Coordinators: Cécile Leduc and Marie-Emilie Terret
Context
To make progress in our understanding of living systems, it is necessary to model them, to quantify them, and to take into account the laws of physics and chemistry that underlie their emergence and function. The recent development of quantitative techniques that make it possible to measure multiple aspects of living systems has contributed to refine our understanding of life. Beyond the discoveries that these techniques have made possible, the accompanying influx of data opens a new era of biology, in which experiments and modeling can finally be confronted in detail. In addition, a growing range of techniques (microfluidics, opto- and magneto-genetics, nanoparticles, etc.) makes it possible to interact with living systems in a dynamic and spatially controlled way to probe their response to perturbations.
Objectives
The “Quantitative approaches to living systems” research network (“Approches quantitatives du vivant”, AQV) promotes exchanges between communities at the interface between biology and physics, to stimulate the emergence of new approaches to living systems.
Our network follows on the former “Physics from cell to tissue” (“Physique de la cellule au tissu”, CellTiss) research network. While preserving the dynamics established between the members of CellTiss, the objective of this new iteration is to cover quantitative approaches to biology in the broadest sense. For more details, see the letter of intent submitted to the INSB and INP directorates (in French).
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Committee:
- Isabelle Bonnet, Laboratoire physico-chimie Curie, Paris
- Nicolas Borghi, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
- Mathieu Coppey, Laboratoire physico-chimie Curie, Paris
- Francis Corson, Laboratoire de physique de l’ENS, Paris
- Nicolas Desprat, Laboratoire de physique de l’ENS, Paris
- Olivier Destaing, Institut pour l’Avancée des Biosciences, Grenoble
- Marina Elez, Institut Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas
- Christophe Le Clainche, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), Gif-Sur-Yvette
- Cécile Leduc, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
- Marc Lefranc, Laboratoire de physique des lasers, atomes et molécules (PhLAM), Lille
- Loic Le Goff, Institut Fresnel, Marseille
- Fabien Montel, Laboratoire de physique de l’ENS-Lyon, Lyon
- Florence Niedergang, Institut Cochin, Paris
- Renaud Poincloux, Institut de pharmacologie et biologie structurale (IBPS), Toulouse
- Véronique Proux-Gillardeaux, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
- Pierre-Henri Puech, Laboratoire d’adhésion et inflammation, Marseille
- Anne-Cecile Reymann, Institut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire de la cellule (IGBMC), Strasbourg
- Marie-Emilie Terret, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie, Collège de France, Paris