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Biological Networks Symposium/Annual Retreat Talk Schedule

 

External Advisory Board Members

 

Advisory Committee Members

 

Biological Networks Symposium Agenda

 

Biological Networks Symposium

 

Talks - Morning Session

Building a Quantitative Model of Metabolic Fluxes During Oilseed Metabolism.............................. 1

            John Ohlrogge/Joerg Schwender, Department of Plant Biology, MSU

Discovery of Novel Metabolic Networks...................................................................................... 2

            Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern

            University

Systems Biology of the Drosophila Blastoderm.............................................................................. 3

            John Reinitz, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook

Dynamics of the Immune Response to Infection with M. Tuberculosis............................................. 4

            Denise Kirschner, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of

            Michigan

 

Talks - Afternoon Session

The Structure of Social and Biological Networks........................................................................... 5

            Mark Newman, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Neural Networks, Brain Rhythms and Computational Neuropharmacology.................................... 6

            Péter Érdi, Center for Complex System Studies, Kalamazoo College

Gene Regulatory Networks in Bacteria.......................................................................................... 7

            Lee Kroos, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MSU

Incorporation of Computational Approaches into Mechanistic and Predictive Toxicology................ 8

            Tim Zacharewski, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, MSU

 

 

Annual Retreat, Saturday, October 18

 

Talks

1.    Geometry and Physics of Proteins........................................................................................... 9

            Jayanth Banavar

2.    Recent Research at the Interface of Computational Chemistry and Computational

       Biology................................................................................................................................ 10

            Ronald Levy

3.    Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions from Sequence Data.................................................. 11

            Chris Adami

4.    An Integrated Approach for Protein Function Prediction....................................................... 12

                        Fengzhu Sun

Posters – Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building

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1.    Dynamics of CD8+ T Cells in HIV-1 Disease Progression.................................................... 13

            Bajaria, Seema

2.    Simulated Evolution of Consensus Bacterial Promoters from Trinucleotide

       Polymers.............................................................................................................................. 14

Buyukbozkirli, Bulent

3.    Temporal Specificity of Mechanisms Used by Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Inhibit

       Antigen Presentation............................................................................................................. 15

            Chang, Stewart

4.    Comparisons of Codon Usage Reveal Microbial Life History Adaptations............................. 16

            Dethlefsen, Les

5.    A Metapopulation Model of Granuloma Formation in the Lung During Infection with

       Mycobacterium Tuberculosis................................................................................................ 17

            Ganguli, Suman

6.    The Effect of Natural Selection on Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms............................... 18

            Hang, Dehua

7.    Structure/Function Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Sporulation-Specific Transcription

       Factor SpoIIID.................................................................................................................... 19

            Himes, Paul

8.    Construction of a Molecular Dynamics Force Field for an Adenylate Kinase.......................... 20

            Kimple, Adam

9.    Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Escherichia coli Adenylate Kinase Complexed

       with its Substrates MgATP and AMP................................................................................... 21

            Krishnamurthy, Harini

10.  The Evolution and Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity: Development of a

       Computational System to Study Ecological Communities....................................................... 22

            Lanfear, Robert

11.  Integrate Metabolic and Gene Expression Profiles with Partial Least Squares......................... 23

            Li, Zheng

12.  Essential Dynamics Analysis on Adenylate Kinases............................................................... 24

            Lou, Hongfeng

13.  The Role of Dendritic Cells in the Human Immune Response to Mycobacterium

       tuberculosis in Lung and Lymph Node................................................................................. 25

            Marino, Simeone

14.  Discovering General Properties of Cis Regulatory Elements................................................... 26

            Martinez, Carlos

15.  On the Mapping Between mRNA and Protein Expression Profiles in E. coli:

       Computational and Mathematical Studies.............................................................................. 27

            Mehra, Amit

16.  In Silico and In Vitro Studies of a Mutant in Cytochrome c Oxidase Reveal a

       Mechanism for Proton Movement Above the Hemes............................................................ 28

            Mills, Denise

17.  Synergistic Effect of Multiple Risk Alleles on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

       Disorder.............................................................................................................................. 29

            Park, Leeyoung

 

 

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18.  Mechanistic and Stochastic Modeling of Enzyme Cascades................................................... 30

            Rieger, Theodore

19.  An Agent Based Model of Tuberculosis Granuloma Formation in the Lung............................ 31

            Segovia-Juarez, Jose

20.  Molecular Dynamics Studies of Prostaglandin Endoperoxide Synthase-1 in the

       Presence of Water and a Native-Like Ligand........................................................................ 32

            Seibold, Steve

21.  Design and Development of Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors Using

       Structure-Based Screening................................................................................................... 33

            Sukuru, Chetan

22.  Data Grouping by Clustering Ensembles................................................................................ 34

            Topchy, Alexander

23.  Vascular Networks.............................................................................................................. 35

            Wang, Chang

24.  Metabolic Control Analysis under Uncertainty....................................................................... 36

            Wang, Liqing

25.  Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DHNA Complexed with its Reactant

       and Product Ligands............................................................................................................ 37

            Yao, Lishan

 

Participant List......................................................................................................................... 38

 

Notes                                                                                                                                         46