ICSB 2005 Student Symposium

The ICSB 2005 Student Symposium will be held in the Amphitheatre at the Conference Center at Harvard Medical (the same venue as for the main conference sessions). It will be followed by a late-evening networking event at the Longwood Grill and Bar (342 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA; 617 232 9770) — a five-minute walk from the conference center.

7:30-9:30 pm Friday, October 21st, 2005

This fast-paced session will allow students of systems biology to give brief oral presentations of their research:

John Albeck, MIT
Control of all-or-none caspase activation by the death receptor network

Ryan Gutenkunst, Cornell University
Biological models are sloppy: ill-conditioning of the Hessian matrix

Uly Nasution, Bioprocess Technology Group
In vivo pulse response studies of central metabolism in Penicillium chrysogenum

Nicholas Ingolia, Harvard University
Positive feedback and bistability in a signal transduction pathway

Gunnar Cedersund, Fraunhofer Chalmers Center for Industrial Mathematics
Identifiability analysis of relative kinase contribution from
internalized receptors in a model for insulin signaling

Murat Acar, MIT
Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions

Christopher Brown, Harvard University
Genomic association of the NPC in S. cerevisiae and HeLa cells

Pan Du, Iowa State University
Multi-scale genetic network inference based on time series expression profiles

Please email the session chair, John Cumbers (John_Cumbers@brown.edu)
with any further questions about the symposium.

Scientific advisory panel
Igor Goryanin, Edinburgh Centre for Bioinformatics, UK
Martin Robert, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan
Herbert Sauro, Keck Graduate Institute, USA

Symposium Coordinators
John Cumbers, Graduate Student, Brown University, USA
Satya Arjunan, Graduate Student, Keio University, Japan