ETAPS 2019
Sat 6 - Thu 11 April 2019 Prague, Czech Republic
Sat 6 Apr 2019 11:00 - 11:30 at S9 - Modelling Chair(s): Tatjana Petrov

The understanding of mechanisms that control epigenetic changes is an important research area in modern functional biology. Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation are in general very stable over many cell divisions. DNA methylation can however be subject to specific and fast changes over a short time scale even in non dividing (i.e. not-replicating) cells. Such dynamic DNA methylation changes are caused by a combination of active demethylation and de novo methylation processes which have not been investigated in integrated models. Here we present a hybrid (hidden) Markov model to describe the cycle of methylation and demethylation over (short) time scales. Our hybrid model describes several molecular events either happening at deterministic points (i.e. describing mechanisms that occur only during cell division) and other events occurring at random time points. We test our model on mouse embryonic stem cells using time-resolved data. We predict methylation changes and estimate the efficiencies of the different modification steps related to DNA methylation and demethylation.

Sat 6 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
ModellingHSB at S9
Chair(s): Tatjana Petrov Universität Konstanz
11:00
30m
Talk
A Hybrid HMM Approach for the Dynamics of DNA Methylation
HSB
Charalampos Kyriakopoulos Saarland University, Pascal Giehr Saarland University, Alexander Lück Saarland University, Jörn Walter Saarland University, Verena Wolf Saarland University
11:30
30m
Talk
Controlling noisy expression through auto regulation of burst frequency and protein stability
HSB
Pavol Bokes Comenius University, Abhyudai Singh University of Delaware
12:00
30m
Talk
Using a hybrid approach to model central carbon metabolism across the cell cycle
HSB
Cecile Moulin Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Saclay & UMR CNRS 8623, Laurent Tournier MaIAGE, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay., Sabine Peres Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Saclay & UMR CNRS 8623.