Schedule

Thursday, July 29: 19:00-21:00 CEST

19:00 – 19:05 — Welcome

CELLULAR/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
19:05 – 19:35 — [Invited] Mike Levin: Morphogenesis: collective decision-making by cells and tissues
19:35 – 20:05 — [Invited] Anne Condon: Chemical reaction network models and problems inspired by molecular programming

NEUROBIOLOGY:
20:10 – 20:20 — Murray et al: Task-optimized retina-inspired CNN converges to biologically plausible functionality.
20:20 – 20:30 — Kunev et al: Agreement in spiking neural networks
20:30 – 21:00 — [Invited] Christos Papdimitriou: The assembly calculus and biologically plausible brain computation

Friday, July 30: 17:00-21:00 CEST

IMMUNOLOGY:
17:00 – 17:30 — [Invited] Stephanie Forrest: Computational aspects of the immune system
17:30 – 17:40 — Ferdous et al: Distributed processing in lymph nodes supports a scalable immune response

SOCIAL INSECTS:
17:45 – 17:55 — Zhao et al: The power of population effect in ant-colony house-hunting: a computational modeling approach
17:55 – 18:05 — Zhang et al: A model and analysis of house-hunting in ant colonies

PLANT BIOLOGY:
18:10 – 18:20 — Chandrasekhar and Julkowska: A mathematical framework for analyzing S. pimpinellifolium architecture
18:20 – 18:50 — [Invited] George Bassel: Distributed information processing in plant organs

18:50 – 19:20 — Break

ROBOTS/PARTICLE SWARMS:
19:20 – 19:30 — Feldmann et al: Accelerating amoebots via reconfigurable circuits
19:30 – 20:00 — [Invited] Josh Bongard: Automated design of biological robots
20:00 – 20:30 — [Invited] Dana Randall: Programming swarms and particle processes
20:30 – 21:00 — [Invited] Dave Ackley: Indefinitely scalable computer engineering

Important Dates:

May 15, 2021 — Extended abstract submission deadline

June 5, 2021 – Decision notifications

July 29-30, 2021 – Workshop