Information : trash or treasure? November 18th

Information : trash or treasure?
November 18th & 19th, Paris
Do we really need an information concept in biology? How can we dialogue with experimental biologists for them
to use or test different conceptual approaches to information ?
Nov. 18th, 10h30– 12h30
Location: centre Broca, salle B 206, Bâtiment B, 21 rue Broca, Paris 5ème – map on the following page
10h30: welcome (Philippe Huneman / Livio Riboli-Sasco)
10h40 – 12h30, session 1 - Defining and quantifying information for biology
● chair : Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir
● Martin Schüle, IHPST: Information and its measures
● Paul Griffiths, University of Syndey: Information and specificity
● Jean-Louis Dessalles, Telecom Paris Tech: Information, the surviving entity
Nov. 18th, 14h00 – 17h30
Location: IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques) 13 rue du Four, Paris 6ème
14h10 – 16h00, session 2 - Evolving information
● chair : Philippe Huneman, IHSPT
● Pierre - Henri Gouyon, MNHN: Biology : in between matter and information
● Minus Van Baalen, CNRS / ENS: Adaptation, conflicting information and stress
● Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir: Major transitions in information processing
16h00 - 16h20 : coffee break
16h20 – 17h30, session 3 - Information or specificity ?
● chair : Gaelle Pontarotti, IHPST
● Karola Stotz, Macquarie University, Sydney, Distributed Specificity
● Arnaud Pocheville, University of Sydney, Measuring Causal Specificity
Nov 19th, 8h30 – 12h30
Location: IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques) 13 rue du Four, Paris 6ème
08:30 – 09:30, Workshop 1 - How to teach "information" to Bachelor & Master students in biology?
● facilitated by Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir
09:40 – 11:10, session 4 - A special role for genes?
● chair : Francesca Merlin, IHPST & CNRS
● Gry Oftedal, University of Oslo, Biological specificity as fine-tuning and direct non-redundancy
● Elsa Muro Sabater, University of Navarra, Semantic information and Developmental Genetics
11h20 – 12h20, Workshop 2 - How our way to deal with "information" (publications, referencing, citation and
social networks...) influences us in the way we think about information?
● facilitated by Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir
12:20 - 12:30: concluding remarks (Philippe Huneman / Livio Riboli-Sasco)
Attendence is free. Please do register by sending an email to [email protected]
21 rue Broca
13 rue du Four