Friday, December 3, 2010
Rice University's BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 280
Co-organized by Gábor Balázsi, Ricardo Azevedo and Oleg Igoshin

Local speakers: 25 minutes + 5 minutes for questions
Invited speakers: 35 minutes + 10 minutes for questions

Morning Workshop
Tutorial lectures for participating students and postdoctoral fellows to introduce key concepts of symposium research areas

8:00 am - Registration, Breakfast

9:00 - Workshop Session 1: Networks

10:00 - Coffee Break

10:30 - Workshop Session 2: Pattern Formation

11:30 - Workshop Session 3: Evolution

Symposium Session 1

12:30 pm - Opening Lunch

1:30 - Symposium Lecture 1, Michael Deem, Rice University

2:00 - Symposium Lecture 2, Tim Cooper, University of Houston

2:30 - Symposium Lecture 3, Gürol M. Süel, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

3:15 - Symposium Lecture 4, Gábor Balázsi, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

3:45 - Coffee Break

4:00 - Keck Seminar Symposium, Lecture 5, Robert H. Austin, Princeton University

5:00 - Reception

6:30 - Dinner with Speakers

Saturday, December 4, 2010
Rice University's BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 280
Co-organized by Gábor Balázsi, Ricardo Azevedo and Oleg Igoshin

8:30 am - Posters Set Up; Breakfast

Symposium Session 2

9:00 - Symposium Lecture 6, Oleg Igoshin, Rice University

9:30 - Symposium Lecture 7, James E. Ferrell, Jr., Stanford University

10:15 - Coffee Break; Poster Preview

10:45 - Symposium Lecture 8, Ricardo Azevedo, University of Houston

11:15 - Symposium Lecture 9, Zhenglong Gu, Cornell University

12:00 pm - Symposium Lecture 10, Matthew R. Bennett, Rice University

12:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Poster Session Opens

Symposium Session 3 Co-organized by Amina Qutub and Jeff Tabor

2:00 - Symposium Lecture 11, Amina Qutub, Rice University