CONFERENCE ON
„FUTURE OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY“
21-23 SEPTEMBER, 2009, BERLIN/POTSDAM
PROGRAMME
All talks 25 minutes
September 21 (Monday)
Session 1
GENOMIC EVOLUTION
CHAIR: Martin VINGRON
14:00 – 14:25
“USING GENOMIC PHYLOSTRATIGRAPHY TO TRACE MACROEVOLUTIONARY
TRANSITIONS”
Diethard TAUTZ 1
MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen
14:25 – 14:50
“TOWARDS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNCTIONAL GENETIC VARIANTS
IN HUMANS – OUR CURRENT APPROACHES AND PROGRESS”
TANG Kun 2
PICB, Shanghai
14:50 – 15:15
“GENETIC STRUCTURE OF ASIAN POPULATIONS: A GENOMEWIDE ANALYSIS”
LI Jin 3
PICB/Fudan University, Shanghai
15:15 – 15:40
“ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION IN DROSOPHILA AND HUMANS”
LI Haipeng 4
PICB, Shanghai
15:40 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
Session 2
GENOME REGULATION
CHAIR: JIN Li
16:00 – 16:25
“INVESTIGATING VARIATION IN THE TRANSCRIPTOME AMONG HUMAN POPULATIONS”
Mark STONEKING 5
MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
16:25 – 16:50
“TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGING”
Philipp KAITOVICH 6
PICB, Shanghai
16:50 – 17:15
“GENOMIC APPROACHES TO CIRCADIAN RHYTHM, SLEEP, AND
HIBERNATION”
YAN Jun 7
PICB, Shanghai
17:15 – 17:40
“SYSTEMS PHYSIOLOGY: NAVIGATION THROUGH METABOLISM IN 3 DIMENSIONS”
Gregor EICHELE 8
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen
19:00
DINNER
September 22 (Tuesday)
Session 2
GENOME REGULATION
CHAIR: Klaus GERWERT
09:00 – 09.25
“SOCIAL JET LAG AND SHIFT-WORK: NEW INSIGHT INTO THE HUMAN CIRCADIAN SYSTEM”
Eduardo MENDOZA / Maria Eliza RUIZ-AGUILA 9
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich/University of the Philippines, Manila
Session 3
NETWORKS
09.25 – 09:50
“GRAPHICAL MODELS AND NETWORK ROBUSTNESS”
Nihat AY 10
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
09:50 – 10:15
“CAN WE COMPUTE CHANCE AND NECESSITY IN EVOLUTION?”
Michael LAESSIG 11
University of Cologne
10:15 – 10:40
“CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MATHEMATICS TO DEVELOP A
SYSTEMS MODEL OF PLANT PRIMARY METABOLISM AND ITS REGULATION”
ZHU Xinguang 12
PICB, Shanghai
10:40 – 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Andreas DRESS
11:00 – 11:25
“THE HUMAN TOPONOME PROJECT: TRANSLATING THE CELLULAR PROTEIN
NETWORK CODE INTO EFFICIENT THERAPIES”
Walter SCHUBERT 13
University of Magdeburg
11:25 – 11:50
“KINETIC MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR RULE-BASED BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS”
YANG Jin 14
PICB, Shanghai
11:50 – 12:15
“CONTEXT-SPECIFIC BLAST DETECTS TWICE AS MANY HOMOLOGOUS
PROTEINS AS BLAST2”
Johannes SOEDING 15
Gene Center, Munich
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH
Session 4
PROTEINS: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
CHAIR: Walter THIEL
14:00 – 14:25
“PROTEINS IN ACTION: MONITORED BY TR(TIME_RESOLVED) FTIR SPECTROSCOPY
AND ANALYSED BY QM/MM SIMULATIONS”
Klaus GERWERT 17
Ruhr University, Bochum
14:25 – 14:50
"PROTEINS UNDER STRAIN: HOW FORCE PROPAGATES THROUGH
MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURES”
Frauke GRÄTER 18
PICB, Shanghai
14:50 – 15:15
“COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSES OF ENERGY AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTIONS INVOLVING
BIOMOLECULES AT MULTIPLE SCALES
CUI Qiang 19
University of Wisconsin
15:15 – 15:35
COFFEE BREAK
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CHAIR: Philipp KHAITOVICH
15:35 -16:00
“THEORETICAL STUDIES OF ENZYMATIC REACTIONS”
Walter THIEL 20
MPI for Coal Research, Muelheim a.d. Ruhr
16:00 – 16:25
“TOPOLOGICAL ALIGNMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN COMPUTATIONAL
BIOIMAGING”
Axel MOSIG 21
PICB, Shanghai
Session 5
PHYLOGENOMICS
16:25 – 16:50
“PREDICTING RECOMBINATIONS IN VIRAL GENOMES WITH jpHMM”
Burkhard MORGENSTERN 23
University of Goettingen
16:50 – 17:15
“TOWARDS THE UNDERSTANDING OF TRANSCRIPTOME COMPLEXITY AND
PLASTICITY”
Gunnar RAETSCH 24
Friedrich Miescher Lab, Tuebingen
19:00
DINNER
September 23 (Wednesday)
Session 6
COMPARATIVE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS
CHAIR: Burkhard MORGENSTERN
09.00 – 09:25
„FROM THE BIOINFORMATICS OF INDIVIDUAL GENES TO A
SYSTEMS BIOLOGY-DRIVEN PERSONALIZED MEDICINE“
Edgar WINGENDER 25
University of Goettingen
09:25 – 09:50
“A TOPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO TREE RECONSTRUCTION”
Andreas DRESS 26
PICB, Shanghai
09:50 – 10:15
“EVOLUTIONARY SIGNATURES OF MUTAGENIC PROCESSES
ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSCRIPTION”
Peter ARNDT 27
MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
10:15 – 10:40
“QUARTET-BASED METHODS TO CONSTRUCT PHYLOGENIC NETWORKS”
Stefan GRUENEWALD 28
PICB, Shanghai
10:40 – 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Axel MOSIG
11:00 – 11:25
“EVOLUTION TREE CONSTRUCTION AND THE PRINCIPLE OF STRONG CAUSALITY”
Ingo RECHENBERG 29
TU Berlin
11:25 – 11:50
“TAXONOMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF METAGENOME DATASETS”
Daniel HUSON 30
University of Tuebingen
Session 7
RNA EVOLUTION
11:50 – 12:15
“FROM COMBINATORICS TO RNA AN BACK”
Christian REIDYS 31
Nankai University
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12:15 – 12:40
“HOW TO FIND NON-STRUCTURED ncRNAs BY COMPARATIVE GENOMICS”
Peter STADLER 32
University of Leipzig
12:40 – 13:00
“METABOLIC AND AUTOIMMUNE SYNDROMES AS CASE TEST DISEASES FOR THE
APPLICATION OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY TO ACCELERATE APPLICATIONS IN
HEALTHCARE”
Christine NARDINI 33
PICB Shanghai
13:00 – 14:00
LUNCH/FINIS
Location of Conference:
21.09.2009
Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie
der Wissenschaften
Jägerstrasse 22/23
10117 Berlin
Tel. ++49-30 20370-0
Fax. ++49-30-20370-600
22./23.09.2009
NH Hotel Voltaire Potsdam
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 88
14467 Potsdam
Tel. ++49-331-2317-0
Fax. ++49-331-2317-100
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