07:00-08:45 Breakfast (Sally Borden Building)
08:45-09:00 Introduction & Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (Max Bell 159)
09:00-11:45 Morning Session (Max Bell 159)
09:00-09:45 Alistair Boettiger, University of California, Berkeley, Unique features of metazoan gene regulation provide robust cell fate decisions from stochastic components
09:45-10:30 Paul Francois, McGill University, Stochasticity in evolution of biochemical reaction networks
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
11:00-11:45 Lingchong You, Duke University, Using viral-mediated noisy gene expression to probe signaling dynamics in mammalian cells
11:45-13:00 Lunch (Sally Borden Building)
13:00-14:00 Guided Tour of Banff Centre (meet in 2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
14:45-15:00 Group Photo (front steps of Corbett Hall)
15:00-17:45 Afternoon Session (Max Bell 159)
15:00-15:45 Tom Shimizu, AMOLF, Experimental dissection of chemotactic signaling dynamics in live bacteria
15:45-16:30 Nacho Molina, EPF Lausanne, Analysis of temporal reporter expression using a stochastic biophysical framework identifies kinetic models of gene activity
16:30-17:00 Discussion Break
17:00-17:45 Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh, Identifying sources of variation in biochemical networks
17:45-19:30 Dinner (Sally Borden Building)
20:00-23:00 Informal gathering (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
07:00-09:00 Breakfast (Sally Borden Building)
09:00-12:30 Morning Session (Max Bell 159)
09:00-09:45 Andre Estevez-Torres, CNRS, Engineering reaction networks outside the cell: reactions and reactors
09:45-10:30 Rob Egbert, University of Washington, Predictable tuning of gene networks with simple sequence repeats
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
11:00-11:45 Yannick Rondelez, University of Tokyo, In vitro minimal universal networks
11:45-12:30 Gabriele Lillacci, University of California, Santa Barbara, Efficient model selection in discretely observed stochastic chemical reaction networks
12:45-13:30 Lunch (Sally Borden Building)
13:30-17:30 Break for Collaborations
17:30-19:30 Dinner (Sally Borden Building)
19:30-21:00 Evening Session (Max Bell 159)
19:30-20:15 Gurol Suel, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Cellular decision-making in the context of population dynamics
20:15-21:00 Rosalind Allen, University of Edinburgh, Competition between mRNAs for a limited pool of ribosomes
21:00-23:00 Informal gathering (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
07:00-09:00 Breakfast (Sally Borden Building)
09:00-17:30 Break for collaborations & explorations
If you remain at the Banff Center, lunch will be available in the Sally Borden Building from 12:00-13:30.
17:30-19:30 Dinner (Sally Borden Building)
19:30-21:00 Evening Session (Max Bell 159)
19:30-20:15 Pablo Meyer Rojas, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Metabolic regulation and enzyme localization in cells
20:15-21:00 Narendra Maheshri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Molecular and kinetic analysis of FLO11: a cis- encoded epigenetic switch
21:00-23:00 Informal gathering (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
07:00-09:00 Breakfast (Sally Borden Building)
09:00-12:30 Morning Session (Max Bell 159)
09:00-09:45 Jim Werner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Time-resolved three-dimensional molecular tracking in live cells
09:45-10:30 Diego Ferriero, University of Buenos Aires, Repeat proteins: folding in parts, functioning as wholes
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
11:00-11:45 Gabor Balazsi, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, From genotype to phenotype: Selection and memory of noisy gene expression variants
11:45-12:30 Eldon Emberly, Simon Fraser University, Stochastic processes involved in organizing space inside bacteria
12:45-13:30 Lunch (Sally Borden Building)
13:30-17:30 Break for Collaborations
17:30-19:30 Dinner (Sally Borden Building)
19:30-21:00 Evening Session (Max Bell 159)
19:30-20:15 Attila Becksei, University of Zurich, Evolution of feedback circuits by dynamical wiring
20:15-21:00 Gregor Neuert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Systematic identification of signal-activated stochastic gene regulation
21:00-23:00 Informal gathering (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
07:00-09:00 Breakfast (Sally Borden Building)
09:00-12:30 Morning Session (Max Bell 159)
09:00-09:45 Ophelia Venturelli, California Institute of Technology, Characterizing bimodality, bistability and cellular memory in biomolecular circuits
09:45-10:30 Elisa Franco, University of California, Riverside, Analysis, design and in vitro implementation of robust biochemical circuits
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall)
11:00-11:45 Sorin Tanase-Nicola, Emory University, TBA
11:45-12:30 Andreas Hilfinger, Harvard Medical School, Separating Intrinsic from Extrinsic Fluctuations in Dynamic Biological Systems
11:45-12:00 Farewell and Checkout
12:45-13:30 Lunch (Sally Borden Building)
Be advised: Checkout time is 1200. The conference room will be locked and watched
during the coffee break if you wish to check out before the morning session completes.