Applications of Methods of Stochastic Systems
and Statistical Physics in Biology

October 28-30, 2005

List of Confirmed Speakers:

Francis Alexander
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Hybrid Numerical Algorithms"

David Anderson
Duke University
"Propagation of Fluctuations in Biochemical Systems"

Paul Atzberger
Rennselaer Polytechnic University
"A Stochastic Immersed Boundary Method Incorporating Thermal Fluctuations: Toward Modeling Membrane Dynamics of the Cell"

Bjorn Birnir
University of California - Santa Barbara
"Stick-slip and H-stability in Stochastic Simulations of Schools of Fish"

Peter Borowski
Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
"Signal Transduction in Olfactory Cilia: Fluctuations, Correlations and Response in the Presence of Feedback"

Dennis Bray
Cambridge University, UK
"Intracellular Signalling in a Molecular Jungle: Insights from Bacterial Chemotaxis"

De Ruyter, Robert
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Optimal Processing of Natural Visual Input"

Imre Derenyi
Ethos University, Hungary
"Uncovering the Overlapping Community Structure of Complex Networks in Nature and Society"

Andreas Deutsch
Technical University, Dresden, Germany
"Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation"

Rampal Etienne
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
"Stochasticity in Community Ecology: the Neutral Model and a Dispersal-limited Sampling Formula"

Gabor Forgacs
University of Missouri
"The Role of Physical Mechanisms in Biological Self-Organization"

Avner Friedman
Director, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
The Ohio State University
"Tumor Proliferation is Affected by the Material Properties of its Surrounding"

Angel Garcia
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Temperature and Pressure Effects on Folding/Unfolding of Proteins"

Leon Glass
McGill University, Canada
"Stochastic Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmias"

Tilmann Glimm
Western Washington University
"Continuous Limit of a Chemotaxis Model"

Byron Goldstein
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Modeling Immune Receptor Signaling and the Problem of Combinatorial Complexity"

Raymond Goldstein
University of Arizona, Tucson
"Motility, Mixing, and Multicellularity"

H.G. Hentschel
Emory University
"Dynamical Mechanisms for Axon Guidance in the Presence of Skeletal Elements"

Greg Huber
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
University of Connecticut Health Center
"Models of Single-cell Dictyostelium Motility"

Dale Kaiser
Stanford University
"Pattern Formation in Myxobacteria"

Jim Keener
University of Utah
"A Model for Length Control of Flagellar Hooks of Typhimurium "

Yannis Kevrekidis
Princeton University
"Equation-Free Computations for Stochastic Models: Biological Applications"

Ioan Kosztin
University of Missouri - Columbia
"Fluctuation Driven Active Molecular Transport in Passive Channel Proteins"

Peter Kramer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Stochastic Mode Reduction with Metastability in Biomolecular Modeling"

Vladimir Krstic
University of Zagreb
"Min-protein Oscillations in E. Coli: 3D Off-lattice Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Model"

Andre Levchenko
Johns Hopkins University
"A Stochastic Model of Pattern Development in Yeast Colonies"

Herbert Levine
University of California, San Diego
"Gradient Detection by Dictyostelium Cells"

Albert Libchaber
The Rockefeller University
"Towards an Artificial Cell "

Tomasz Lipniacki
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
"Stochasticity in Early Immune Response"

Anotida Madzvamuse
Auburn University
"Implications of Mesh Structure to Solutions of Reaction-Diffusion Systems on Fixed and Growing Domains"

Dejan Milutinovic
Utrecht University
"Fitting the LCMV CD8+ Data Based on Measurement and Process Noise Models"

Alex Mogilner
University of California, Davis
"Monte Carlo Simulations and Probablistic Analysis Shed Light on how Microtubules Search in Space"

Timothy Newman
Arizona State University
"Modeling Multicellular Systems using Many-body Theory"

David Odde
University of Minnesota
"Stochastic Mechanics of the Mitotic Spindle"

Hans Othmer
University of Minnesota
"Stochastic Analysis of Chemical Reaction Networks"

Sasha Panfilov
Utrecht University, Netherlands
"Modelling in Electrophysiology Using Anatomically Accurate Models of the Heart"

John Pearson
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Equivalence and Identification of Markov Models for Ion Channel Kinetics"

Jeffrey Peng
University of Notre Dame
"Biomolecular Motion and Recognition: Insights from Magnetic Resonance"

Alan Perelson
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"New Developments in Modeling the Dynamics of Viral Infections"

Leonard Sander
University of Michigan
"A Stochastic Model for Wound Healing"

Beate Schmittmann
Virginia Tech
"From Asymmetric Exclusion Processes to Protein Synthesis"

Santiago Schnell
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Lessons from the Computational Modeling of Reaction Kinetics in Intracellular Environments"

De Witt Sumners
Florida State University
"Monte Carlo vs Experiment: DNA Knots Reveal Chiral Packing of DNA in Viral Phage Capsids"

Uwe Tauber
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"The Role of Stochastic Fluctuations and Spatio-Temporal Correlations in Lattice Models for Predator-Prey Interactions"

Titus van Erp
ETS, France
"Can One Predict DNA Transcription Start Sites by Studying Bubbles?"

Zoltan Toroczkai
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Steric Constraint Networks and Protein Folding"