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WORKSHOP VENUE FOR ATTENDEES

Stochasticity in Cell and Developmental Processes

DATE:	17th - 20th October 2010
LOCATION:	Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, UK
ORGANISER:	James Briscoe NIMR London, UK

The process of transcription is, from the biochemical point of view, very dependent on the concentration and molecular interactions of transcription factors and components of the basal transcriptional machinery. Recent studies in unicellular organisms have shown that, as a consequence, there is a significant stochastic element to gene expression. This can give rise to non-genetic heterogeneity in a population of cells. In some cases stochasticity is exploited for function while in other cases its influence has to be minimized. There are hints that these observations also hold for metazoans and that stochasticity in gene expression is intrinsic to developmental systems where they might be used as an element of pattern formation.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together groups studying stochasticity and gene regulation in yeast and bacteria with people interested in similar questions in metazoan development.

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Published Information from the Workshop

Meeting report written by Andrew Oates and published in Development - http://dev.biologists.org/content/138/4/601.full.pdf+html

Making life out of noise: “Stochasticity in cell and developmental processes”. Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, 17-20 October, 2010. Posted by Fer Casares on The Node on October 28th, 2010
http://thenode.biologists.com/making-life-out-of-noise-%e2%80%9cstochasticity-in-cell-and-developmental-processes%e2%80%9d-cumberland-lodge-windsor-uk-17-20-october-2010-organized-by-the-company-of-biologists

Chair

Alfonso Martinez Arias
Department of Genetics
University of Cambridge

UK

ATTENDEES

Buzz Baum
University College London, UK

Attila Becskei
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Joshua Brickman
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

James Briscoe
NIMR, London, UK

Fernando Casares
CABD, Seville, Spain

Jonathan Chubb
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

Joaquin de Navascues
University of Cambridge, UK

Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo
Technical University of Catalonia, Terrassa, Spain

Suzanne Gaudet
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Ray Goldstein
University of Cambridge, UK

Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Jeremy Gunawardena
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Takashi Hiiragi
Max Planck Institute, Munster, Germany

Dagmar Iber
ETH, Basel, Switzerland

Thomas Lecuit
IBDM, Marseille, France

Sally Lowell
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, UK

François Nédélec
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Andy Oates
Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany

Timm Schroeder
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Ben Simons
University of Cambridge, UK

Jim Smith
NIMR, London, UK

Shahragim Tajbakhsh
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Chris Thompson
University of Manchester, UK

Alexander van Oudenaarden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Michael White
University of Liverpool, UK

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