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Thursday, 3rd June

12:30 Opening and Welcome Addresses

• State Secretary Helge Braun, Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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• Vice Rector Heiner Schanz - University Freiburg
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• Jens Timmer - University Freiburg
  • Opening Speech
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• Adriano Henney - Virtual Liver Network
  • Virtual Liver
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13:30 Keynote

• Denis Noble - University of Oxford, UK:
  • Principles of systems biology and their application to cells
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14:15 New approaches and cutting edge technologies

• Denis Thieffry - Université de la Méditerranée, France:
  • Diversity and plasticity of t-helper cell types predicted from regulatory network modelling
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• William Senapedis - Harvard Medical School, USA:
  • A nuclear localization switchable davice reveals a regulatory network
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• Andre Levchenko - Johns Hopkins University, USA:
  • Understanding the limits of Information processing in signaling pathways through combination of modeling and experimentation
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• Andrius Serva – BioQuant, Germany:
  • Functional analysis of microRNAs as regulators of secretory membrane trafficking
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• Jan Hasenauer – University of Stuttgart, Germany:
  • Single cells vs. cell populations - From a binary decision to a continuous response
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• Martin Fussenegger - ETH Zurich, Switzerland:
  • Mammalian synthetic biology: from tools to therapies
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• Forest M. White - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA:
  • Biological insights from quantitative analysis of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling networks
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18.00 Excursion by historic train to a vineyard in the Kaiserstuhl region

Friday, 4th June

9:00 Signaling

• H. Steven Wiley - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA:
  • Reconstructing Signaling Networks by Integrating Quantitative Proteomic and Genomic Data
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• Joseph Zhou – Technical University Dresden, Germany:
  • Predicting pancreas cell fate decisions and reprogramming with a hierarchical multi-attractor model
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• Jason M. Haugh - North Carolina State University, USA:
  • Dynamic Regulation of Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Networks
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• Tilo Beyer – Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany:
  • Integrating signals from T-cell receptors and the Interleukin-2 receptor
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• Michael Yaffe - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA:
  • Systems Biology of the DNA Damage Response: Implications for Rational Design of Cancer Therapy
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• Pernette Verschure - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
  • Epigenetic gene regulation of the eukaryotic genome: Systems Biology approaches using synthetic cell systems
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• Michael White - University of Liverpool, UK:
  • Spatial and temporal information encoding by the NF-?B
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• Verena Becker – German Cancer Research Center, Germany:
  • Covering a broad dynamic range - information processing at the Erythropoietin receptor level
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• Carsten Carlberg - Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg:
  • Systems Biology of Nuclear Receptors: The Impact of Transcriptional Cycling
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14:00 MTZ Awards

• M. & T. Zimmermann - MTZ Foundation
  • Introduction of MTZ Foundation
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• Stefan Legewie - DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
  • Transcription Feedback Regulation of Signal Transduction
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• Thomas Maiwald - Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Dynamical Modeling of Biological Systems
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• Edda G. Schulz - Institut Curie, Paris, France:
  • Two positive feedback loops control effector function and memory induction in type 1 T-helper lymphocytes
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• M. & T. Zimmermann, S. Neumann - MTZ Foundation
  • MTZ Award Ceremony
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15:30 Metabolism

• Hermann-Georg Holzhütter - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany:
  • Mathematical Modelling of Liver Metabolism
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• Christian A. Tiemann - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands:
  • A computational model of hepatic lipid metabolism: identifying persistent behavior
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• Damjana Rozman - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia:
  • The cross-talk of the hepatic cholesterol and drug metabolism transcriptome
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• Gunnar Cedersund - Linköping University, Sweden:
  • Combined top-down and bottom-up modelling provides internally consistent explanations of whole-body glucose homeostasis through the identification and elimination of data inconsistencies and missing regulations
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• Deok-Sun Lee - Inha University, Korea:
  • Networking Metabolites, Diseases and Drugs
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17:30 Poster Session I

20.00 Conference dinner at Schlossbergrestaurant Dattler

Saturday, 5th June

9:00 Biomedicine

• Walter Kolch - University College Dublin, Ireland:
  • Systems properties of the ERK pathway as negative feedback amplifier
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• Niels Grabe - BioQuant, Germany:
  • Quantification of Cell Streams in Epidermal Wound Healing using a 3D in vitro Culture Model of Human Skin and whole-slide imaging
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• Nils Bluethgen – Charité – Universitätsmedzin Berlin, Germany:
  • How do cancer cells escape from targeted intervention?
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• Lars Kaderali - BioQuant, Germany:
  • Systems biology of hepatitis C virus replication
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11:00 Whole Body Models

• Claudio Cobelli - University of Padova, Italy
  • Minimal and Maximal Models of Glucose Metabolism in Health and Diabetes
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• Stefan Hoehme - University of Leipzig, Germany:
  • Cell alignment along microvessels as order principle to restore tissue architecture during liver regeneration: From experiment to virtual tissues and back
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• Jörg Lippert - Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Germany:
  • Applying Computational Systems Biology to Pharmaceutical R&D
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• Jens Reich - MDC Berlin, Germany:
  • Iron Regulation in the intact Organism - Kinetic Description of the Pathway Network
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12:45 Poster Session II

15:00 Industry

• Birgit Schöberl - Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA:
  • Applying engineering principles to develop novel therapies
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• Christopher Taylor - AstraZeneca, UK:
  • Applying Systems Biology in Drug Discovery
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• Richard Ho - Entelos, Inc., USA:
  • DILI –sim: A Systems Model of the Liver Allowing Perturbations by Xenobiotics in Multiple Species
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• Sean Ekins - Collaborations in Chemistry, Inc., USA:
  • Toxicity Pathways and Models: Mining for potential off-target effects
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17:15 End of Conference

• Jens Timmer - University Freiburg, Germany:
  • Closing Speech
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