Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Figure 1. La Recherche magazine award 2019 ceremony.

• Creation of a new team at Inria Paris

  At the end of 2019, the Lifeware team gave birth to a new Inria team, called InBio and affiliated to the Inria Paris research centre. So far, InBio was a Pasteur research unit that was hosting a fraction of the members of the Lifeware team on the campus of Institut Pasteur. So in 2020, InBio becomes a new Common Project-Team between Inria Paris and Pasteur Institute. This demonstrates that Inria is actively supporting research in the computational systems biology field.

• Launching of Inria Exploratory Action GRAM on chemical programming of artificial vesicles

  Chemical reaction networks are a computation paradigm used by natural cells to process information, take decisions and control their vital processes. The synthesis of artificial vesicles without DNA nor RNA but containing precise quantities of enzymes allows us today to implement high-level functions in proto-cells with numerous potential applications in health and the environment. Based on previous work of the Lifeware project-team on chemical analog computation theory and programming, of the CNRS-Alcediag Sys2diag laboratory on the synthesis of biosensors in artificial vesicles, and on the expertise of the Roscoff Biological Station on membrane transporters, we explore an original approach to analog chemical circuit design applied to the programming of high-level functions in chemical analog computers.

Awards

• Award Ceremony - La Recherche magazine 2019 - Information Sciences

  The ceremony for awards La Recherche magazine 2019 at University Paris-Dauphine was a great occasion to present our article “Strong Turing Completeness of Continuous Chemical Reaction Networks and Compilation of Mixed Analog-Digital Programs” by F. Fages, G. Le Guludec, O. Bournez and A. Pouly, Best Paper award at CMSB 2017, recipient of La Recherche magazine 2019 Award - Information Sciences.