Overview
The hypothesis that biological systems exhibit a modular structure is widely accepted. Beyond being a “fundamental law of biology,” it has the potential for important applications, for instance in biomedicine and synthetic biology.
It could also serve as an organizational principle for the analysis of high-dimensional complex -omics datasets. However, there is currently no widely accepted definition of what comprises a biological “module”. There is also a lack of foundational research on modularity at both the theoretical and applied level. To address this problem, the proposed workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from biology, modeling, mathematics, and fields outside of biology that currently use the modularity concept, such as engineering and computer science. Participants will work collaboratively to outline a research program consisting of a set of specific research projects that will deliver a rigorous basis for theoretical, technical, and applied research in this field.
Featured Speakers
Uri Alon
Weizmann Institute of Science
Gary An
University of Vermont
Nitin Baliga
Institute for Systems Biology
Dani Bassett
University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Hellerstein
University of Washington
Giridhar Kalamangalam
University of Florida
Krzysztof Kapulkin
University of Western Ontario
Atsushi Mochizuki
Kyoto University
Krishna Manoj
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luis Rocha
State University of New York at Binghamton
Participants
Participants
Pantelis Andreou – Dalhousie University
Steven Andrews – University of Washington, Dept. of BioengineeringOluwatosin Babasola – University of Georgia
Sai Bavisetty – University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Carranza, John Hopkins University
Adittya Chaudhuri – Indian Statistical Institute-Kolkata, Machine Intelligence Unit
Angela Cintolesi Makuc – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Daniel Cruz Ortega – California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Arya Desai – Northwestern University
Hyrum Diesen – University of Utah
Elena Dimitrova – California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Bernardo Do Prado Rivas – University of Toledo
Robert Eisenberg – Rush University
Song Feng – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kevin Flores – North Carolina State University
Luis Fonseca – University of Florida
Marcio Gameiro – Rutgers University
Tomas Gedeon – Montana State University
Ahana Ghosh – Iowa State University
Sagnik Ghosh (Northwestern University)
James Glazier – Indiana University
Dan Guralnik – Ohio University
Cristian Huepe – Northwestern University
Selva Rupa Christinal Immanuel – Institute for Systems Biology
Claus Kadelka – Iowa State University
William Kalies – University of Toledo
Nathan Kershaw – University of Western Ontario
Kemal Keseroglu – Northwestern University
Istvan Kovacs – Northwestern University
Suman Satish Kulkarni – University of Pennsylvania
Dongheon Lee – FAMU-FSU School of Engineering
Dongyang Li – California Institute of Technology
Ruodan Liu, Iowa State Univeristy
David Murrugarra – University of Kentucky
Udoka Odionyenma – University of Kentucky
Kayode Oshinubi – Northern Arizona University
Ertugrul Ozbudak – Northwestern University
Virginia Pasour – U.S Army Research
Daniel Plaugher – University of Kentucky
Erzsebet Regan – The College of Wooster
Ankita Roychoudhary – Northwestern University
Jordan Rozum – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chandel Singh – Northwestern University
Farshad Shirani – Emory University
Luis Sordo Vieira – University of Florida
Brandilyn Stigler – Southern Methodist University
Sandra Annie Tsiorintsoa – University of Florida
Shailja Tripathi – University of Kentucky
Alan Veliz-Cuba – University of Dayton
John Wang – Harvard University
Matt Wheeler – University of Florida
Shicong Xie – Stanford University
Polly Yu – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ran Zhou – University of Chicago
Qianze Zhu – Harvard University