Monday (May 8)

Cell Synchronization in Beta-Cells

9:00 - 9:45        Erik Mosekilde: "Synchronization of coupled pancreatic cells"
                              (Physics Department, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

9:45 - 10:50      Svend Göpel and Juris Galvanovskis: "Electrical activity of pancreatic
                              beta-cells in intact islets: Experimental and theoretical aspects"
                              (Institute of Physiology, University of Lund, Sweden)

10:50 - 11:20    coffee

11:20 - 12:30    Ole Skyggebjerg: "Acquisition and analysis of calcium waves in pancreatic
                               islets using fluorescence videomicroscopy"
                               (Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark)

                              Mette Vesterager Petersen: "A mathematical model of wave
                              propagation in coupled beta-cells"
                              (Dept. of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

12:30 - 13:30  lunch

Cell Synchronization in Yeast Cells

13:30 - 14:15  Preben Graae Sørensen: "Glycolytic oscillations in open flow systems"
                            (Dept. of Chemistry & CATS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

14:15 - 15:00  Martin Bier: "How yeast cells synchronize their glycolytic oscillations"
                            (Dept. of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, University of Chicago, USA)

15:00 - 15:30  coffee

15:30 - 16:00  Silvia De Monte: "Locked states of a population of nonlinear oscillators"
                            (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

16:00 - 16:30  Francesco d'Ovidio: "Modelling perturbations in a population
                             of coupled oscillators"
                             (CATS, Technical University of Denmark and
                            University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Bioinformatics

16:30 - 17:00  Bai-lin Hao: "Fractals from genomes: Exact solutions of
                             a biology-inspired problem"
                             (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Cinica, China)
 

Tuesday (May 9)

Bacterial Pattern Formation

9:00 - 9:30     James A. Shapiro: Introduction
                           (Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
                          University of Chicago, USA)

9:30 - 10:15   Sune Danø: "Physical and biological basis of pattern formation
                           in Proteus mirabilis"
                           (Dept. of Chemistry & CATS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

10:15 - 11:00  Michael Givskov: "Cell-cell comunication and organized
                             behavior of bacteria"
                             (Dept. of Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark)

11:00 - 11:30  coffee
 

11:30 12:15    Mitsugu Matsushita "Periodic colony formation of bacteria"
                          (Dept. of Physics, Chuo University, Japan)
 

12:15-12:45    Discussion on bacterial pattern formation.
                            Why does it happen? What does it teach us?

12:45 - 13:45  lunch

Reaction-Diffusion Systems

13:45 - 14:30  Thomas Mair: "Traveling waves of glycolytic activity"
                            (Dept. of Biophysics, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Germany)

14:30 - 15:15  Mads Ipsen: "Pacemakers in oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems"
                            (Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany)

15:15 - 15:45  coffee

15:45 - 16:45  Mads Kærn: "Physical principles of segmentation during growth"
                            (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada)

16:45 - 17:30  Sergey Kuznetsov:  "Instabilities and pattern formation in
                             the reaction-diffusion flow model"
                             (Inst. of Radio Engineering, Saratov, Russia)
 

Wednesday (May 10)
 

Fungal Patterns

 9:30 - 9:45    Elena Bystrova: "Modelling of pattern formation in mycelial fungi colonies"
                           (Dept. of Biophysics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia)

Bioreactors

 9:45 - 10:30  Frede Lei: "Modelling and control of multiple steady-states in
                           a continuous baker's yeast cultivation"
                           (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

10:30 - 11:00  coffee

Modelling Biological Systems

11:00 - 11:45  Hans Braun: "Cooperative effects between nonlinear dynamics and noise:
                             sensory receptors, hypothalamic neurons and psychiatric disorders"
                             (Institute of Physiology, University of Marburg, Germany)

11:45 - 12:30  Mitsugu Matsushita "Formation of colony patterns by bacterial cell population"
                            (Dept. of Physics, Chuo University, Japan)

12:30 - 13:30  lunch

13:30 - 14:15  Finn Hynne: "A full-scale model of glycolysis"
                            (Dept. of Chemistry & CATS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

14:15 - 14:45  coffee

14:45 - 15:30   Anton Antonov:  "A pattern language for large scale air pollution models"
                             (UNI-C, Denmark)

15:30 - 16:15   Zhanybai Zhusubaliyev: "Bifurcations and chaotic oscillations in an
                             automatic control relay system with hysteresis"
                             (Dept. of Computer Science, Kursk State Technical University, Russia)
 

Thursday (May 11)

Combining Experiments and Models

 9:00 - 9:45   Tom Fenchel: "Motile behaviour of microbes: Individual
                             responses and effect at the population level."
                          (Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen)

 9:45 - 10:30  Stanley Brown: The genetic switch in lambda phage: experiments
                           (Institute of Molecular Biology,
                           University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

10:30 - 11:00  coffee

11:00 - 11:45 Kim Sneppen: The genetic switch in lambda phage: a model
                            (NORDITA, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

11:45 - 12:45  Dennis Bray: "Bacterial chemotaxis: models and experiments"
                            (Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK)

12:45                 lunch