National Institute for Basic Biology
| Organizers | Atushi Mochizuki |
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| Venue | Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan |
| Date | Feb. 8-10, 2005 |
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Thanks to progress in molecular genetics technologies the past several years have seen rapid increases in the amount of biological information available to us; the next order of business, therefore, is to find the essential principles of higher-order phenomena in biology hidden within enormous amounts of information. Non-experimental methods are now attracting attention as new methods for integrating information or for understanding whole systems of biology. Many researchers from physics, mathematics and computer science are starting to grapple with problems in biology.
Enhanced interaction between researchers working in different disciplines is essential for progress in theoretical methods in biology. For this purpose we held an international conference on February 2005 in Okazaki, Japan. For this conference we called researchers studying various biological phenomena, network systems, spatio-temporal patterns, ecology and evolution using different theoretical methodologies, with a special focus on the network structures in different fields of biology, including gene regulation, metabolic pathway and ecology. One of the notable themes was the relation between the structural and dynamic behaviors of these complex systems.
The conference featured 39 research presentations including 8 short talks and 12 poster presentations. Ninety one participants – including 12 reseachers from foreign countries - enjoyed discussions and the interaction between different fields of theoretical biology. We have received many mails from participants thanking us for holding this conference. We hope that this conference leads to the start of a new theoretical bioscience in the future.
| Program | |
| February, 8th, 2005 | |
| 9:00 - 10:20 | Registration |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Welcome address |
| Motoya Katsuki (Director-General, NIBB) | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Tatsuya Akutsu |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Metabolic networks - plasticity and utilization |
| Eivind Almaas | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Supervised network inference |
| Jean-Philippe Vert | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch (at the Conference Hall) |
| Session 2 | Chair: Jean-Philippe Vert |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Building genetic networks with multivariate Markov chains |
| Wai Ki Ching | |
| 14:10 - 14:50 | On construction and transformation of scale-free networks |
| Tatsuya Akutsu | |
| 14:50 - 14:10 | Break |
| Session 3 | Chair: Wai Ki Ching |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Inferring transcriptional networks from genome sequence data |
| Kenta Nakai | |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Interpretation of metabolic networks |
| Masanori Arita | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Break |
| Session 4 | Chair: Kenta Nakai |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | The robot scientist project |
| Ross D. King | |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Emergence of complex dynamics in a simple model of signaling networks |
| Albert Diaz-Guilera | |
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Scale-free network with geometrical structures |
| Satoru Morita | |
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Reception |
| February, 9th, 2005 | |
| Session 5 | Chair: Cyrill Muratov |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | An analytical study of the number of steady states in gene regulatory networks |
| Atsushi Mochizuki | |
| 9:40 - 10:20 | Understanding bistability in complex biochemical reaction networks |
| Gheorghe Craciun (Video Presentation) | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
| Session 6 | Chair: Atsushi Mochizuki |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Connecting network topology and dynamics in gene regulatory and signal transduction networks |
| Reka Albert | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | |
| John Reinitz | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch (at theConference Hall) |
| Session 7 | Chair: Reka Albert |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Transmission of autocrine signals in epithelial layers: modeling and analysis |
| Cyrill Muratov | |
| 14:10 - 14:50 | Suppressing randomness in gene networks |
| Johan Paulsson | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Break |
| Session 8 | Chair: Johan Paulsson |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Stochastic dynamics of coupled repressilators |
| Mitsumasa Yoda | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Mathematical analysis of interrelationship between plasmid copy number control systems and plasmid instability |
| Tetsuya J. Kobayashi | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | From network motifs to morphogenesis |
| Shuji Ishihara | |
| 16:10 - 18:10 | Poster Presentation |
| 18:10 - 19:30 | Mixer (at the Conference Hall) |
| February, 10th, 2005 | |
| Session 9 | Chair: Kei Tokita |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Gene regulatory network models for plant cell determination and spatio-temporal patterning |
| Elena Alvarez-Buylla Roces | |
| 9:40 - 10:20 | How do animals get their stripes? |
| Shigeru Kondo | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
| Session 10 | Chair: Elena Alvarez-Buylla Roces |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Complex systems biology: relevance of phenotypic fluctuations to evolution and adaptation |
| Kunihiko Kaneko | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Somatic evolution of cancer |
| Yoh Iwasa | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch (at the Conference Hall) |
| Session 11 | Chair: Yoh Iwasa |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Species abundance patterns in complex evolutionary dynamics |
| Kei Tokita | |
| 14:10 - 14:50 | Structure and Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Ecological Networks |
| Neo Martinez | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Break |
| Session 12 | Chair: Neo Martinez |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Frequency dynamics of lateral dimorphism in fishes |
| Mifuyu Nakajima | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Evolutionary dynamics of frequency-dependent growth strategy in cannibalistic amphibians |
| Joe Yuichiro Wakano | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | The complexity-stability relationship of adaptive food webs |
| Michio Kondoh | |
| 16:10 - 16:20 | Closing remarks |
| Neo Martinez | |
