Collective Dynamics and Self-Organization in Biological Sciences

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Collective Dynamics and Self-Organization in Biological Sciences

 30 Apr - 04 May 2018

ICMS, 15 South College Street

Scientific Organisers:

  • Ruth Baker, University of Oxford
  • Pierre Degond, Imperial College London
  • Raluca Eftimie, University of Dundee
  • Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, University of Maryland
  • Sara Merino-Aceituno, University of Sussex

About:

Self-organisation refers to the ability of systems made of a large number of independent agents to generate large scale spatio-temporal coherent structures with typical dimensions larger than those associated with each individual agent. By bringing together mathematicians and biologists, this workshop provided an overview of the various self-organisation mechanisms and the mathematical models by which they can be explained. The workshop aimed to make progress towards determination of the key biological mechanisms that enable self-organisation at each scale and across the scales, and towards the derivation of suitable universal mathematical models able to describe them across the scales.

The value of this workshop was twofold. For the biologists, it reinforced their link with mathematicians and enlarged the range of models that they can use to probe observed biological complexity. For the mathematicians, it broadened the repertoire of case studies they can use. Furthermore, the workshop suggested new systems where models are still preliminary or not existent and which may require the development of new mathematical frameworks. For the two communities, it offered the opportunity of building trans-disciplinary teams that can share knowledge, models and data.

 

Topics covered:

  • Collective dynamics from the cell-scale to the population-scale

  • Spatio-temporal pattern formation and self-organization

  • Emergent networks

  • Pattern formation in gene expression regulation, control of stochasticity, cell-fate decision-making

  • Mechanical regulation of collective dynamics, particularly in cases coming from developmental biology and flocking behavior

  • Data analysis and model calibration and data-model coupling

Speakers

  • Kees Weijer, University of Dundee - Cellular Behaviours Underlying Tissue Dynamics During Primitive Streak Formation in the Chick Embryo

  • Brian Stramer, Kings College London - Cell Steering Through Persistent and Global Action Flow

  • Amic Frouvelle, Paris Dauphine University - Stability of Dirac Masses for Simple Alignment Processes

  • Mat Simpson, Queensland University of Technology - Mathematical Models for Cell Migration with Real-Time Cell Cycle Dynamics

  • Angelika Manhart, New York University - Traveling Waves in Myxobacteria

  • Doumic Jauffret, NRIA, UPMC and Wolfgang Pauli Institute - Estimating the Division in Growing and Dividing Populations

  • Alexandre Kabla, University of Cambridge - Mechanics of Cellularised Tissues

  • Maria Bruna, University of Oxford - Reactions, Diffusion and Volume Exclusion in a Heterogeneous System of Interacting Particles

  • Paul Kulesa, Stowers Institute - Collective Migration of the Embryonic Neural Crest

  • Christina Surulescu, Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern - Model Classes for Cancer Cell Migration: the Influence of the Tumour Microenvironment

  • Eric Theveneau, CNRS and University Paul Sabatier - Exploring the Dynamics of Pseudostratified Epithelia Using Agent-Based  Computational Modelling

  • Gil Ariel, Bar Ilan University - Chaos and Levy Walks in Swarming Bacteria

  • Jose Antonio Carrillo, Imperial College London - Swarming Models with Local Alignment Effects: Phase Transition and Hydrodynamics

  • Matthias Merkenschlager, Imperial College London - Self-Organisation and the Function of the Genome

  • Ariane Trescases, CNRS and Institut de Mathematiques de Toulouse - Quaternions in Collective Dynamics

  • Maria Rita D’Orsogna, California State University - Three Dimensional Swarming in Viscous Fluids

  • Diane Peurichard, INRIA - Modelling of Dynamical Networks: From Micro- to Macro-Descriptions

  • Arezki Boudaoud, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon - Stochasticity and Robustness in Plant Morphogenesis

  • Anna Kicheva, IST Klosterneuburg - Coordination of Progenitor Specification and Growth in the Developing Spinal Cord

  • Jonathan Sherratt, Heriot-Watt University - Self Organisation in Arid Vegetation

  • Laura Johnston, Columbia University - Tissue Ecology: Sensing and Responding to Differences in Cellular Fitness During Growth

  • Veronica Grieneisen, John Innes Centre - Self-Organisation of the Cell’s Compass, Collective Coordination in Plant and Animal Tissues, and Emerging Traffic-Jams

  • Melda Tozluoglu, University College London - Mechanical Regulation of Tissue Growth and Shape Formation

  • Kevin Painter, Heriot-Watt University - Modelling Cell Movement: From Tissue Organisation to Disease

  • Christian Schmeiser, University of Vienna - A Kinetic Model with Local Interactions for Myxobacteria Colonies