Richard Dorell (Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS) will give on November 25th a seminar entitled: Towards a Horizontal View of Algal Evolution   Research interests Horizontal evolution of microalgae in the global ocean “Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking”- Lynn Margulis The most dramatic evolutionary transition across the tree of…

Invited byRoshan Kumar Vijendravarma (Courtier Lab), Jan Clemens (European Neuroscience Institute, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany) will give a seminar entitled : Neural computations underlying social behavior in Drosophila    Neural Computation and Behavior Our brain is constantly confronted with sensory information, yet it manages to filter out relevant bits to produce appropriate behavior. Our lab is interested in…

Invited by René-Marc Mège, Carien M. Niessen (Department Cell Biology of the Skin and CECAD Cologne, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne) will give a seminar entitled: Biomechanical regulation of cell fate and position in epithelial barrier morphogenesis, renewal and disease   Our research: How epithelia coordinate cell and tissue structure with growth and metabolic activity to control…

Invited by Jérôme Collignon, Takashi Hiiragi (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands /ASHBi Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) will give a seminar entitled: Multicellular coordination in context   The Hiiragi group studies robustness in development and aims to understand the design principle of self-organising multi-cellular systems. Self-organisation is a defining feature of living systems and entails complex interplay between molecular,…