Workshop Information Theory meets Biology

16. -17.02.2010, Ulm University, Germany

Travel: see here
Accomondation: one possible hotel is the IBIS. Close to the hotel is a bus station (use Line 3 or 5).

Focus

The plan is to bring together researchers from biology and information theory in a series of workshops for discussions. The workshops should accompany the DFG priority program InKoMBio (SPP 1397). At each workshop well known international researchers from both fields will be invited speakers. Other participants are welcome to present their results as well.

Preliminary Schedule 

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	16.02. 2010
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	14:30 Welcome (Location H45.1)
	15:00 - 17:00 Invited Talks
	15:00 Thomas Schneider: Molecular Information Theory
	16:00 Coffee break
	16:15 Frans Willems: Two Source Coding Algorithms
	17:15 Discussion
	18:00 Dinner
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	17.02. 2010
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	Talks (45 min)
	09:00 Session 1 
		Adrian Granada, Synchronization of circadian oscillators
		P.-Y. Bourguignon, Parsimonious Markov models
		Chris Watkins, The Channel Capacity of Evolution
	11:15 Coffee break
	11:30  Session 2
		Ivo Grosse, Computational Identification of Transcription Factor Binding Sites:
			From Position Weight Matrices to Parsimonious Context Trees
		Michael Ederer/Steffen Schober: Evolutive Adpatation in E.Coli: Models of the 
			metabolic and transcription networks.
	13:00  Lunch/Discussion/END