5th Workshop on Computation of Biochemical Pathways
and Genetic Networks

A BioSim Event

BIOQUANT
Heidelberg
September 22-23, 2008




Program


Monday, 22nd

08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and Organisatorial Information

09:15 - 12:15 Session I: Model Merging


09:15 - 10:00 Model Merging with SemanticsSBML (Wolfram Liebermeister)
10:00 - 10:45 Proper Modeling and Systematic Integration of Signaling Pathways (Ron Pinter)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 Cytoview: A Cell Modeling Framework (Nagasuma Chandra)
12:00 - 12:15 General discussion of session

12:15-14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 16:30 Session II: Model Identification


14:00 - 14:45 Some Perspectives on Model Identification (Dag Wedelin)
14:45 - 15:30 A Simplified Method for Power-Law Modeling of Metabolic Pathways from Time-Course Data and Steady-State Flux Profiles (Masahiro Sugimoto)
15:30 -16:00 Coffee break
16:00 -16:45 Inference of Biochemical Network Models in S-System Using Multiobjective Optimization Approach (Feng-Sheng Wang)
16:45 - 17:30 General discussion of the session

17:30 - 18:30 Poster session


Workshop dinner


Tuesday, 23rd


09:00 - 12:00 Session III: Analysis of Stochastic Systems


09:00 - 09:45 How Cell Signaling Can Function Reliably Despite Diffusion and Low Molecule Number (Maciej Dobrzynski)
09:45 - 10:30 The Stiffness in Discrete Stochastic Simulation of Chemically Reacting Systems (Yang Cao)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Flows and Switches: Biology as Computation (Sean Sedwards)
11:45 - 12:00 General discussion of session

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 17:00 Session IV: New Methods in Nonlinear Dynamics


14:00 - 14:45 Why High-Dimensional Biological Networks Seem to Be Stable? Reflection on Stochasticity of Dynamically Unstable Nonlinear Systems (Simon Rosenfeld)
14:45 - 15:30 Towards Large-Scale Models of Cellular Metabolism (Ralf Steuer)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 Reaction Systems, Graph Theory and Dynamical Networks (Markus Kirkilionis)
16:45 - 17:00 General discussion of session

17:00 End of workshop