Upcoming Symposium on Modeling Life Processes on Tuesday, January 11

DATE: Tuesday, January 11, 2000
TIME: 12:55-5:00 p.m.

PLACE:
The Rockefeller University
Caspary Auditorium
York Avenue at East 66th Street
New York City

12:55 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
Arnold J. Levine, President, The Rockefeller University
Phillip A. Griffiths, Director, Institute for Advanced Study

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Joel E. Cohen
Abby Rockefeller Mauz Professor
The Rockefeller University
“Models of Chagas Disease”

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
George Church
Professor of Genetics and Director of Lipper Center for Computational Genetics
Harvard Medical School
“Measuring and Modeling Regulatory DNA Motifs and Networks”

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Peter D. Karp
Director of the Bioinformatics Research Group
SRI International
“Qualitative Modeling from Genome to Pathways”

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Walter Fontana
Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Member, Institute for Advanced Study
“RNA as a Model System for the Study of Evolution”

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Afternoon Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Mitchell Feigenbaum
Toyota Professor and Director of the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology
The Rockefeller University
“Metrics in Vision and the Low Moon”

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
David D. Ho
Professor and Scientific Director
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
The Rockefeller University
“HIV Replication Dynamics & Implications for Vaccine Development”

4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Alan S. Perelson
Group Leader, Theoretical Biology & Biophysics
Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Mathematical Models of HIV-1 Dynamics in Plasma and Lymphoid Tissue”

All are welcome and admission is free.