435th WE Heraeus Seminar: Physics of Biological Function - Scientific Program
Sunday, 21 June 2009
| 17:00 – 21:00 | Registration |
| from 18:30 | Buffet Supper / Informal get together |
Monday, 22 June 2009
| 07:45 | BREAKFAST | |
| 08:40 – 08:45 | U. Gerland, M. Lässig | Welcome and opening |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | E. Dreisigacker | About the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | D. Bray | Control of cellular behaviour: insights from bacterial chemotaxis |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | V. Sourjik | Noise, robustness and memory in bacterial chemotaxis |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | M. Kollmann | Evolutionary driving forces that shaped the architecture of bacterial signaling pathways |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | M. Vergassola | Biological strategies of motility |
| 12:30 | Conference photo | |
| 12:45 | 12:45 LUNCH | |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | M. Leisner | Competence development in Bacillus subtilis |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Oral poster presentations I (2 min. each) | |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | K. Sneppen | Small molecular networks |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Oral poster presentations II (2 min. each) | |
| 19:00 | DINNER | |
| from 20:00 | Poster session I, followed by a social evening at the invitation of the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftungin the “Bürgerstube” at the Physikzentrum |
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
| 08:00 | BREAKFAST | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | K. Kruse | Dynamics of Min proteins in vivo and in vitro |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | M. Howard | How do bacteria segregate low copy number plasmids? |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | M. Scott | Growth laws and mechanisms of global control in bacteria |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | P. Lenz | Quantitative studies of nitrogen assimilation in E. coli: from molecules to physiology |
| 12:45 | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | P.R. Ten Wolde | Why walking slower can make you respond faster |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | J. Rädler | Dynamics and variance of microbial response and its control by gene regulatory networks |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | L. Mirny | How do proteins find and bind their sites on DNA? |
| 17:15 – 19:00 | Poster session II | |
| 19:00 | DINNER | |
| from 20:00 | Poster session II – continued |
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
| 08:00 | BREAKFAST | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | S. Maerkl | Characterizing transcription factor biophysics with microfluidic devices |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | V. Mustonen | From fitness landscapes to seascapes: non- equilibrium dynamics of selection and adaptation |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | R. Bundschuh | An evolutionary hypothesis and computational identification of insertional RNA editing sites |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | J. Berg | Modelling gene expression dynamics |
| 12:45 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 – 17:00 | Excursion (leisurely hike in the vicinity) | |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | S. Tans | The evolution of gene regulation in synthetic microbial systems |
| 17:45 – 18:30 | I. Matic | Modulation of mutation rates in bacteria |
| 18:30 | DINNER | |
| 19:30 – 19:45 | Presentation of the best poster awards | |
| 19:45 – 20:30 | E. van Nimwegen | Laws of prokaryotic genome evolution |
| 20:30 – 21:15 | O. Hallatschek | Life on the edge: gene surfing in microorganisms |
Thursday, 25 June 2009
| 08:00 | BREAKFAST | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | F. Jülicher | Dynamic organization of epithelia |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | L. Hufnagel | Growth regulation during development: mechanical interactions |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK, Focal discussion | |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | E. Frey | Bacterial Games - on the role of space and stochasticity in coevolutionary dynamics |
| 12:30 | LUNCH |
End of the seminar and departure