8th BioPathways Meeting at ISMB-ECCB 2007

July 19-20, 2007 - Vienna, Austria

Hall F1, Austria Vienna Center

A satellite of ISMB'07 (www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/)


Conference Program (Schedule)

The 8th BioPathways meeting is organized by the BioPathways Consortium (www.biopathways.org ), an open forum aimed at fostering computational approaches to the modeling, reconstruction, analysis and simulation of biological networks. Previous BioPathways meeting have focused on a variety of themes, such as computational reconstruction of molecular networks, pathway evolution, integration of models and experiments, models and ontologies for pathways, metabolic pathways on modeling of interactions and regulation on a systems scale. Our special focus this year will be on computational methods for Synthetic Biology. Synthetic Biology addresses the design and fabrication of biological components and systems that do not exist in the natural world as well as the re-design and fabrication of already existing biological systems. Whereas many of the computational methods developed in order to model and analyze natural systems are relevant to the modeling of synthetic living systems, there is also an acute need for new computational methods in order to support the rational design goals and the abstraction/modularity/assembly approach of synthetic biology.

The meeting will include 3 other plenary sessions, touching on the full spectrum of pathways and networks-related themes.

Each plenary session includes several long invited presentations (30′). An open discussion will conclude each day. Looking forward to seeing you at BioPathways ‘07, For the organizing committee, Vincent Schachter, Vitor Martins dos Santos, Vincent Danos, Joanne Luciano, Aviv Regev


 

8th BioPathways Meeting Program

 Day I – July 19 th  

7:30 – 8:45

Registration

9:00-9:10

Vincent Schachter
Genoscope, Evry & BioPathways Consortium

Opening remarks

Session 1: Computational Methods and Infrastructure for Synthetic Biology  
Chairman: Vítor Martins dos Santos

9:10-09:30

Vitor Martins dos Santos, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig

EMERGENCE: a Foundation for Synthetic Biology in Europe

9:30-10:00

Alfonso Valencia, CNIO, Madrid

Bioinformatics tools to help in the design of biological systems

10:00-10:30

Jörg Stelling, ETH, Zürich

Formal tools for Model-Based Synthetic Biology

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Randy Rettberg, MIT, Cambridge

The MIT registry of parts and devices

11:30-12:00

Alfonso Jaramillo, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

Model-based design of genetic circuitry

12:00-13:00

Lunch

Session 2: Network Reconstruction & Analysis (part 1)
Chairman: Vincent Schachter  

13:00-13:45

Florence d’Alche-Buc, University of Evry

Supervised Inference of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks

13:45-14:30

Jason Ernst, Carnegie Mellon University

Reconstructing Dynamic Regulatory Maps

14:30-14:50

Tijana Milenkovic and Natasa Przulj, Irvine, University of California

Uncovering Biological Network Function via Graphlet Degree Signatures

14:50-15:10

Kam Dahlquist, Loyola Marymount University

Mathematical Modeling of the Transcriptional Network Controlling the Environmental Stress Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Session 3: Databases & Software Tools
Chairman: Joanne Luciano

15:10-15:30

Ozgun Babur, Bilkent University

PATIKAweb Components for  Microarray Data Analysis & Advanced Graph-Theoretic Querying

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:20

Richard Adams, University of Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Pathway Editor

16:20-16:40

Esther Schmidt, EBI, Cambridge

Reactome - a knowledgebase of biological pathways

16:40-17:20

Eric Neumann, Teranode Corp.

A Genome - Phenome Integrated Approach for Mining Disease-Causal Genes using Semantic Web

Round Table Discussion

17:20-18:30

IT Infrastructure & Computational Methods for Systems and Synthetic Biology

 

 Day II – July 20th  

Session 4 : Network Reconstruction & Analysis (part 2)
Chairman: Eric Neumann

9:00-9:45

Peter Karp, SRI International

Gene Regulation in EcoCyc and Pathway Tools

9:45-10:30

Jerzy Tiuryn, University of Warsaw

Identification of functional modules from ancestral protein-protein interactions

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:20

Rainer Koenig, DFKZ, Heidelberg

Using gene expression data and network topology to detect substantial pathways, clusters and switches

11:20-11:40

Hanif Khalak

Microarray-based Class Modeling and Prediction using Set-Enrichment
Analysis

11:40-12:00

Sol Efroni, NIH/NCI

Identification of Key Processes underlying Cancer Phenotypes using Biologic Pathway Analysis

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-13:45

Eytan Ruppin, Tel-Aviv University

Genome Scale Studies of Robustness and Annotation of the Yeast Metabolic Network

13:45-14:30

Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California

Network motif identification in stochastic networks

Session 5: Evolution of pathways and networks
Chairman: Toni Gabaldón

14:30-15:15

Simon Lovell

Protein-protein interactions and their networks: can they tell us about biology?

15:15-15:35

Natalia Maltsev

Co-evolutionary analysis of Metabolic Pathways and Enzymes in PUMA2 and Chisel systems

15:35-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:45

Toni Gabaldón

Evolution of metabolic systems: insights from comparative genomics

16:45-17:30

Philip Kim

Relating three-dimensional structures to protein networks provides evolutionary insights

Round Table Discussion

17:30-18:30

Network Reconstruction and Evolution

End of meeting