2nd Alma Dal Co memorial symposium
Friday November 15, 2024
UNIL/DBC - AULA IDHEAP
Building on last year's symposium, also this year we will commemorate our late colleague and friend Alma Dal Co, who was a professor at the Department of Computational Biology (DBC) of UNIL.
In this 2nd Alma Dal Co memorial symposium six scientists who knew Alma will talk about their science and how it relates to her legacy.
Schedule:
10:00 - 10:15: Coffee
10:15 - 10:20: Welcome (DBC)
10:20 - 10:30: Margherita Turvani & Mario Dal Co (Alma Dal Co Foundation)
10:30 - 11:10: Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute) Systems Medicine (remote)
11:10 - 11:50: Benjamin Towbin (Uni Bern) Growth control from cells to organisms
11:50 - 12:00: Joint discussion
12:00 - 13:00: Lunch
13:00 - 13:40: Emma Slack (ETH Zurich) Spatial structure and mixing in gut bacterial communities
13:40 - 14:20: Silvia De Monte (École Normale Supérieure & MPI) To aggregate or not to aggregate: that is the question
14:20 - 14:30: Joint discussion
14:30 - 15:00: Coffee break
15:00 - 15:40: Mor Nitzan (Hebrew University) Robust self-organisation of multicellular structures
15:40 - 16:20: Simon van Vliet (Uni Basel & UNIL) From molecules to communities: predicting the emergent properties of spatially structured communities
16:20 - 16:30: Joint discussion
16:30 - 16:45: Closing remarks
16:45 - : Apero
To attend the event, please register here.