Plant Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Summer School

27-31 July 2009 - University of Nottingham, UK

The program is still provisional. It contains the list of confirmed speakers

Day 1 (27 July 2009)

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00-11:00

Martin Krallinger (CNIO)

An Introduction to Bioinformatics Infrastructures
Slides

11:30-13:30

Eran Eyal (Sheba Medical Center)

Inside Structural Bioinformatics
Slides

15:00-17:00

Sean May(University of Nottingham / Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre)

The tragedy of the common dataset

17:30-19:30

Jack Leunissen (Wageningen University)

Prediction of SNPs and polymorphic SSRs from EST and high throughput sequencing data
Slides

21:00

Welcoming party


Day 2 (28 July 2009)

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00-11:00

Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Politechnique)

Computational design of biological systems by automatic methods
Slides (limited access for participants only)

11:30-13:30

Marie-Theres Hauser (University of Natural Resources and Applied Sciences)

Comparative and functional genomics
Slides

15:00-17:00

John King (University of Nottingham)

Mathematical Modelling in Plant Systems Biology

17:30-19:30

Christophe Godin (INRIA)

Mathematical background and computer components of a virtual growing tissue
Slides

Day 3 (29 July 2009): Social activities, including sightseing tour and gala dinner

Day 4 (30 July 2009)

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00-11:00

Paola Quaglia (COSBI)

Computational Systems Biology
Slides

11:30-12:30

Katherine Smart (University of Nottingham)

Strategies For Optimising Large Scale Bioethanol Fermentations

13:30-15:30

Ron Milo (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Design and optimality in photosynthesis and carbon fixation
Slides: part 1,part 2

15:45-17:45

Mauricio Antunes (Colorado State University)

Synthetic biology of plants: challenges and accomplishments
Slides

18:00-19:30

Chris Rawlings (Rothamsted Research)

Investigating plant systems using data integration and network analysis
Slides

Day 5 (31 July 2009): Laboratory Demonstrations and poster session

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00-11:00

Catherine Canevet & Michael Defoin-Platel (Rothamsted Research)

Practical Data Integration for Systems Biology using the Ondex System
Software and slides

11:30-13:30

Francisco Romero Campero & Jamie Twycross (University of Nottingham)

Computational Modeling for Systems and Synthetic Biology
Software and slides

15:00-17:00

Poster session.
Abstracts of the posters

17:30-19:30

Closing ceremony and dinner