Statistical Mechanics in Systems Biology:
Regulation, Inference, Optimization

Villa Orlandi, Anacapri ~ May 29 - June 1, 2012

                                                     


             
Monday, May 28th
             
             
18:30 Welcome cocktail
             
             
Tuesday, May 29th
             
             
9:30 I Bozzoni (Roma) Non-coding RNA: new functions and perspectives [abstract]
             
10:20 M Caselle (Torino) The role and functions of microRNA-mediated circuits in the human regulatory network [abstract]
             
11:10 Coffee break
             
11:40 A Tramontano (Roma) The computational analysis of the human genome: old and new problems [abstract]
             
12:30 Lunch break
             
16:00 E Gottlieb (Glasgow) Metabolomic approaches to discover new targets for cancer treatment [abstract]
             
16:50 O Martin (Paris Sud) The shaping of network features by biological constraints [abstract]
             
17:40 Coffee break
             
18:10 D Segre' (Boston) Modeling metabolism at multiple scales [abstract]
             
19:00 E Segal (Rehovot) Statistical mechanics in transcriptional regulation
             
             
Wednesday, May 30th
             
             
9:30 W Bialek (Princeton/CUNY) Information flow and collective behavior in real biological networks
             
10:20 S Leibler (Rockefeller/Princeton) Contingency: is there an elephant in the biology room?
             
11:10 Coffee break
             
11:40 R Zecchina (Torino) Triggering cascade processes in biological networks
             
             
Thursday, May 31st
             
             
9:30 T Emonet (Yale) Temporal features of odor stimuli and the encoding of odor identity and intensity by Olfactory Receptor Neurons [abstract]
             
10:20 G Parisi (Roma) Physics and complexity [abstract]
             
11:10 Coffee break
             
11:40 T Hwa (San Diego) Bacterial growth laws: several lessons in quantitative biology
             
12:30 Lunch break
             
16:00 T Mora (Paris) Public good usage in bacterial colonies [abstract]
             
16:50 K Sneppen (Copenhagen) Epigenetics in Cis and Multistability [abstract]
             
17:40 Coffee break
             
18:10 P Bianco (Roma) Understanding stem cell systems – wet, dry, and humid biology [abstract]
             
21:00 Social dinner
             
             
Friday, June 1st
             
             
9:00 A Pombo (London) From epigenetics to polymer models to single cell imaging: a tale of the HoxB locus [abstract]
             
9:50 D Marenduzzo (Edinburgh) Modelling the three-dimensional organisation of eukaryotic chromosomes [abstract]
             
10:40 Coffee break
             
11:10 A Walczak (Paris) Quantifying the diversity of antibody receptors [abstract]
             
12:00 O Rivoire (Grenoble) Patterns of coevolution in proteins [abstract]