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| Location: | Tübingen, Germany |
| Date: | 3rd - 5th June 2025 |
| Registration status: | Open (Abstract submission by 28th Februrary 2025) |
| Registration fee*: | 100 eur (student & postdoc) 300 eur (PI) |
| Capacity: | 40 people max. |
What is biological noise? Depending on the field, you might think about it as phenotypic plasticity, robustness, variance, or variability. Here we use 'noise' to contain all these possible meanings. Noise is a fundamental, yet long understudied, aspect of biology. Decades of conceptual approaches to noise have recently given way to technological advances that have allowed the quantification of biological noise at different levels of biological organization. However, key questions remain: What do we talk about when we talk about biological noise? Do the manifestations of noise across organization levels represent a common evolutionary phenomenon despite the vast diversity of mechanistic differences?
The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers working on noise from different fields (e.g., theoreticians, molecular biologists, population geneticists, system biologists, philosophers) in order to establish the common principles guiding the origin, maintenance, and evolution of biological noise at distinct organization levels, from molecules, to transcriptional networks, to higher-order phenotypes, to populations. This meeting will serve as a platform to develop a synthetic framework to understand the origin, maintenance, and evolution of biological noise.
CNRS & University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
CNRS, Montpellier
Brown University
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