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June 11-14, 2009

The 18th Annual Growth Factor and Signal Transduction Conference

Scheman Building, Iowa State Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.
http://www.bb.iastate.edu/~gfst/phomepg.html

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: April 13, 2009 (abstracts submitted by the deadline will be considered for short oral presentations; late abstracts will be accepted for poster presentation)
TRAVEL GRANT DEADLINE: April 13, 2009           
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 11, 2009

SITE AND DATES: The symposium will be held in the Scheman Building, Iowa State Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.  Registration begins at 3:00 PM and the first plenary session at 5:00 PM Thursday, June 11, 2009. The last plenary session ends at 12:00 Noon on Sunday, June 14, 2009

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: April 13, 2009 (abstracts submitted by the deadline will be considered for short oral presentations; late abstracts will be accepted for poster presentation)
TRAVEL GRANT DEADLINE: April 13, 2009           
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 11, 2009

PROGRAM:  During this Symposium on modeling in Systems Biology, some of the worlds leading experimental and computational scientists and engineers working in microbial, plant, animal, and human systems will convene on the campus of Iowa State University. Shown below are the speakers who have committed to present their recent discoveries as well as discuss current and future research and educational challenges in bioinformatics.  As in past years, the Symposium will be set in a venue designed to promote informal discussion and interaction, potentiating collaborations. It will provide the opportunity for students and younger researchers to gain a working knowledge of the current state of the field and the researchers who are expanding it.

PLENARY SPEAKERS AND TENTATIVE TITLES
David Hume: University of Edinburgh
A systems biology paradigm: macrophage networks in pathogen response
Steve Horvath: UCLA School of Public Health
An overview of weighted gene co-expression network analysis
Dan Kliebenstein: University of California-Davis
Systems analysis of natural genomic variation in an adaptive trait; biochemicals and plant-insect interactions
Antoni Rafalski: DuPont Experimental Station
Genome diversity and gene expression in maize
Barbara Stranger: Harvard Medical School
Population genomics of human gene expression
Lauren M. McIntyre: University of Florida - Gainesville
Deconstructing the system into testable hypotheses
Hamid Bolouri: California Institute of Technology
Genetic regulatory control of T-cell development: a paradigm for adult stem cell differentiation
Graziano Pesole: University of Bari
Gene complexity and alternative splicing
Timothy Ravasi: University of California-San Diego
Inferring promoter-based transcription regulatory networks in mammals
Rodrigo Gutierrez: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Post-transcriptional regulatory networks in the nitrogen response of Arabidopsis thaliana
Maricel G. Kann: University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Protein Domains meet System Biology: a genome-wide approach to uncover protein domain networks
Mona Singh: Princeton University
From biological networks to cellular organization and functioning
Melissa Kemp: Georgia Tech & Emory University
Regulatory control of intracellular protein thiols
Stefan Hoops: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Simulation and modeling biochemical networks using platform -independent software
Chao Tang: University of California - San Francisco
Design principles of biochemical adaptation circuits
Teresa Przytycka: NCBI, NLM, NIH
Predicting domain interaction based on protein interaction networks from multiple organisms.