome Evolution:
Was There Enough Time for Us to Evolve?

15:20 - 15:50
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Session 4
(15:50 - 17:00)
Chair: Ying Xu (University of Georgia)
15:50 - 16:30
Andrey Rzhetsky (Columbia University)
On Truth, Pathways and Interactions
16:30 - 17:10
Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Detecting Topological Patterns in Protein Networks
17:10 - 17:30
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Poster Session
(17:30 - 20:00)
The authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be near their posters from 18:00 to 19:00
The authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be near their posters from 19:00 to 20:00
   
Saturday, November 15, 2003
7:00 - 8:00
Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 10:00
Registration (continued)
Session 5
(8:00 - 9:40)
Chair: Steve Harvey (Georgia Tech)
8:00 - 8:30*
Roland Krause (Cellzome)
A Comprehensive Set of Protein Complexes by Cluster Analysis
of High Throughput Biochemical Purifications in Yeast
8:30 - 9:00*
Leonid Mirny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Protein Complexes and Functional Modules in Molecular Networks
9:00 - 9:40 Kevin White (Yale University)
Building Developmental Networks Genome-wide in Drosophila
9:40 - 10:00
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Session 6
(10:00 - 12:40)
Chair: Eberhard Voit (Medical University of South Carolina)
Keynote Talk
10:00 - 11:00
Michael Savageau (University of California, Davis)
Function, Design, and Construction of Gene Circuitry
11:00 - 11:20
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
11:20 - 12:00
Dennis Vitkup (Harvard University)
The Optimality, Expression, and Robustness of Cellular Metabolic Networks
12:00 - 12:40
Andreas Wagner (University of New Mexico)
The large-scale structure of genetic networks: design, history, or (mere) chemistry?
12:40 - 14:10
Lunch (Conference Dining Room)
Session 7
(14:10 - 15:30)
Chair: Jun Liu (Harvard University)
14:10 - 14:50
Harmen Bussemaker (Columbia University)
Integrative Modeling of mRNA Expression and Transcription Factor Binding Data
14:50 - 15:30
Greg Dewey (Keck Graduate Institute)
Network Analysis of Gene Expression Time Series
15:30 - 15:50
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Session 8
(15:50 - 17:10)
Chair: Igor Zhulin (Georgia Tech)
15:50 - 16:30
Eric Sonnhammer (Karolinska Institutet)
Orthologous protein domains in eukaryotes
16:30 - 17:10
Jun Liu (Harvard University)
BPPS: An algorithm for analyzing protein sequence alignments
17:10 - 17:30
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Poster Session
(17:30 - 20:00)
The authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be near their posters from 18:00 to 19:00
The authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be near their posters from 19:00 to 20:00
   
Sunday, November 16, 2003
7:00 - 8:00
Continental Breakfast
Session 9
(8:00 - 9:10)
Chair: Eileen Kraemer (University of Georgia)
8:00 - 8:40
Shmuel Pietrokovski (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Conserved Networks of Interactions Within Protein Structures.
8:40 - 9:10*
Joel Bader (John Hopkins University)
A Genome-scale Protein Interaction Map for Drosophila melanogaster
9:10 - 9:30
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Session 10
(9:30 - 11:45)
Chair: Eugene Koonin (NCBI, NIH)
Keynote Talk
9:30 - 10:30
Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard University)
Imprint of Evolution on Protein Structural Universe
10:30 - 10:50
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
10:50 - 11:30
Martijn Huynen (University of Nijmegen)
Scale-free, Small-world Interaction Networks:
Applications for Function Prediction and a Neutral Scenario for their Evolution.
11:30 - 11:45
Mark Borodovsky (Georgia Tech)
Concluding Remarks
   
  *Contributed talks
 
 
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