Seminar on “APPLICATION OF CONTROL THEORY AND OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAYS" to be held at Tata Consultancy Services, Madhapur, Hyderabad organized by CCMB, Hyderabad on August 16-18, 2010

Motive: Control theory is concerned with designing strategies that ensure the robust performance of a system by automatically adapting to changes in the environment. Biochemical pathways in the cell are responsible for processing environmental signals, inducing appropriate cellular responses, and regulating internal events such as gene expression. Through elaborate mechanisms, they allow cells and entire organisms to perform their basic functions. The key role played by feedback in life are manifested in the homeostatic control and regulation of biochemical pathways, which break down nutrients and provide the cell with energy and materials, and their appropriate timing in functions. Recent years have witnessed remarkable advances in elucidating the components of cellular pathways and networks of genes. They provide a snapshot of the complete genetic activity of a cell, yet the overall connectivity and functional characteristics are still poorly understood - a fundamental lacuna in understanding their control architecture.

Topics

• Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Identification of Distributed Parameter Systems
• Optimization in Control and Systems Theory
• Control of Networks
• Stochastic and Risk Sensitive Control
• Optimization Processes: linear and nonlinear, Flux balance
• Regulation in Cellular and Biological Systems
• Control of Nonlinear Biochemical Systems: Design, Feedback, and Filters
• Biochemical Pathways:Gene Regulatory, Signalling, and Metabolic Networks
• Role of Stochasticity in Biochemical Regulation, Robustness
• Applications of control and pathway modeling

 

Along with invited talks, there will be few short oral presentations and posters. The formats will be available soon.

Participation: Mathematicians, Physicists, Engineers, and Biologists who are working in the area of Control Theory and Optimisation Techniques with an interest in applying it to biological systems, specifically to model biochemical pathways. Senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young scientists are encouraged to apply.

Registration Fees
USD 100 for participants from outside India.
Rs. 4000 for Indians.
Registrations fees include accommodation, conference material, tea/coffee, etc. Registration form and payment information will be available soon.

Address for correspondence
Dr. Somdatta Sinha
Scientist & Group Leader
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology,
Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, INDIA
Phone: +91 40 27192588
Fax: +91 40 27160591; 27160311

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