Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• Grégory Batt, Pascal Hersen, and Denis Thieffry organized the 2nd International Conference on Design, optimization and control in systems and synthetic biology, DOC'15 , November 12-13, 2015, ENS, Paris.

• François Fages was co-chair with Nicolas Beldiceanu of the 6th International Workshop on Bin Packing and Placement Constraints, BPPC'15 associated to CP'15, 31st August 2015, Cork, Ireland.

• François Fages is member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Methods for Systems Biology since 2008.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

• Grégory Batt was member of the program committees of :

  • HSB'15 Fourth International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology, Madrid, Spain, September 3-4, 2015

  • CMSB'15 , 13th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Nantes, France, Sept. 16-18, 2015.

• François Fages was member of the program committees of :

  • IJCAI'16 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, USA, 2016.

  • CIE'16 Computability in Europe, Paris, 2016.

  • HSB'15 Fourth International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology, Madrid, Spain, September 3-4, 2015

  • CP'15 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Cork, Ireland, Aug 31-Sep 4, 2015.

  • ICLP'15 31st International Conference on Logic Programming, Cork, Ireland, Aug 31-Sep 4, 2015.

  • WCB'15 11th Workshop on Constraint-based methods for Bioinformatics, associated to CP'15, Cork, Ireland, August 31st 2015.

  • CMSB'15 , 13th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Nantes, France, Sept. 16-18, 2015.

  • LMBS'15 , 1st International Workshop on Logical Modeling of Biological Systems, satellite workshop of CMSB'15, Nantes, France, Sept. 18, 2015.

  • VEMDP'15 , Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs, July 19, 2015, San Francisco, USA.

  • FroCoS'15 , Wroclaw, Poland, 15-19 Sep 2015.

• Sylvain Soliman was member of the program committee of:

  • WCB'15 11th Workshop on Constraint-based methods for Bioinformatics, associated to CP'15, Cork, Ireland, August 31st 2015.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

François Fages is member of

• the Editorial Board of the Computer Science area of the Royal Society Open Science journal since 2014

• the Editorial Board of the journal RAIRO OR Operations Research since 2004

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• Grégory Batt and Jean-Baptiste Lugagne were reviewers for the journal ACS Synthetic Biology. Grégory Batt was reviewer for the Journal of Molecular Biology.

• Chiara Fracassi was reviewer for the journal Epidemiology and Infection.

• François Fages and Pauline Traynard were reviewers for Theoretical Computer Science. François Fages was reviewer for PLoS Computational Biology, Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Theoretical Computer Science, Acta Biotheoretica, Transactions on Computational Logic, and Journal of Constraints.

Sylvain Soliman was reviewer for BMC Systems Biology, AMS Math Reviews, PLoS One, and Bioinformatics.

Invited talks

• Virgile Andréani gave an invited talk at the Journée nationale du groupe de travail BIOSS, 23 Nov 2015.

• Grégory Batt gave invited talks at

  • workshop Integrative cell models: Bridging microbial physiology and systems biology, Leiden, the Netherlands (short talk), January 2015

  • Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes, Reverse Engineering Cell Division team, February 2015

  • Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems group, Newcastle University, UK, May 2015

  • Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Cellule, ENS Lyon, October 2015

• François Bertaux gave an invited talk at the conference Design, Optimization and Control of Systems and Synthetic Biology, ENS Paris, Nov 2015.

• François Fages gave invited talks at

  • University of Bonn, Bioinformatics Seminar, Germany, 11 December 2015,

  • CNRS Sys2Diag lab, Montpellier, 8 December 2015,

  • Journée nationale du groupe de travail BIOSS, Paris, 23 November 2015,

  • National Taiwan University, Biology Dept., Taipei, Taiwan, 14 July 2015

  • National Taiwan University, Electrical Engineering Dept., Taipei, Taiwan, 15 July 2015

  • CIRM, “Méthodes de réduction de modèles discrets”, Marseille, 28 May 2015

  • aSSB'15 Thematic Research School, Strasbourg, 23-27 March 2015

• Artemis Llamosi gave an invited talk at the Conference Lyon SysBio 2015 , November 2015

• Jean-Baptiste Lugagne gave an invited talk at the conference Design, Optimization and Control of Systems and Synthetic Biology, ENS Paris, Nov 2015.

• Chiara Fracassi gave an invited talk at BioSynSys'15, the first conference of the GDR Synthetic and Systems Biology, Paris Diderot U, Sept 2015.

Leadership within the scientific community

• Grégory Batt is a member of

  • the IEEE/CSS Technical Committee on Systems Biology,

  • the scientific board of the GDR de Biologie de Synthèse et des Systèmes

  • the GDR de Bioinformatique Moléculaire, in charge of the axis on Biological network modelling, systems biology and synthetic biology

• François Fages is a member of the Steering Committee of the international conference series Computational Methods in Systems Biology since 2008

Scientific expertise

Grégory Batt was member of the review and selection panels of ERASysAPP, an ERA-NET for Systems Biology Applications (Gothenborg, April 2015). He was also a reviewer for ANR blanc programme. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Advanced Lecture Course on Computational Systems Biology summer school. He has also served as a mentor in the workshop Teaching Through Research of the Leadership Program, organised by the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity under the auspice of the “learning science” UNESCO chair (April 2015, Paris).

François Fages is a member of the Scientific Council of the Doctorate School “Frontières Du Vivant” at Center for Research and Interdisciplanirity , Universities Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot (since 2010). He was a member of the Comité de Sélection for a Professorship position in Section 27 in Lille and member of the jury for the Prix de thèse Gilles Kahn of the Société Informatique de France.

Research administration

François Fages is member of the “Bureau du Comité des Projets” of Inria Paris-Rocquencourt.

Sylvain Soliman is president of the “Comité de Suivi Doctoral” and of the “Commission de Dévelopement Technologique” of Inria Paris-Rocquencourt.