Biological or other physical networks can emerge from the growth of a population of growing apex by a combination of filament extension, orientation, branching and annihilation. High spatial and temporal resolution timelapses of such dynamics are currently being acquired by multiple teams across the world. These allow to track at the same time the behaviour of individual apex and the whole network formation.
How are these datasets being acquired? What data analysis tools can be put in place to analyse such complex dynamics? What kind of theoretical framework can help interpreting those results?
This workshop aims at gathering international scientists that are involved in the acquisition, analysis or theoretical understanding of branching network growth. We believe the field is at a turning point and it is time for researcher to meet and share ideas, results and techniques.
The workshop is organized by Corentin Bisot (AMOLF), Thibault Chassereau (LIED), Éric Herbert (LIED) and Annemiek Cornelissen (MSC).
The workshop will take place over two days, on 26 and 27 June 2025, on the Paris rive gauche campus of the Université Paris Cité (Paris 13). Presentations will take place in room 322 of the Lamarck building, 35 rue Hélène Brion, nearest metro station Bibliothèque de France, metro line 14.
Day 1 will be kicked off by Tom Shimizu and Mark Fricker giving an introductory duo talk presenting the history of the study of growing networks in biology and the latest advancement in high throughput data acquisition. We will continue by discovering different experimental system and watching living (and maybe non living) systems grow : mosses, fungi, but also networked organs. How is this data acquired? How is it processed? The afternoon will start with a presentation by Marc Barthelemy on spatial network, the specific class of network that all our data belongs to. What general properties to these networks have? What can be considered a trait of a network and what is simply a consequence of spatial embedding? A first dive into theory.
In day 2, we’ll indeed slowly move from timelapse datasets to theory and models. The day will open with a presentation by Stephane Douady on “ways”, an underlying structure of spatial networks that inherits important informations about their growth. We’ll then learn about different examples where network timelapses can be used to extract key growth parameters that are also important ecological traits. The afternoon will be started by Edouard Hannezo presenting a general class of branching models that reproduces the dynamics of various systems. This will be followed by two presentations presenting variations around these models to answer ecologically relevant questions.
Program will be updated with titles and abstracts.
In addition to the presentations, posters can be displayed in the room. Please use A0 format and vertical (portrait) orientation. We can take care of the printing. Please send an email to the organisers.
26th June | 27th June | |
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9h | Coffee reception | Coffee reception |
9h30 | Mark Fricker and Tom Shimizu | Stéphane Douady |
10h15 | Loai Gandeel | Stanislaw Żukowski |
10h45 | Pause | Pause |
11h15 | Carlos Aguilar | Thibault Chassereau |
11h45 | Allon Weiner | Lena Kuwata |
12h15 | Annemiek Cornelissen | Rishabh Sharma |
12h45 | Lunch | Lunch |
14h15 | Marc Barthelemy | Edouard Hannezo |
15h | Jeanne Abitbol | Maxime Lucas |
15h30 | Matthieu Platre | John Casey |
16h | Discussion | Discussion |
17h30 | Poster & drinks | Poster & drinks |
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