Conveners
Complexity of Life: Part I
- Jakub Mielczarek (Jagiellonian University)
Complexity of Life: Part II
- Hélder Larraguível (Jagiellonian University, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Mark Kac Center for Complex Systems Research)
Complexity of Life: Part III
- Luciano Marcon (Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology)
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Anna Fogtman (European Astronaut Centre (EAC), Cologne, Germany)02/12/2023, 11:30
For almost 60 years, human beings have been flying to the outer space, successfully completing missions in order to expand our knowledge about the universe. Over those years, we also have gained a lot of experience about the risks of human space flight. In the forthcoming perspective of the end of the International Space Station (ISS) service, international space agencies urge to plan the next...
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Agata Kołodziejczyk (Space Technology Centre AGH)02/12/2023, 12:15
Living organisms possess natural ability to adapt in response to changing environmental conditions. Limitations in adaptation are critical in strategies of survival. Simulator of space base located in Rzepiennik in Poland is an isolated laboratory established in 2018 to run studies in bioastronautics and space medicine. During each year international crews of maximum six people enter the...
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Mateusz Twardawa (Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology)02/12/2023, 13:00
Evolution of biological complexity seems to be a great puzzle. Although the extended evolutionary synthesis and modern technology provide a wide range of theoretical models and practical tools to study evolutionary dynamics [1][2], evolution of complexity is usually omitted. Moreover, some researchers propose that complexity can be treated as the byproduct of evolutionary adaptation [3]. For...
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Thomas Sokolowski02/12/2023, 16:30
For different organisms, early development unfolds under very different circumstances and time scales, but constantly facing the impacts of inevitable biological noise resulting from the inherently stochastic nature of the processes driving it. To cope with this, a variety of developmental strategies and mechanisms evolved, and their differences were shaped by the constraints imposed by...
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Tuan Pham (Niels Bohr Institute)02/12/2023, 17:15
Biological and neural networks are adaptive - their connections slowly change in response to the state of the coupled elements making up the systems. The dynamics of such adaptive networks are intriguingly complex, rendering it extremely difficult to answer the fundamental question of what the energy requirements for maintaining functionally robust collective states under environmental...
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Baeckkyoung Sung (KIST Europe)02/12/2023, 17:35
The hormonal communication networks between the brain (notably the hypothalamus-pituitary complex) and the peripheral glands (such as the gonads) build up the dynamic endocrine signalling pathways of the aquatic lower vertebrates, especially fish. The neuroendocrine controller involved in this circuitry can be effectively reduced to the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. In the...
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Marlli Zambrano (Institut für Veterinär-Epidemiologie und Biometrie - Freie Universität Berlin)02/12/2023, 17:45
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly shown how unprepared we are globally to adapt and manage effective public health responses in urban context. This pandemic has not only transformed how people navigate urban spaces but also how they physically interact with each other. This study aims to understand these changes in Berlin by utilizing GPS mobile phone data from 2020 and 2022 and performing a...
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Jeremy England (Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University)03/12/2023, 11:45
Life is a multifarious bundle of distinct physical phenomena that are distinctive, but not unique to, living things. Self-replication, energy harvesting, and predictive sensing are three such phenomena, and each can be given a clear physical definition. In this talk, we will report recent progress in understanding what physical conditions are required for the spontaneous emergence of these...
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Samares Pal (Department of Mathematics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, 741235, INDIA,)03/12/2023, 12:30
A mathematical model for the interacting dynamics of phytoplankton-zooplankton is proposed. The phytoplankton have ability to take refuge and release toxins to avoid over predation by zooplankton. The zooplankton are provided some additional food to persist in the system. The phytoplankton are assumed to be affected directly by an external toxic substance whereas zooplankton are affected...
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Mikhail Prokopenko (The University of Sydney)03/12/2023, 12:50
Social contagions unfolding over time and affecting large populations show intricate spatiotemporal dynamics which are driven by complex human behaviours and population mobility. These contagions may vary in their type, ranging from pandemics to infodemics, and from opinion polarisation to civil unrest. We will examine the impact of behavior-dependent mobility on the contagion spread within a...
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