San Diego program

Tracks offered at the San Diego campus

• QB5, Synthetic Biology
• QB6, Computational Neuroscience

Project descriptions

QB5

TBA

QB6

TBA

Detailed schedule

Welcome

July 22, 2012 - Sunday

Arrival at UCSD campus, La Jolla, CA

Opening Reception and Orientation, 5-9 PM

Jeff Hasty. Introduction to Synthetic Biology Program

Misha Rabinovich. Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Program

Week 1

This week features three lectures per day that will be attended by all students. Each lecture consists of two 40-minute periods with a short break between. There may be a track-specific talk and/or hands-on session and project work in the afternoon.

July 23, 2012 - Monday

09:00 - 10:25 Lecture 1, Jeff Hasty, Deterministic modeling of Gene Circuits

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 2, Jeff Hasty, Deterministic modeling of Gene Circuits

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:25 Lecture 3, Kurt Wiesenfeld

15:30 - 17:00 XPP-AUTO Basics - Will Mather/Irma Tristán

17:30 Dinner

July 24, 2012 - Tuesday

09:00 - 10:25 Lecture 4, Kurt Wiesenfeld

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 5, Kurt Wiesenfeld

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:25 Lecture 6, Will Mather. Delays in gene regulation

15:30 - 17:00 Projects session with all lecturers

17:30 Dinner

July 25, 2012 - Wednesday

09:00 - 10:25 Lecture 7, Lev Tsimring, Stochastic effect in Gene Regulation

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 8, Lev Tsimring, Stochastic effects in Gene Regulation

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:25 Lecture 9, Misha Rabinovich, Low-Dimensional Cognitive Dynamics

15:30 - 17:00 Dizzy basics - Will Mather/Irma Tristán

17:30 Dinner

July 26, 2012 - Thursday

09:00 - 10:25 Lecture 10, Attila Szucs, Single-neuron modeling

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 11, Attila Szucs, Single-neuron modeling

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:25 Lecture 12, Ron Weiss

15:30 - 17:00 Synthetic Biology Lab tour

17:30 Dinner

July 27, 2012 - Friday

09:00 - 10:25 Lecture 13, Ron Weiss

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 14, Ron Weiss

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:25 Lecture 15, Roberto Galan, The phase oscillator approximation in neuroscience

15:30 - 17:00 Roberto Galan tutorial

17:30 Dinner

Weekend 1

July 28, 2012 (Saturday)

Individual activities: beach, Wild Animal Park, Sea World, Zoo, ...

July 29, 2012 (Sunday)

Beach party

Week 2

July 30, 2012 - Monday

9:00 - 10:25 Lecture 16, Gennady Cymbalyuk, Reduced neuron models

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 17, Gennady Cymbalyuk, Reduced neuron models

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Lecture 18, Matt Bennett

15:00 – 17:00 Bifurcation analysis of neuronal models using XPP-AUTO (leader - Gennady Cymbalyuk)

17:30 Dinner

July 31, 2012 - Tuesday

9:00 - 10:25 Lecture 19, Matt Bennett

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 20, Matt Bennett

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Lecture 21, Nikolai Rulkov. Map-based models

15:00 – 17:00 Microfluidics lab tour (Megan Dueck/Mike Ferry). Group project work

17:30 Dinner

August 1, 2012 – Wednesday

9:00 - 10:25 Lecture 22, Gert Cauwenberghs, Neuromorphic engineering

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 23, Gert Cauwenberghs, Neuromorphic engineering

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Lecture 24, Maxim Bazhenov. Large-scale modeling of neural networks

15:00 – 17:00 Network simulations with "Neuron" (Leader - Maxim Bazhenov)/ Group project work (Jangir Selimkhanov, Irma Tristán)

17:30 Dinner

August 2, 2012 – Thursday

9:00 - 10:25 Lecture 24, Terry Hwa

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 25, Ruth Williams. Queueing effects in enzymatic processing

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Lecture 26 Henry Abarbanel

15:00 – 17:00 Neurodynamics lab tour (Attila Szucs), Group project work (Jangir Selimkhanov, Irma Tristán)

17:30 Dinner

August 3, 2012 – Friday

9:00 - 10:25 Lecture 27, Gabe Silva, Theoretical, computational, and experimental considerations for mapping dynamic neural network connectivity

10:30 - 11:55 Lecture 28, Gabe Silva, Theoretical, computational, and experimental considerations for mapping dynamic neural network connectivity

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 17:00 Student presentations

17:30 Dinner

Weekend 2

August 4 and 5, 2012 (Saturday and Sunday)

Individual activities

Transfer from San Diego to Santa Fe

Los Alamos Days

All students from both Santa Fe and San Diego will convene at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos, NM for two days of project presentations from students and faculty and seminar-style talks.

August 6, 2012 - Monday

09:00 - 09:50 QB1 project presentations

10:10 - 10:50 QB5 project presentations

11:00 - 11:50 QB2 project presentations

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:50 QB3 project presentations

14:00 - 14:50 QB6 project presentations

15:00 - 15:50 QB4 project presentations

16:00 - 17:30 Poster Session (with judging and awards ceremony)

August 7, 2012 - Tuesday

09:00 - 09:45 Seminar Talk 1, TBA

09:45 - 10:30 Seminar Talk 2, TBA

11:50 - 11:45 Seminar Talk 3, TBA

11:45 - 12:30 Seminar Talk 4, Bridget Wilson, TBA

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:45 Seminar Talk 5, TBA

14:45 - 15:30 Seminar Talk 6 , TBA

16:00 - 16:45 Seminar Talk 7, Steve Andrews, TBA

16:45 - 17:30 Seminar Talk 8, TBA

The Sixth Annual q-bio Conference

All students are encouraged to attend the 2012 q-bio Conference, which takes place from August 8 to 11 in Santa Fe. There are optional satellite workshops on August 12.