Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution - Como - Italy
Workshop on Statistical Physics / Biology “Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution” 27 June – 5 July 2013 Lake Como School of Advanced Studies in Complex Systems Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy
http://www.complexcomolake.it/quantitativelaws/organisers.html
The workshop will be open to a maximum of 50 people. At the moment, more than 15 between fee waivers and larger scholarships are available, but this number will likely increase in the next weeks.
Quantitative approaches to evolutionary genomics, systems biology, and ecology unravel several universal regularities connecting genome-scale observables, phenotypes and physiological traits. Putting aside any irrealistic ambitions of a all-inclusive theories, some of these universal empirical trends might qualify as “biological laws” in a similar sense as “law” is understood in modern physics. Consequently, a current challenge for theoreticians is understanding how different universal features emerging empirically can be accounted for by simple mathematical models exploring quantitative laws at different levels, from physiology to evolutionary genomics. The scope of this workshop is to give an overview of the current state of the field and put a researcher in the condition of performing research at the edge of the current knowledge. The workshop will primarily target PhD students and postdocs with a physics or mathematics background, but the school is open to anyone with background in (evolutionary) genomics, (evolutionary) biology, bioinformatics, ecology, interested in quantitative work.
Content:
Confirmed Speakers
Eugene Koonin (NCBS / NIH Bethesda)
Luca Peliti (University of Naples)
Olivier Tenaillon (Inserm, Paris)
Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh)
Michele Caselle (University of Turin)
Francesca Ciccarelli (European Institute of Oncology, Milan)
Herve Isambert (Institut Curie, Paris)
Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo)
Joachim Krug (University of Cologne)
Michael Laessig (University of Cologne)
Amos Maritan (Univ Padua)
Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Namiko Mitarai (NBI Copenaghen)
Erik van Nimwegen (Biozentrum Basel)
Peter Pfaffelhuber (University of Freiburg)
Uberto Pozzoli (IRCCS Medea)
Dominique Schneider (University of Grenoble)
Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard University)
Agnese Seminara (University of Nice)
Kim Sneppen (University of Copenhagen)
Joshua Weitz (GA Tech)
Organizing Committee:
Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Chair, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Uberto Pozzoli (IRCCS Medea)
Luigi Grassi (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Federico Bassetti (Università di Pavia)
Steering Committee:
Joshua Weitz (GA Tech)
Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Dominique Schneider (University of Grenoble)
Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh)
Namiko Mitarai (NBI Copenaghen)
University of Insubria Commitee:
Vincenzo Gino Benza
Giulio Casati
http://www.complexcomolake.it/quantitativelaws/organisers.html
The workshop will be open to a maximum of 50 people. At the moment, more than 15 between fee waivers and larger scholarships are available, but this number will likely increase in the next weeks.
Quantitative approaches to evolutionary genomics, systems biology, and ecology unravel several universal regularities connecting genome-scale observables, phenotypes and physiological traits. Putting aside any irrealistic ambitions of a all-inclusive theories, some of these universal empirical trends might qualify as “biological laws” in a similar sense as “law” is understood in modern physics. Consequently, a current challenge for theoreticians is understanding how different universal features emerging empirically can be accounted for by simple mathematical models exploring quantitative laws at different levels, from physiology to evolutionary genomics. The scope of this workshop is to give an overview of the current state of the field and put a researcher in the condition of performing research at the edge of the current knowledge. The workshop will primarily target PhD students and postdocs with a physics or mathematics background, but the school is open to anyone with background in (evolutionary) genomics, (evolutionary) biology, bioinformatics, ecology, interested in quantitative work.
Content:
Confirmed Speakers
Eugene Koonin (NCBS / NIH Bethesda)
Luca Peliti (University of Naples)
Olivier Tenaillon (Inserm, Paris)
Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh)
Michele Caselle (University of Turin)
Francesca Ciccarelli (European Institute of Oncology, Milan)
Herve Isambert (Institut Curie, Paris)
Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo)
Joachim Krug (University of Cologne)
Michael Laessig (University of Cologne)
Amos Maritan (Univ Padua)
Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Namiko Mitarai (NBI Copenaghen)
Erik van Nimwegen (Biozentrum Basel)
Peter Pfaffelhuber (University of Freiburg)
Uberto Pozzoli (IRCCS Medea)
Dominique Schneider (University of Grenoble)
Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard University)
Agnese Seminara (University of Nice)
Kim Sneppen (University of Copenhagen)
Joshua Weitz (GA Tech)
Organizing Committee:
Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Chair, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Uberto Pozzoli (IRCCS Medea)
Luigi Grassi (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Federico Bassetti (Università di Pavia)
Steering Committee:
Joshua Weitz (GA Tech)
Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Dominique Schneider (University of Grenoble)
Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh)
Namiko Mitarai (NBI Copenaghen)
University of Insubria Commitee:
Vincenzo Gino Benza
Giulio Casati
