Friday, December 4
BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 282

4:00 p.m. Welcome

4:05 - Michael Deem, Rice University

Spontaneous emergence of modularity in an evolving system: nucleation of biology from chemistry

4:40 - Joanna Masel, University of Arizona

Robustness, evolvability and capacitance

5:15 Coffee Break

5:35 - Ricardo Azevedo, University of Houston

How predictable is evolution?

6:10 - Mike Travisano, University of Minnesota

Developmental dynamics

6:45 - Rama Ranganathan, UT Southwestern Medical Center

The evolutionary "design" of proteins

Saturday, December 5
BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 282

9:00 a.m. - Aleksander Popel, Johns Hopkins University

Systems biology of angiogenesis:
The gateway to personalized medicine

9:35 - Eberhard Voit, Georgia Institute of Technology

The role of systems modeling in
drug discovery and predictive health

10:10 - Deepak Nagraph, Rice University

Global thermodynamics control the
evolution of transcriptional regulatory networks

10:45 Coffee Break

11:05 - Oleg Igoshin, Rice University

Bistability and low-pass filtering in gene regulatory
network module controlling hematopoiesis

11:40 - Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh

Should I stay or should I go: decision making in ants

12:15 -1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 Poster Session, Outside of Room 282

3:00 - Angel Garcia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Microsecond simulations of the detailed folding/unfolding thermodynamics of proteins under various solvent conditions

3:35 - Monte Pettit, University of Houston

The fold of the unfoldable

4:10 Coffee Break (+ extra time for poster dismantling)

4:40 - Andrej Sali, University of California, San Francisco

Diverse data for structure determination
of macromolecular assemblies

5:15 - Victor Batista, Yale University

Studies of oxomanganese complexes for natural
and artificial photosynthesis

5:50 - Jianpeng Ma, Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine

Multiscale modeling of biomolecular complexes

Sunday, December 6
BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 282

9:00 a.m. - Jianzhi Zhang, University of Michigan

Gene expression noise and evolution

9:35 - Gábor Balázsi, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Decoupling non-genetic cellular memory from other gene expression characteristics

10:10 - Howard Salis, Pennsylvania State University

Predictive design & optimization of
genetic parts and systems

10:45 Coffee Break

11:05 - Ido Golding, Baylor College of Medicine

Phage Lambda life cycle: the view from the single cell

11:40 - Amina Qutub, Rice University

Oxygen homeostasis as the basis of health:
a systems biology analysis