Mechanics, morphogenesis, development and evolution (MeMoDEvo) symposium on December 12 and 13, 2022

The Qbio initiative at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) is organizing a fully hybrid symposium that will take place at the Institut Pasteur on Monday and Tuesday December 12 and 13 :

MeMoDEvo : Mechanics Morphogenesis Development and Evolution

How can mechanics constrain the evolution of shape or be a source of morphogenetic innovation? The Qbio initiative at the Institut Pasteur is organizing a two-day symposium on campus on December 12 and 13, 2022, which will cover the interplay between mechanics, evolution, morphogenesis and development. This interdisciplinary symposium will combine a wide range of approaches (morphometric analysis, modeling, soft-matter physics, comparative morphogenesis, epistemology) and diverse organisms (plants, yeast, algae, cnidarians, insects and vertebrates) with diverse, excellent speakers. This symposium is meant to be an open platform for discussion between physicists, mathematicians and biologists on relevant biological issues, and to foster interactions between topics/systems which normally have few occasions to interact.

The meeting will be in a fully hybrid format, with an in-person audience and speakers, as well as a virtual audience and virtual talks.

Two morning sessions will be dedicated to open discussions in sub-groups on site while afternoon seminar sessions will be fully hybrid.

The full program can be found here

Registration is free but mandatory (before November 21)

 

If you have any queries, please contact: memodevo@pasteur.fr

 

The list of confirmed speakers can be found below.

Invited speakers:

Bruno Vellutini (Tomancak group, MPI, Dresden)
Marie Monniaux (ENS, Lyon)
Will Ratcliff (Georgia Tech, Atlanta)
Peter Yunker (Georgia Tech, Atlanta)
Marie Manceau (Collège de France, Paris)
Jose Bico (ESPCI, Paris)
Steffen Lemke (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg)
Jean-Léon Maître (Institut Curie, Paris)
Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College, London)
Annemiek Cornelissen (LMSC, Paris)
Hélène de Maleprade (Sorbonne University, Paris)
Etienne Couturier (LMSC, Paris)
Ana Soto (Tufts University, Boston)
Maël Montevil (Centre Cavaillès, Paris)
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Harvard University, Boston)
Stuart Newman (New York Medical College, New York)