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Rain or shine, Marseille has the best sunsets 🤩☀️! Thank you @paulvilloutreix & Robert G. Kelly for hosting my recent visit ! It was a pleasure to talk IBDM & CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems and to examine the brilliant PhD thesis of Clara Guijarro 👏🎓😀!!

Pleased to share the publication of our paper showing the role of EGFR in coordinating morphogenetic movements in Developmental Cell. Congratulations MIT Biology postdoc, nat clarke for all your hard work! Article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39461341/

On my way back to Marseille after giving my 1st new lecture ⁦Collège de France⁩ this morning on Biological information. It was great to be back! Video and pdf available in 2 days. Stay tuned. Paris was beautiful, La Sorbonne glowing at night and Notre-Dame almost fully recovered 🤩

In Cell, I share a major conceptual challenge for biology in the next decade, inspired by Crick’s Central Dogma: understanding information flow in the cell, the smallest indivisible unit of life bit.ly/4hQMmva

It was wonderful to host Jürgen Knoblich IBDM and CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems today 🤩. A great illustration of how organoids pave the way for a deeper understanding of human development and physiology. Lovely dinner with Sham Tlili, Frank Schnorrer and Baptiste Libé-Philippot yesterday.

Here is the link to video of introduction course Collège de France on biological information. A historical perspective on representations of the genome, highlighting contributions of von Neumann, Jacob&Monod, Waddington, Alberch etc. Video (french)+pdf (english): tinyurl.com/y4k44cd4

Rewind: Physics of Living Matter 2024 🔬 If you missed any of the highlights from Physics of Living Matter 2024, our Rewind Video is here! 👉 Watch now and relive the event! centuri-livingsystems.org/2024/10/03/loo…

Happy to share link to video & pdf of 2nd lecture Collège de France on biological information. I present & discuss general properties of Biological Codes (genetic, transcriptional, signalling and adhesion codes) dealing with balance btw diversity & specificity. tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v

Reading this fabulous, autobiographical article by John Hopfield « Now what? » on finding a good research problem. I think this is a must read. I note the importance of teaching and serendipity. pni.princeton.edu/people/john-j-…

On my day to Paris, the foot steps of the Alps are beautiful 🤩. Tomorrow’s lecture at College de France will be on « encoding, decoding and representations of space ». Stay tuned.

Happy to share link to pdf/video of lecture Collège de France on Encoding, decoding & representations of space. I present how length scales are defined in biol., Shannon information theory, positional information & patterning in guided/self-organised systems. Enjoy tinyurl.com/y85ft5nj

27 life scientists have been selected as the newest members of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Congratulations and welcome! Read more: embo.org/press-releases…

⬇️ link to pdf/video of 4th lecture Collège de France 😊: "Encoding, decoding and representations of Time". I discuss global & local tuning of biological timescales. Information decoded from dynamics can be quantified & is rich. Ex in vitro and in vivo. Enjoy! tinyurl.com/2n8n3s9u

See ⬇️ link to pdf/video of lecture Collège de France on Structural & geometric information 🤩. An opportunity to broaden the concept of heredity beyond genomes. Tomorrow, last lecture of this year on Biological information, devoted to Memory & learning in cells. tinyurl.com/2y7hpu2r

Great time after last course Collège de France today in company of Aleks Walczak, Vincent Hakim, François Schweisguth, Jacques Prost and Pierre Sens 🤩. This series of courses on information was an amazing (&exhausting) experience. 16th May, Symposium at CdF on information processing.

⬇️ link to pdf & video of last course Collège de France on biological information, devoted to cellular learning & memory. Learnability manifests across scales from molecules to networks, structures and whole cells. Much to think further about. Enjoy! tinyurl.com/n4hfx4ec

This was my last scientific message sent from this platform in parallel with🦋. I will close this account in a few days. From this day on, you can follow me only on 🦋 Thomas.bsky.social. Happy holidays! 🍾

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It is with my heart broken that I share that Philippe Bastiaens, Max Plank Director and my PhD advisor has passed away 💔. Philippe had a huge impact in my life and where I am today. His premature passing is heartbreaking. DM me if you would like to be informed of next steps. 🙏