Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

Philippe Dague and François Fages were co-organizers of the Workshop on Computational Systems Biology for Cancer CSBC, Institut des Systèmes Complexes, Paris, France, 24-26 jan. 2018.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Gregory Batt was member of the scientific program committee of

  • the 19th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2018), Oct 28 - Nov 1, Lyon, France

• François Fages was member of the program committee of

  • VEMDP'18 Verification of Engineered Molecular Devices and Programs. July 19, 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom. An affiliated workshop of CAV 2018.

  • CMSB'18 16th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology. 12th-14th September 2018, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ.

  • MCU'18 8th International Conference on Machines, Computations and Universality, June 28-30, 2018, Fontainebleau, France.

  • IJCAR'18 9th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, part of the Federated Logic Conference FLOC'18, July 14-17, 2018, Oxford, UK.

  • DataMod'18 7th International Symposium “From Data to Models and Back”, 25-26 June 2018, Toulouse, France

  • WCB'18 13th International Workshop on Constraint-based Methods for Bioinformatics, Oxford co-located with FLOC'18, July 2018.

Reviewer

• Jakob Ruess has reviewed scientific articles for

  • the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2018), Dec. 17-19, Miami, USA;

  • the 17th European Control Conference (ECC 2019), June 25-28, Naples, Italy;

  • the Bioinformatics conference, Feb 22-24 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

• Sylvain Soliman reviewed papers for

  • IJCAR and CMSB.

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 journal articles for ACS Synthetic Biology, Cell Systems, Nature Communications, and Current Opinion in Systems Biology;

• François Fages reviewed journal articles for PLOS Computational Biology, Interface Focus, Natural Computing, BMC Systems Biology and the book Automated Reasoning for Systems Biology and Medicine;

• Jakob Ruess reviewed journal articles for PLOS Computational Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Computational Physics, Processes, and Entropy;

• Sylvain Soliman reviewed journal articles for Journal of Theoretical Biology and Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Invited Talks

• Virgile Andreani gave an invited talk on Modèles de résistance bactérienne aux antibiotiques to Journée apprentissage de modèles statistiques et stochastiques à partir de données biologiques, Mar 2018, Rennes, France;

• Grégory Batt gave invited talks on

  • Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time control and periodic stimulations, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2018), Aug 21-24 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Impact of phenotypic variability on commitment to apoptosis, Computational Systems Biology of Cancer, Sept 2018, Paris

  • Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time control and periodic stimulations, iSSB / Genoscope seminar, Dec 2018, Evry, France

• François Fages gave invited talks on

  • Vers une informatique de la cellule: programmes biochimiques naturels et synthétiques, Conférence de rentrée de l'ENS Paris-Saclay (3h), Sep. 2018;

  • Modeling and Design of Biological Systems, Discrete Models and Formal Verification in Biology, Cambridge, UK, août 2018;

  • Modeling and Design of Biological Systems, Summer school on New strategies in medical diagnosis and personalized medicine, Ninh Binh, Vietnam, Jul. 2018;

  • Computer-Aided Biochemical Programming of Synthetic Micro-reactors as Diagnostic Devices, Groupe de Travail sur la biologie systémique symbolique, GT BIOSS, Marseille, Jul. 2018;

  • Turing Completeness of Continuous Chemical Reaction Networks, an Informatic Perspective to Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology, MODELIFE days, Université Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Nice, June 2018;

  • A Constraint-based Implementation of Tropical Equilibrations in BIOCHAM towards integrating Stability Conditions for Computing Correct Model Reductions, Scientific Meeting, Bonn, Allemagne, March 2018;

  • From Turing Completeness of Continuous CRN to Abstract CRN Synthesis Workflow, Formal Methods for the Synthesis of Biomolecular Circuits, Dagstuhl, Allemagne, Feb. 2018;

  • Coupled Models of the Cell Cycle and Circadian Clock for Chronotherapy Optimization, Computational Systems Biology for Cancer, Paris, Jan. 2018.

  Jakob Ruess gave invited talks on

  • Virtual reality for bacteria, C3BI Seminar, Feb 2018, Paris, France.

  • Shaping bacterial population behavior through computer-interfaced control of individual cells, Symposium on "Cybergenetics-at the interface between living and non-living regulatory systems" at the Annual Meeting of the German Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), Apr 2018, Wolfsburg, Germany.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Grégory Batt is

  • co-responsible of the working group on Symbolic Systems Biology (GT Bioss), gathering >150 researchers in 25 research teams; and member of

  • the Technical Committee on Systems Biology of IEEE and CSS societies;

  • the scientific board of the French research network on Systems and Synthetic Biology (GdR BioSynSys), gathering 40 labs and 300 researchers;

  • the scientific board of the French research network on Bioinformatics (GdR BIM), gathering 56 labs and several hundreds of researchers;

  • the scientific committee of the Advanced Course on Computational Systems Biology summer school, Aussois, 2019;

  • the scientific committee of the Curie International Course on Systems Biology of Cancer, Paris, 2018.

• François Fages is member of

  • the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB, since 2008.

  • the Think Tank of the structuring program MODELIFE “Modélisation physique et Mathématique du vivant”, Université Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur.

Scientific Expertise

• Grégory Batt

  • was responsible for the Predictive Systems Biology chapter of the 2018-2022 strategic plan of Inria;

  • was reviewer and panel member of the ITMO Cancer/Inserm call on single-cell approaches to cancer;

  • and reviewer for the MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Global Seed Funds and for the Leverhulme Trust.

• François Fages

  • was member of the Comité de sélection Maître de Conférence, ENS Paris-Saclay;

  • of the thesis advisory committee of one PhD student;

  • and evaluator of one European Research Council ERC Consolidator Grant;

  • one European Research Council ERC Starting Grant;

  • and one DigiCosme, Univ. Paris-Saclay project.

• Jakob Ruess has been a member of thesis advisory committee for two PhD students.

Research Administration

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

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