Tuesday, November 6
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston 02115
9:30am-5:00pm
Reception to follow
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9:30 AM | Introductory Remarks
George Q. Daley, Dean of Harvard Medical School
Galit Lahav, Chair of the Department of Systems Biology
Schedule
Exploratory mechanisms in biology
Pam Silver (Moderator)
10:05 AM | Kim Cooper (University of California, San Diego)
"What big feet you have!" The complex control of limb skeletal proportion
10:35 AM | Deborah Gordon (Stanford University)
The ecology of collective behavior
11:05 AM | Break
Dynamics of developmental systems
Sean Megason (Moderator)
11:45 AM | Angelike Stathopoulos (California Institute of Technology)
A developmental program truncates long transcripts to temporally regulate cell signaling
12:15 PM | Angela DePace (Harvard Medical School)
Precision and plasticity in animal transcription
12:45 PM | Lunch
How cells and organisms compute
Peter Sorger (Moderator)
1:40 PM | Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Senescent cells and the dynamics of aging
2:10 PM | Lea Goentoro (California Institute of Technology)
Weak linkage in signaling and regeneration
2:40 PM | Daniel Colón-Ramos (Yale University)
Building a brain: systematic examination of the logic of brain connectivity in C. elegans
3:10 PM | Break
Cell state decisions
Allon Klein (Moderator)
3:50 PM | Ben Simons (University of Cambridge)
Competition for fate determinants as a mechanism of stem cell homeostasis
4:20 PM | Johan Paulsson (Harvard Medical School)
Life-changing single-molecule events
Closing remarks
4:50 PM | Marc Kirschner