PROGRAM
The First Annual Alpha Project Research Symposium
"Predicting the Quantitative Behavior of the Yeast Response to Mating Pheromone"
December 13, 2002
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10:00 am - 10:15 am Registration and Coffee

10:15 am - 10:30 am "Systems Biology and an Engineering Agenda"
Shankar Sastry
Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

10:30 am - 11:00 am "Origins, Overview, and Possible Outcomes of the Alpha Project"
Roger Brent
President and Research Director
The Molecular Sciences Institute

11:00 am - 12 noon KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Pondering Pathways: The Power and Limits of Genetics"
Ira Herskowitz
Professor, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

12:00 noon - 12:45 pm Lunch Break

12:45 pm - 1:30 pm "Physiology and Cell Biology of Pheromone Response"
Alejandro Colman-Lerner
Research Fellow
The Molecular Sciences Institute

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm "Simulation of Intracellular Events"
Larry Lok
Research Fellow
The Molecular Sciences Institute

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm "Pushing the Limits for Protein Characterization by Mass Spectrometry, and the Alpha Project Context"
Richard Smith
Batelle Fellow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee Break

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm "New Methods to Detect and Quantify Small Numbers of Epitopes"
Ian Burbulis
Research Fellow
The Molecular Sciences Institute

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm "Bridging Paradigm Gaps Between Biology and Engineering"
Shuki Bruck
Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology

4:45 pm - 5:30 pm "Understanding and Engineering Biology"
Drew Endy
Fellow, Department of Biology and Division of Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception
Molecular Sciences Institute
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