The following is a working list of topics/speakers. The program will feature an extended lecture by an invited speaker in the morning to initiate the daily discussion; the afternoons will be open for individual or small group discussions, with possibly short, informal presentations by the long-term participants. Specifics of the weekly topics will depend on the availabilityof the speakers and will be updated regularly. Please consult the abstract & outline page for a more detailed account of the topics, and the daily schedule page for links to past and upcoming talks.
| date | topics | invited speakers (* indicates accepted) |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 -- Jan 19 | intro to molecular & evolution biology | Hwa*, Stormo*, Wills* |
| Jan 22 -- Jan 26 | sequence analysis I: mathematical and statistical aspects | Altschul*, Bundschuh*, Dembo* |
| Jan 29 -- Feb 2 | sequence analysis II: biological applications | Borodovsky*, Gribskov* |
| Feb 5 -- Feb 9 | RNA folding: structure & kinetics | Isambert*, Schuster*, Stormo*, Tinoco*, Woodson* |
| Feb 12 -- Feb 16 | protein folding I: kinetics | Dill*, Eaton* , Finkelstein*, Jackson*, Onuchic* |
| Feb 19 -- Feb 23 | protein folding II: structure & design | Baker*, Doniach*, Mayo*, Sauer*, Shaknovich* |
| Feb 26 -- Mar 2 | protein folding III: structure prediction | Bryant*, Gerstein*, Levitt*, Rose* |
| Mar 5 -- Mar 9 | genomics I: intron/exon, splicing, DNA motif finding | Bafna*, Li*, Liu*, Stormo* |
| Mar 12 -- Mar 16 | genomics II: large scale organization, comparative genomic analysis | Burge*, Green*, Rajewski*, Shapiro* |
| Mar 19 -- Mar 23 | genomics III: protein-DNA/RNA interaction | Lancet*, Kadonaga*, Pan*, Tor*, von Hippel* |
| Mar 26 -- Mar 30 | network I: DNA microarray & gene expression analysis | Alon*, DeRisi*, Notterman*, Stoughton*, Wold* |
| Apr 2 -- Apr 6 | network II: elements of biological networks | Brent*, Davidson*, Libchaber*, Ptashne*, Yanagida* |
| Apr 9 -- Apr 13 | network III: protein circuits: signal transduction, chemotaxis | Doyle*, Murray*, Shraiman*, Subramaniam* |
| Apr 16 -- Apr 20 | network IV: gene circuits: regulation, development | Elowitz*, Endy*, Reinitz*, Savageau* |
| Apr 23 -- Apr 27 | molecular evolution I: prebiotic evolution; in vitro molecular breeding | Estell*, Fitch*, Gold*, Joyce, Lancet* |
| Apr 30 -- May 4 | molecular evolution II: RNA world; genomic evolution | Landweber*, Petrov*, Trifonov*, Unrau* |
| May 7 -- May 11 | phylogeny I: protein evolution; intro to phylogenetic tree | Atchley*, Fitch*, Hillis*, Holmes*, Wagner* |
| May 14 -- May 18 | phylogeny II: multiple alignment and tree building and tree statistics | Dyson*, Higgs*, Kluge*, Pagel*, Sankoff* |
| May 21 -- May 25 | phylogeny III: beyond tree: horizontal transfer and evolution networks | Boore*, Dress*, Fitch*, Frazer* |
| May 28 -- June 1 | population genetics I: viral and bacteria evolution, adaptation | Chao*, Koonin*, Levine* |
| June 4 -- June 8 | population genetics II: sexual reproduction and speciation | Hammerstein*, Kondrashov*, Ohta*, Thaler* |
| June 11 -- June 15 | population genetics III: multi-species community, symbiosis, foodweb | Ostling*, Nisbet*, Rosenzweig*, Kardar* |