Conferences

61st Annual Symposium on Cancer Research - Systems Biology of Cancer

 

DATES October 30–November 1, 2008
Location The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
R. Lee Clark Clinic, 11th floor
1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX
Detailed Information Please download the brochure for more information.

 

 

Current Workshop Schedule

Generation of the Human Bioartificial Heart

 

DATES Tuesday Dec 16th and Wednesday Dec 17th, 2008
Location Texas Heart Institute
Co-organized by Center for Mathematical Biosciences ( Univ. of Houston)
Texas Heart Institute
Rice University
Program Committee Dr. Willerson (main organizer)

More detailed schedule coming soon.

 

Previous Workshop Schedule

Modeling and analysis of Biological Networks
(Transcriptional, Signaling, Metabolic)

 

DATES Thursday May 15th and Friday May 16th, 2008
Location Univ. of Houston, PGH Building, 2nd floor , Room 232
Co-organized by Center for Mathematical Biosciences ( Univ. of Houston)
Department of Biology (Univ. of Houston)
Department of Mathematics (Univ. of Houston)
Systems Biology (MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston)
Funding Univ. of Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center
Program Committee Robert Azencott (UH Mathematics and Ecole Normale Sup. France)
Ricardo Azevedo
(UH Biology and Biochemistry)
John Goutsias
(Center for Imaging Sciences, Johns Hopkins University)
Preethi Gunaratne
(UH Biology and Biochemistry)
Prahlad Ram
(System Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Contact

Robert Azencott : tel  832 330 4706 ; or email razencot@math.uh.edu
colloquium website : http://www.math.uh.edu/cmb/Workshops.html

Registration There is no registration fee to attend the colloquium. To register, please email to  kbmayber@math.uh.edu, indicating your name, institution, dept, academic status. To propose a poster, please email a one page summary to  razencot@math.uh.edu
Lodging Information

Lodging Information
contact:   Karen Mayberry <kbmayber@math.uh.edu>

 

Scientific Program

Thursday May 15th

09:00 – 10:15

Gordon Mills (Systems Biology, Md Anderson Cancer Center)
A systems approach to drug development and implementation

10:30 – 11:45

John Goutsias (CIS, Johns Hopkins Univ),
Sensitivity analysis of biochemical reaction networks: current techniques and future challenges

11:45 – 12:30

Prahlad Rahm (Systems Biology, Md Anderson Cancer Center)
Mammalian signaling network motifs and their biological functions

12:30 – 01:30

Lunch

01:30 – 02:45

Michael Savageau (UC Davis)
Elucidation of Biological Design Principles

02:45 – 03:30

Jeff Hasty (BioEngineering , Univ. of California, San Diego)
Metabolic Control in a Dynamic Environment

03:45 – 04:30

Robert Azencott (Mathematics, Univ. of Houston; Ecole Normale Sup. France)
Parsimonious ODE parametrization for transcriptional regulatory networks

04:30 – 05:15

Panel Discussion

05:15 – 06:00

Poster Session and Refreshments

There will be coffee breaks at 10:15 and 3:30.

 

Friday May 16th

9:00 – 9:45

Ralph Arlinghaus (Molecular Pathology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
The Bcr-Abl/Jak2 signaling network in chronic myeloid leukemia: Disruption of the network by new drug candidates

9:45 – 10:45

Oleg Igoshin (Bioengineering, Rice Univ.)
Uncovering design principles of graded and bistable responses in biochemical networks

11:00 – 11.45

Devika Subramanian (Computer Science, Rice University)
Learning Bayesian network models of metabolic and signaling networks from gene expression and proteomic data

11:45 – 12:30

Ju-Seog Lee (Systems Biology, Md Anderson Cancer Center)
Systems Integromics of Cancer: beyond genomics and proteomics

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

There will be a coffee break at 10:45.