Advances in biology opened up new areas of research that are developing at the interface with physics.
Physicists make a major contribution to this interface, with the development of new instruments allowing the massive data acquisition, the manipulation of single molecules and the observation of biological phenomena at increasingly higher temporal and spatial resolutions. These developments offer new perspectives for solving previously unaffordable biological questions.
Furthermore, theoretical approaches from physics are now necessary to tackle new problems: those linked to cellular heterogeneity, to the way it is regulated, filtered or even exploited; or those linked to newly identified cell compartments, devoid of membranes and very dynamic, which are revolutionizing our vision of cellular organization and functioning.
A detailed understanding of all these complex phenomena requires new conceptual frameworks developed in physics (quantum, statistics, signal theory, thermodynamics out of equilibrium, study of polymers and colloids, etc.) which will make it possible to model living things from the atomic scale to integrated cellular systems.
This conference is therefore dedicated to the interface between biology and physics and aims to promote interactions between the two communities by illustrating the currently emerging questions and new scientific challenges.
Invited speakers
Patricia Bassereau - Institut Curie - Paris
Martin Blackledge - Institut de Biologie Structurale - Grenoble
Céline Boutin - IRAMIS-NIMBE
Pascal Hersen - Institut Curie - Paris
Eric Hosy - Institut Interdisciplinaire de Neurosciences - Bordeaux
Arnaud Hubstenberger - Institut de Biologie Valrose - Nice
Martin Lenz - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques - Orsay
Marcello Nollmann - Centre de Biochimie Structurale - Montpellier
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