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Workshop 2: Pattern Formation and Development in Colonial Organisms: Schedule

Schedule
Monday, October 13
8:30-9:00am Welcome and overview of workshop: Marty Golubitsky and Hans Othmer
9:00-10:00am James Shapiro: What do colony patterns mean?
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Yuhai Tu: A biological signal processor: How E. coli responds to time-varying signals
11:30-12:30pm Roseanne Ford: Interactions of swimming bacteria with surfaces
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Xiangrong Xin: A systematic model of bacterial chemotaxis: from signal transduction to cell motility in Escherichia coli
3:00-4:00pm TBA
4:00pm Reception and Poster Session: Jennings Hall, 3rd floor
Tuesday, October 14
9:00-10:00am Mark Alber: Role of reversals in Myxobacterial Swarming
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Isaac Klapper: Physical Influences on Biofilm Structure
11:30-12:30pm Chuan Xue: Mathematical models of pattern formation in baterium Proteus mirabilis colonies
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Harry Swinney: Deadly competition between sibling bacterial colonies
3:00-4:00pm Angela Stevens: Self-organization and local interaction
Wednesday, October 15
9:00-10:00am Wouter Rappel: At the interface of modeling and experiments in eukaryotic chemotaxis
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Richard A. Firtel: Ras control of chemotaxis
11:30-12:30pm Peter J. Thomas: Stochastic phenomena in chemotaxis
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm John Dallon: Modeling Cell-Cell Interactions and Motion with Discrete Viscoelastic Ellipsoids
Thursday, October 16
9:00-10:00am Radek Erban: Connecting single cell level and population level descriptions of colonial organisms
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Tony Romeo: Identification and regulation of an adhesin that influences cell organization during Escherichia coli biofilm formation
11:30-12:30pm John King: Thin-film modelling of growth and quorum sensing within a bacterial biofilm
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm David Chopp: Modeling and simulation of bacterial biofilms
3:00-4:00pm Thomas Hillen: Merging and emerging patterns in chemotaxis
6:00-9:00pm Banquet dinner at Holiday Inn on the Lane
Friday, October 17
9:00-10:00am Timothy Newman: Using many-body theory to describe statistical correlations in self-organizing populations
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Jack Dockery: Senescence and Microbial Persistence