The CMPI Symposium on

Multi-Scale Modeling
of Host/Pathogen Interactions

June 23 - 25, 2009, University Club, Pittsburgh, PA

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Modeling lymphocyte-stromal cell interactions
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
 
4:00 PMRegistration
Opening Session
6:00 PMWelcome and Introduction
Penelope Morel, University of Pittsburgh
6:05 PMOpening Remarks
Arthur Levine, Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
6:15 PMKeynote Address
Arup Chakraborty, MIT.
How T Cells See Antigen
7:00 PMReception
 
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
 
8:00 AMContinental Breakfast
Session 1: The Molecule
Chair: Takis Benos, University of Pittsburgh
8:30 AMChristian Forst, University of Texas Southwestern.
Early host (cell) response to influenza infection
9:10 AMElodie Ghedin, University of Pittsburgh.
The Intra- and Inter-Host Evolutionary Dynamics of RNA Viruses
9:30 AMDavid Braun, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
STAT3 activation dynamics in response to IL-6 and IL-10
9:50 AMSteven H. Kleinstein, Yale University.
Cascading transcriptional control drives the anti-viral response in dendritic cells
10:30 AMCoffee Break
11:00 AMZiv Bar-Joseph, Carnegie Mellon University.
Cross Species Analysis of Immune Response Data
11:20 AMThomas Person, University of Texas Southwestern.
Metabolic network interactions between human and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
11:40 AMNevan Krogan, UCSF.
Functional Insights from Protein-Protein and Genetic Interaction Maps
 
12:20 PMLUNCH
 
Session 2: The Cell
Chair: Russ Salter, University of Pittsburgh
2:00 PMJason A. Papin, University of Virginia.
Systems analysis of human pathogens identifies drug targets and mechanisms of pathogenicity
2:40 PMShlomo Ta'asan, Carnegie Mellon University.
Challenges in Mathematical Modeling of in vivo Influenza A infection in mice
3:00 PMAditi Dandapani, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Viral latency explained by a model of DI-particle-viral-host interactions
3:20 PMHulin Wu, University of Rochester.
Estimation of Cellular Kinetics and Viral Dynamics during Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses for Influenza Infection in Mouse
4:00 PMCoffee Break
4:30 PMGarry Nolan, Stanford University.
Early events in pathogen recognition at the single cell level
5:10 PMLauren Childs, Cornell Universtiy.
From inflammation to wound healing: a simple model of macrophage dynamics
5:30 PMJames R. Faeder, University of Pittsburgh.
Rule-based modeling of biological signal transduction
6:00 PMPOSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
SPEAKER DINNER
 
Thursday, June 25, 2009
 
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast and Registration
Session 3: The Organ
Chair: Penelope Morel,
8:30 AMDavid A. Thorley-Lawson, Tufts University.
Modeling Epstein-Barr virus Infection and Persistence
9:10 AMJoAnne Flynn, University of Pittsburgh.
Tuberculosis: modeling in monkeys and in silico
9:30 AMJoyeeta Dutta-Moscato, University of Pittsburgh.
An agent-based model of respiratory syncytial virus-induced chronic lung sensitivity
9:50 AMMarc Jenkins, University of Minnesota.
Tracking Microbe-specific CD4+ T Cells After Infection or Vaccination
10:30 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AMShayn Peirce, University of Virginia.
Linking Molecular Signals to Multi-Cell Behaviors Using Agent-Based Modeling
11:40 AMCliburn Chan, Duke University.
 END OF SYMPOSIUM

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