Symposium Qbio – "Bridging the scales: from single cells to populations, tissues and organs"

The very fast development of live cell imaging, image processing and high throughput single cell sequencing have generated a wealth of data regarding the behavior of individual cells. Yet, how those single cell parameters influence the behavior at the population or organ levels is still not well understood. As such, an important challenge of quantitative biology is to connect these two scales by linking the diversity of single cell behaviors to the emergent properties at the population and tissue levels.

In this symposium, organizers wish to provide a platform for discussing the relevant types of study and the variety of approaches that can help connect the two scales, for example by studying intermediate scales of a few cells to a few thousand cells. They will focus on common questions/parameters that are relevant for a wide range of biological systems, including population dynamics in bacteria or tumors, stem cell fate specification, or morphogenesis. Similar questions emerge in all of these different biological systems: can new properties emerge without interactions? Which properties emerge from local interactions versus centralized control? What is the contribution of noise?

This event will take place on December 11 in the François Jacob auditorium from 9am to 6.30pm.

Registration is free but mandatory by November 18.

There will also be some spots available for poster presentations. If you want to present a poster, please send your title and abstract by email to: romain.levayer@pasteur.fr and charles.baroud@pasteur.fr with the subject "Bridging the scales" by November 18

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