ICSB 2007 :: Speakers

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

	Adam P. Arkin Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Director, Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival Appreciating the Designs of the Blind Watchmaker: How Characterization and Creation are Creating a New Biological Engineering Science
	Claire Tomlin Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University A Systems Biology Approach to Decoding Cell Polarity in Flies
	Eric Wieschaus Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton and a winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Positional Information and Morphogen Gradients in Drosophila: New Data and New Unanswered Questions

Banquet Speaker

Evelyn Fox Keller
Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science at MIT

Bringing Systems Biology to Life

Invited speakers

	Naama Barkai Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
	Alexis Borisy CombinatoRx Synergy Enables Selectivity
	Roger Brent Molecular Research Sciences Institute Physiology and Genetic Regulation of Cellular Signal Transmission
	Søren Brunak Technical University of Denmark Understanding Interactomes by Data Integration
	Tim Buchman Washington University, St. Louis Organization and Dynamics in Critical Illness and Critical Care
	Marta Cascante University of Barcelona Robust Metabolic Network Adaptation in Multifactorial Disease Could Become New Targets for Novel Designed Therapies
	Henrik Jönsson Lund University, Sweden Modeling and Live Confocal Imaging of Plant Shoot Development
	Daphne Koller Stanford University Activity Motifs: Statistical Analysis of the Dynamics of Biological Networks
	Sang Yup Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Systems Biotechnology for the Enhanced Production of Chemicals and Materials
	Julian Lewis Cancer Research UK Notch Signalling and the Somite Segmentation Clock: Mathematical Modelling and Experimental Validation

	George Oster UC Berkeley Propulsion and patterns in the life of Myxobacteria
	Linda Petzold University of California, Santa Barbara Discrete Stochastic Simulation for Biochemical Systems - State of the Art
	Pamela Silver Harvard Medical School Designing Biological Systems
	Christina Smolke Caltech A Framework for Programming System Behavior Through Integrated RNA Devices
	Eduardo Sontag Rutgers University Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis of Biomolecular Network Dynamics
	Alice Ting MIT Molecular Reporters for Imaging Protein Function in the Living Cell
	Olga Troyanskaya Princeton University Discovering novel biology through integration of computation and experiments
	Alex van Oudenaarden MIT The Frequency Dependence and Perfect Adaptation of Osmosensing
	Ron Weiss Princeton University Synthetic biology: From Bacteria to Stem Cells
	Jonathan Weissman University of California, San Francisco

Contributed Plenary Speakers

	Elhanan Borenstein Stanford University Large-Scale Reconstruction and Analysis of Growth Environments
	Andrea Califano Columbia University Signalome-Transfactome Networks in Human B Cells
	Alberto Polleri Stanford University Modeling Genetic Circuit Dysregulation in Human Disease
	Carsten Carlberg NUCSYS: Systems Biology of Nuclear Receptors
	Pablo Iglesias Johns Hopkins University Information-Theoretic Analysis of Signal Transduction Pathways
	Jasmin Fisher Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Predictive Modeling of Signaling Crosstalk during C. elegans Vulval Development
	Sohyoung Kim National Institute of Health Fine Tuning of p53-Mdm2-MdmX Network by MdmX during DNA Damage Response
	Tetsuya Yomo Osaka University How Does Phenotypic Fluctuation Facilitate Adaptation and Evolution?
	Lucia Wille Merrimack Understanding IGF Signaling Dynamics through Computational Modeling

Student Speakers

	Joshua Ho The University of Sydney, Australia Modeling the Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks
	R. Sidney Cox California Institute of Technolgy Programming Gene Expression with Combinatorial Promoters
	Xiling Shen Stanford University Hybrid Modeling and Robustness Analysis on Caulobacter Cell Cycle Regulation
	Quincey Justman Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3b Exploits Intracellular Noise to Regulate Xenopus Oocyte Maturation
	Silvia Santos EMBL Heidelberg MAPK Network Properties Determine Cell Fate Decision in PC-12 Cells
	Thomas Whisenant University of California, Irvine Computationally Searching the Genome for Novel JNK Substrates

Sponsored Session Speakers (RTK Systems Biology)

	Dr. Andrea Bertotti University of Turin, Italy TBA
	Ami Citri Stanford University The Architecture of Growth Factor Signaling
	Heimo Riedel West Virginia School of Medicine TBA
	Lucia Willie Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Understanding IGF Signaling Dynamics through Computational Modeling