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1998 Gordon Research Conference on Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics

Tilton School, Tilton, N. H. Mark Lewis and John Milton, Cochairs

     
  SUNDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1998:  
4:30PM Reception  
6:00PM Dinner  
7:30PM Session on Modeling Visual Cortex Chair: Jean-Paul Spire, Chicago
  Optical Imaging of Visual Cortex Gary Blasdel, Harvard
  Mathematical Modeling of the Visual Cortex Jack D. Cowan, Chicago
     
  MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1998:  
7:30AM Breakfast  
8:30AM Group Photograph  
9:00AM Session on Behavioral & Evolutionary Ecology Chair: Charles Godfray, Imperial College, London
  Evolution of Genomic Imprinting Yoh Iwasa, Kyushu
10:05AM Coffee  
10:30AM Virus Dynamics and Drug Resistance Sebastian Bonhoeffer, ETH Zurich
  How the Lac Operon got its Smarts Jon Seger, Utah
12:30PM Lunch  
     
  MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1998:  
6:00PM Dinner  
7:30PM Session on Motor Control Chair: Paul Bressloff, Loughborough University
  The Human Iris: Window to Transport in the Eye Harry Wyatt, SUNY
  Mathematical Modeling of Muscle Crossbridge Mechanics Edward Pate, Washington State
9:30PM Poster Session I (posters to be put up from 5:00-6:00 PM Monday and to remain up until 5:00 PM Tuesday)  
     
  TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1998:  
7:30AM Breakfast  
9:00AM Session on Morphogenesis Chair: Hans Othmer, Utah
  Models for Wound Healing Jonathan Sherratt, Heriot-Watt
10:05AM Coffee  
10:30AM Limb Development Bob Dillon, Washington State
  Nerve Guidance Paul Kulesa, Cal Tech
12:30PM Lunch  
     
  TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1998:  
6:00PM Dinner  
7:30PM Session on Controlling Physiological Systems Chair: Michael C. Mackey, McGill
  Controlling the Nonlinear Nervous System Steven Schiff, Washington, DC
  Noise-enhanced Sensory Function James Collins, Boston University
9:30 PM Poster Session II (posters to be put up from 5:00-6:00 PM Tuesday and to remain up until 5:00 PM Wednesday)  
     
  WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1998:  
7:30AM Breakfast  
9:00AM Session on Plant Spatial Competition Chair: Steve Pacala, Princeton
  Stochastic Models for Competition Claudia Neuhauser, Minnesota
10:05AM Coffee  
10:30AM Disturbance and Plant Diversity in Variable Environments Peter Chesson, Davis
  Signaling and Spatial Games in Plant Communities Fred Adler, Utah
12:30PM Lunch  
     
  WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1998:  
6:00PM Dinner  
7:30PM Session on Cytoskeleton Structure Chair: Alex Mogilner, Davis
  Actin dynamics: Mathematical Explorations of Cytoskeletal Regulation and Control Paul Dufort, Toronto
  Protein Structure of the Cytoskeleton Gary Odell, University of Washington
9:30PM Poster Session III (posters to be put up from 5:00-6:00 PM Wednesday and to remain up until 5:00 PM Thursday)  
     
  THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1998:  
7:30AM Breakfast  
9:00AM Session on Noise-sustained Wave Phenomena Chair: Frank Moss, UMSL
  Kainate-induced Ca++ Waves Require Noise for Long Distance Propagation Ann Cornell-Bell, Viatech
10:05AM Coffee  
10:30AM Noise Supported Traveling Waves in Subexcitable Media Kenneth Showalter, West Virginia University
  Noise-induced Coherence in the Spatio-temporal Domain Peter Jung, University of Ohio
12:30PM Lunch  
     
  THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1998:  
6:00PM Dinner  
7:30PM Session on Pattern Recognition: Faces Chair: Fran Wilkinson, McGill
  Neural Representations of Face in Temporal Cortex Edmund Rolls, Oxford
  Dynamic Model for Human Facial Discrimination Trevor Mundel, Chicago
9:30PM GRC Business Meeting  
     
  FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1998:  
7:30AM Breakfast  
9:00AM Bus Leaves  
     



 
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Mark A. Lewis
6/1/1998