Plenary and Invited Speakers

Plenary Speakers

• Frederick Blattner, U.S.A.
  Emergent properties of reduced genome bacteria.

• Douglas C. Cameron, U.S.A.
  Engineering of E. coli for the production of industrial chemicals.

• George Georgiou, U.S.A.
  De novo design of bacterial pathways for redox responses and oxidative protein folding.

• Lonnie O. Ingram, U.S.A.
  Engineering Escherichia coli for ethanol and other chemicals.

• Bernhard Palsson, U.S.A.
  The genetic basis for adaptation of E. coli to new growth environments.

• Mithias Reuss, Germany
  Dynamic modeling of Escherichia coli-challenges in integrating metabolic and regulatory networks.

• Masaru Tomita, Japan
  Dynamic modeling of Escherichia coli central carbon metabolism based on multi-omics data

Invited Speakers

• Stephen Busby, U.K.
  Organization of complex E. coli promoters.

• Julio Collado-Vides, Mexico
  Bioinformatic perspectives of the E.coli regulatory network.

• John Cronan, U.S.A.
  Fatty acid metabolism of E. coli - old and new systems perspectives.

• Mirek Cygler, Canada
  Structural aspects of E. coli proteins.

• Michael Ellison, Canada
  Modeling cell function by discrete automata: simple rules for complex behavior.

• Michael Galperin, U.S.A.
  Signal transduction in E. coli: Insights from comparative genomics.

• Igor Goryanin, U.K.
  Towards whole cell E. coli kinetic model.

• Vassily Hatzimanikatis, U.S.A.
  Hierarchical control analysis of the central carbon metabolism of E. Coli.

• Michael Hucka, U.S.A.
  Evolving standards and infrastructure for systems biology : SBML, SBGN, and BioModels.net.

• Ki Jun Jeong, U.S.A.
  Toward proteomic study in bacteria : Applications of anchored periplasmic expression (APEx) system.

• Hyun Ah Kang, Korea,
  Transcriptome analysis of regulatory circuits of Hansenula polymorpha in response to carbon and sulfur starvation.

• Peter Karp, U.S.A.
  The multiple scientific disciplines served by EcoCyc.

• Jay Keasling, U.S.A.
  Production of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin in E. coli.

• Jihyun F. Kim, Korea
  Integrated genomics platform for Escherichia coli B.

• Sun Chang Kim, Korea
  Custom-designed microbes with a minimized E. coli genome.

• Soo-Ki Kim, Korea
  Diverse roles of PhoBR two-component regulatory system in gram-negative bacteria.

• Hiroaki Kitano, Japan
  Biological robustness.

• Oh Suk Kwon, Korea
  Redox dependent signal transduction by the Arc two-component system.

• Jin Won Lee, Korea
  Dynamic modeling of E. coli central metabolism and application of parameter estimation techniques.

• Richard E. Lenski, U.S.A.
  Phenotypic and genetic evolution during a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli.

• Sue Lin-Chao, Taiwan
  Ribosomal protein regulation of mRNA stability by interfering with RNase E.

• Costas D. Maranas, U.S.A.
  Computational analysis and redesign of biological pathways.

• Satoru Miyano, Japan
  Gene regulatory network of E. coli.

• Hirotada Mori, Japan
  Systems approaches for understanding a cell.

• Vasantha Nagarajan, U.S.A.
  Rhodococcus erythropolis as a host for bioprocess engineering.

• Lars Nielsen, Australia
  Hybrid algorithm for modeling stochastic regulatory network.

• Jae Gu Pan, Korea
  Robustness of E. coli acetate metabolism.

• Hyun-Seok Park, Korea
  Systems biology of Zymomonas mobilis.

• Si Jae Park, Korea
  Engineering of microorganism for the production of biopolyester.

• Charles Penn, U.K.
  Transcription regulation in E. coli : towards computational biology.

• Mark A. Ragan, Australia
  Lateral genetic transfer: extent, consequences, and traps for the unwary.

• Christophe H. Schilling, U.S.A.
  Applications of genome-scale metabolic models for driving industrial and medical biotechnology R&D.

• Joseph  Shiloach, U.S.A.
  Central carbon metabolism in E. coli B and E. coli K, differences in metabolic pathways are affecting glucose and acetate metabolism.

• Philippe Soucaille, France
  Metabolic Engineering of E. coli for the production of L-Methionine.

• Wonchul Suh, U.S.A.
  Chromosomal promoter replacement of the isoprenoid pathway for enhancing carotenoid production in E. coli.

• Antonio Villaverde, Spain
  Complex control of protein quality in bacterial inclusion Body-Forming cells.

• Barry L. Wanner, U.S.A.
  Signal transduction and cellular responses to environmental phosphate status in E. coli.

• Hans V. Westerhoff, Netherlands
  The sophisticated mechanisms behind robust ammonia assimilation in E. co