The Interface of Biology and Theoretical Computer Science - Schedule
All sessions will be held in Dasheri Auditorium at NCBS. Dinners for participants will be on campus Dec 18/19/20/21. | |||||
Monday, December 19th | Tuesday, December 20th | Wednesday, December 21st | |||
Session I | Populations & Communication | Session III | Molecules & Information | Session V | Brains & Networks |
Chair: Axel Brockmann | Chair: Dimple Notani | Chair: Vatsala Thirumalai | |||
09:30 - 10:30 | Plenary Lecture: Cooperation and conflict in a tropical insect society | 09:30 - 10:30 | Plenary Lecture: The science of information. Case studies from DNA and RNA assembly | 09:30 - 10:30 | Plenary Lecture: Sequence recognition in molecules and networks |
Raghavenda Gadagkar | David Tse | Upinder Bhalla | |||
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Stanford | NCBS, Bangalore | |||
10:30 - 11:30 | Evolution and computation | 10:30 - 11:30 | Cellular information processing | 10:30 - 11:30 | Brain computation, a CS perspective |
Nisheeth Vishnoi | Garud Iyengar | Santosh Vempala | |||
EPFL, Lausanne | Columbia University, New York | Georgia Tech | |||
11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee | 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee | 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee |
12:00 - 12:30 | Metabolism and multicellularity | 12:00 - 12:30 | Proteins as learning matter | 12:00 - 12:30 | Axiomatic theory for neural computation |
Sunil Laxman | Tsvi Tlusty | Venkat Ramaswamy | |||
inStem, Bangalore | Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan | NCBS, Bangalore | |||
12:30 - 13:00 | Communication strategies | 12:30 - 13:00 | Identifying regulatory architectures by unsupervised learning | 12:30 - 13:00 | Algorithmic biology: from molecules to intelligence |
Arnab Bhattacharyya | Leelavati Narlikar | Manoj Gopalkrishnan | |||
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | National Chemical Laboratory, Pune | IIT Bombay | |||
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
Session II | Evolution & Sequences | Session IV | Cells & Timing | Session VI | |
Chair: Uma Ramakrishnan | Chair: Raghu Padinjat | ||||
14:30 - 15:30 | Plenary Lecture: Evolution of a model organism | 14:30 - 15:30 | Plenary Lecture: Choosing cell fates | 14:30 - 15:30 | Panel discussion: A new language for biology |
Marie-Anne Félix | Jyotsna Dhawan | All participants | |||
École Normale Supérieure, Paris | CCMB, Hyderabad | ||||
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
16:00 - 16:30 | Recombination and phylogenetic networks | 16:00 - 16:30 | Collective dynamics | ||
Daniel Gusfield | Shashi Thutupalli | ||||
UC Davis | NCBS, Bangalore | ||||
16:30 - 17:00 | Experimental assays of the genotype to phenotype connection | 16:30 - 17:00 | Mechanics of development | ||
Fyodor Kondrashov | Timothy Saunders | ||||
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona | Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore | ||||
18:30 - 20:00 | Social + Banquet | 18:30 - 20:00 | Social + Dinner | 18:30 - 20:00 | Social + Dinner |