Modeling and Simulation of Biological Regulatory Processes

ECCB Satellite Meeting

October 1, 2003

Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

Hidde de Jong and Denis Thieffry

1. Subject and aim of the meeting

In the framework of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), we organize a satellite meeting on the modeling and simulation of biological regulatory processes. Although the focus will be on the mathematical and computational analysis of genetic regulatory networks, we also wish to establish links with related work on metabolic and signal transduction networks. The aim of the satellite meeting is, on the one hand, to provide a forum for computational biologists to discuss methods and computer tools available for the dynamical analysis of biological regulatory processes. On the other hand, we would like to bring together computational and experimental biologists in order to foster collaborations leading to useful applications of the methods and tools.

The satellite meeting has a duration of one day, immediately after the ECCB conference (October 1, 2003). It will take place at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris, in the Dussane lecture room (see below for access). From the submissions received, seven abstracts have been selected for a presentation of 20 minutes. Four invited presentations of 40 minutes and two plenary discussions of 30 minutes complete the program. The abstracts of the presentations will appear in the proceedings of the satellite meeting distributed to the registered participants.

2. Registration

If you wish to attend the satellite meeting, please send an e-mail to Hidde.de-Jong@inrialpes.fr. No registration fees are required. Because the number of participants is limited due to space restrictions, we recommend you to register as soon as possible.

3. Program

A preliminary version of the program is shown below. 

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-9:40

Welcoming speech

9:40-10:20

Modeling of cell cycle control in budding yeast - L. Calzone (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

10:20-10:40

Effects of stochasticity in models of the cell cycle: From quantized cycle times to noise-induced oscillations  - R. Steuer (Potsdam University)

10:40-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:40

Deterministic versus stochastic models for circadian rhythms - D. Gonze, J. Halloy, A. Goldbeter (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

11:40-12:00

Formal validation of models of genetic regulatory networks  -  G. Batt, H. de Jong (INRIA Rhône-Alpes), J. Geiselmann (Université Joseph Fourier), M. Page (INRIA Rhône-Alpes and Université Pierre Mendès France)

12:00-12:20

Temporal logics and biological regulatory networks  - G. Bernot (Université d'Evry), O. Roux (Ecole Centrale Nantes), C. Auberger, V. Bassano (Université d'Evry), F. Cassez (Ecole Centrale Nantes), J.-P. Comet, F. Delaplace, A. Richard (Université d'Evry), O. Roux (Ecole Centrale Nantes), F. Tahi (Université d'Evry)

12:20-12:40

Plenary discussion

12:40-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-14:40

Improving inference of genetic regulatory networks from time-course microarray data - E. van Someren (Delft University of Technology)

14:40-15:00

Bottom up or top down? Computational methods for determining complex biochemical reaction networks - E. Crampin (University of Oxford and University of Auckland), S. Schnell, P. McSharry (University of Oxford)

15:00-15:20

Hybrid concurrent constraint programming: A well-suited formalism for modelling alternative splicing regulation - D. Eveillard, A. Courtois, A. Bockmayr (LORIA and Université Henri Poincaré)

15:20-15:40

Coffee break

15:40-16:20

Control of proteolysis of RpoS, the master regulator of the general stress response in E.coli, by a dynamic switch mechanism based on multiple feedback - R. Hengge (Freie Universität Berlin)

16:20-16:40

Modelling and simulating the regulatory network specifying the Notch boundary between the dorsal and the ventral compartments of the wing imaginal disc-  A. González, C. Chaouiya, D. Thieffry (Université de la Méditerranée), L. Sánchez (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Madrid)

16:40-17:00

A network model for the mechanism controlling Th cell differentiation - L. Mendoza, M. de Francesco (Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute)

17:00-17:30

Plenary discussion and closing remarks

 

4. IMPG group meeting

The French IMPG thematic group devoted to gene networks modelling will meet on October 2, still at the ENS but in the room Favard (46 rue d'Ulm), from 9h30 to 12h30. The meeting will be followed by a lunch at a nearby "brasserie".

 

5. Location

Practical information about access to ENS and a map can be found at the URLs:

http://www.ens.fr/ecole/acces.html

http://www.ens.fr/ecole/plan.html

The Dussane room is in the green building 6 on the map.

 

6. Financial support

This workshop is part of the activities of the IMPG working group on Functional Bioinformatics of Genetic Regulatory Systems, coordinated by Bernard Jacq, Claude Jacq, and Denis Thieffry. Funded by the French Ministry of Research, the programme IMPG (for Informatique, Mathématique et Physique pour la Génomique) aims at promoting and developing interdisciplinary research at the interface of computer science, mathematics, physics, and biology. It is currently composed of a dozen working groups covering a variety of topics in bioinformatics.

Claude Jacq offers us hospitality at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris.



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