scientific program

SUNDAY (September 26)
MONDAY (September 27)
TUESDAY (September 28)
WEDNESDAY (September 29)
THURSDAY (September 30)




Sunday, September 26

18.00 - 20.00 Registration
19.00 - Reception with food and beverages
   
   
MONDAY, September 27

09.00 - 09.20 Frank Jülicher (Director MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) &
  Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
09.20 - 10.00 John Tyson (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg)
  Deterministic and stochastic models of cell cycle regulation
   
10.00 - 10.40 Linda Nicholson (Cornell University, Ithaca)
  Prolyl cis/trans isomerization as a molecular timer in biological processes
   
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
   
11.10 - 11.50 Ewa Paluch (MPI für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden / IIMCB Warsaw)
  Actomyosin contractility and cell shape oscillations during cytokinesis
   
11.50 - 12.30 Frank Jülicher (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden)
  Chemotaxis of helical swimmers
   
12.30 Lunch
   
13.50 - 14.30 Marcos González-Gaitán (University of Geneva)
  Dynamics of Dpp signaling and growth control during morphogenesis
   
14.30 - 14.50 Ana Simic (University of Navarra, Pamplona)
  Drift of a spiral wave in heterogeneous heart tissue
   
14.50 - 15.10 Ronny Straube (MPI für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Magdeburg)
  Molecular effects on pattern formation in an allosteric Enzyme System
   
15.10 - 15.30 Jonathan Bieler (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  Waves solutions in genetic excitable media
   
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
16.30 - 17.30 KRONOS10-Colloquium
  Michael Hastings (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Pacemaking and synchronisation in the brain's circadian centre, the suprachiasmatic nucleus
   
18.00 Supper
   
19.30 Poster session I (including beverages)
   
   
Tuesday, September 28

   
09.00 - 09.40 Achim Kramer (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
  Coupling governs entrainment range of circadian clocks
   
09.40 - 10.20 Didier Gonze (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Modeling the mammalian circadian clock: From single cells to cell populations
   
10.20 - 10.40 Steven Brown (University of Zürich)
  Molecular biomarkers for human circadian differences
   
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
   
11.10 - 11.50 Hans-Peter Herzel (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
  The circadian clock - A system of coupled oscillators
   
11.50 - 12.10 Willi Gottstein (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
  The temporal coordination of cellular metabolism: An in-silico approach
   
12.10 Lunch
   
13.50 - 14.30 Hiroki Ueda (RIKEN, Kobe)
  Systems biology of mammalian circadian clocks: The role of delay in feedback repression
   
14.30 - 14.50 Jacques Rougemont (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  Analysis of rhythmic DNA binding with ChIP-seq
   
14.50 - 15.10 Ricardo Luiz Viana (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba)
  Controlling chaotic bursting in map-based neuron network models
   
15.10 - 15.40 Coffee break
   
15.40 - 16.00 Olga Dick (Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg)
  Multifractal dynamics of the healthy and pathological brain activity
   
16.00 - 17.00 Plenary Talk
  Jean-Pierre Eckmann (Universite de Geneve)
  Analysis of Networks in Time and Space
   
18.00 Supper
   
19.30 Poster session II (including beverages)
   
   
Wednesday, September 29

   
09.20 - 10.00 Ryoichiro Kageyama (Kyoto University)
  The significance and mechanism of ultradian oscillations in somite
  segmentation and other biological events
   
10.00 - 10.40 Luis Morelli (MPI für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden)
  Intercellular coupling tunes the period and stability of the segmentation clock
   
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
   
11.10 - 11.50 Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa)
  A feedback-free signaling switch for inter-cell communication
   
11.50 - 12.10 Koichiro Uriu (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme)
  Random cell movement promotes synchronization of the segmentation clock
   
12.10 - 12.30 Saul Ares (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme)
  Theory of the her Gene Regulatory Network of the Zebrafish Segmentation Clock
   
12.30 Lunch
13.50 - 14.10 Lutz Brusch (Technische Universität Dresden)
  A clock-and-gradient mechanism can self-organize the somitogenesis wavefront and frequency profile
   
14.10 - 14.50 Alex Gould (MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London)
  Timing neural progenitor divisions in Drosophila
   
14.50 - 15.10 Maria Begasse (MPI für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden)
  On the correlation between the timing of the embryonic cell cycle and
  the temperature niche of an organism
   
15.10 - 15.30 Coffee break
   
16.00 - NEW! Excursion - Sightseeing tour by bus through Dresden - to the castle Pillnitz
   
19.00 - Conference dinner takes place in the in the castle Pillnitz
   
Thursday, September 30

   
09.00 - 09.40 Jose M.G. Vilar (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao)
  Noise propagation across molecular, cellular, and cell-population scales
   
09.40 - 10.20 Jana Wolf (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin)
  Mechanisms underlying the robustness of cellular oscillations
   
10.20 - 10.40 Ernesto M. Nicola (Campus Universitat Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca)
  Tunability of genetic oscillators with mixed feedback loops
   
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
   
11.10 - 11.50 Felix Naef (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  Circadian oscillators, transcription, and clock precision
   
11.50 - 12.10 Justin Bois (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme)
  Pattern formation in active fluids
   
12.10 Lunch
   
13.50 - 14.30 Iva Tolic-Norelykke (MPI für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden)
  Get your motors running: Sex, self-organization, and oscillations
   
14.30 - 15.10 Kang-Hun Ahn (Chungnam National University, Daejeon)
  Dynamics of artificial hair cells
   
15.10 - 15.40 Coffee break
   
15.40 - 16.00 Closing remarks
  Scientific Coordinators
16.00 - 17.00 Plenary Talk
  Jonathon Howard (MPI für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden)
  Mechanical Oscillations in sperm motility and mitosis
   
18.00 Supper
   


Last updated: September 7, 2010