	Sixth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues
August 30 - September 1, 2005 St William's College, York, United Kingdom

Workshop Programme

Home Final Paper Submission Registration Key Note Speakers Workshop Programme Workshop Venue Accommodation Social Events Travel Committees Contact Related conferences: CEC 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation September 2-5 2005 Edinburgh, UK ECAL 2005 European Conference on Artificial Life September 5-9 2005 Canterbury, Kent, UK ICES 2005 International Conference on Evolvable Systems September 12-14 2005 Sitges, Barcelona, Spain	Please note the Workshop Programme is subject to change. Tuesday 30th August Wednesday 31st August Thursday 1st September
	Tuesday 30th August
	8.00am	Registration
	8.50am	Workshop Chair's Introduction Andy Tyrrell
	9.00am	Keynote Address Gary B. Fogel Applications of Computational Intelligence to Pattern Discovery in Biological Systems
	10.00am	Coffee and Poster Session
		Session 1: Bioinspired Computing Machines
	10.30am	C. Teuscher From Membranes to Systems: Self-Configuration and Self-Replication in Membrane Systems
	11.00am	A. Choudhary and K. Krithivasan Network of Evolutionary Processors with Splicing Rules and Permitting Context
	11.30am	J. L. Segovia-Juarez, S. Colombano and D. Kirschner Identifying DNA splice sites using hypernetworks with artificial molecular evolution
	12.00pm	H. Suzuki Mathematical Folding of Node Chains in Network Artificial Chemistry
	12.30pm	Lunch and Poster session
		Session 2: Population-Based Models
	2.00pm	F. Delaplace, C.Chettaoui and M.Manceny Games Networks & Application To PAs system
	2.30pm	I. Stamatopoulou, P. Kefalas and M. Gheorghe Modelling the Dynamic Structure of Biological State-Based Systems
	3.00pm	M. Gheorghe, N. Krasnogor and F. Bernardini Bacterial Quorum Sensing: A Computational Framework
	3.30pm	Coffee and Poster Session
		Session 3: Bio-Sensors 1
	4.00pm	D. Ghezzi, A. Pedrocchi and A. Menegon PhotoMEA: opto-electronic biosensor for monitoring in vitro neuronal networks activity
	4.30pm	C. A. Morillas, S. F. Romero and A. Martínez A Design Framework to Model Retinas
	5.00pm	Stafford, R. D. Santer and F. C. Rind A bio-inspired visual collision detection mechanism for cars: Combining insect inspired neurons to create a robust system
	Evening	Social Event Welcome Reception York Guildhall
	Wednesday 31st August
	8.30am	Registration
	9.00am	Keynote Address Xin Yao Why Use Populations in Evolutionary Computation?
	10.00am	Coffee and Poster Introductions
		Session 4: Neuroscience
	11.00am	M. Griffin and D.M. Halliday Temporal sub units in dendritic trees
	11.30am	P. Andras Cortical activity pattern computation
	12.00pm	J.M. Cortes, J. Marro and J.J. Torres Controlling Neural Chaos by Synaptic Noise
	12.30pm	Lunch and Poster session
		Session 5: Development and Control
	2.00pm	S. Chera, K. Kaloulis and B. Galliot The cAMP Response Element Binding Protein (CREB) as an integrative HUB selector in metazoans: clues from the hydra model system
	2.30pm	L. V. Beloussov and V. I. Grabovsky Information about a Form (on the dynamic laws of morphogenesis)
	3.00pm	S. Tsuda, K.-P. Zauner and Y.-P. Gunji, Robot Control with Biological Cells
	3.30pm	Coffee and Poster Session
		Session 6: Evolution
	4.00pm	M. Hartmann, P. C. Haddow and P. K. Lehre The Genotypic Complexity of Evolved Fault-tolerant and Noise-robust Circuits
	4.30pm	P. K. Lehre and P. C. Haddow Phenotypic Complexity and Local Variations in Neutral Degree
	5.00pm	H. Handa The Effectiveness of Mutation Operation in the case of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
	Evening	Social Event Conference Dinner National Railway Museum
	Thursday 1st September
	8.30am	Registration
	9.00am	Keynote Address Florentin Woergoetter Temporal Sequence Learning in Neurons and Robots: Breaking with Hebb's Paradigm
	10.00am	Coffee and Poster Session
		Session 7: Neural Networks
	10.30am	H. Williams and J. Noble Homeostatic plasticity improves signal propagation in continuous-time recurrent neural networks
	11.00am	O. Rochel and N. Cohen Real time computation: zooming in on population codes
	11.30am	N. Crook, W. J. Goh and M. Hawarat Pattern Recall in Networks of Chaotic Neurons
	12.00pm	E. Ros, R. R. Carrillo and B. Barbour Event-driven simulation of neural population synchronization facilitated by electrical coupling
	12.30pm	Lunch and Poster session
		Session 8: Modelling Pathways
	2.00pm	A. Spicher and O. Michel Declarative modeling of a neurulation-like process
	2.30pm	G. J. Shawn Tan, F. D. Revilla and K.-P. Zauner, Protein Folding and the Robustness of Cells
	3.00pm	Z. S. H. Chan, L. Collins and N. Kasabov Bayesian Learning of Sparse Gene Regulatory Networks
	3.30pm	Coffee and Poster Session
		Session 9: Bio-Sensors 2
	4.00pm	R. Reeve, A. van Schaik and C. Jin, Directional hearing in a silicon cricket
	4.30pm	J. Díaz, E. Ros and S. P. Sabatin Phase-based stereo system-on-chip
	5.00pm	D. Kim Prey Detection Mechanism of Elasmobranchs
	5.30pm	Workshop Close Andy Tyrrell

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