UT Dallas CONFERENCE CENTER (CN1.112)
Abstracts
and Schedule
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The schedule is posted after the list of speakers.
Eric Young (http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~eyoung)
Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering, Center for Hearing
Science
Representation
of Auditory Signals by Linear and Non-linear Processes in DCN
Dan Tranchina (http://www.cns.nyu.edu/associates/Tranchina.html)
New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Promising
New Techniques for Large-Scale Modeling of Neuronal Networks in the
Brain
Susan Keun-Hang Yang (http://erl.neuro.jhmi.edu/)
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology
Potassium
Channels and PKC Activation Underlying Temporal Specificity of Classical
Conditioning
Lawrence J. Cauller (http://www.utdallas.edu/~lcauller/labs/cauller.html)
University of Texas at Dallas
Large-Scale
Computational Models of Cortical Dynamics
Philip C. Loizou (http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou)
University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Electrical Engineering
Acoustic
Simulations of Cochlear Implants
II. Cardiac Dynamics
Yoram Rudy (http://www.cwru.edu/med/CBRTC/Director.htm)
Case Western Reserve University, Cardiac Bioelectricity Center
From
Genetics To Function: Computational Models of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Jon Lederer (http://www.umsa.umd.edu/Leadership/Workgroups/GraduateFaculty/lederer.html)
University of Maryland, Medical Biotechnology Center
A
Mathematical Model of Calcium Sparks in the Heart
Francisco Chavez (http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/~fchavez)
University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry
Geometric
Transitions in a Reaction-Diffusion Model in a Spherical Shell
Jose L. Puglisi (http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/DeptWebs/physio/bers.html)
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Physiology
LabHEART,
An Interactive Model of a Cardiac Myocyte : Ca regulation and ionic currents
J. Jeremy Rice
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Functional Genomics
Model
of Cardiac Myofilament Considers Effects of Nearest-Neighbor Cooperative
Interactions
on Force-pCa Relations, Calcium Binding and Twitches
Ted Wiesner (http://www.che.ttu.edu/Faculty/wiesner/wiesner.htm)
Texas Tech University
The
Underlying Mechanisms of Symmetric Ca2+ Wave Propagation in Rat Ventricular
Myocytes
III. Biochemical Reaction Networks and Cell Signaling
Saleet Jafri (http://www.utdallas.edu/~jafri)
University of Texas at Dallas, Mathematical Sciences
Modeling
Regulation of the Citric Acid Cycle
John Wagner (http://caboy.uchc.edu/wagner/)
University of Connecticut Health Center
A
Mathematical Model of the Mammalian Fertilization Calcium Wave
Melissa Lambeth
University of Washington, Biomedical Engineering
Control
Analysis of Glycogenolysis in Skeletal Muscle
Kenneth Rodriguez (http://buga.csudh.edu/~rodsuper)
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Diffusion-Controlled
Chemical Reactions Under the Effect of Several Stochastic Factors in Reduced
Dimensionality
Dean Sherry (http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/chemistry/faculty/sherry.html)
University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Chemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Radiology
Metabolism
as it Happens: TCA cycle kinetics by NMR
IV. Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
Tandy Warnow (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tandy)
University of Texas, Department of Computer and Information Science
The
Disk-Covering Method for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
John Wittig
University of California, San Diego
Quantification
of Behavior: The Nematode Classifier
David Sierra
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Pharmacology
Regulators
of G Protein Signaling Multigene Family in Mouse and Human
Lee Bulla (http://nsm1.utdallas.edu/bio/bulla/bulla.htm)
University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Biology
Malgorzata Kotulska
Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Characteristics
of Biological Membranes Based on Electropore Fluctuations
V. DNA Energetics
Steve Levene (http://nsm1.utdallas.edu/bio/levene/levene98.htm)
University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Biology
Experimental
and Computational Studies of DNA Minicircles
Irwin Tobias (http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/faculty/tobias.html)
Rutgers University
DNA
as a Thermally Fluctuating Elastic Rod
Lorenzo A. Sadun (http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/sadun)
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mathematics
Temperature-Dependence
of Torsional Stiffness: the Role of Entropy
Rob Manning
Haverford College, Department of Mathematics
TBA
Sunday, June 17 : Morning Session
I. Neuroscience
9:00 Opening Remarks by Richard A.
Caldwell
Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University of Texas at Dallas
9:10 Eric Young
Johns Hopkins University
Representation
of Auditory Signals by Linear and Non-linear Processes in DCN
10:10 Dan Tranchina
New York University
Promising New Techniques
for Large-Scale Modeling of Neuronal Networks in the Brain
10:40 Break
11:00 Susan Keun-Hang Yang
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine,
Department of Neurology
Potassium Channels and
PKC Activation Underlying Temporal Specificity of Classical Conditioning
11:30
Lawrence J. Cauller
Neuroscience Program, University of Texas at Dallas
Large-Scale Computational Models of Cortical Dynamics
12:00 Philip C. Loizou
University of Texas at Dallas
Acoustic Simulations of Cochlear Implants
12:30 Lunch
Sunday, June 17 : Afternoon Session
II. Cardiac Dynamics
2:00 Yoram Rudy
Case Western Reserve University, Cardiac Bioelectricity
Center
From Genetics To Function: Computational
Models of Cardiac Arrhythmia
3:00 John Lederer
University of Maryland
A Mathematical Model of Calcium
Sparks in the Heart
3:30 Francisco Chavez Rios
University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry
Geometric Transitions in a Reaction-Diffusion
Model in a Spherical Shell
4:00 Break
4:20 Jose L. Puglisi
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Physiology
LabHEART, An Interactive Model of
a Cardiac Myocyte : Ca regulation and ionic currents
4:50 Jeremy Rice
IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center, Functional Genomics
Model
of Cardiac Myofilament Considers Effects of Nearest-Neighbor Cooperative
Interactions
on Force-pCa Relations,
Calcium Binding and Twitches
5:20 Theodore Wiesner
Texas Tech University
The Underlying Mechanisms of Symmetric Ca2+ Wave Propagation
in Rat Ventricular Myocytes
Monday, June 18 : Morning Session
III. Biochemical Reaction Networks and
Cell Signaling
9:00 Saleet Jafri
University of Texas at Dallas
Modeling Regulation of the Citric
Acid Cycle
10:00 John Wagner
University of Connecticut Health Center
A Mathematical Model of the
Mammalian Fertilization Calcium Wave
10:30 Break
10:50 Melissa Lambeth
University of Washington
Control Analysis of Glycogenolysis
in Skeletal Muscle
11:20 Kenneth Rodriguez
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Diffusion-Controlled Chemical
Reactions Under the Effect of Several Stochastic Factors in Reduced Dimensionality
11:40 Dean Sherry
University
of Texas at Dallas, Department of Chemistry and
University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Radiology
Metabolism as it Happens: TCA cycle kinetics
by NMR
12:10 Lunch
Monday, June 18 : Afternoon Session
IV. Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
1:40 Tandy Warnow
University of Texas, Department of Computer and
Information Science
The Disk-Covering Method for
Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
2:10 Lee Bulla
University of Texas at Dallas
2:40 Break
3:00 John Wittig
University of California, San Diego
Quantification of Behavior:
The Nematode Classifier
3:30 David A. Sierra
University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center, Department of Pharmacology
Regulators of G Protein Signaling Multigene Family in
Mouse and Human
4:00 Malgorzata Kotulska
Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Characteristics of Biological Membranes Based on Electropore
Fluctuations
5:00 Poster Session / Reception
Tuesday, June 19
V. DNA Energetics
9:00 Steve Levene
University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Biology
Experimental and Computational Studies of DNA Minicircles
10:00 Irwin Tobias
Rutgers University
DNA as a Thermally Fluctuating Elastic Rod
10:30 Break
10:50 Lorenzo A. Sadun
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mathematics
Temperature-dependence of Torsional Stiffness: the
role of entropy
11:20 Rob Manning
Haverford College, Department of Mathematics
TBA
11:50 Closing Remarks by M. Ali Hooshyar
Mathematical Sciences Program Head, University of
Texas at Dallas