Monday (September 12, 2011)

    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)

Tuesday (September 13, 2011)

    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)

Wednesday (September 14, 2011)

    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)

Thursday (September 15, 2011)

    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)

Friday (September 16, 2011)

    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.