Computation in Cells

An EPSRC Emergent Computing Workshop

17-18 April 2000

University of Hertfordshire, UK


 

Workshop Programme


 
DAY 1, 17th APRIL 2000 SESSION SPEAKERS
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee & registration  
10:30 - 10:45 Chairman's opening remarks Ray Paton, University of Liverpool
10:45 - 12:50 Sesssion 1 Chair: Ray Paton
10:45 - 11:20
Stochastic models of cell signalling Dennis Bray, Cambridge University
11:20 -11:55
Regulation of intercellular fluxes by gap junctions Steve Baigent, University College London
11:55 - 12:30
Robustness and feedback control in biological signal transduction networks Tau-Mu Yi, California Institute of Technology, USA
12:30 - 12:50
Jarnac: An interactive metabolic systems language Herbert Sauro
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Session 2 Chair: Charlie Hodgman, GlaxoWelcome, UK
14:00 - 14:35
Using Dbsolve for creating & analyzing whole cell models Igor Gorynin, GlaxoWelcome, UK
14:35 - 15:10
Spatial registration of in situ gene expression data Maria Samsonova, Inst. For High Perf. Computing, St. Petersburg, Russia
15:10 - 15:30
Protein domain evolution as a parallel-distributed process Sylvia Nagl, University College London
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee  
16:00 - 17:30 Session 3 Chair: Nigel Allinson, UMIST
16:00 - 16:35
Messages from our sponsors Jim Fleming, EPSRC
Debbie Harding, BBSRC
16:35 - 17:10
The many faces of a biological switch Upi Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
17:10 - 17:30
Interaction of synaptic inputs on Purkinje cells Fidel Santamaria, California Institute of Technology, USA
17:30 - 19:00 R & R  
19:00 - 21:30 Workshop dinner  

 
 

 
DAY 2, 18th APRIL 2000 SESSION SPEAKERS
8:45 - 10:30 Session 4 Chair: Howard Parish, University of Leeds
8:45 - 9:20
Mitotic clock: how do telomeres tick? Maria Blair, Sheffield Hallam University
9:20 - 9:55
Bifurcation analysis of a model of the embryonic cell cycle in Xenopus Mark Borisuk, California Institute of Technology, USA
9:55 - 10:30
How do cells decide to replicate their DNA? Baltazaar Aguda, Laurentian University, Canada
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee  
11:00 - 12:50 Session 5 Chair: Richard Tateson, BT
11:00 - 11:35
Qualitative analysis of gene networks Denis Thieffry, Free Univ. of Brussels, Univ. Gent, Belgium
11:35 - 11:55
Fuzzy relational biology: a factor-space approach to genome analysis Olaf Wolkenhauer, UMIST
11:55 -12:30
Bioinformatics of microarray gene expression data Alan Robinson, European Bioinformatics Inst, UK
12:30 - 12:50
Tools for visualisation of genetic networks structure and dynamics Maria Samsonova, Inst. For High Perf. Computing, St. Petersburg, Russia
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Session 6 Chair: Jim Fleming, EPSRC
14:00 - 14:35
Human-competitive machine intelligence by means of genetic programming John Koza, Stanford University, USA
14:35 - 15:10
Future of computational molecular biology in the pharmaceuticals industry Charlie Hodgman, GlaxoWelcome, UK
15:10 - 15:30
Axioms for biological complexity and mathematically rigorous measures of computational capacity Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee  
16:00 - 17:00 Session 7 Chair: Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire
16:00 - 16:20
Selection and coexistence by controlling range of competition Valery Tereshko, UMIST
16:20 - 16:40
Topological motifs for drug design David Whitley, Portsmouth University
16:40 - 17:00
Information processing in the microtuble B8-lattice Robert Campbell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
17:00 Close of workshop  


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