Hamid Bolouri works at the Institue of Systems Biology. I don't know exactly what his talk will cover, but here is a blurb from his web page: In the Bolouri lab, the following disciplines are represented: software engineering systems analysis pattern recognition and classification dynamical systems theory metabolic control analysis The Bolouri lab specializes in the design and application of pattern recognition and adaptive systems and exploits this expertise to: reverse-engineer the computational principles underlying cellular processes develop tools and techniques for modeling and analysis of experimental data at three levels: individual genes network modules whole networks A current focus of the Bolouri lab is to extend and apply the methodologies and software tools it originally developed for reverse engineering sea urchin genetic networks to the large volumes of data for other organisms available in-house at the ISB. The underlying principle is to analyze data from a wide variety of experimental sources looking for consensus among the multiple pieces of evidence. This is an iterative cycle that spirals up toward a clearer understanding of the biological system as a whole. In order to merge observations from different types of experiments automatically, the lab is using the Systems Biology Markup Language, the Systems Biology Workbench, and several software tools developed at the ISB. The aim is to develop a toolkit for Modeling and Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks (MAGNET) with standardized component interfaces that facilitate communication between packages, comparison of analysis results, and collective constraint satisfaction.