Systems Biology Theory Lunch

"Chalk" talks (whiteboard only, no slideware) on conceptual issues in biological systems. Open to all.
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Schedule of talks for 2012-13

HMS, Warren Alpert Building, Room 563, 12-2pm, on most fridays during term

21 Sep 2012  Oliver Smithies  Where do ideas come from?
28 Sep 2012  John Reinitz  POSTPONED TO 15 MARCH 2013
5 Oct 2012    SB PROG RETREAT
12 Oct 2012  Nikolai Slavov  Trade-offs of aerobic glycolysis
19 Oct 2012  Kenneth Jacobson  What cell shape oscillations tell us about cortical actin-microtubule interactions and amoeboid migration
26 Oct 2012  Samara Reck-Peterson  A programmable DNA origami shuttle to study the dynamics of motor protein ensembles
2 Nov 2012  Manolis Kellis  Functional genomics and epigenomics of complex disease
9 Nov 2012  David Klinke  In silico model-based inference: hypothesis testing in systems pharmacology
16 Nov 2012  Omer Dushek  Non-catalytic tyrosine-phosphorylated receptors
23 Nov 2012    THANKSGIVING
30 Nov 2012  Edo Airoldi  CANCELLED !!!
7 Dec 2012  Sahand Jamal Rahi  Biochemical FM radio receivers
14 Dec 2012  John Long  Do robots make good models of animals?
      THEORY LUNCH TAKES A BREAK FROM 21 DEC 2012 - 8 FEB 2013 INCLUSIVE
15 Feb 2013  Sean Eddy  Trying to identify distant sequence homology using predictive evolutionary probability models
22 Feb 2013  Daniel Milo  Costly yet affordable: accounting for excess in Nature
1 Mar 2013  Ilya Shmulevich  Information-theoretic perspectives on stability-responsiveness trade-offs in biological systems
8 Mar 2013  Debora Marks  Protein structure and stability deduced from the evolutionary sequence record
15 Mar 2013  John Reinitz  Regulation and error correction in the Drosophila blastoderm
22 Mar 2013  Eric Siggia  Phenotypic models of complex developmental paradigms
29 Mar 2013    EASTER
5 Apr 2013  Sean Rice  Reconciling the evolution of development with population biology
12 Apr 2013  John Stamatoyannopoulos  Encoding epigenesis
19 Apr 2013  Jason Lieb  POSTPONED TO 6 DEC 2013
26 Apr 2013  Thomas Kepler  Antibody somatic evolution in computational vaccine design
3 May 2013  Günter Wagner  POSTPONED
10 May 2013  Ilya Nemenman  Biological networks: does structure define function?
17 May 2013    SB DEPARTMENT RETREAT
24 May 2013    MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
31 May 2013  Barak Cohen  Why don't transcription factors get lost?
7 Jun 2013  Richard Murray  Analysis of biomolecular feedback systems: a control theoretic perspective
14 Jun 2013  Timothy Elston  The pheromone response of yeast: an attractive model for systems biology
21 Jun 2013  Paul François  "Adaptive sorting" for immune recognition
28 Jun 2013  Leor Weinberger  POSTPONED

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