Annual Symposium

The DCSB organizes an annual symposium each fall to highlight recent advances in systems biology, and to inform the wider community about the rapidly expanding systems biology research efforts both at Duke and as carried out by nearby colleagues in Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and throughout Research Triangle Park.

The 1st Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium was held in September 2006. Speakers included Timothy Hughes (University of Toronto), Trey Ideker (University of California, San Diego), Hao Li (University of California, San Francisco), Iftach Nachman (Harvard University), and Alexander van Oudenaarden (MIT), along with three Duke faculty, Alexander Hartemink, Paul Magwene, and Lingchong You.

The 2nd Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium was held in September 2007. Speakers included Martha Bulyk (Harvard Medical School/MIT), Andre Levchenko (Johns Hopkins University), Olivier Pourquie (Stowers Institute), Stanislav Shvartsman (Princeton University), Steven Small (New York University), and Marian Walhout (University of Massachusetts, Worcester), along with three Duke faculty, David McClay, Sayan Mukherjee, and Uwe Ohler.

The 3rd Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium was held in October 2008. Speakers included Rachel Brem (University of California, Berkeley), Tony Dean (University of Minnesota), Trudy Mackay (North Carolina State University), and Adam Wilkins (University of Cambridge), along with two Duke faculty, Tom Mitchell-Olds and Greg Wray.

The 4th Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium was held in October 2009. Speakers included Jayanth Banavar (Penn State), Fred Cross (Rockefeller), Jim Ferrell (Stanford), Fred Nijhout (Duke), Aviv Regev (MIT), John Storey (Princeton)

The 5th Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium was held October 7, 2010. Speakers include Gerry Fink (MIT), Mike Laub (MIT), Ben Lehner (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona), Elliot Meyerowitz (Caltech), Ralf Sommer (Max Planck Institute, Tubingen), and Gisela Storz, NIH.

The 6th Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium, "International Perspectives on Systems Biology" was held on Thursday, September 29, 2011. The 2011 International Collaborations Workshop was held on Friday, September 30th.

The 7th Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium is tenatively scheduled for Thursday October 4, 2012.