Alma Dal Co memorial symposium

2nd Alma Dal Co memorial symposium

Friday November 15, 2024
UNIL/DBC  - Room TBA



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:

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.


Tentative 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 - 11:15: Emma Slack (ETH Zurich) Spatial structure and mixing in gut bacterial communities
11:15 - 12:00:
Silvia De Monte (École Normale Supérieure) TBA

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 14:15: Benjamin Towbin (Uni Bern) Growth control from cells to organisms
14:15 - 15:00:
Mor Nitzan (Hebrew University) Robust self-organisation of multicellular structures

15:00 - 15:15: Coffee break

15:15 - 16:00: Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute) TBA
16:00 - 16:45:
Simon van Vliet (Uni Basel & UNIL) From molecules to communities: predicting the emergent properties of spatially structured communities

16:45 - 17:00: Closing remarks 

17:00 - : Apero

 

To attend the event, please register here.

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