Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre
Main Lecture Theatre (Room MLG.001)

14.15 Hiroaki Kitano (The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo): Robustness

15.15 Coffee

15.45 Roger Brent (The molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA): Quantitative physiology of information transmission in the yeast pheromone response pathway: Systems biology of a tractable system

16.45 Close

Biographical

Hiroaki Kitano & Roger Brent are world leaders in the development of Systems Biology and we strongly encourage those with an interest in Systems Biology to attend.

Sample Bibliography

Brent, R. Genomic biology. Cell 100, 169-183 (2000).

Brent, R. & Lok, L. A fishing buddy for hypothesis generators. Science 308, 504-506 (2005).

Brent, R. A partnership between biology and engineering. Nat Biotechnol 22, 1211-1214 (2004).

Kitano, H. Systems biology: a brief overview. Science 295, 1662-1664 (2002).

Kitano, H. Biological robustness. Nat Rev Genet 5, 826-837 (2004).

Kitano, H. A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design. Nat Rev Drug Discov 6, 202-210 (2007).

You can download a pdf version of the programme of the symposium here. For further information please contact Dieter Weichart.