The objective of this conference series is to gather scientists originating from several disciplines such as biology, mathematics, physics, and computational biology and to provide participants with an integrated vision of novel approaches that are shaping the role of genomics in several scientific areas. This year, the main topics will be centered on microbial communities, and will include:
- Evolutionary aspects of microbial communities
- Ecology of microbial communities
- Functional aspects of microbial communities
- Artificial systems
Invited Speakers
Silvia Acinas, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Karine Clément, ICAN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie/INSERM, Paris, France
Daniele Iudicone, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
Roland Marmeisse, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Thomas Mock, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Hélène Morlon, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Igor Rouzine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Alison Smith, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Assaf Vardi, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Colomban De Vargas, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France
Yutaka Yawata, MIT, Boston, USA and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland