Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

François Fages is co-organizer of the CSBC Workshop on Computational Systems Biology for Cancer, Institut des Systèmes Complexes, Paris, France, 24-26 jan. 2018.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• François Fages was member of the PC of

  • CMSB'17 The 15th conference on Computational Methods for Systems Biology, September 27th to 29th 2017, Darmstadt, Germany.

  • FroCos'17 The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, 25-29 September 2017, Brasilia, Brazil.

Reviewer

• François Fages reviewed one article for the 15th Int. Computer Science Symposium in Russia CSR 2017.

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

In addition to their Editorial Board and Program Committee duties,

• Grégory Batt reviewed one article for Nature Scientific Reports.

• François Fages reviewed articles for Bioinformatics, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Fundamenta Informaticae, Computers and Industrial Engineering

• Sylvain Soliman reviewed articles for Briefings in Bioinformatics, PNAS, Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Invited Talks

• Virgile Andréani gave a poster presentation at the Spring school on Computational Systems Biology (CompSysBio 2017), Aussois, March 19-25 2017

• Gregory Batt gave invited talks at

  • Computational biology seminar of Curie Institute, “Predicting long-term effects of repeated apoptosis-inducing drug treatments: coupling signal transduction pathways with stochastic protein turnover models”, Paris, Jan 19 2017.

  • 6th Annual Consortium Meeting of Revive LabEx, “Multi-scale modeling of TRAIL-induced apoptosis: from protein level fluctuations to drug resistance in multicellular spheroids”, Montvillargenne, Jan 24 2017.

  • ENS/ESPCI joint Biophysics seminar, “Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time control or periodic stimulations”, Paris, Feb 10 2017.

  • BioNetVisA 2017 workshop “From biological network reconstruction to data visualization and analysis in molecular biology and medicine”, “A multi-scale model for investigating TRAIL resistance in multi-cellular tumor spheroids”, Basel, Sept 12 2017.

  • Workshop on Control of Cellular and Molecular Systems, “Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time control or periodic stimulations”, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University.

  • Second Symposium du Réseau de Biologie des Systèmes de Sorbonne Université, “Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time control or periodic stimulations”, Paris, Dec 1 2017.

• François Fages gave invited talks at

  • National Taiwan University, Dept. Electrical Engineering, “Strong Turing Completeness of Continuous Chemical Reaction Networks and Compilation of Mixed Analog-Digital Programs”, Tapei, Taiwan, 9 Nov 2017.

  • Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, CRI Paris, “Living with Algorithms and Algorithms of the Living”, Paris, 29 June 2017.

  • GT BIOSS-preGDR IA, keynote talk “In Quest of the Software of the Living: Successes and Difficulties of the Program Verification Paradigm in Cell Biology”, Gif sur Yvette, 22 June 2017.

  • Dynamic Days Europe, “Quantitative Modelling of the Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle Coupling: Prediction of RevErb- alpha Up-Regulation during Mitosis in Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts – Temporal Logic Constraints and Parameter Search in BIOCHAM”, Szeged, Hungary, 7 June 2017.

  • “Turing Completeness of Biochemical Reactions over a finite set of molecules under the Differential Semantics and Compilation of Mixed Analog-Digital Programs”, French Ambassy in Berlin, Germnany, 1 June 2017.

  • GT BIOSS “Turing Completeness of Biochemical Reactions under the Continuous Semantics and Compilation of Mixed Digital-Analog Programs”, Montpellier, 13 March 2017.

  • Lab Sys2diag “Biochemical Compiler and Mixed Analog-Digital Algorithms in the Cell”, Montpellier, 9 March 2017.

• Jean-Baptiste Lugagne gave invited talks at

  • Khammash lab seminar, “Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time feedback control and periodic forcing”, ETHZ, Zurich, March 2017

  • Seminar of SynthSys Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, “Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time feedback control and periodic forcing”, University of Edinburgh, June 08 2017

  • International Workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology, `Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time feedback control and periodic forcing” (poster presentation), Royal Academy of Engineering, London, July 17 2017

  • Seminar of Theory of Living Matter Group, “Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time feedback control and periodic forcing”, University of Cambridge, July 19 2017

• Jakob Ruess gave invited talks at

  • Working days of GT BIOSS “Control of bio-digital systems in single cells”, March 13 2017

  • Conference of GdR Biologie Synthétique et Systémique (BioSynSys) “Control of bio-digital systems in single cells”, La Grande Motte, Oct 10 2017

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

  • co-animator of the French working group on Symbolic Systems Biology GT BIOSS

  • the scientific committee of the Spring school on Computational Systems Biology (CompSysBio 2017)

• François Fages is a member of

  • the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Methods for Systems Biology since 2008,

  • the Scientific Council of the Doctorate School “Frontières Du Vivant” at Center for Research and Interdisciplanirity, Universities Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot, since 2010,

  • The Scientific Commmittee of the Summer School Ecole Thématique Modélisation Formelle des Réseaux de Régulation Biologique since 2010.

Scientific Expertise

• Gregory Batt

  • has been in charge of the definition of the 16th challenge of the 2018-2022 Inria strategic plan on predictive systems biology

  • has been a member of the INRA selection committee for hiring permanent junior researchers (CR2)

  • has evaluated the PhD thesis of Lorena Postiglioni and Giansimone Perrino (Diego di Bernardo, Tigem, Italy; Thesis evaluation report)

  • has been a member of thesis advisory committee meetings for Arnaud Bonnaffoux (Olivier Gandrillon ENS Lyon/Cosmo Company), Raphael Goujet (Ariel Lindner, CRI, Paris), Adele Kerjouan (Olivier Destaing, IAB, Grenoble), and Mathilde Koch (Jean-Loup Faulon, INRA, Jouy en Josas)

• François Fages

  • is a member of the jury for the Prix de thèse Gilles Kahn of the Société Informatique de France, since 2015,

  • reviewed one Research Fellowship application for the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

Research Administration

• François Fages is member of the “Bureau du Comité des Projets” of Inria Saclay-IdF.

• Sylvain Soliman is member of the “Commission Scientifique” of Inria Saclay-IdF