Systems Biology: The Challenge of Complexity 2009 edition

Marc Notes: The Uehara Memorial Foundation Symposium-2008--Cover.; Proceedings of a symposium of the same name held in Tokyo from June 30 to July 2, 2008.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface -- Contributors -- Part I. Dynamics and Complexity of Intercellular Networks -- Integrative Synaptic Mechanisms of the Neural Network / Shigetada Nakanishi -- The Molecular and Cellular Design of Networks in Motion / Sten Grillner, Peter Wallen, Russell Hill -- Bacterial Complexity: More Is Different on All Levels / Eshel Ben-Jacob -- How Animals Get Their Skin Patterns: Fish Pigment Pattern as a Live Turing Wave / Shigeru Kondo -- Characterization and Application of Natural Light-Sensitive Proteins / Jens Looser, Georg Nagel -- Systems Biology of Mammalian Circadian Clocks / Hiroki R. Ueda -- Toward Understanding How the Immune System Establishes a Diverse Yet Self-Tolerant T-Cell Repertoire: Stepwise Roles of Thymic Microenvironments / Takeshi Nitta, Yousuke Takahama -- The Mechanisms of Motor Programming for Learned Vocalization in Songbirds / Hisataka Fujimoto, Taku Hasegawa, Ryosuke Matsui, Kentaro Abe, Dai Watanabe -- Dynamic Model of the Basal Ganglia Functions and Movement Disorders / Atsushi Nambu -- Part II. Integrative Mechanism of Intracellular Information Networks -- A Posttranslational Chemical Circadian Oscillator in Cyanobacteria / Hideo Iwasaki -- The Apoptotic Signaling Network Dynamically Interprets the Outputs of Individual Signaling Pathways in an Early Analog and Late Digital Manner / Kevin A. Janes, H. Christian Reinhardt, Michael B. Yaffe -- Specific Features of Transient Ras and Sustained Rap1 Activation / Yu-ichi Ozaki, Shinsuke Uda, Shinya Kuroda -- Control and Alteration of Protein Traffic in the Cell / Toshiya Endo -- Plant Functional Genomics Based on Integration of Metabolomics and Transcriptomics: Toward Plant Systems Biology / Kazuki Saito -- A Possible Role of Homeostasis Between Monomeric and Filamentous Actin in Filament Nucleation Revealed by Pharmacokinetic Modeling / Naoki Watanabe, Chiharu Higashida -- Molecules, Networks, and Memory / Upinder S. Bhalla -- Systems Biology Meets Single-Cell Physiology: Role of a Positive-Feedback Signal Transduction Network in Cerebellar Long-Term Synaptic Depression / Keiko Tanaka, George J. Augustine -- Computational Models of Cerebellar Long-Term Memory / Hideaki Ogasawara, Mitsuo Kawato -- Biogenesis and Function Mechanisms of Micro-RNAs and Their Role as Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors / Soken Tsuchiya, Kazuya Terasawa, Ryo Kunimoto, Yasushi Okuno, Fumiaki Sato, Kazuharu Shimizu, Gozoh Tsujimoto -- Part III. Dysfunction of Information Networks and Related Diseases -- The Pathogenetic Significance of Deregulated Transcription Factors in Hematological Malignancies / Masahiro Nakagawa, Susumu Goyama, Motoshi Ichikawa, Mineo Kurokawa -- Ultradian Oscillation Networks in Somite Segmentation and Other Biological Events / Yasutaka Niwa, Hiromi Shimojo, Ryoichiro Kageyama -- The Cellular Basis of Dictyostelium Morphogenesis / Cornelis J. Weijer -- Metabolic Information Highway: Interorgan Metabolic Communication Via the Autonomic Nervous System / Hideki Katagiri -- Involvement of the CCR4-NOT Deadenylase Complex in the Control of Cell Growth / Masahiro Morita, Kentaro Ito, Toru Suzuki, Tadashi Yamamoto -- Reconstruction of Nuclear Reprogramming by Defined Factors / Shinya Yamanaka -- Index.