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2015 Workshop on methods at the frontier between
physics and biology:
Kinetics of biochemical reactions
February 24-26, 2015
PROGRAM
Day 1: Principles of chemical reactions and numerical simulations
Session chair: Marco Bayas
9:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
Registration
Principles of chemical kinetics.
Ramon Xulvi-Brunet, Escuela Politécnica Nacional,
Ecuador.
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
Coffee break and discussion
Simulating chemical reactions:
algorithm.
the
Gillespie
Ramon Xulvi-Brunet, Escuela Politécnica Nacional,
Ecuador.
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 17:00
Lunch
Hands on session: Computational simulations on
chemical reactions.
Ramon Xulvi-Brunet, Escuela Politécnica Nacional,
Ecuador.
17:00 – 17:30
Kinetics of RNA molecules.
Ramon Xulvi-Brunet, Escuela Politécnica Nacional,
Ecuador.
Day 2: Theoretical models on biochemical reactions and experiments.
Session chair: Marco Bayas
10:00 – 11:00
The RNA world and the origin of life
Irene A. Chen, University of California Santa Barbara,
USA.
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
Coffee break and discussion
Models of polymerization and template-directed
ligation.
Irene A. Chen, University of California Santa Barbara,
USA.
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 17:00
Lunch
Hands on session: Computational creation of
polymerization and template-directed ligation
models.
Ramon Xulvi-Brunet,
Ecuador.
17:00 – 17:30
Escuela
Politécnica
Nacional,
Free talk on current research
Irene A. Chen, University of California Santa Barbara,
USA.
2015 Workshop on methods at the frontier between
physics and biology:
Kinetics of biochemical reactions
February 24-26, 2015
Day 3: Theoretical models on chemical reactions in biological environments.
Session chair: Ramon Xulvi-Brunet
10:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 17:00
Basics about ordinary diffusion
Katja Lindenberg, University of California San Diego,
USA.
Coffee break and discussion
Anomalous diffusion
Katja Lindenberg, University of California San Diego,
USA.
Lunch
Hands on session: Reaction-Subdiffusion model
for FRAP experiments
Marco Bayas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador.
17:00 – 17:30
Free talk on current research
Katja Lindenberg, University of California San Diego,
USA.