Multiscale integration in biological systems courses 2018

One of the fundamental issues in biology is the understanding of the relationship between the multiple spatial and temporal scales observed in a biological system. From molecules to a cellular function, from a collection of cells to an organism, or from individuals to a population, the complex interactions between singular elements can give rise to “emergent” properties at the ensemble level. To what extent can the spatial and temporal order seen at the system level be explained by subscale properties?

William Bialek: Why do input/output relations look they way they do ?

Alexandre Morozov: Evolutionary dynamics

Armita Nourmohammad: Statistical physics of molecular evolution

Philippe Nghe: From chemistry to evolution

Stephan Grill: Guiding self-organization during cell polarity establishment

Liedewij Laan: Evolutionary cell biophysics: lessons from the yeast polarity network

Agnese Seminara: Strategies for fungal spore dispersal

Karen Alim: Fluid flows shaping morphology

Andrew Mugler: Physical limits to chemical sensing by cells and cell populations

Karine Guevorkian: Mechanics of embryonic tissue elongation and segmentation 

Georges Debrégeas: Probing sensorimotor computations in zebrafish

Martin Weigt: Coevolutionary analysis of proteinprotein interactions

Erik Van Nimwegen: Gene regulation in single-cells

Olivier Tenaillon: Unravelling the molecular bases of epistasis in bacteria

Barbara Di Ventura: A question of dynamics

Pierre Sens: Modelling membrane-bound cellular organelles with non-equilibrium dynamics

Suliana Manley: Structure and dynamics, crossing scales with super-resolution microscopy