Part 1. From Gene to Species: Variability, Randomness and Stability


1. The Emergence of Life: Some Notes on the Origin of Biological Information, Antonio Lazcano.

2. Fluctuating RNA, Giuseppe Zaccai, Marie-Christine Maurel and Ada Yonath.

3. Artificial Darwinian Evolution of Nucleic Acids, Fr?d?ric Ducong?.

4. Information and Epigenetics, Andr?s P?ldi.

5. Molecular Forces and Motion in the Transmission of Information in Biology, Giuseppe Zaccai.

6. Decline and Contingency, Bases of Biological Evolution, Bernard Dujon.

7. Conservation, Co-evolution and Dynamics: From Sequence to Function, Alessandra Carbone.

8. Localization of the Morphodynamic Information in Amniote Formation, Vincent Fleury.

9. From the Century of the Gene to that of the Organism: Introduction to New Theoretical Perspectives, Ma?l Mont?vil, Giuseppe Longo and Ana Soto.

10. The Game of Survival, Chance and Complexity, Philippe Kourilsky.

11. Life from the Origins to Homosapiens, Jean Fourtaux.

12. Plankton Chronicles and the Tara Expeditions, Christian Sardet.

13. The Living Species is Not a Natural Kind but an Intellectual Construction, Philippe Grandcolas.

14. The Boxes and their Content: What to Do with Invariants in Biology? Guillaume Lecointre.

15. Probability, Sense and Evolution (Promenade), C?dric Villani.


Part 2. Program and Life: Individuation and Interaction


16. Towards an Algorithmic Approach to Life Sciences, G?rard Berry.

17. Where Does the Notion of Function Come From? Heinz Wismann.

18. The Contribution of Artificial Life to Theoretical Biology, Hugues Bersini.

19. Biochemical Programs and Analog- Digital Mixed Algorithms in the Cell, Fran?ois Fages and Guillaume Le Guludec.

20. From Computational Physics to the Origins of Life, A. Marco Saitta.

21. Computing and the Temptation of Babel, Kav? Salamatian.

22. Big Data, Knowledge and Biology, Giuseppe Longo and Ma?l Mont?vil.

23. Natural Language, Formal Language and the Description of the Living World, R?gine Vignes Lebbe.

24. Vital Individuation and Morphogenetic Information, Vincent Bontems.

25. How to Account for Interspecies Socio-cultural Phenomena? An Evolutionist and Interactionist Model, Dominique Guillo.

26. Life: A Simplex Whirlwind between Matter, Energy and Information, Jean-Claude Barrey.

27. Nutritional Interactions through the Living: from Individuals to Societies and Beyond, Mathieu Lihoreau.

28. Epigenetic Regulation of Protein Biosynthesis?by Scale Resonance: Study of the Reduction of ESCA Effects on Vines in Field Applications –Summary 2016, Pedro Ferrandiz, Michel Duhamel and Jo?l Sternheimer.

29. Quantum and Multiverse Inflation, Michel Cass?.

30. Reontologization of the World and of Life, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia.

31. Redesigning Life, a Serious and Credible Research Agenda? Bernadette Bensaude Vincent.

32. Transhumanism and the Future of Negation, Jean-Michel Besnier.