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Biological Networks Symposium and Retreat

Table of Contents

Talks - Friday, October 17


Morning Session Page
Building a Quantitative Model of Metabolic Fluxes During Oilseed Metabolism by John Ohlrogge/Joerg Schwender, Department of Plant Biology, MSU 1
Discovery of Novel Metabolic Networks by Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University 2
Systems Biology of the Drosophila Blastodermby John Reinitz, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook 3
Dynamics of the Imune Response to Infection with M. Tuberculosis by Denise Kirschner, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan 4
Afternoon Session
The Structure of Social and Biological Networks by Mark Newman, Department of Physics, University of Michigan 5
Neural Networks, Brain Rhythms and Computational Neuropharmacology by Péter Érdi , Center for Complex System Studies, Kalamazoo College 6
Gene Regulatory Networks in Bacteria by Lee Kroos, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MSU 7
Incorporation of Computational Approaches into Mechanistic and Predictive Toxicology by Tim Zacharewski, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, MSU 8

 

Annual Retreat, Saturday, October 18

Morning Session

 
Geometry and Physics of Proteins by Jayanth Banavar, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University 9
Recent Research at the Interface of Computational Chemistry and Computational Biology by Ronald Levy, Department of Chemistry/Chemical Biology, Rutgers University 10
Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions from Sequence Data by Chris Adami, Digital Life Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 11
An Integrated Approach for Protein Function Prediction by Fengzhu Sun, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California 12

 

Posters

1. Dynamics of CD8+ T Cells in HIV-1 Disease Progression by Bajaria, Seema 13
2. Simulated Evolution of Consensus Bacterial promoters from Trinucleotide Polymers by Buyukbozkirli, Bulent 14
3. Temporal Specificity of Mechanisms Used by Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Inhibit Antigen Presentation by Chang, Stewart 15
4. Comparisons of Codon Usage Reveal Microbial Life History Adaptations by Dethlefsen, Les 16
5. A Metapopulation Model of Granuloma Formation in the Lung During Infection with Mycobacterium Tuberculosise by Ganguli, Suman 17
6. The Effect of Natural Selection on Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms by Hang, Dehua 18
7. Structure/Function Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Sporulation-Specific Transcription Factor SpoIIIDby Himes, Paul 19
8. Construction of a Molecular Dynamics Force Field for an Adenylate Kinase by Kimple, Adam 20
9. Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Escherichia coli Adenylate Kinase Complexed with its Substrates MgATP and AMP by Krishnamurthy, Harini 21
10. The Evolution and Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity: Development of a Computational System to Study Ecological Communities by Lanfear, Robert 22
11. Integrate Metabolic and Gene Expression Profiles with Partial Least Squares by Li, Zheng 23
12. Essential Dynamics Analysis on Adenylate Kinases by Lou, Hongfeng 24
13. The Role of Dendritic Cells in the Human Immune Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Lung and Lymph Node by Marino, Simeone 25
14. Discovering General Properties of Cis Regulatory Elements by Martinez, Carlos 26
15. On the Mapping Between mRNA and Protein Expression Profiles in E. coli: Computational and Matematical Studiesby Mehra, Amit 27
16. In Silico and In Vitro Studies of a Mutant in Cytochrome c Oxidase Reveal a Mechanism for Proton Movement Above the Hemes by Mills, Denise 28
17. Synergistic Effect of Multiple Risk Alleles on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Park, Leeyoung 29
18. Mechanistic and Stochastic Modeling of Enzyme Cascades by Rieger, Theodore 30
19. An Agent Based Model of Tuberculosis Granuloma Formation in the Lung by Segovia-Juarez, Jose 31
20. Molecular Dynamics Studies of Prostaglandin Endoperoxide Synthase-1 in the Presence of Water and a Native-Like Ligand by Seibold, Steve 32
21. Design and Development of Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors Using Structure-Based Screening by Sukuru, Chetan 33
22. Data Grouping by Clustering Ensemblesn by Topchy, Alexander 34
23. Vascular Networks by Wang, Chang 35
24. Metabolic Control Analysis under Uncertainty by Wang, Liqing 36
25. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DHNA Complexed with its Reactant and Product Ligands by Yao, Lishan 37

Participant List