ESF Research Conferences

ESF-EMBO Symposium

Systems Biology of Drosophila Development

22 - 25 May 2012

Programme

Conference format:

  • lectures by invited high level speakers
  • short talks by young & early stage researchers
  • poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
  • forward look panel discussion about future developments

ESF-EMBO Symposium
Systems Biology of Drosophila Development


22 - 25 May 2012 - Polonia Castle in Pultusk, Poland

Tuesday 22nd May

10:00 onwards    Registration at ESF desk
12:30    Lunch
14:00    Johannes Yaeger – Eileen Furlong
Welcome Addresses

Session I
14:30 – 15:15    David Arnosti, Michigan State University
Thermodynamic and really dynamic modeling of transcriptional regulation in the Drosophila embryo
15:15 – 16:00    Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois
Quantitative models for regulatory interactions and their evolution
16:00 – 16:30    Coffee break
16:30 – 16:55    Martina Rembold, University of Cologne
The transcriptional repressor Snail functions as activator during Drosophila mesoderm development
16:55 – 17:20    Bartosz Wilczynski, University of Warsaw
Predicting spatial and temporal gene expression using a integrative model of transcription factor occupancy and chromatin state
17:20 – 17:45    Krzysztof Jagla, University of Clermont Ferrand
Downstream of identity genes: Genome-wide approaches to tackle diversification of muscle cell types
17:45 – 18:30    Alistair Boettiger, Harward University
Trade-offs in Bistable Gene Regulatory Systems
19:00    Welcome Drink
19:30    Dinner
21:00 – 22:00    Alfonso Martinez Arias, University of Cambridge
Signal integration in the resolution of transition states in development and homeostasis

Wednesday 23rd May
Session II
09:00 – 09:45
Eileen Furlong, EMBL Heidelberg
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09:45 – 10:30    Alex Stark, IMP Vienna
Regulatory Genomics in Drosophila
10:30 - 11:00        Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45    Bart Deplancke, EPFL Lausanne
Systems approaches to decipher the Drosophila regulatory code
11:45 - 12:30    Angelike Stathoupoulos, Caltech
Dorsal-ventral Patterning of the Embryo Reflects Dynamics and Precision of the Dorsal Nuclear Gradient
12:30    Lunch

Session III
14:00 – 14:45    Fernando Casares, CABD Sevilla
Specification and patterning of Drosophila visual organs: gene networks, gradients and models
14:45 – 15:30    Denis Thieffry, ENS Paris
Logical modeling of mesoderm specification
15:30 – 16:15    Sven Bergmann, University of Lausanne
Precision and Scaling in Morphogen Gradient Read-out
16:15 – 16:45    Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:10    Anil Aswani, UC Berkeley
Nonparametric Modeling of Spatial and Temporal Transcription in Drosophila embryos from in vivo Gene Expression Data
17:10 – 17:35    Fisun Hamaratoglu, University of Basel
To scale or not to scale: The case of Dpp
17:35 – 18:00    Nicolas Pelaez, Northwestern University
The Yan Network is robust against YAN gene and protein variation
19:00    Dinner

20:30 – 22:00    Poster Session

Thursday 24th May
Session IV
09:00 – 09:45
    John Reinitz, University of Chicago
Transcription and Canalization in the Drosophila Blastoderm
09:45 – 10:30    Yogi Jaeger, CRG Barcelona
The Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics of the Gap Gene System
10:30 - 11:00        Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45    Gasper Tkacik, IST Vienna
Physical basis of 'positional information' in early development
11:45 - 12:30    Pavel Tomancak, MPI Dresden
Building observational foundation for systems biology of development
12:30    Lunch

Session V
14:00 – 14:45    Steve Russel, University of Cambridge
Genomics of Drosophila Sox domain transcription Factors
14:45 – 15:30    Uwe Ohler, Duke University
Computational and experimental approaches to decode proximal and distal regulatory regions
15:30 – 16:15    Stein Aerts, VIB Leuven
Integrative regulatory genomics using i-cisTarget
16:15 – 16:45    Coffee Break & Group Picture
16:45 – 17:10    Claus Schertel, University of Zurich
A conditional in vivo expression library to systematically study microRNAs in Drosophila
17:10 – 17:35    Joaquin De Navascues, University of Cambridge
Drosophila midgut homeostasis involves neutral competition between symmetrically dividing intestinal stem cells
17:35 – 18:00    Bas Van Steensel, Netherlands Cancer Institute
Principal chromatin types in Drosophila
18:00 – 18:45    Closing remarks
19:00    Reception and Conference Dinner

Friday 25th April
Breakfast and Departure