Biophys 09

Biology and beyond

September 7 - 9, 2009 Arcidosso (GR), Italy


      


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Scientific Program

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Structure of the workshop
 

Monday 7, afternoon: Biopolymers.
Tuesday 8, morning: Bioinformatics and genomics.
Tuesday 8, afternoon: Networks.
Wednesday 9, morning: Computational neurosciences.



                   Preliminary program
Monday 7
afternoon
Biopolymers

Invited talk

15:00
Giuseppe Chirico (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Nanotechnology tools for the visualization of the biological function in vivo


Contributed talks

15:50
Silvia Bottini (Università di Siena)
High-througput screening of protein core composition

16:20
Stefano Luccioli (Istituto Sistemi Complessi -CNR)
Unfolding times for proteins in a force clamp

16:50
Coffee break

17:20
Giulia Parisio (Università di Padova)
Modelling the partition of fullerenes in lipid bilayers

17:50
Francesco Stellato (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
Metal ions in nerodegenerative disorders X-ray absorption spectroscopy and numerical simulations

18:20
Aldo Rampioni (Università di Bologna)
Simulations of the C-subunit of ATP-synthase Reveal Helix Rearrangements

18:45-20:00
Poster Session

Tuesday 8
morning
Bioinformatics and genomics

Invited talk

9:15
Vincenzo Martorana (CNR-IBF Palermo)
Biomolecular aggregation processes


Contributed talks

10:05
Giulia Menconi (Istituto Nazionale Alta Matematica, Roma)
A priori linguistic analysis of genomic sequences: the Glutamate metabotropic receptors 1 and 5 in Human and in Mouse as a case study

10:35
Luigi Grassi (Università di Torino)
Twin destinies: Evolutionary fate of S. cerevisiae parologs

11:05
Coffee break

11:30
Duccio Fanelli (Università di Firenze)
Enhanced stochastic oscillations in autocatalytic reactions

12:00
Michele Pinelli (Università di Napoli Federico II)
Genome wide scan for signature of human population differentiation and their relationship with natural selection, functional pathways and diseases

12:30
Matteo Polettini (Università di Bologna)
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics on networks

13:00-15:00
Lunch

Tuesday 8
afternoon
Networks

Invited talk

15:10
Diego Garlaschelli (Università di Siena)
Biological networks and statistical physics


Contributed talks

16:00
Tiziano Squartini (Università di Siena)
Statistical physics for biological networks: exact method for randomizing real networks

16:30
Coffee break

17:00
Franco Bagnoli (Università di Firenze)
Smallword bifurcations in an opinion model

17:30
Luca Valori (Università di Siena)
Phase transition in the dynamics of opinions taking place on novel types of social networks

18:00-19:30
Poster session

Wednesday 9
morning
Computational neurosciences

Invited talk

9:15
Marc Timme
(Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Göttingen)
Precise Timing in Spiking Neural Circuits


Contributed talks

10:05
Angelo di Garbo (CNR-IBF Pisa)
Astrocytes, neurons and interneurons:
dynamical regimes of a minimal neural network model


10:35
Massimo Calamai (Università di Siena)
Stability of splay states in globally coupled rotators

11:05
Coffee break

11:30
Leonardo Ricci (Università di Trento)
Dynamics of criterion setting in decision making

12:00
Thierry Nieus (Neuroscience and Brain Technology, IIT, Genova)
A mathematical model of synaptic pool dynamic accounts for alteres release of synapsin I deficient mice

12:30
Mariano Barbieri (Università di Napoli Federico II)
A statistical mechanics model of Hoxb locus spatial self-organization


Posters


G. Barnabei (Università di Firenze)
Decisional Processes with Boolean Neural Networks: the Emergence of Mental Schemes


V. Barone
(Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa),
S. De Lillo, G. Lupo, M. Sommacal
(Università di Perugia)
Elastic rod models for synthetic- and bio-polymers: helical configurations in the presence of a long range interaction potential

Michele Bellesi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
Dynamics of transitions between awake and sleep states

Carla Bosia (Università di Torino)
Use of generalized Ising models for the description of directional sensing in chemotacting eukaryotic cells

Silvia Bottini (Università di Siena)
High-throughput screening of protein core composition

Marzena Ciszak
(Istituto Nazionale Ottica Applicata, Firenze)
J. Rinzel
(Corant Institute of the Mathematical Sciences, New York)
Model for learning a stimulus frequency

Antonio de Candia (Università di Napoli Federico II),
Silvia Scarpetta
(Università di Salerno)
Encoding of spatio-temporal patterns in sparse networks

E. Giampieri (Università di Bologna)
A microscopic approach to bistability, multistability and memory in cellular systems

Pasquale Laise (Università di Firenze)
VEGF-A regulation as an emergent dynamical property: a stochastic model of interacting cells

S. Olmi,  R. Livi, A. Politi,  A. Torcini
(Istituto Sistemi Complessi, CNR, Firenze)
Collective solutions of diluted neural networks

Matteo Osella (Università di Torino)
Entropic contributions to the splicing process