PROGRAM
The Second Annual Alpha Project Research Symposium
"Predicting the Quantitative Behavior of the Yeast Response to Mating Pheromone"
June 4, 2004
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8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration and Coffee

9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks: Welcome; Alpha Project history and overview
Roger Brent, President and Research Director
The Molecular Sciences Institute

9:15 am - 10:00 am KEYNOTE "Global mapping of the yeast genetic interaction network"
Charles Boone, Department of Medical Genetics & Microbiology
University of Toronto

10:00 am - 10:30 am "Progress toward a list of pathway specs"
Kirsten Benjamin
The Molecular Sciences Institute

10:30 am - 10:45 am Break

10:45 am - 11:15 am "Monod, natural language organizer and communications system"
David Soergel
The Molecular Sciences Institute

11:15 am - 12:00 pm "Noisy machines: In vivo biochemistry for genetic networks"
Michael Elowitz, Assistant Professor of Biology & Applied Physics
California Institute of Technology

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Break

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm "Mechanisms controlling cell-to-cell variation in pheromone response"
Alejandro Colman-Lerner
The Molecular Sciences Institute

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm "Grabbing quantitative information for single cells and what I have learned working with biologists"
Andrew Gordon
The Molecular Sciences Institute

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm "Quantifying the dynamics of downstream pathway events"
Richard Yu
The Molecular Sciences Institute

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm "Creation of tadpole methods to detect and count small numbers of molecules"
Ian Burbulis
The Molecular Sciences Institute

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm - 3:10 pm "A calculus for biology"
Jehoshua Bruck
Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems & Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm "Design of genetic systems"
Drew Endy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm "Finding new pathway connections and summary of where project stands"
Orna Resnekov, Alpha Project Manager & Assistant Research Director
The Molecular Sciences Institute

4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Challenges and closing thoughts
Roger Brent, President and Research Director
The Molecular Sciences Institute

Reception & Poster Session