Systems Biology Theory Lunch

Schedule of talks for 2007-8

current schedule

HMS, Alpert Building, Room 563 at 12 noon, unless otherwise stated
further information from jeremy at hms.harvard.edu
NOTE NEW FEATURE  = movie

28 Sep 2007		Wallace Marshall		Self-organization and collective behavior in a system of biological self-propelled particles
5 Oct 2007		Radhika Nagpal		Collective synchronization, from networks of cells to computer networks
12 Oct 2007		Carolyn Talcott		Towards knowledge-based semantic integration of models
19 Oct 2007		Leonid Mirny		Physics of transcription factors: lessons from bacteria, thoughts about eukaryotes
26 Oct 2007		Caroline Colijn		Interpreting expression data metabolically: mycolic acid production in M. tuberculosis
2 Nov 2007		Saveez Saffarian		High resolution imaging: what does it take to go live?
9 Nov 2007		John Tyson		Switches and clocks in molecular cell biology
16 Nov 2007		Noam Shoresh		Can high biodiversity evolve in a uniform environment?
23 Nov 2007				THANKSGIVING
30 Nov 2007		Lew Cantley		Altered metabolism in cancer cells
7 Dec 2007		Evelyn Fox Keller		So, what's so special about biology?
14 Dec 2007		Ron Milo		Energy optimization and the design of photosynthesis
				THEORY LUNCH TAKES A BREAK FROM 21 DEC 07 - 1 FEB 08 INCLUSIVE
8 Feb 2008		Bruce Gomes		Is the pharmaceutical industry ready for systems biology?
15 Feb 2008		Arup Chakraborty		How T cells 'see' antigen
22 Feb 2008		Gerald Sussman		Robust design and biology
29 Feb 2008		Mark Alber		Multiscale approaches to biological modeling
7 Mar 2008		Markus Kollmann		Perfect robustness against non-genetic variations in bacterial signaling
14 Mar 2008		Franziska Michor		Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukemia
21 Mar 2008		Leor Weinberger		Transient-mediated decision-making in HIV-1 (or why bistability is unnecessary)
28 Mar 2008		Ben Simons		Farewell to the transit amplifying cell comparment
4 Apr 2008		David Miguez		Models for chimeric ligands and 1:2 ligand-receptor systems
25 Apr 2008		Nicholas Christakis		The spread of health phenomena in complex, longitudinally resolved social networks
2 May 2008				SB DEPARTMENT RETREAT
9 May 2008		Alexander van Oudenaarden		A systems engineering approach to osmo-adaptation
16 May 2008		Uri Alon		(I) The nurturing scientist & (II) perfect robustness in signal transduction
23 May 2008		Marc Lipsitch		Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria: understanding and trying to control its prevalence

THEORY LUNCH GOES INTO RECESS TILL SEPTEMBER - HAVE A GOOD SUMMER

current schedule