Emergence of Information in Molecular Systems (MOLINFO)

22 July - 2 August 2024

Ulrich Gerland, Job Boekhoven, Aleksandra Walczak

Week 1
Mon 22/07/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 10:30

Welcome to MIAPbP & Introduction

10:30 - 12:00

Incentive talk & Discussion

Nicholas Hud

14:00 - 16:30

TBA

Dieter Braun

Tue 23/07/2024
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Coffee break

10:00 - 11:45

Understanding the emergence of RNA and DNA inspired by Questions in the Context of Origins of Life and by (not) using Extant Life as a Guide

Ram Krishnamurthy

Krishnamurthy_Abstract.pdf

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

What is information?

Torsten Ensslin

Enßlin_Blackboard1.jpg

Enßlin_Blackboard2.jpg

Enßlin_Notes.pdf

14:00 - 16:00

Behavior of heteropolymers with non-enzymatic templated ligation and polymerization

Alexei Tkachenko

16:30 - 19:00

Discussion and networking - BBQ

Wed 24/07/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 11:30

Virtual circular genomes and error correction in RNA replication

Arvind Murugan

14:00 - 15:30

Autocatalytic chemical networks

David Lacoste

Lacoste_Slides.pdf

Thu 25/07/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 11:30

Peptide-RNA coevolution towards the Central Dogma

Klara Hlouchova

14:00 - 15:30

TBA

Job Boekhoven

Fri 26/07/2024
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Emergence of cell fate in dynamic environments: homeorhetic regulation of cell phenotype

Aneta Koseska

Koseska_Abstract.pdf

11:30 - 13:00

Optimal information transmission in neural induction

Sophie de Buyl

Week 2
Mon 29/07/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 11:15

How nuclei move around in Drosophila embryo to properly express positional cues

Massimo Vergassola

11:30 - 12:30

PhD/Postdoc Talks (Espada, Burger, Matsubara, Harth-Kitzerow)

14:00 - 15:15

Theory of phase separation directing and selecting sequences

Christoph Weber

Tue 30/07/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 11:15

Information Complexity

Mathieu Coppey

Coppey_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:45

Signal amplification and large information fidelity in sensory systems via proximity to bifurcation points

Isabella Graf

14:00 - 15:15

TBA

Armita Nourmohammad

17:00 - 19:00

Discussion and networking - Pizza

Wed 31/07/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 11:15

TBA

Thierry Mora

11:30 - 12:30

PhD/Postdoc Talks (Kramar, Ukogu, Tohme, van Esterik)

14:00 - 15:15

Solvent constraints for biopolymer folding and evolution in extraterrestrial environments

Diego Ferreiro

Ferreiro_Slides.pdf

Thu 01/08/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 11:15

TBA

Paul Francois

11:30 - 12:45

TBA

Karen Alim

14:00 - 15:15

TBA

Todd Gingrich

Fri 02/08/2024
Time Session
10:00 - 11:30

Informal Discussion (in the seminar room)

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