| Program |
last
updated 07/07/05 |
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| Monday:
Complex biological systems & networks |
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| 9:00-10:20am |
Registration
and morning tea |
| 10:20-10:30am |
Opening
and welcome |
| 10:30
-11:30am |
Janet
Wiles - Mapping biology onto computation: a complex systems |
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approach |
| 11:30-12:30pm |
Jennifer
Hallinan - Network analysis of complex biological systems |
| 12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Wiles/Hallinan
- Software demos: Netlogo, Pajek |
| 2:30-3:15pm |
Michael
Gagen and John Mattick - Accelerating network constraints |
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on organism complexity: The case for an RNA-based regulatory |
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architecture |
| 3:15-3:45pm |
Afternoon tea |
| 3:45-4:35pm |
Satoru
Miyano - How to model biological pathways with hybrid |
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Petri net and its extension |
| 4:35-5:25pm |
Christopher Savoie - Application of gene regulatory |
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networks to pharmacogenomics and human medicine |
| 5:45pm |
Welcome
BBQ - Sponsored by SGI |
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| Tuesday:
Molecular evolution and phylogenetics
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| 9:00-10:30am |
Lars
Jermiin - Nucleotide sequences: how they change, and why we |
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should care |
| 10:30-11:00am |
Morning
tea |
| 11:00-12:00pm |
Robert
Beiko - Aligning biological sequences |
| 12:00-1:00pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00-2:30pm |
Mark
Ragan - Inferring phylogenetic trees from molecular sequences |
| 2:30-3:30pm |
Jonathan
Keith - Optimisation and sampling of phylogenetic tree-space |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Afternoon
tea |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
Beiko/Ragan
- Software demos: PHYLIP, MrBayes |
| 5:00-6:00pm |
Public
Talk: |
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Phil
Hugenholtz - Environmental shotgun sequencing - seeing the forest |
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for the trees |
| 6:00-6:30pm |
Refreshments |
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| Wednesday:
Protein structure and dynamics
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| 9:00-10:00am |
Thomas
Huber - High throughput protein fold determination |
| 10:00-10:30am |
Morning
tea |
| 10:30-11:30am |
Alan
Mark - Molecular dynamics |
| 11:30-12:30pm |
Sean
Smith - Pathways, mechanism and photophysics in fluorescent |
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proteins: an illustration of the role of molecular calculations in |
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understanding protein
structure - function relationships |
| 12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Mark
Smythe - Describing the chemical and conformational diversity
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of protein surfaces |
| 2:30-3:30pm |
Huber/Mark/Smythe
- Problems in modelling protein structure and |
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dynamics |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Afternoon
tea |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
Special
Talk: |
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John
Mattick - Information in biological systems |
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| Thursday:
Pattern discovery in molecular sequences
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| 9:00-10:00am |
Tim
Bailey - DNA sequence motifs and transcriptional regulation |
| 10:00-10:30am |
Morning
tea |
| 10:30-11:30pm |
Martin
Frith - Identifying motifs shared by functionally related |
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related sequences: theory versus practice |
| 11:30-12:30pm |
Warren
Ewens - Significance testing for words and motifs
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| 12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00pm |
Andrey
Rzhetsky - A bird's eye view of text mining for biology |
| 3:00-3:30pm |
Afternoon
tea |
| 3:30-4:30pm |
Ning/Taylor
- Software demo: Matlab bioinformatics toolbox |
| 4:30-5:30pm |
Bailey/Frith/Rzhetsky
- Software demo/Discussion session about tools |
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| Friday: Computational neurobiology
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| 9:00-10:30am |
Perry
Bartlett and Pankaj Sah - Cellular and synaptic plasticity in the |
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nervous system |
| 10:30-11:00am |
Morning
tea |
| 11:00-12:30pm |
Geoff
Goodhill - Understanding the brain as a computational device |
| 12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Michael
Breakspear - Unpacking the brain into wavelets |
| 2:30-3:30pm |
Mandyam
V Srinivasan - Small brains, smart computations: vision, navigation
and |
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"cognition"
in honeybees, and applications to robotics |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Afternoon
tea |
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