Program

Wednesday, December 3rd 2008

7:30 - 8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 H.E. Pierre Vimont (Ambassador of France to the USA) Welcome address

8:15 - 8:30 Marc Vidal (CCSB, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA) Introductory Address

8:30 - 9:00 Marc Vidal Interactome networks

9:00 - 9:30 Albert Goldbeter (Université libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM) Modeling the circadian clock: From molecular mechanism to physiological disorders

9:30 - 10:00 François Fages (INRIA, FRANCE) A logical paradigm for systems biology applied to modeling tool design

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 James Collins (Boston University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, USA) Engineering Gene Networks: Integrating
Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology

11:00 - 11:30 Suzanne Gaudet (Harvard Medical School, USA) Cell-to-cell variability and the control of ligand-induced cell death

11:30 - 12:00 Galit Lahav DYNAMICS OF THE P53 SIGNALING PATHWAY

12:00 - 12:30 Laszlo Barabasi (University of Notre-Dame & Harvard Medical School, USA) Network Medicine: From the Human Diseasome to Comorbodity Patterns

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 13:45 Laurent Bochereau (Delegation of the European Commission in Washington, USA)

13:45 - 14:15 Miroslav Radman (INSERM Necker and Académie des Sciences, FRANCE)

14:15 - 14:45 Hans Westerhoff (Free University Amsterdam,THE NETHERLANDS) Synthetic Biology: the Engineering of Self-sustaining systems

14:45 - 15:15 Hidde de Jong (INRIA, FRANCE) Validation of qualitative models of genetic regulatory networks by model checking: analysis of the nutritional stress response in Escherichia coli

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:15 John Tyson (Virginia Tech, USA) From Molecular Networks to Cell Physiology

16:15 - 17:15 Closing panel on synthetic biology with:

Alfonso Jaramillo (CNRS Ecole Polytechnique & Genopole Evry, FRANCE) Automatic design in Synthetic Biology

Franck Molina (CNRS Sysdiag Montpellier, FRANCE)

Kristala L. Jones Prather (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Rational design of microbial chemical factories