Monday April 27th

9:00 - 10:00 : Lucas Carey: Exploration of genetic and phenotypic space through stochastic variation in fitness (Abstract)

10:00 - ­11:00 : David Suter: Trancription at the single cell level (Abstract)

11:00 - ­11:30 : Coffee break

11:30 - ­12:30 : Andrea Loettgers: Varieties of Noise (Abstract)

12:30­ - 14:00 : Lunch

14:00 - ­15:00 : Rob Philips: Steps Towards Writing the Genomic Novel (Abstract)

15:00 - ­16:00 : Jonathan Chubb: Imaging transcriptional decisions in living cells

16:00 - ­16:30 : Coffee break

16:30 - ­17:30 : Leor Weinberger: Harnessing Noise for Cell-Fate Manipulation and Therapy

Tuesday April 28th

9:00­ - 10:00 : Dan larson: The role of spurious transcription in evolution of gene networks (Abstract)

10:00 - ­11:00 : Karola Stotz: Robustness and Plasticity in Gene Expression: the interplay of stochasticity and downward informational control (Abstract)

11:00 - ­11:30 : Coffee break

11:30 - ­12:30 : Sahotra Sarkar: Stochasticity in DNA Transcription: Implications for Genetic Determinism, Reductionism, and the Concept of Function

12:30 - ­14:00 : Lunch

14:00 - ­15:00 : Daniel Nicholson

15:00 - ­16:00 : Vito Quaranta: Modeling cell population dynamics from stochastic single-cell fates in response to perturbation (Abstract)

Tentative program

Important dates:

Registration: April 20th 2015

Conference: April 27-28th 2015