Mission

The school targets an audience of students and young researchers in physics, chemistry and biology, who are highly motivated by the prospect of a unified cross-disciplinary perspective on living systems focused on energy, information and evolution. We will bring together leading experts to deliver courses highlighting the importance of these concepts in different topics. Particularly important themes will be: cellular stochasticity, information processing in bio-networks, the energetics of living systems, the evolution of bio-molecules and metabolism.

Courses

• Aleksandra Walczak : A statistical physics perspective on immunology.
• Thierry Mora : Information processing for sensory systems and molecular signaling.
• Matthias Heinemann : Understanding and modeling of cellular metabolism.
• Francesco Avanzini : Thermodynamics of chemical reaction networks
• Juan Parrondo: The energetic cost of information processing from basic principles to biology.
• Gianmaria Falasco : Thermodynamically consistent descriptions of active matter.
• Eric Smith : The origin of life as a planetary process combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical physics.
• Philippe Nghe: Implementing evolutionary properties in biochemical reaction networks.
• Anne-Florence Bitbol : Biological evolution: making sense of protein sequence data.
• Nazim Bouatta: Machine learning for protein folding: how it works and what we can learn from it.

Scientific Committee

Carole Linster, Juan Parrondo, Aleksandra Walzack

Venue