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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Conference photo |
12:45 |
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12:45 LUNCH |
14:30 – 15:15 |
M. Leisner |
Competence development in Bacillus subtilis |
15:15 – 16:15 |
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Oral poster presentations I (2 min. each) |
16:15 – 16:45 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
16:45 – 17:30 |
K. Sneppen |
Small molecular networks |
17:30 – 18:30 |
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Oral poster presentations II (2 min. each) |
19:00 |
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DINNER |
from 20:00 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
16:30 – 17:15 |
L. Mirny |
How do proteins find and bind their sites on DNA? |
17:15 – 19:00 |
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Poster session II |
19:00 |
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DINNER |
from 20:00 |
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Poster session II – continued |
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
08:00 |
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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 |
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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 |
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LUNCH |
14:00 – 17:00 |
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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 |
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DINNER |
19:30 – 19:45 |
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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 |
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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 |
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COFFEE BREAK, Focal discussion |
11:30 – 12:15 |
E. Frey |
Bacterial Games - on the role of space and stochasticity in coevolutionary dynamics |
12:30 |
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LUNCH |
End of the seminar and departure