Program

Apr 25th:

16:30h

Opening

 

17:00h

Conference 1

chair: Klaus-Peter Michel [FORSYS]
speaker: Roland Eils [BioQuant/DKFZ]

Model-based Study of Life and Death Pathways Diverging from the CD95 Death Receptor

18:00h

Conference 2

chair: J. Miguel Ortega [UFMG]
speaker: Peer Bork [EMBL]
Comparative Metagenomics

19:00h

Welcome Cocktail offered by ROCHE

 

Apr 26th:

 

Symposium 1

name: Systems Biology Platforms
chair: Alberto Davila [Fiocruz-RJ]

8:45h

Klaus-Peter Michel [FORSYS]
FORSYS - Research Units for Systems Biology

9:15h

Jürgen Wolfrum [BioQuant]
BioQuant: A New Research Network in Heidelberg

9:45h

Ulrike Conrad [SB Cancer/DKFZ]
The Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology - SB Cancer

10:30h

Coffee Break

11:00h

Conference 3

chair: Ricardo Vêncio [USP-FMRP]
speaker: Rolf Kötter [University of Nijwegen]
The Human Brain Model: Connecting neuronal structure and function

11:45h

Lunch

Free afternoon in Ouro Preto

19:00h

Dinner

21:00h

Poster Session

 

Apr 27th

8:30h

Symposium 2

name: Systems Biology Networks
chair: Roberto César [USP]

9:00h

Thomas Höfer [Phenex Pharma]
Bringing Mammalian Gene-regulatory Networks to Life: Kinetic Models at Multiple Scales

9:30h

Junior Barrera [USP]
Gene Networks

10:00h

Carsten Schulz [EMBL]
Modeling and Model Validation of Signal Transduction Modules

10:30h

Coffee Break

11:00h

Conference 4

chair: Guilherme Oliveira [Fiocruz-MG]

speaker: Nikolaus Rajewsky [MDC Berlin]

microRNA and posttranscriptional gene regulation

12:00h

Lunch

14:00h

Symposium 3

name: Cell Systems Biology
chair: Marcelo Santoro [UFMG]

14:00

Beatriz Stransky [UFABC]
A model for cell proliferation

14:30

Leif Dehmelt [FORSIS-YI]
Experimental Characterization and Modeling of Microtubule Rearrangements in Neurite Formation

15:00

Vitor Martins dos Santos [HZI Braunschweig]
From Systems to Synthetic Biology: Streamlining and Reprogramming Bacterial Catalysts

15:30h

Coffee Break

16:00h

Symposium 4

name: Gene Systems Biology chair: Santuza Teixeira [UFMG]

16:00h

Tie Koide [USP-FMRP]
Towards mechanistic gene regulatory models

16:30h

Wolfgang Hess [FRISYS]
Systems Biology of RNA

17:00h

Rolf Kötter [BioQuant/DKFZ]
The Human Brain Model: Connecting neuronal structure and function

17:30h

Coffee Break

19:00h

Dinner in Ouro Preto

 

Apr 28th

9:00h

Symposium 5

name: Cancer Systems Biology
chair: Glória R. Franco [UFMG]

9:00h

Karlheinz Allgöwer [University of Stuttgart]
Predicted Cancer Therapy

9:30h

Klaus Pfizenmaier [University of Stuttgart]

10:00h

Anamaria Camargo Aranha [LICR/São Paulo]
Tumor RNA-seq

10:30h

Coffee Break

11:00h

Conference 5

chair: Carlos R. Machado [UFMG]
speaker: Sandro de Souza [LICR/São Paulo]
Dynamics of somatic mutations in colorectal cancer

12:00h

Lunch

14:00h

Symposium 6

name: Immune System Biology
chair: Wilson A. Silva Junior [Hemocentro-RP]

14:00

Sofia Depner [DKFZ]
Crosstalk of IL-6 and GM-CSF Signaling Pathways in HaCaT A5 Benign Tumor Keratinocytes

14:30

Daniel Kaschek [FRYSIS]
The Dynamics of B-Cell receptor clustering (Timmer)

15:00

Inna Lawrik [DKFZ]
CD 95 Disc Decides on Life or Death

15:30h

Coffee Break

16:00h

Symposium 7

name: Plant Systems Biology
chair: Marie-Anne van Sluys [USP]

16:00

Björn Junker [IPK Gatersleben]
Systems biology approaches to crop plant metabolism

16:30

Ralph Tiedemann [GoFORSYS]
Functional genomic variation in photosynthesis and starch metabolism genes in Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas

17:00

Bernd Müller-Röber [GoFORSYS]
Unraveling gene regulatory networks in plant systems

17:30h

Coffee Break

18:00h

Conference 6

name:
chair: Carlos Labate [ESALC]
speaker: Ralf Reski [FRISYS]
Moss Systems Biology - Molecular Farming and Plant Biotechnology

19:00h

Dinner

21:00h

Best Posters Oral presentation (15 min, six talks)

 

Apr 29th:

8:30h

Symposium 8

name: Data Integration
chair: Maira Rodrigues [UFMG]

8:30h

Jürgen Eils [DKFZ]
Data Bases in Systems Biology

9:00h

J. Miguel Ortega [UFMG]
Database generators

9:30h

Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos [LNCC]
Bioinformatics Tools for Genomic Analysis

10:30h

Coffee Break

11:00h

Conference 7

chair: Lucas Bleicher [UFMG]
speaker: Thomas Hoffmann [Phenex Pharma]
Systems Biology and Drug Discovery a fruitful relationship?

12:00h

Lunch

Ground transportation back to airport.