ITES Networks Cluster Seminar

The Network Cluster Seminars take place on Friday, 1-2pm in SEC 102.

Refreshments will be served after the talk from 2:00-2:30pm.

Spring 2008


  • January 25: Ranulfo Romo (Institute of Cellular Physiology, UNAM)
        Decoding the Temporal Evolution of a Simple Perceptual Task

  • February 1: Prahlad Ram (Systems Biology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
        Identification of Targets in Cancer Signaling Networks: Integrating Functional Proteomics and Computational Modeling

  • February 8: NO SPEAKER

  • February 15: Gabor Balazsi (Systems Biology, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
        Hallmarks of Survival and Evolution in Gene Networks

  • February 22: Ariel Fernandez (Bioengineering, Rice University)
        Curbing Side Effects in Cancer Drugs by Exploiting Translational Concepts from Systems Biology

  • February 29: Ernest Barreto (Center for Neural Dynamics, George Mason U)
        Synchronization in Interacting Populations of Oscillators

  • March 7: Stuart Kauffman (Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, Calgary)
        Are Cells Dynamically Critical?

  • March 14: Lee DeVille (Mathematics, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
        Synchrony and Asynchrony Due to Large Deviations in a Stochastic Neuronal Network

  • March 21: Spring Break

  • March 28: Jeff Hasty (Bioengineering, UCSD)
        Engineered Genetic Oscillators

  • April 4:

  • April 11: Garrett Odell (Center for Cell Dynamics, Washington)
        For Making Genetic Networks Operate Robustly, Unintelligent Non-design Suffices

  • April 18: Luay Nakhleh (Computer Science, Rice)
        Phylogenetic Networks: Reconstruction and Evaluation

  • April 25:

  • May 2: Lauren Meyers (Integrative Biology, UT - Austin)
        Using Networks to Forecast Evolutionary and Epidemiological Dynamics


    Directions to the seminar.


    For further information about the seminar please contact one of the organizers: Ricardo Azevedo, Martin Golubitsky, Gemunu Gunaratne, Kresimir Josic.