CAS International Symposium of Developmental Systems Biology
on Gene Regulation and Aging

October 12-15, 2011
Shanghai, China

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CAS International Symposium of Developmental Systems Biology on Gene Regulation and Aging


October 12-15, 2011

Shanghai, China



Conference Program

Venue: Lake Malaren International Convention Center

6655 Hu Tai Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai




Oct 12, Wednesday

09:00-18:00

Registration



Oct 13, Thursday

08:30-09:00

Welcome & Opening remarks


Session I Gene Regulation


Chair: Shirley Liu


09:00-09:45

Keynote talk:

Transcriptional Precision in the Drosophila Embryo


Michael Levine (UC Berkeley)

09:45-10:15

A Novel Baysian Change-Point (BCP) Model for ChIP-seq Data Analyses

Michael Q.Zhang (UTD/THU)

10:15-11:00

Coffee Break/Group Photo Shooting



Chair: Nicholas Baker


11:00-11:30

Distinct modes of transcription factor binding and chromatin dynamics

Shirley Liu(Harvard/DFCI)

11:30-12:00

Single cell genomics and epigenomics

Jan Vijg(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)




12:00-14:00

Lunch & Break



Chair: Jiarui Wu


14:00-14:30

A network of broadly-expressed HLH genes regulates tissue-specific cell fates

Nicholas Baker(AECOM)

14:30-15:00

Understanding tumourigenesis in hematopoietic malignancy by integrating multi-layers of information


Ji Zhang(Shanghai Institute of Hematology)

15:00-15:30

The Roles of Mediator Med23 in Stemness and Neural Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Gang Wang (SIBS,CAS)

15:30-15:45

Coffee Break



Chair: Brian Kennedy


15:45-16:15

Dynamic Analysis of Type 2 Diabetic Progression with Proteomic Approach

Jiarui Wu (SIBS, CAS)

16:15-16:45

Regulation of nucleosome landscape and transcription factor targeting at tissue-specific enhancers by BRG1





Keji Zhao (NIH)

16:45-17:15

Comparative transcriptome and genome analysis in a chimpanzee trio

Yasuhiro Go(Kyoto University)

17:15-17:45

The uses of phylogenetic networks in  developmental systems biology

Andreas Dress(Bielefeld University)

17:45-18:15


A Single Nucleotide-Resolution Map of RNA Complexity

in fruitfly and Human


Li Yang (PICB, CAS)


18:15-20:00

Dinner


Oct 14, Friday

Session II Aging


Chair: Matt Kaeberlin


09:00-09:45

Keynote talk:

Cellular senescence links DNA damage, inflammation and aging

Judith Campisi (Buck Institute for Research on Aging)

09:45-10:15

Pathways controlling aging and age-related disease


Brian Kennedy(Buck Institute for Research on Aging)

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break



Chair: Jingdong Jackie Han


10:30-11:00

Telomere recombination in regulation of replicative life span in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jinqiu Zhou(IBCB, CAS)

11:00-11:30

Genome-wide analysis of aging and the response to dietary restriction

Matt Kaeberlin(University of Washington)

11:30-12:00

Human-specific features of postnatal brain development


Philipp Khaitovich (PICB, CAS)

12:00-14:00

Lunch & Break



Chair: Hao Li


14:00-14:30

In Search for the Regulatory Network of Aging

Jing-Dong Jackie Han (PICB/IGDB, CAS)

14:30-15:00

Functional Approaches to the Genetics of Human Aging



Yousin Suh(AECOM)

15:00-15:30

Ep Epigenetic Regulation of Aging


Zhongjun Zhou

(University of Hong Kong)

15:30-15:45

Coffee Break



Chair: Nicholas Luscombe


15:45-16:15

Genetic variants predispose sexual dimorphism in human longevity



Xiaoli Tian

(Peking University)

16:15-16:45

Molecular Phenotyping of Aging in Single Yeast Cells Using a Novel Microfluidic Device

Hao Li(UCSF)

16:45-17:15

Knockout mouse models for Sirtuins: transcriptional regulation, Metabolism, and Cancer

Chuxia Deng (SIBS, NIH)

17:15-17:45

Glucose shortens the life span of C.elegans by affecting insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway

Seung-Jae Lee

(University of California)

17:45-18:30

Poster Session


18:30-20:00

Dinner


Oct 15, Saturday

Session III Computational Biology


Chair: Eran Segal


09:00-09:30

Chromatin Interaction Landscape and Models of Transcription Regulation


Yijun Ruan

(Genome Institute of Singapore)

09:30-10:00

Detection of Sparse Complexes from Yeast PPI networks

Hon Wai Leong

(National Universiy of Singapore)

10:00-10:30


Transcriptional regulation in 3D: classification models for gene expression in the fly embryo

Nicholas Luscombe

(EMBL,EBI)

10:15:10:30

Coffee Break

Chair: Yijun Ruan


10:30-11:00

Unraveling the rules of transcriptional regulation using large-scale libraries of designed promoter sequences

Eran Segal(Weizmann Inst.)

11:00-11:30

Transcriptomic and post-transcripomic data integration: emerging properties


Christine Nardini (PICB, CAS)


11:30-12:00

TBD

Yingrui Li(BGI)

12:00-14:00

Lunch & Break





14:00-21:30

Sightseeing: Shanghai Museum & the Oriental Pearl Tower









Important Dates


Early Registration
Deadline: July 12, 2011

Poster Submission
Deadline: September 25, 2011

Registration
Deadline: September 12, 2011


Acknowledgement

IBM

illumina

utrusty

isilon