19:00 - 20:45

Welcome reception at MPI MiS (4th floor)

08:30 - 08:40

Welcome and opening remarks by Jürgen Jost. Introduction to GDRE Sys Bio 513 by François Képès

Session I (Chair: Jürgen Jost)

08:40 - 09:15

Fatihcan Atay  (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig)
Network entropy

09:15 - 09:50

Thilo Gross  (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
Dynamical stability of food webs

09:50 - 10:25

Peter Dittrich  (FSU Jena)
Chemical organizations at different spatial and temporal scales

10:25 - 10:55

Coffee break (4th floor)

Session II (Chair: Klaus Scherrer)

10:55 - 11:30

Hervé Isambert  (Institut Curie, Paris)
Evolutionary constraints from whole genome duplication

11:30 - 12:05

Peter Stadler  (University of Leipzig)
RNA-RNA interactions: computational prediction and biological function

12:05 - 14:00

Lunch

Session III (Chair: Ivo Große)

14:00 - 14:35

Sonja J. Prohaska  (University of Leipzig)
The unique role of histone modifications in gene regulation

14:35 - 15:10

Ivan Junier  (ISC PIF, Paris)
The functional organization of bacterial genomes: limits, strategies and consequences

15:10 - 15:20

Coffee break (4th floor)

Session IV (Chair: Pierre-Yves Bourgignon)

15:20 - 15:55

Steffen Klamt  (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg)
The duality between elementary modes and minimal cut sets: a paradigm for functional analysis of biological network

15:55 - 16:30

Christine Dillmann  (Université Paris-Sud, Gif sur Yvette)
How do nutrient ressources shape the metabolic diversity within the Escherichia coli  species ? Integrating heterogeneous biological data into models

16:30 - 17:15

Poster session and discussions (4th floor)

17:15 - 18:15

Panel discussion: Open problems in Multi-scale models of Biological Networks Moderators: Jürgen Jost, Francois Képès, Thimo Rohlf, Klaus Scherrer

19:00 - 20:00

Guided tour of the Leipzig city centre (conducted by Stephan Poppe, meeting point: in front of Victor's Residenz Hotel)

20:00

Conference dinner (à la carte and on individual payment)

Session V (Chair: Olivier Martin)

08:30 - 09:05

Jörg Galle  (University of Leipzig)
Transcriptional regulation by histone modifications

09:05 - 09:40

Erich Bornberg-Bauer  (University of Münster)
The complex networks of modular evolution of genes and proteins

09:40 - 10:15

Olivier Rivoire  (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, and CNRS, Grenoble)
Protein sectors: from intra to inter-molecular coevolution

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee break (4th floor)

Session VI (Chair: Ulrich Behn)

10:45 - 11:20

Silvio Franz  (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay)
Adaptation in a varying fitness landscape

11:20 - 11:55

Barbara Drossel  (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Evolution of Boolean networks

11:55 - 13:55

Lunch

Session VII (Chair: Francois Képès)

13:45 - 14:20

Juan F. Poyatos  (Spanish National Biotechnology Centre CNB, Madrid)
Understanding genetic networks: the allegory of the cave

14:20 - 14:55

Sarah Teichmann  (University of Cambridge)
Evolution and assembly of protein complexes

14:55 - 15:20

Coffee break (4th floor)

Session VIII (Chair: Eric Fanchon)

15:20 - 15:55

Vincent Hakim  (École normale supérieure, Paris)
Cell fates, gene network architectures and cell-cell interactions

15:55 - 16:30

Stefan Bornholdt  (University of Bremen)
Boolean networks as toy models for robustness and reliability in gene regulation networks

16:30

Closing of conference (Jürgen Jost, François Képès, and Olivier Martin)