Centre de recherches mathématiques

Workshop on Molecular, Metabolic, and Gene Control Networks
September 9-13, 2000

SATURDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2000

17:00 - 18:30 Registration

(room 5345, 5th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

18:00 - 20:00 Reception

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

 

 

SUNDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2000

08:15 - 09:15 Registration

(room 5345, 5th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

08:45 - 09:00 Jacques Hurtubise (Director, CRM) and

Abraham Fuks (Dean of Medicine, McGill)

Opening remarks

09:00 - 09:45 Dennis Bray

"Stochastic models of cell signaling"

09:45 - 10:30 George Church

"New technologies and models in time-series RNA array data"

10:30 - 11:15 Coffee and tea break

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

11:15 - 12:00 John Ross

"New approaches to determining mechanisms of complex reactions"

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 Joe Mahaffy

"DNA replication and cell growth for E. coli"

14:15 - 15:00 Coffee and tea break

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

15:00 - 15:45 Leon Glass

"Can simple equations be used to model real gene networks?"

 

 

MONDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER, 2000

09:00 - 09:45 James Ferrell

"Biochemical hysteresis and the irreversibility of the

differentiated state"

09:45 - 10:30 Michael Savageau

"Key Design features of lactose gene circuitry in Escherichia

coli"

10:30 - 11.15 Coffee and tea break.

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

11:15 - 12:00 Paul Smolen

"Modeling circadian oscillations with interlocking positive

and negative feedback loops"

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 Kurt Kohn

"Molecular interaction maps as information organizers and

simulation guides"

14:15 - 15:00 Coffee and tea break

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

15:00 - 15:45 Marc Roussel

"Invariant manifold methods for metabolic model reduction"

 

 

TUESDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER, 2000

09:00 - 09:45 Moises Santillan

"Mathematical models of the tryptophan operon: Modeling

development and stability analysis"

09:45 - 10.30 Denis Thieffry

"Qualitative analysis of gene networks"

10:30 - 11:15 Coffee and tea break.

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

11:15 - 12:00 Hanspeter Herzel

"Extracting information from cDNA arrays"

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 James Collins

"The design and construction of a genetic toggle switch"

14:15 - 15:00 Coffee and tea break.

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

15:00 - 15:45 John Tyson

"Control of the eukaryotic cell cycle: Molecules, mechanisms,

and mathematical models"

 

19:00 - 22:00 Dinner Chez Mackey, 108 Ballantyne Avenue North Montreal West

481-2958

Take the 51 bus on Edouard-Montpetit Street

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER, 2000

09:00 - 09:45 Raima Larter

"Calcium waves and other nonlinear dynamic behaviors in the

brain"

09:30 - 10:00 Albert Goldbeter

"Modeling the molecular bases of ultradian and circadian

rhythms"

10:30 - 11:15 Coffee and tea break.

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

11:15 - 12:00 Roland Somogyi

"Challenges in Data Mining and Computational Modeling for the

Interpretation of Molecular Networks"

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 Johan Paulsson

"Copy number control in plasmid replication"

14:15 - 15:00 Coffee and tea break.

(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

15:00 - 15:45 TBA

15:45 - 16:00 Closing remarks