Monday, June 26
Welcoming Remarks (9:00 am)
David Glanzman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
Department of Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles
Session 1: (9:10 am – 10:40 am)
(Remote)
“The Physics of Sentience”
Karl Friston, FMedSci, F.R.S.B., F.R.S.
Professor
Institute of Neurology, University College, London
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
“Minimal Determinants of Cellular Cognition”
Jordi Garcia Ojalvo, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Systems Biology
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
“Cellular Basis of Sentience and Cognition”
Frantisek Baluska, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany
University of Bonn, Germany
Session 2: (11:05 am – 12:35 pm)
(Remote)
“Adaptive Behavior and Learning In Slime Molds”
Audrey Dussutour
Research Director
Centre for Philosophyof Science
University of Lisbon
(Remote)
“Learning andComputation In Single Cells”
Wallace Marshall
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
“Computational Capabilities of Single Cells”
Aneta Koseska, Ph.D.
Lise Meitner Research Group Leader
Department of P. Bastiaens
Institute for Neurobiology and Behavior
Session 3: (2:05 pm – 3:25pm)
“Adapt or Die: Transgenerational Inheritance of Pathogen Avoidance (How Getting Food Poisoning Might Save Your Species)”
Professor
Coleen Murphy, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
“Biological Embedding of Ancestral Life Experiences In the Epigenome”
Isabelle Mansuy, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neuroepigenetics
Medical Faculty of the University Zürich
Department of Health Science and Technology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
“Learning From the History of Memory Transfer”
David Colaço, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Mathematical Philosophy
University of Munich, Germany
Session 4: (4:00 pm – 6:00 pm)
“Decision Making Under Stress In Microbial Systems”
Allyson Sgro, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
“Principles of Neural Design, Without Neurons”
Pamela Lyon, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Finders University
“What is Fungal Behavior?”
Kristin Aleklett Kadish, Ph.D.
Researcher
Department of Biology
Lund University
(Remote)
“Understanding Cell Signal Perception and Misperception Using Optogenetic Probes”
Lukasz Bugaj, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, June 27
Session 5: (9:00 am – 10:30 am)
(Remote)
“Semon’s Mneme: Tiers of Memory and Learning In Biological Systems”
Eva Jablonka, Ph.D.
Professor
Cohn Institute for the History of Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Tel Aviv University
“Surprising Parallels between RNA Biology and Combinatory Logic”
Hessam Akhlaghpour
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function
Rockefeller University
“Resource Constraints and the Evolution of Cognition”
Marta Halina
Associate Professor
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Session 6: (11:00 am – 12:30 pm)
“Cell Learning: A New Paradigm For Biology“
Jeremy Gunawardena, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department ofSystems Biology
Harvard Medical School
“Epistemogenesis: Knowledge Accumulation in Biological Systems”
Isabella Sarto-Jackson, Ph.D.
Researcher
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
(Remote)
“How Biology Brings Cognition Into Evolution”
James Shapiro, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Chicago
Session 7: (2:05 pm – 4:00 pm)
“From Cells To Selves: Coupling Neuronal and Immune Cellular Processing In Biological Self Organizing Systems”
Anna Ciaunica, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Center for Philosophy of Science
Universityof Lisbon
“Possible and Actual Minds: Mapping the Cognition Space“
Ricard Solé, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Complex Systems Lab
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
“Pushing the Boundaries By Dissolving Them: Toward a Scale-free Formalization of Physical Systems As Observers”
Chris Fields, Ph.D.
Independent Researcher
Session 8: (4:40 pm – 6:00 pm)
“Liquid Droplets As Simple Dynamic Systems To Explore Information and Cognition”
Martin Michael Hanczyc, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Centre for Integrative Biology
University of Trento, Italy
“Embodied Cognition In Miniature Brains and Bodies of Marine Zooplankton”
Gaspar Jekely, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Living Systems Institute
University of Exeter
“Imagination: From Neural Computation To Molecular Computation”
Erik Winfree, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Department of Computation and Neural Systems
Department of Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology
(Remote)
“Memory and Intelligent Problem-Solving By Unconventional Collective Intelligences In Anatomical Morphospace”
Michael Levin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tufts Univeristy
Registration Required
Early Registration Deadline: May, 26, 2023
Standard Registration Deadline: June 20, 2023
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