International Workshop on Quantitative Biology 2012

Updated: 2012-11-14: IWQB2012 Abstract Booklet and Flyer are available for download.

Opening Remarks (9:50 ~ 10:00)

Session I. Theories and analyses for exploring mesocopic world
10:00 - 11:30
chair: Yoshiyuki Arai & Rinshi Kasai

    [1] Prof. Madan Rao (National Center for Biological Sciences, India)
   

    [2] Dr. Chun-Biu Li (Hokkaido University, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Japan)

    Title: "Modeling Single Molecule Kinetics Objectively from Dwell-time time series"  

    [3] Dr. Ziya Kalay (Kyoto University, iCeMS, Japan)

    Title: "Molecular encounters at the mesoscale: effects of low numbers and confinement"  

Coffee Break (11:30 - 11:50)

Session II. Power of Engineering in New Facets of Biology
11:50 - 12:50
chair: Jason Shoemaker & Herve Guillou

    [1] Dr. Doug Murray (Keio University, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Japan)
   

    [2] Dr. Yannick Rondelez (University of Tokyo & LIMMS/CNRS-IIS, Japan & France)

    Title: "In vitro models of gene regulatory networks" 

Poster Session & Lunch Break (12:50 - 14:50)

Session III. Data-driven Estimation of Model Parameters
("data assimilation method" project)
14:50 - 16:10

chair: Akatsuki Kimura

    [1] Dr. Hiromichi Nagao (Insitute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
    Title: "Foundation of Data Assimilation and Its Application to Intracellular Fluid Dynamics"

    [2] Dr. Antonio Celani (Institut Pasteur, France)
    Title: "Noninvasive inference of the molecular chemotactic response using bacterial trajectories"

    [3] Dr. Timothy J. Stasevich (Osaka University, Japan)
    Title: "Mathematical modeling of the RNA polymerase II transcription cycle based on live-cell imaging of
            post-translational modifications"

Coffee Break (16:10 - 16:30)

Session IV. Advances in probing cytoskeletal and chromosomal dynamics in dividing cells
16:30 - 18:30
chair: Viji Mythily Draviam & Akira Funahashi

    [1] Prof. Tomoyuki Tanaka (University of Dundee, Cell and Molecular Biology, UK)
    Title: "Chromosome acrobatics on the mitotic spindle"

    [2] Prof. Yoshinori Watanabe (University of Tokyo, Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Japan)
     Title: "Tension across centromeres refines centromeric protection by shugoshin"

    [3] Dr. Akatsuki Kimura (National Institute of Genetics, Cell Architecture Laboratory, Japan)

    Title: "Size regulation of mitotic spindle in the C. elegans embryo"   

    [4] Dr. Viji M Draviam (the University of Cambridge, Department of Genetics, UK)  

    Title: "Role of microtubule ends in defining the plane of cell division and accuracy of chromosome segregation"  

Closing Remarks (18:30 ~ 18:40)

Free Discussion at the Poster Session Room (18:40 - 20:00)

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