The post-genomic era of biology is characterised by a deluge of molecular data about the cell. This `new' biology has its own vocabulary of genome, transcriptome, proteome and even metabolome, interactome and lipidome. The challenge is to make sense out of this information by coming up with a new integrated picture of the cell which takes into account that it is simultaneously an autocatalytic set, a tensegrity structure, a network or a set of networks with particular connectivities and feedback characteristics, a set of codes and decoding devices, a self-organising system ... and so on. Taking on this challenge therefore also requires the introduction of concepts unfamiliar to biologists and the development of new ones, the formulation of new hypotheses and their testing via simulations or wet experiments.

Taking on this challenge therefore requires specialists from across the sciences to learn each other's language so as to collaborate effectively on defined projects. The Thematic School "Modelling Complex Biological Systems in the Context of Genomics" has been set up to help this research effort.

Widely open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers, the Thematic School is based on five main interest axes:

• Artificial Life and Evolution.
• Synthetic Biology.
• Biophysics of the cell.
• Systems Immunology.
• Systems Oncology.

TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EVENTS

• KEYNOTE LECTURE by Prof. Albert Libchaber (Rockefeller University), Renowned mathematician, physicist and biologist, member of French and American Academies of Sciences. May 22, 14:30 - 16:00
• Distinguished ex-pupils talks session. May 23, 8:30 - 9:30
• Permanent simulation demos

This CNRS Thematic School is the eleventh edition of a series started at:

• Autrans in 2002 Proceedings (PDF, 22Mb),
• Dieppe in 2003 Proceedings (PDF, 10Mb),
• Évry in 2004 Proceedings (PDF, 5.1Mb),
• Montpellier in 2005 Proceedings (PDF, 19Mb),
• Bordeaux in 2006 Proceedings (PDF, 5.5Mb),
• Évry in 2007 Proceedings (PDF, 2Mb),
• Lille in 2008 Proceedings (PDF, 2.4Mb),
• Nice in 2009 Proceedings (PDF, 8.5Mb),
• Évry in 2010 Proceedings (PDF, 3.3Mb),
• Sophia Antipolis in 2011 Proceedings (PDF, 8.2Mb),

ORGANISATION

There is the schedule that will be followed every day:

• Two main conferences of 90 minutes the morning, each one composed of 30 minutes of tutorial, 30 minutes of research talk and 30 minutes for the questions.
• The talks and the slides will be in english.
• The afternoon begins with a main conference followed by workshops:
  • Logical Approaches
  • Entity-centered Simulations
  • Metabolic modelling
  • GenoCAD
• Poster sessions will be held the evening after the dinner.