Presents the Friday Keck Center Teleconference*


Systems Biology of Cellular Phenotypes: Computational Modeling of Pathways.



Shankar Subramaniam, Ph.D.,


Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

San Diego Supercomputing Center, University of California at San Diego


4:00 pm Friday

28th April, 2006

(Refreshments at 3:45)

5.521 Levin Hall

Abstract: Systems biology approaches to understanding eukaryotic cell function have enabled painstaking reconstruction of intracellular networks that map input to response. However, quantitative modeling of these networks continues to remain a challenge owing to both unavailability of myriad parameters and concentrations of species in the network. Using a well-studied example, I will discuss the challenges in quantitative modeling of networks and discuss its implications for experimental biology. I will then discuss new strategies for coarse-grained quantitative modeling. Coarse-grained biochemical models, called reduced-order models (ROM), consisting of essential biochemical mechanisms are more useful for computational analysis and for studying important features of a biochemical network. I will discuss applications of ROM for a simple and a very complex biochemical network and illustrate how this modeling can lead to systems level hypothesis generation and understanding of cellular biology.

( http://www-bioeng.ucsd.edu/research/research_groups/compbio/shankar.html ).




The Keck Friday Seminar*

schedule for SPRING 2006

13-Jan

Elmer Bernstam, UTHSC-H

Consumer Health Information on the Internet: Whose problem is it?

20-Jan

Leo Linbeck III, AlphaDev

From Translational Research to Spin-Offs: Challenges, Issues and Solutions

27-Jan

Michael Roth, UT Southwestern Medical School

High-throughput Screening of Chemical Compound and Genomic RNAi Libraries in an Academic Setting.

3-Feb

Scott Perry, Asso. Professor, Chemistry, Univ. of Houston

Biomimetic Lubrication Schemes: Slippery When Wet.

10-Feb

Jim Briggs, UH

Dynamics and Inhibition of Botulinum Neurotoxins.

17-Feb

Rebekah Drezek, Rice University

Establishing a New Biomedical Research Lab: The First Three (and a Half) Years.

24-Feb

M. Neal Waxham, UTHSC-H

Biophysical Techniques to Explore Intracellular Signaling Pathways in vitro and in situ.

3-Mar

Stephen H. Bryant, NLM

Protein Classification Methods for NCBI's Conserved Domain Database

10-Mar

Vibhu Mittal, Sr. Res. Scientist, Google

Searching Scholarly Stuff

17-Mar

No Seminar –

Spring Break

24-Mar

Tony Gorry, RICE

Information Technology and Behavior

31-Mar

Theresa M. Koehler, UTHSC-H

Regulation of Bacillus anthracis Virulence Gene Expression and Implications for the Host.

7-Apr

Alasdair Steven, NIAMS/NIH

Observing the Structural Variability of Viruses in Space and Time. ***LIVE FROM UTMB

14-Apr

No Seminar –

Good Friday

21-Apr

Hualou Liang, UTHSC-H

The Role of Synchronized Activity during Anticipation of Visuomotor Processing

28-Apr

Shankar Subramaniam, SDSC,UCSD

Systems Biology of Cellular Phenotypes: Computational Modeling of Pathways

5-May

Joan-Emma Shea, UCSB

TBA - Protein Folding

KECK/HAMP Friday Seminars: http://xray.utmb.edu/keck

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