From Thing to Being – From a reductionist approach (as seen in classical genetics and biochemical studies) to a more networked and holistic approach (as seen in, for instance, genomic and metabolomic studies) in understanding life.
28.09. 18.30 Conference Dinner,
Tailend Dundee, 81 Nethergate
29.09 River Room 2, 9th Floor Tower Building
Chair: Oisín Keohane
9.00 – 9.40 Nicola Stanley-Wall (Dundee) – Building Bacterial Cities
09.40 – 10.20 Francesca Michelini (Kassel) – Plessner and Hegel on the Organism’s Boundary and Autonomy in Biology
Coffee-break
Chair: Dominic Smith
10.40 – 11.20 Inke Nathke (Dundee) – The impressive intestine
11.20 – 12.00 John Dupré (Exeter) – How a process view of life reveals the limits of reductionism
12.00 – 12.40 Leo Caves (York) Biology as Process : Relating Relational Biology to Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism
Lunch break
Chair: Patrick Levy
14.00 – 14.40 Carol MacKintosh (Dundee) – The evolution of parallel processing signalling networks via whole genome duplications
14.40 – 15.20 Stephan Guttinger (Exeter) – Proteins, processes and nature’s joints
15.20 – 16. 00 Friedolin Gross (Kassel) – Occam’s Razor in Systems Biology
Coffee and wine:
Round table discussion: Where do we go from here? Ideas for further collaboration