3/21/2003
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Saturday, March 22

3:00PM - 7:00PM Registration Olmsted Lobby

7:00PM - 9:00PM Opening Reception (Sponsored by Proctor and Gamble) Ballroom

Sunday, March 23

7:00AM - 8:30AM Continental Breakfast Music Room
8:45AM Ballroom
Opening Remarks
Bret Peterson, NCRR

9:00AM - 10:00AM Ballroom

Plenary Lecture
Alfred Gilman, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center "Dissecting cellular signaling systems"
10:00AM - 10:30AM Break (Sponsored by Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.)

10:30AM - 12:00PM Session I, Signaling Networks I Ballroom

10:30AM
Adam Arkin, University of California, Berkeley
"Playing practical games with bacteria and viruses. Exploring the molecular mechanisms behind clever cellular stratagems."
11:00AM
Douglas Lauffenberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Cue / Signal / Response Analysis of Cell Functional Behavior"
11:30AM
Steven Wiley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
"A quantitative approach for understanding the role of receptor and ligand dynamics in cell signaling"

12:00PM - 2:00PM Lunch Music Room

2:00PM - 5:00PM Overview of Software for Computational Cell Biology Ballroom
Short presentations on software that will be demonstrated in workshops on Monday and Tuesday.

5:00PM - 7:00PM Dinner Break

7:00PM - 9:30PM Session II Calcium Signaling Ballroom

7:00PM
Erwin Neher, Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany
“Modeling neurotransmitter release and short-term plasticity”
7:30PM
Michael Sanderson, University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Calcium waves and oscillations: models and functions”
8:00 Break (Sponsored by Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.)
8:30PM
Raimond Winslow, Johns Hopkins University
"Relating “Microscopic” Properties of Calcium-Induced Calcium-Release to “Macroscopic” Function of the Ventricular Myocyte"
9:00PM
Peter Hunter, University of Aukland
“The IUPS Physiome Project”
9:30PM - 10:30PM Social Hour (Sponsored by Carl Zeiss, Inc.) Music Room

Monday, March 24

7:00AM - 8:30AM Continental Breakfast Music Room

9:00AM - 12:00PM Session III Cell Motility and Trafficking Ballroom

9:00AM
Marie France-Carlier, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York
“A biomimetic motility assay provides insight into the mechanism of actin-based motility”
9:30AM
Alan Rick Horwitz, University of Virginia
“Quantifying adhesive dynamics”
10:00AM
Francois Nedelec, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
“Studying the mitotic spindle bit by bit”
10:30AM Break (Sponsored by Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.)
11:00AM
Robert Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Computing single mRNA movements in single cells”
11:30AM
Raymond Goldstein, University of Arizona
TBA

12:00PM - 1:30PM Lunch Music Room

1:30 - 3:00PM Software Workshops Olmstead: Tanglewood Room, Greylock Room and Foyer
Copasi (Stefan Hoops, Virginia Polytechnical Institute)
MCell and DReAMM (Joel Stiles, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
SigPath (Fabien Campagne, Ravi Iyengar and Harel Weinstein, Mount Sinai Sch. of Med.)
Virtual Cell (Jim Schaff and Ion Moraru, University of Connecticut Health Center)

3:00 - 5:00PM Poster Session Berkshire Room

5:00PM - 7:00PM Dinner Break

7:00PM - 9:30PM Session IV Signalling Networks II Ballroom

7:00PM
Tamas Balla, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH
“Live cell imaging of inositol lipids with GFP-fused protein domains”
7:30PM
Susana Neves, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Regulation of the Dynamics of Intracellular Microdomains of Signaling Molecules in Neurons”
8:00 Break (Sponsored by Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.)
8:30PM
Upinder Singh Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
“Honey I shrunk the cell: signaling networks at ever-decreasing volumes”
9:00PM
Robert Sinkovits, University of California, San Diego
“Reconstruction of cellular networks from experimental data and legacy knowledge”
9:30PM - 10: 30PM Social Hour (Sponsored by Physiome Sciences) Music Room

Tuesday, March 25

7:00AM - 8:30AM Continental Breakfast Music Room

9:00AM-12:00PM Session V Cellular Regulation Ballroom

9:00AM

Ian Macara, University of Virginia Health Sciences
"Modeling the transport of proteins in and out of the cell nucleus"

9:30AM

Mark Terasaki, University of Connecticut Health Center
“Cyclin aggregation and robustness of bio-switching - Part I"
10:00AM
Boris Slepchenko, University of Connecticut Health Center
“Cyclin aggregation and robustness of bio-switching - Part II"
10:30AM Break (Sponsored by Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.)
11:00AM
Thomas Misteli, National Cancer Institute, NIH
“Computational cell biology of an RNA polymerase complex in living cells - ParI"
11:30AM
Robert Phair, BioInformatics Services
“Computational cell biology of an RNA polymerase complex in living cells - Part II”
12:00PM - 1:30PM Lunch Music Room

1:30PM - 3:00PM Software Workshops Olmstead: Tanglewood Room, Greylock Room and Foyer
Systems Biology Workbench (Michael Hucka, California Inst. of Technology)
JDesigner and Jarnac (Herbert Sauro, Keck Graduate Institute)
Pathway Prism (Peter Brooks and Andrew LeBeau, Physiome Sciences)
Process DB (Robert Phair and Ann Chasson, Integrative Bioinformatics, Inc.)

3:00PM - 5:00PM Poster Session Berkshire Room

6:00PM - 7:00PM Cocktail Hour (Sponsored by IBM) Music Room

7:00PM Ballroom
Ending Banquet (Sponsored by IBM and NRCAM)
Keynote Presentation
Garrett Odell, University of Washington

Wednesday, March 26

7:00 - 9:00AM Continental Breakfast Music Room

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