Transcription Networks: a Global View
The National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Background:
Transcription regulation is one of the key mechanisms that biological systems employ for essential functions such us adaptation to environmental changes in Bacteria, or control development and differentiation in multicellular organisms. Regulation of gene expression is also behind the development of some pathogenic behaviour in bacteria, and important human diseases such as cancer. In order to guarantee the coordinated expression of the whole genomes, cells build on a complex and highly organized network of transcription factors. The ability to integrate different signals or to orchestrate complex processes resides in the properties of this network. New experimental and computational methods have arisen recently, allowing us to study the transcription regulation network from a Systems Biology perspective. The application of our current knowledge of transcription networks has already allowing the engineering of artificial networks with specific properties. However we are far from fully understanding how this network works or how cells have evolved such complex network.

The aim of this workshop is to promote communication between the different approaches that have been taken in the analysis of transcription networks, from the more theoretical to the more applied, in order to achieve a global perspective about the Transcription Regulatory Networks. The topics covered will include:
• Theoretical studies of transcription networks properties and simulation.
• Evolution of transcription.
• Deriving networks from experimental data.
• New experimental methods in transcription and Artificial Regulatory Networks.
• Integrating regulation networks with other biological processes.

Venue:

The Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain

Dates:

26 - 28 May, 2005

Speakers:

Erich Bornberg-BauerWestfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, Germany
Alvis Brazma European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Julio Collado-Vides UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Joaquín Dopazo CNIO, Madrid, Spain
Roderic Guigó IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
Jacques van Helden Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
Martijn A. Huynen Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Hidde de Jong INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France
François Kepes Genopole, Evry, France
Benno Schwikowski Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
Sarah Teichmann MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

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