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Summer school “Economic Principles in Cell Biology” - Paris, July 8-11, 2024

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Topic of the course

The summer school is centered around the topics of our free and open textbook “Economic principles in cell biology” on cellular physiology and resource allocation and will features some of its (existing or planned) chapters in the form of lectures. The course addresses students and young researchers with a natural science, engineering, or mathematics background. The lectures give an introduction to basic metabolic and cell modeling, followed by lectures about more specific topics such as scaling relations and biological behaviour in the presence of randomness. In-person participants will also be involved in discussions around our book project. On the last day, in-person participants have the opportunity to participate in an Atelier SEnS workshop about personal values and how they relate to our work as researchers.

Preliminary course schedule

Teachers and authors present in Paris

1. Anne Goelzer, INRAE
2. Diana Széliová, Universität Wien
3. Elad Noor, Weizmann Institute of Science
4. Frédérique Noël, Sorbonne Université
5. Hidde de Jong, INRIA
6. Hugo Dourado, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
7. Meike Wortel, Universiteit van Amsterdam
8. Ohad Golan, ETH Zürich
9. Olivier Rivoire, Collège de France
10. Pranas Grigaitis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11. Roberto Mulet, University of Havanna
12. Sanjay Jain, University of Delhi
13. Sophie Quinton, INRIA
14. Steffen Waldherr, KU Leuven
15. Wolfram Liebermeister, INRAE

Teachers giving lectures online

1. Andrea Weiße, University of Edinburgh
2. Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Purdue University
3. Hyun-Seob Song, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
4. Markus Köbis, NTNU Trondheim
5. Martin Lercher, HHU Düsseldorf
6. Sergio Munoz-Gomez, Purdue University
7. Orkun Soyer, Warwick University

Night Science

On Tuesday we will host a session of Night Science, a course on the creative scientific process, developed by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher.

Website: night-science.org
Editorials: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/night-science
Podcast: nightscience.buzzsprout.com (with links to spotify etc.)

Atelier SEnS

The Atelier SEnS workshop for young scientists or engineers (called Atelier SEnS: science, environment, societies) will be held by Sophie Quinton, Simon Castellan, and Noé Lahaye. The workshop provides an opportunity, especially for PhD students, to think about defining decisions for their future life and career. More information can be found here.

The SEnS workshop has been designed to provide tools and resources for this purpose, to a group of 5 to 15 people working in academia. It aims to offer a venue to collectively discuss the consequences of our research, the values that it conveys, and more generally how scientific research fits in the Anthropocene; provide an introduction to science and technology studies, in particular to the philosophy, history, and sociology of science; and initiate a collective construction of a social and environmental responsibility of research. The objective is not to reach a consensus between the participants, but rather to provide everyone with the opportunity to reflect and take a stance on current environmental issues in a respectful and constructive setting. By confronting ideas and sharing knowledge, the goal is then to find common ground.

Participation is limited to in-person participants. There will be separate groups for English and French speakers.