Abstract

We propose to develop a Center for Systems Biology to promote interdisciplinary scientific investigation and education in Chicago. Faculty in the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago will take a leadership role and together with collaborators at other Chicago institutions will create a broad outreach to the community. The Center's scientific program will focus on the robustness of transcriptional networks in physiological, developmental and evolutionary time scales. We propose to go beyond mapping network topologies to develop dynamical models of the behavior of transcriptional regulatory networks during physiological stress, during cellular and organismal development, and during the evolution of species. These goals will be achieved by bringing together experts in genomics, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, stress and physiology, network modeling, high performance and grid computing, chemistry, and physics. The overarching aim of the Center's research is to uncover the organizational principles that transcriptional regulatory networks share as they respond to physiological, development and evolutionary inputs and pressures. These principles are expected to reveal structure-function relationships in networks that lead to physiological and evolutionary robustness or, its complement, flexibility.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Specialized Center (P50)
Project #
5P50GM081892-04
Application #
8136493
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZGM1-CBCB-4 (SB))
Program Officer
Lyster, Peter
Project Start
2008-09-01
Project End
2013-08-31
Budget Start
2011-09-01
Budget End
2012-08-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2011
Total Cost
$2,892,649
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Chicago
Department
Genetics
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
005421136
City
Chicago
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
60637

  Publications

Ciryam, Prajwal; Lambert-Smith, Isabella A; Bean, Daniel M et al. (2017) Spinal motor neuron protein supersaturation patterns are associated with inclusion body formation in ALS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:E3935-E3943
Winter, Peter B; Brielmann, Renee M; Timkovich, Nicholas P et al. (2016) A network approach to discerning the identities of C. elegans in a free moving population. Sci Rep 6:34859
Applebaum, Mark A; Jha, Aashish R; Kao, Clara et al. (2016) Integrative genomics reveals hypoxia inducible genes that are associated with a poor prognosis in neuroblastoma patients. Oncotarget 7:76816-76826
Jha, Aashish R; Zhou, Dan; Brown, Christopher D et al. (2016) Shared Genetic Signals of Hypoxia Adaptation in Drosophila and in High-Altitude Human Populations. Mol Biol Evol 33:501-17
Jha, Aashish R; Miles, Cecelia M; Lippert, Nodia R et al. (2015) Whole-Genome Resequencing of Experimental Populations Reveals Polygenic Basis of Egg-Size Variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Biol Evol 32:2616-32
Labbadia, Johnathan; Morimoto, Richard I (2015) The biology of proteostasis in aging and disease. Annu Rev Biochem 84:435-64
Kirstein, Janine; Morito, Daisuke; Kakihana, Taichi et al. (2015) Proteotoxic stress and ageing triggers the loss of redox homeostasis across cellular compartments. EMBO J 34:2334-49
Brandvold, Kristoffer R; Morimoto, Richard I (2015) The Chemical Biology of Molecular Chaperones--Implications for Modulation of Proteostasis. J Mol Biol 427:2931-47
Labbadia, Johnathan; Morimoto, Richard I (2015) Repression of the Heat Shock Response Is a Programmed Event at the Onset of Reproduction. Mol Cell 59:639-50
Peláez, Nicolás; Gavalda-Miralles, Arnau; Wang, Bao et al. (2015) Dynamics and heterogeneity of a fate determinant during transition towards cell differentiation. Elife 4:

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