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 2 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 3 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 4