Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

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Noise in Life

2010, Oct 24 -- Oct 30

Organizers:
M. Falcke (Max Delbruck Center, Berlin)
G. Suel (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas)
J. García Ojalvo (UPC, Barcelona)

Monday, October 25
  • 08:45h
  • Opening remarks
     
  • 09:00h
  • Transcriptional regulation by the numbers
     Rob Phillips
  • 09:45h
  • How walking slower can make you respond faster
     Pieter Rein ten Wolde
  • 11:10h
  • Ca(2+) spiking as source of intrinsic noise
     Kevin Thurley
  • 11:30h
  • Cell-state driven stochastic switching in bistable systems
     Marta Ibañes
  • 11:50h
  • Optimal Strategies for Survival and Growth in Changing Environments
     Nico Geisel
  • 12:10h
  • Free discussion
     
  • 14:30h
  • Free discussion / posters
     
  • 16:50h
  • Robust developmental patterning on short length scales facilitated by the Notch signaling pathway
     David Sprinzak
  • 17:10h
  • Noise filtering strategies in adaptive networks: application to E. Coli Chemotaxis
     Pablo Sartori
  • 17:30h
  • Threshold regulation of phenotypic variability in a toxin-antitoxin
 module
     Nathalie Balaban

    Tuesday, October 26
    • 09:00h
    • Physical models for rotatory molecular motors
       Jose M. Sancho
    • 09:45h
    • Relationship between chromosomal features and gene expression stochasticity in higher eukaryotic cells
       Olivier Gandrillon
    • 11:10h
    • Spatial modeling of calcium release puffs
       Sten Rüdiger
    • 11:30h
    • Evolutionary design of oscillatory genetic networks
       Yasuaki Kobayashi
    • 11:50h
    • Stochasticity and robustness in DNA replication
       Alessandro Moura
    • 12:10h
    • Free discussion
       
    • 14:30h
    • Free discussion / posters
       
    • 16:50h
    • Trade-offs and noise tolerance in signal detection by genetic circuits
       Raúl Guantes
    • 17:10h
    • Mathematical modelling of dorsoventral patterning in the vertebrate neural tube
       Karen Page
    • 17:30h
    • Fluctuation and stability in gene expression: chromatin takes the lion’s share in both
       Guillaume Corre
    • 17:50h
    • Telling time with an intrinsically noisy clock
       Andrew Mugler
    • 18:15h
    • Unfolding times for proteins in a force clamp
       Alessandro Torcini

      Wednesday, October 27
      • 14:30h
      • Free discussion / posters
         
      • 16:50h
      • Biological role of noise encoded in a genetic network motif
         Mark Kittisopikul
      • 17:10h
      • Stochastic Inference of Cell Migration Phenotypes
         Richard J. Allen
      • 17:30h
      • Noise propagation across molecular, cellular, and cell-population scales
         José M.G. Vilar
      • 18:15h
      • Round-table discussion
         

        Thursday, October 28
        • 09:00h
        • Parameter inference for stochastic kinetic models of bacterial gene regulation
           Darren J. Wilkinson
        • 09:45h
        • Partial penetrance facilitates developmental evolution in bacteria
           Avigdor Eldar
        • 11:10h
        • High resolution monitoring of single gene transcription kinetics in mammalian cells
           Nacho Molina
        • 11:30h
        • Information processing in small gene regulatory networks and cascades
           Aleksandra M Walczak
        • 11:50h
        • Increased Accuracy of Ligand Sensing by Receptor Internalization and Lateral Receptor Diffusion
           Gerardo Aquino
        • 12:10h
        • Free discussion
           
        • 14:30h
        • Free discussion / posters
           
        • 16:50h
        • Information routing driven by background chatter in signaling networks
           Núria Domedel-Puig
        • 17:10h
        • Stochastic simulation algorithms for reaction-diffusion processes
           Radek Erban
        • 17:30h
        • Noise in multicellular environments
           Javier Buceta
        • 18:15h
        • Bistable cell fate specification as a result of stochastic fluctuations and collective spatial cell behaviour.
           András Pàldi

          Friday, October 29
          • 09:00h
          • Why would a mutation kill me, but not you?
             Ben Lehner
          • 09:45h
          • Together is better. Lessons from the Brownian motor KIF1A in axonal transport
             Jaume Casademunt
          • 11:10h
          • An integrated framework for inference, identifiability, sensitivity and robustess in stochastic models of biochemical reactions
             Michal Komorowski
          • 11:30h
          • Carbohydrate-active enzymes exemplify general entropic principles in metabolism
             Alexander Skupin
          • 11:50h
          • Closing
             
          • 12:10h
          • Free Discusion
             

            This session has received financial support from the following institutions:

            • logo CSIC
            • Gobierno de Aragón
            • Ministerio de educación y ciencia
            • DPH
            • Universidad de Zaragoza
            • Ayuntamiento de Benasque

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