The Ninth q-bio Conference: Poster Session 2

1. Philip Hochendoner (spotlight), Virginia Tech, Queueing Entrainment – Downstream control of a synthetic oscillator
2. Sargis Karapetyan (spotlight), Duke University, Redox rhythms reinforce the plant circadian clock: New insights into coupled biological oscillators
3. Xiuxiu He (spotlight), Georgia State University, How Adhesion Regulates Cell Migration Plasticity: A Computational Study
4. David Wooten (spotlight), Vanderbilt University, Transcription factor network supports phenotypic heterogeneity in cancer
5. Byoungkoo Lee (spotlight), Georgia State University, Cancer cell invasion analysis in ECM using in vitro models
6. Xiao-Jun Tian (spotlight), University of Pittsburgh, Molecular Cooperativity Leads to Monoallelic Olfactory Receptor Expression
7. Faisal Reza (spotlight), Yale University, Modeling Genomic Recombination Potentials Regulated by Synthetic Donor DNA and Triplex-forming Molecules.
8. Fei Li (spotlight), Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech, Stochastic Model of the Histidine Kinase Switch in the Caulobacter Cell Cycle
9. Ariel Aptekmann, Biological Chemistry Institute, Exact Sciences Faculty, University of Buenos Aires., Archean core promoter region information content and its relation with optimal growth temperature.
10. Dorjsuren Battogtokh, Virginia Tech, Comparison of Domain Nucleation Mechanisms in a Minimal Model of Shoot Apical Meristem
11. Kevin Brown, University of Connecticut, Ensemble Learning for Correlated Substitution Analysis
12. William Cannon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Coupled Reaction Theory
13. Sheng Chen, Virginia Tech, physics department, Non-equilibrium relaxation in the vicinity of the extinction critical point in a stochastic lattice Lotka-Volterra model
14. Daniela Cimini, Virginia Tech, Global effects from errors at single kinetochores
15. Bryan Daniels, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Accumulation versus propagation: coding dynamics in motion discrimination
16. Khanh Dinh, University of Alabama, Analysis of Inexact Krylov subspace methods for approximating the Matrix Exponential
17. Huijing Du, University of California, Irvine, Regulation of intestinal crypt homoeostasis: A balance between Wnt mediated expansion and proliferation inhibition
18. Song Feng, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Explore design principles of signaling networks with in silico evolution of rule-based models
19. Vernita Gordon, The University of Texas at Austin, Distinct mechanical roles for bacterial biopolymers in sensing and strength
20. Rachel Haggerty, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mechanism Inference from Single Cells (MISC)
21. Teng He, Peking University, Control of inflammatory gene expression at the step of transcription elongation
22. Nora Hlavac, Virginia Tech, Markers of Astrocyte Reactivity in in vitro Models of Blast-Induced Neurotrauma
23. David Holland, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Optimizing protein expression levels as a function of network topology minimizes nonfunctional complex formation
24. Tian Hong, University of California, Irvine, Semi-adaptive response and noise attenuation in BMP signaling
25. Haitao Huang, Georgia State University, Spatial Quantification of Morphological Changes in Retinal Pigment Epithelium
26. Sukanya Iyer, Emory University, Characterizing gene expression kinetics in nutrient-starved E.coli cells
27. Pavel Kraikivski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, From START to FINISH: Computational Analysis of Cell Cycle Control in Budding Yeast
28. Anuva Kulkarni, Carnegie Mellon University, Automation of Model Design and Analysis for Big Mechanisms
29. Kevin Leslie, Virginia Commonwealth University, Applications of Precision, Real-time Cell Biomass Measurements in Cell Physiology and Drug Development
30. Feng Liu, Nanjing University, Transient DNA looping bridged on low-affinity sequences substantially promotes gene transcription
31. Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland, Adhesive forces play key roll in pattern formation and stability in chemotaxing cells
32. Alexander Lubbock, Vanderbilt University, Gabi: Network inference from antibody-based proteomics data
33. Lan Ma, University of Texas at Dallas, Regulation of P53 Oscillations by MircoRNA-mediated Positive Feedback Loops
34. Shibin Mathew, University of Pittsburgh, Mechanistic Insights into Early Endoderm Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells using Systems Analysis of Signaling Interactions
35. Callie Miller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Computational Model of Cortical Actomyosin
36. Paul Mlynarczyk, The University of Tennessee, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Diffusion- and Geometry-Influenced Stochastic Switching in a Reaction Network with Positive Feedback
37. Sayak Mukherjee, Ohio State University, Reverse Engineering Signaling Cascade from High Throughput Data
38. Philip Nelson, University of Pennsylvania, Light, Imaging, Vision: An interdisciplinary undergraduate course
39. Oscar Ortega, Vanderbilt University, Automated tropical algebra reduction and hybridization of biological models
40. Vipul Periwal, LBM/NIDDK/NIH, Mitochondrial Energetic Homeostasis and Parallel Activation
41. Aaron Prescott, University of Tennessee, Department of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, Redesigning the response of T cell signaling networks using in silico evolution
42. Hong Qin, Spelman College, A network model of cellular aging and its applications
43. Samuel Ramirez, Duke University, Modeling the spatiotemporal dynamics of Cdc42 activity at dendritic spines accounting for membrane geometry
44. Julia Roth, Virginia Tech, A Synthetic Biology Approach to Ribosome Collisions and Stalling
45. Monika Scholz, University of Chicago, Optimal feeding regulation in noisy environmental conditions
46. Leili Shahriyari, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Role of Stem Cell Niche Structure in Cancer
47. Wenjia Shi, Peking University, How to Achieve Perfect Adaptation
48. Alex Shumway, Brigham Young University, Classifying and quantifying parameter nonlinearity in biological models
49. Minjun Son, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Microfluidic Study of a Stochastic Genetic Circuit Carefully Modulated by Environmental Inputs
50. Jose-Juan Tapia, University of Pittsburgh, Mechanistic analysis of reaction network models
51. Marcus Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University, Improved Model Fitting for Complex Self-Assembly Reaction Networks
52. Michael Trogdon, University of California - Santa Barbara, Simulating Yeast Polarization in the Cloud
53. Huy Vo, The University of Alabama, A projection method for solving the chemical master equation
54. Margaritis Voliotis, University of Bristol, Dynamic environments reveal specialized roles in the HOG network
55. Xujing Wang, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Mathematical modeling of insulin secretion from a network of coupled islet beta-cells via glucose-induced changes in membrane potential, intracellular calcium, and insulin granule dynamics
56. Martin Wong, Univesity of Sydney, Improved Enzyme Kinetics Model for Simulating Complex Biochemical Networks
57. Guang Yao, Univ. of Arizona, Controlling the Heterogeneous Quiescent State by an Rb-E2F Bistable Switch
58. Osman Yogurtcu, Johns Hopkins U, Novel Single-Molecule Resolution Method for Spatio-Temporal Simulations of Protein Binding and Recruitment on the Membrane
59. Hang Zhang, Virginia Tech, Integrative Proteomic and MicroRNA Approaches Reveal a Novel Post-Transcriptional Motif Regulating Human Definitive Endoderm Differentiation
60. Zining Zhang, Computational & System biology, University of Pittsburgh, The F-ATP synthase: what advantages might the rotary mechanism confer?
61. Riccardo Ziraldo, The University of Texas at Dallas, Mechanistic dissection of Drosophila apoptotic switch