PROGRAM
The Third Annual Alpha Project Research Symposium
"Predicting the Quantitative Behavior of the
Yeast Response to Mating Pheromone"
At the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
University of California - Berkeley
2621 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720
Thursday and Friday, June 16-17, 2005
Note: this schedule is subject to change.
Registration: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Symposium: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Friday, June 17, 2005 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Registration
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Opening Remarks
Roger Brent
President and Research Director
The Molecular Sciences Institute
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Keynote Speaker - Judea Pearl
Professor, Computer Science Department
University of California, Los Angeles
"Causal inference in biological science"
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm - 3:55 pm Alejandro Colman-Lerner (MSI)
"Regulated cell to cell variation during mating response"
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Andrew Gordon (MSI)
"Quantitative fluorescence measurements on living cells"
4:35 pm - 5:05 pm Kirsten Benjamin (MSI)
"Quantitative measurements and computational modeling of a
scaffolded MAP kinase cascade"
5:10 pm - 5:30 pm Kouichi Takahashi (MSI)
"Space in cellular signaling systems -- towards spatial modeling
of the alpha pathway"
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Reception & Poster Session
Upper Galleries
Friday, June 17th, 2005
9:00 am - 10:00 am Keynote Speaker - Gerry Sussman
Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT
"How people devise formalisms"
10:05 am - 10:35 am Marc Riedel (Caltech)
"Probabilistic analysis of chemical reactions"
10:40 am - 11:00 am Richard D. Smith (PNNL)
"Making quantitative and high throughput measurements of
the phosphoproteome"
11:05 am - 11:20 am Coffee Break
11:20 am - 12:15 am Karen Sachs (MIT)
"Probabilistic modeling of single cell data for elucidation of
signaling pathways"
12:20 am - 12:40 am Drew Endy (MIT)
"Towards a productive interaction between biology and engineering"
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm Concluding remarks
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch
