Workshop HYCON2-AD3 on Biological and Medical systems

Paris, June 5 2013

Program

09:20 - 9:30: Welcome (Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate and Elena Panteley)
09:30 - 10:30: Keynote on medical systems. Jack DiGiovanna, EPFL
"Reconnecting and controlling the spinal cord: a brain-spinal interface"
Chair: Antoine Chaillet
10:30 - 10:50: Coffee Break
10:50-11.20: Thomas Seel, TU Berlin
"Iterative learning control of a drop foot neuroprosthesis"
11.20-11.50: Antoine Chaillet, Univ. Paris Sud 11 - L2S - Supélec
"A proportional mean-field feedback for the desynchronization and inhibition of phase oscillators"
11.50-12.20: Ihab Haidar, Univ. Paris Sud 11 - L2S
"Basal ganglia oscillations: the role of delays and external excitatory nuclei"
12.20-14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00: Keynote on biological systems. Diego di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine.
"Engineering of robust synthetic gene networks with the help of miRNAs"
Chair: Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate
15:00 - 15.30: Jakob Ruess, ETHZ
"Designing experiments to understand the variability in biochemical reaction networks"
15.30 - 16:00: Andres M. Gonzalez, UNIPV
"Identification of biological models in cell populations using single-cell data"
16:00 - 16:20: Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:50: Eugenio Cinquemani, INRIA
"State estimation for gene networks with intrinsic and extrinsic noise: Models and approaches on a case study"
16:50 - 17:20: Torbjörn Nordling, KTH
"Robust inference of gene regulatory networks"
17:20 - 17:50: Fabio Baldissera, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and TU Berlin
"A control theory approach to intervene in biological networks"