Second Annual Alpha Project Research Symposium

The Second Annual Alpha Project Research Symposium
"Predicting the Quantitative Behavior of the Yeast Response to Mating Pheromone"
June 4, 2004
Registration 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Symposium 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
2621 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720

About The Alpha Project

The Alpha Project is an international, multidisciplinary research effort to model and predict the behavior of an intracellular signaling pathway: the yeast pheromone signal transduction pathway. Quantifying how cells sense and respond to various stimuli and creating a model that will accurately predict these responses are the first important steps to understanding diseases and eventually to tailoring precise treatments to each individual.

The Alpha Project is the flagship activity of the The Molecular Sciences Institute's Center for Genomic Experimentation and Computation (CGEC). The CGEC was created to pursue interdisciplinary projects that will enable broad understanding of cellular and organismic behavior and to work towards making predictive models of biological systems by combining experimentation and computation. In 2002 the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health designated the CGEC as a Center of Excellence in Genomic Sciences.

The CGEC core is at the Molecular Sciences Institute. Participating members of the Center are located at the following institutions:

California Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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