2nd Bat Sheva Workshop on

Global Information in Biological Systems:

The Emergence of Functional Organization

 

October 19-21, 2003

Hyatt Regency Dead Sea, Israel

 

 

 

 

S C H E D U L E

 

Sunday, October 19th

 

15:00

 

Check In / Registration & Reception 

 

Session A 

 

16:15

David Horn

Opening Remarks and Workshop Overview

16:30

Doron Lancet

Tutorial: Origin of Life: a systems view

17:30

Ron Shamir

Tutorial: Genetic Regulatory Networks

 

18:30

 

Free Time

20:30

 

Dinner

 


 

 Monday, October 20th

 

08:00

 

Breakfast

 

Session B – Genetic Networks I

Chair: Ron Shamir

 

09:00

Karen B. Avraham

Hereditary hearing loss: from genes to function

09:20

Benny Chor

Pattern discovery in gene expression data

09:40

Itamar Simon

ChIP arrays - a genomic approach for studying transcription regulation

10:00

Erez Braun / Naama Brenner

Adaptation of gene regulation in eukaryotes

10:20

Discussion

 

10:50

 

Coffee Break

 

Session C – Protein and RNA Networks

Chair: Erez Braun

 

11:10

Elisha Haas

The protein folding process: the link between information and action

11:30

Michal Linial

Constructing the scaffold of the protein space

11:50

Adi Kimchi

System level analysis of apoptotic networks- how can we approach it ?

12:10

Ron Unger

RNA control Mechanism

12:30

 

Discussion

13:00

 

Lunch

 

 

14:00

 

Free Hour

 


Session D – Dynamics and Complexity I

Chair: Sorin Solomon

 

15:00

Yoram Louzon

Localization effects in biological systems, from TF, through receptors to germinal center formation

15:20

Eshel Ben-Jacob

Looking for a Woozle in neuroactivity

15:40

Eytan Ruppin

Localization of function in metabolic networks

16:00

Irun R. Cohen

Reactive animation: Cognitive handle on biologic complexity

16:20

 

Discussion

16:50

 

Refreshments

 

 

17:00

 

Free Time

 

 

18:30

 

Dinner

20:30

 

Plenary Talk by  Hagai Netzer:

“Origin and spread of life viewed from an astrophysical perspective”

 

 


 

Tuesday, October 21st

 

08:00

 

Breakfast & Check out

 

Session E – Dynamics and Complexity II

Chair: Ron Meir

 

09:00

Lewi Stone

The spatiotemporal dynamics of epidemics in heterogeous population networks

09:20

Sorin Solomon

Globalization, Localization, Sustainability, Intermittence and Multiscale Emergence in Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems of the Lotka-Volterra-Eigen-Schuster type. Rigorous Theorems and Real Life Effects.

09:40

Isaac Meilijson

Learning to enhance evolution on rugged landscapes

10:00

David  Horn

Extraction of Motifs and Syntax from  Text

10:20

 

Discussion and Coffee Break

 

Session F – Genetic networks II

Chair: Benny Chor

 

11:20

Martin Kupiec

Analysis of complex genetic data in yeast

11:40

Yitzhak Pilpel

Computational Dissection of gene regulatory networks

12:00

Ron Shamir

Refined regulatory models and network inference via high level data integration

12:20

 

Discussion

13:00

 

Lunch