January 15, 2016 - January 16, 2016
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Organized by Chad Giusti.
Friday, January 15th:
8:30 am: Coffee
9:00 am: Opening Remarks
9:10 am: Robert Ghrist (University of Pennsylvania), “Applied Topology for Neuroscience: Theory & Computation”
10:10 am: Coffee and Discussion
10:45 am: Pablo Camara (Columbia University), “Applied topology reveals developmental progression at a single-cell level”
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: Heather Harrington (Oxford University), “Parameter-free approaches for comparing biochemical networks”
2:00 pm: Coffee and Discussion
2:45 pm: Tomas Gedeon (Montana State University), “Database for Dynamics: a new approach to model gene regulatory networks”
3:45 pm: Reception
Saturday, January 16th:
8:30 am: Coffee
9:00 am: Kathryn Hess Bellwald (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), “Topological analysis of digital reconstructions of neural microcircuits”
10:00 am: Coffee and Discussion
10:45 am: Vladimir Itskov (Pennsylvania State University), “Topological inference of intrinsic structure in neural activity”
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: Eleni Katifori (University of Pennsylvania), “Topological fingerprints of biological distribution networks”