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Like a rolling marble: Waddington’s landscape vibrant legacy and beyond.

The idea is to bring together various communities, from mathematicians, to biologists, and from physicists to philosophers of science to debate the theoretical fertility and the modelling practices of the Waddington’s landscape concept.
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When Nov 07, 2024 09:00 to
Nov 08, 2024 06:30
Where ENS site Descartes - Amphi Descartes
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A two day workshop in Lyon the 7th and 8th of November 2024.

The epigenetic landscape has been introduced by the theoretical biologist Conrad Hal Waddington at the end of the 1930’s as an image in order to represent the process of cellular differentiation during embryonic development.

During the recent years this image has become iconic and massively used throughout several topics of biology, for example in the study of cancerogenesis and of cancer healing, of cellular tensegrity, of evolutionary biology, and in modelling differentiation seen at the single-cell level.

Beyond its very intuitive nature, the success of the “Waddington’s landscape” was also reinforced by recent formal studies showing that departing from its metaphorical aspect, the landscape could be described in mathematical terms under the auspices of dynamical systems theory. It is interesting to note that such a quest for an expression in mathematical terms of the epigenetic landscape accompanied Waddington’s career.

 

By introducing its landscape, Waddington intended not only to integrate development with genetics but also to incorporate them in an evolutionary framework. In this spirit, the aim of this workshop will be to bring together various communities, from mathematicians, to biologists, and from physicists to philosophers of science to debate the fertility of the landscape concept as well as to address open conceptual and modelling questions.


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Organisat·eur·rices

  • Sara Franceschelli, ENS de Lyon, IXXI
  • Olivier Gandrillon, ENS de Lyon, IXXI, BioSyL
  • Sophie Pantalacci, ENS de Lyon, IXXI, BioSyL

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