ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology
Speakers
  1. Amitesh Anand
    DBS-TIFR, Mumbai, India
    1) Redox centers and electron flow
    2) Resource partitioning and energy metabolism
    3) Bioenergetic plasticity and pathogenesis
    4) Energetics as target space for nest generation antimicrobials
     
  2. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan
    University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    Mitochondrial dynamics and function
     
  3. Massimiliano Esposito
    University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    Thermodynamics of Deterministic Chemical Reaction Networks: From Basic Principles to Metabolism
     
  4. Sunil Laxman
    inStem, Bengaluru, India
    1) Cell metabolism as an economy - what control strategies do cells use, and how to identify what is at play
    2) Ideas on Self-organization of metabolic networks, how it can lead to division of metabolic labor
    3) Metabolic organization - challenges and rules in growth or survival programs
     
  5. Michael Lynch
    Arizona State University, USA
    1) Drift, mutation, and evolution
    2) The bioenergetics costs of building and maintaining cells and cell parts
    3) The origins of cell biology’s scaling laws
    4) Principles of evolutionary overdesign and underperformance
     
  6. Jonathan Rodenfels (Developmental energetics, Measurement, Calorimetry)
    MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany
    1) Energetics of embryonic development 
    2) Basics and applications in developmental energetics/metabolism, 
    3) Energetic cost estimates 
    4) How to measure metabolic/energetic parameters (Heat, O2,CO2, Metabolomics  and how they can be put together in a meaningful way for learn about mass and energy flows in developing systems.)
     
  7. Pablo Sartori (CRN, Thermodynamic laws in microbial communities)
    Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
    1) Cellular growth as a non-equilibrium chemical process.
    2) Biomass thermodynamics: entropy and enthalpy of biomass, what it is and how to estimate it.
    3) Yield and dissipation across metabolic types.
    4) Yield and dissipation within metabolic types
    5) Practical: estiamting dissipation of different subcellular processes and of whole cell metabolism.
     
  8. Xingbo Yang (Measurement, Optical techniques/imaging, Active Matter, Flux control)
    Physics of Life (PoL), TU Dresden, Germany
    1) Active matter theory and cytoskeletal dynamics 
    2) Measurement of spatiotemporal cell metabolism (imaging) 
    3) Coarse-grained metabolic modeling and flux control 
    4) Spatial metabolism in mouse oocytes