Focus Session: Noise and Fluctuation in Biological Systems

Presentations

• How stability can lead to variability: An example from eukaryotic gene expression

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 8:00 AM – March 17, 2006, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Gabor Balazsi

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

  • William Blake

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

  • Farren Isaacs

    • Genetics Department, Harvard Medical School

  • Kevin Murphy

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

  • James J. Collins

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

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• How stability can lead to variability: Induction timecourse of a eukaryotic gene

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 8:12 AM – March 17, 2006, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • William Blake

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

  • Gabor Balazsi

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

  • Farren Isaacs

    • Genetics Department, Harvard Medical School

  • Kevin Murphy

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

  • Yina Kuang

  • David R. Walt

    • Department of Chemistry, Tufts University

  • James J. Collins

    • Applied BioDynamics Laboratory, Boston University

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• Origins of extrinsic variability in eukaryotic gene expression

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 8:24 AM – March 17, 2006, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Natalie Ostroff

  • Dmitri Volfson

  • William J. Blake

    • Boston University

  • Jennifer Marciniak

    • UC San Diego

  • Lev S. Tsimring

  • Jeff Hasty

    • UC San Diego

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• Noisy cellular decision-making: from temporal to spatial choices

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2006, 8:36 AM – March 17, 2006, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Alexander van Oudenaarden

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Absolute Rate Theories of Epigenetic Stability

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 9:12 AM – March 17, 2006, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Aleksandra M. Walczak

  • Jose N. Onuchic

  • Peter G. Wolynes

    • Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD

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• Noise and correlations in genes silenced by small RNA.

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 9:24 AM – March 17, 2006, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Terry Hwa

    • University of California San Diego
    • Center for Theoretical Biophysics, UCSD
    • The Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (UCSD)

  • Erel Levine

    • Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD

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• A model for codon position bias in RNA editing

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 9:36 AM – March 17, 2006, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ralf Bundschuh

    • The Ohio State University

  • Tsunglin Liu

    • The Ohio State University

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• From Asymmetric Exclusion Processes to Protein Synthesis

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 9:48 AM – March 17, 2006, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Jiajia Dong

  • Beate Schmittmann

  • Royce K.P. Zia

    • Department of Physics, Virginia Tech

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• Intrinsic Fluctuations, Robustness and Tunability in Signaling Cycles.

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 10:00 AM – March 17, 2006, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Joseph Levine

    • Caltech

  • Hao Yuan Kueh

    • Harvard Univ.

  • Michael Slutsky

    • MIT
    • Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences \& Technology

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• The Nature of Memory Objects in the Brain

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2006, 10:12 AM – March 17, 2006, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

    • Physico-Chime Institut Curie

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• Resource allocation in neural networks for motor control

  ORAL

  March 17, 2006, 10:48 AM – March 17, 2006, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • J. Milton

    • Claremont Colleges, USA

  • J. Cummins

    • Claremont McKenna College, USA

  • J. Gunnoe

  • M. Tollefson

    • Scripps College, USA

  • J.L. Cabrera

    • IVIC, Venezuela

  • T. Ohira

    • Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan
    • Sony Computer Science Lab, Japan

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