June 4, 2008 June 5, 2008

Formal Methods in Systems Biology

Location: Microsoft Research Cambridge UK

Wednesday June 4, 2008

9:00 amJasmin Fisher Welcoming Remarks
9:30 am David Harel Some Comments on Genericity and Linkage in Modelling Biology
10:30 am  Coffee Break
Chair: Satoru Miyano
11:00 am Hillel Kugler “Don’t Care” Modelling Extended
11:30 am Nir Piterman Bounded Asynchrony for Modelling Biological Systems
12.00 pm Verena Wolf Computational Probability for Systems Biology
12:30 pm  Lunch
Chair: Marta Kwiatkowska
13:30 pm Christopher Langmead Formal Verification Under Parameter Uncertainty
14:15 pm Daniel Kroening Identification of Glass Networks with Periodic Orbits
15:00 pm  Coffee Break
Chair: Amir Pnueli
15:30 pm Satoru Miyano Cell System Markup Language and Cell Illustrator for Systems Biology Computational Platform
16:15 pm Wan Fokkink Design Issues for Qualitiative Modelling of Biological Cells with Petri Nets
18:30 pm  Punting
19:30 pm  Dinner

Thursday June 5, 2008

Chair: Stephen Emmott
9:00 amSydney Brenner Keynote Presentation: What is Systems Biology?
10:00 am  Coffee Break
Chair: David Harel
10:30 am Luca Cardelli Molecules as Automata
11:15 am Andrew Phillips Improving Modularity of Biological Processes in Stochastic Pi Calculus
11:45 am Marta Kwiatkowska Combining Intra- and Inter-Cellular Dynamics to Investigate Intestinal Homeostasis
12:30 pm  Lunch
Chair: Adelinde Uhrmacher
13:45 pm Oded Maler Approximating Continuous Systems by Timed Automata
14:30 pm Francois Fages From Reaction Models to Influence Graphs and Back: Theorem
15:15 pm  Coffee Break
Chair: Luca Cardelli
15:30 pm Russell Harmer Rule-Based Modelling of Cellular Signalling
16:15 pm Adelinde Uhrmacher One Modelling Formalism and Simulator is not enough! A Computational Biology Approach Based on James II
17:00 pm  Closing Remarks
17:30 pm Light Dinner