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Systems biochemistry - Linked Focused Meeting

22—24 March 2010

University of York, UK



Organizers:
David Fell (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Michael White (University of Liverpool, UK)
Hans Westerhoff (University of Manchester, UK)
Monday 22 March 2010
12:30 - 14:00 Registration and lunch

14:00 - 14:10
Opening and Introduction
David Fell
14:10 - 15:10
Systems Biology in practice: modeling, and understanding regulation and control
Plenary Lecture - Hans Westerhoff (University of Manchester, UK)
Wednesday 24 March 2010
10:50 - 11:30
Funding systems biology
Vicky Jackson (BBSRC, UK)
11:30 - 12:30
Structure-based systems biology of insulin and IGF-I receptor signal transduction
Plenary Lecture - Pierre De Meyts (Hagedorn Research Institute, Denmark)
12:30 Close of meeting and departure

Timetable

Monday 22 March 2010Tuesday 23 March 2010Wednesday 24 March 2010
15:10 - 18:10
Metabolism

15:10 - 18:10
Signalling

16:20 - 18:00
Disease

09:00 - 15:00
Metabolism

09:00 - 16:00
Disease

09:00 - 15:00
Signalling

09:00 - 10:20
Metabolism

09:00 - 10:20
Disease

09:00 - 10:20
Signalling


Metabolism

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee/tea break

17:00 - 18:00
Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks and its influence on genome organization
M Madan Babu - Early Career Researcher Award (University of Cambridge, UK)
19:00 - 21:00 Conference dinner

Systems analysis of metabolism 1

 

Monday 22 March 2010
12:30 - 14:00 Registration and lunch

14:00 - 14:10
Opening and Introduction
David Fell
14:10 - 15:10
Systems Biology in practice: modeling, and understanding regulation and control
Plenary Lecture - Hans Westerhoff (University of Manchester, UK)
15:10 - 15:50
Analyzing genome scale metabolic models
David Fell (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee/tea break

Systems analysis of metabolism 2

 

Monday 22 March 2010
16:20 - 17:00
Metabolic modelling and in silico predictions for bioprocess development in Streptomyces
Claudio Avignone-Rossa (University of Surrey, UK)
17:00 - 17:40
Predicting novel metabolic pathways in genome-scale networks
Stefan Schuster (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)
17:40 - 18:10
Why does yeast ferment? A flux balance analysis study
Selected oral communication - Evangelos Simeonidis (University of Manchester, UK)
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

Systems analysis of metabolism 3

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
09:00 - 09:40
Computational optimization and biological evolution: Similarities and differences
Igor Goryanin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Beyond in vitro kinetics - identification of data driven dynamic models of metabolic networks
Matthias Reuss (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
10:20 - 11:00
Using control analysis to understand the design principles of biological systems
Guy Brown (University of Cambridge, UK)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break

Systems analysis of metabolism 4

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
11:30 - 12:10
Systems biology of protein secretion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: mapping of global regulatory structure
Keith Tyo (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
12:10 - 12:50
Context and content of the yeast metabolic network
Steve Oliver (University of Cambridge, UK)
12:50 - 13:05 BJ Semantic

Systems analysis of metabolism 5

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
14:00 - 14:30
Modelling the peroxisomal carbon leak during lipid mobilization in Arabidopsis
Selected oral communication - Mark Hooks (Bangor University, UK)
14:30 - 15:00
Dynamic modelling of anaerobic yeast metabolism: involvement of salvage reactions in dynamics of energy metabolism
Selected oral communication - Maksim Zakhartsev (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
15:00 - 17:00 Poster Session

Systems analysis of metabolism 6

 

Wednesday 24 March 2010
09:00 - 10:20 Session 6

09:00 - 09:40
A stochastic approach of the electron transport in the mitochondrial respiratory chain
Jean-Pierre Mazat (University of Bordeaux, France)
09:40 - 10:20
Imaging metabolism using hyperpolarized 13C NMR
Kevin Brindle (University of Cambridge, UK)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee/tea break

10:50 - 11:30
Funding systems biology
Vicky Jackson (BBSRC, UK)
11:30 - 12:30
Structure-based systems biology of insulin and IGF-I receptor signal transduction
Plenary Lecture - Pierre De Meyts (Hagedorn Research Institute, Denmark)
12:30 Close of meeting and departure

Signalling

Monday 22 March 2010
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

Tuesday 23 March 2010
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee/tea break

17:00 - 18:00
Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks and its influence on genome organization
M Madan Babu - Early Career Researcher Award (University of Cambridge, UK)
19:00 - 21:00 Conference dinner

Signalling and control from a systems perspective and Systems approaches to health and disease 1

 

Monday 22 March 2010
15:10 - 15:50
Apoptosis pathways in human malignancies
Boris Zhivotovsky (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee/tea break

Signalling and control from a systems perspective 2

 

Monday 22 March 2010
16:20 - 17:00
Signalling in space and time
Boris Kholodenko (University College Dublin, Ireland)
17:00 - 17:40
System-level feedbacks control cell cycle progression
Bela Novak (University of Oxford, UK)
17:40 - 18:10
Sperm chemotaxis is tuned by spatio-temporal timing of calcium fluctuations
Selected oral communication - Adan Guerrero (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)

Signalling and control from a systems perspective 3

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
09:00 - 09:40
Understanding the complex circuit of the circadian clock
Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Growing pains: systems analysis of plant cell expansion
Malcolm Bennett (Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, UK)
10:20 - 11:00
Understanding root hair development using modelling and experiments
Claire Grierson (University of Bristol, UK)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break

Signalling and control from a systems perspective 4

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
11:30 - 12:10
Spatial and temporal information-coding and noise in the NF-κB system
Michael White (University of Liverpool, UK)
12:10 - 12:50
Coupling of transcription and splicing in yeast
Jean Beggs (University of Edinburgh, UK)
12:50 - 13:05 BJ Semantic

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Signalling and control from a systems perspective 5

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
14:00 - 14:30
Systems biochemistry approaches to vertebrate phototransduction: toward a molecular understanding of disease
Selected oral communication - Daniele Dell'Orco (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
14:30 - 15:00
Structure-based mathematical modeling of the insulin receptor kinetics and activation
Selected oral communication - Vladislav Kiselyov (Hagedorn Research Institute, Denmark)
15:00 - 17:00 Poster Session

Signalling and control from a systems perspective 6

 

Wednesday 24 March 2010
09:00 - 10:20 Session 6

09:00 - 09:40
Information integration in signalling networks
Edda Klipp (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
09:40 - 10:20
Feedback control architecture and the chemotaxis network in Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Mark Roberts (University of Oxford, UK)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee/tea break

Disease

Monday 22 March 2010
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

Tuesday 23 March 2010
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Systems approaches to health and disease 2

 

Monday 22 March 2010
16:20 - 17:00
Uncovering general design principles for information processing through signalling networks
Ursula Klingmüller (German Cancer Research Centre, Germany)
17:00 - 17:40
Mathematical modelling of Wnt/ beta-Catenin signalling
Jana Wolf (Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Germany)
17:40 - 18:00
Modelling the effects of inhibitors of guanine nucleotide synthesis – implications for studies of cellular differentiation pathways
Selected oral communication - Geraint Thomas (University College London, UK)

Systems approaches to health and disease 3

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
09:00 - 09:40
Systems biology of the TB bacillus: what does the pathogen eat?
Johnjoe McFadden (University of Surrey, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Systems analysis of bacterial glycomes
Brendan Wren (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
10:20 - 11:00
Systems Biology from microorganisms to human metabolic diseases
Barbara Bakker (University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break

Systems approaches to health and disease 4

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
11:30 - 12:10
Metabolic adaptations in multifactorial diseases as targets for novel therapies
Marta Cascante (University of Barcelona, Spain)
12:10 - 12:50
Systems-guided design of novel ErbB targeted therapeutics
Brian Harms (Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, USA)
12:50 - 13:05 BJ Semantic

Systems approaches to health and disease 5

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010
14:00 - 14:30
System analysis of the effect of various drugs on cardiac contraction energetics
Selected oral communication - Philippe Diolez (Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University, France)
14:30 - 15:00
Large errors in metabolic labelling pulse-chase experiments that are corrected by a mathematical model: an application to mitochondrial turnover measurements in vivo
Selected oral communication - Satomi Miwa (Newcastle University, UK)
15:00 - 17:00 Poster Session

15:00 - 16:00
Poster session
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee/tea break

17:00 - 18:00
Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks and its influence on genome organization
M Madan Babu - Early Career Researcher Award (University of Cambridge, UK)
19:00 - 21:00 Conference dinner

Systems approaches to health and disease 6

 

Wednesday 24 March 2010
09:00 - 10:20 Session 6

09:00 - 09:40
Glycomics of host-pathogen interactions
Anne Dell (Imperial College London, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Robustness and frailty: the systems biochemistry of longevity and ageing
Tom Kirkwood (Newcastle University, UK)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee/tea break