Welcome to the q-bio Summer School and Conference!

Invited Talks

From Q-bio
the annual conference dedicated to
advancing quantitative understanding of cellular regulation
  • Dates: August 5-8, 2015
  • Place: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
  • Abstract Submission: closed.


Please see the program overview for the full program.

Wednesday, August 5

19:35-20:30, John Tyson, Virginia Tech, Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology

Thursday, August 6

9:00-9:30 Johan Elf, Uppsala University, SMeagol Simulated Microscopy - a tool against inverse crimes
9:50-10:20 Hang Lu, Georgia Tech, Automation and Microfluidic Tools for Q-Bio
11:10-11:40 Oskar Hallatschek, UC Berkeley, Microbes Under Pressure
14:30-15:00 Alejandro Colman-Lerner, University of Buenos Aires, Use of information far from steady-state by signal transduction systems.

Friday, August 7

9:00-9:30 Arup Chakraborty, MIT, How to hit HIV where it hurts
9:50-10:20 John Hancock, UT Health Center, Ras nanoclusters: lipid-based assemblies for signal processing
11:10-11:40 Tamar Schlick, NYU, Simulating Large-Scale Chromatin Fibers
14:30-15:00 Martin Howard, John Innes Center, How to control the size of a fission yeast cell
16:30-17:00 Li Zhaoping, UCL, A theory of the primary visual cortex, its zero-parameter quantitative prediction, and its experimental tests

Saturday, August 8

9:00-9:30 Karsten Weis, ETH, Global Changes In Chromosome Conformation In Budding Yeast In Different Physiological Conditions
11:00-11:30 Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern, Discovery and Analysis of Novel Biochemical Transformations
14:30-15:00 Carla Finkielstein, Virginia Tech, A systems-driven experimental approach reveals the complex regulatory distribution of p53 by circadian factors
16:30-17:00 Jeff Hasty, UCSD, Engineered Gene Circuits: From Clocks and Biopixels to Stealth Delivery
19:50-20:45 Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania, Old and new news about single-photon sensitivity in human vision