Program

 

The speakers mentioned in the program below have all agreed to participate in the symposium.

Click on the author's name for the abstract.

 

                          8.15-8.45:         badges, abstracts       (Registration desk, ground floor)

 

Thursday June 2, 2005              Location: Kerkzaal, 15-16th floor

                        8.45-9.10:           coffee/tea     (15th floor)

 

                         9.10-9.15:           opening

 

Theme 1:  Methodology of systems biology

 

 

  9.15-10.15:   Hans Westerhoff............. (Vrije Universiteit,  Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                                                        

10.15-11.15:   Douglas Kell................... (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)   

              

                        11.15-11.35:       coffee/tea     (15th floor)                                    

 

11.35-12.35:   Robert Shulman.......................... (Yale University, New Haven, USA)

 

              

                        12.35-13.45:       lunch        (Mensa, ground floor)

 

Theme 2:  The role of theory, models and simulation in systems biology

 

13.45-14.45:   Olaf Wolkenhauer.......................... (Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany)

                                                   

14.45-15.45:   Kenneth Schaffner............ (George Washington University, Washington, USA)    
            

                        15.45-16.05:       coffee/tea    (15th floor)                         

 

16.05-17.05:   David Fell.......................... (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK)

 

                        17.05-17.15:       closure    


Friday June 3, 2005                 (Location: Auditorium, 1st floor)

 

                        8.15-8.45:           coffee/tea      (1st floor)

 

                        8.45-8.50:           opening  

                                                     

Theme 3:  Organisation in biological systems

 

  8.50-9.45:     Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr................(University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, SA)

                                                                    

  9.45-10.40:   William Wimsatt..........................(University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

 

                        10.40-11.00:       coffee/tea          (1st floor)

 

11.00-11.55:   Alvaro Moreno...........(University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain)

11.55-12.50:   William Bechtel..........................(University of California, San Diego, USA)

                       

 

                        12.50-14.00:       lunch         (1st floor)

                       

Theme 4:  Philosophical foundations of systems biology

 

14.00-14.55:   Robert Richardson..........................(University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA)   
         
             Achim Stephan..........................(Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany)

 

14.55-15.50:   Evelyn Fox Keller.......(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)

                        15.50-16.10:       coffee/tea          (1st floor)

 

16.10-16.45:   General discussion

 

                        16.45-17.00:       closure                

 

 

 

 

 

The organizing committee,

 

Hans Westerhoff                                         

Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr                                             

Frank Bruggeman                                                                                       

Fred Boogerd