Coevolution in proteins and RNA,
theory and experiments
Carg¸se, Corsica, April 17th-23rd, 2016
Organizing committee
: S. Cocco (Ecole Normale Supˇrieure), R. Monasson (Ecole Normale Supˇrieure),
M. Weigt (Universitˇ Pierre et Marie Curie)
Scientific committee
: W. Bialek (Princeton University),
E. Domany (Weizmann Institute), S. Leibler (The Rockefeller University),
M. Nilges (Institut Pasteur)
deadline for application : February 29th, 2016
In the course of evolution RNA
and protein sequences undergo mutations. The statistics
of those mutations and of their
correlations reflects the
structural and functional constraints
exerted on the biomolecules.
A fundamental challenge is
to extract and exploit this
information from rapidly growing sequence databases. The goal of the workshop is
to gather scientists involved in the study of coevolution in biomolecules (proteins and RNA), from the
points of view of sequence analysis, structural prediction,
and evolutionary dynamics. Those fields are at the crossroads of molecular, structural, and evolutionary
biology, biochemistry, statistical inference, statistical physics, bioinformatics. This workshop will
be a unique opportunity for
experts in those different communities, for theoreticians as
well as for experimentalists,
to meet, to present their fields of research and recent results, and to foster fruitful exchanges.
The workshop will combine long invited talks by internationally recognized
experts, as well as shorter
talks by younger researchers. The list of invited people include:
Erik Aurell (KTH
Stockholm, Sweden),
John Barton (MIT, Cambridge, USA),
Arup Chakraborty (MIT, Cambridge,
USA),
Lucy Colwell (University of Cambridge,
UK),
Sean Eddy (Janelia Research Campus, USA),
Arne Elofsson
(Stockholm University, Sweden),
Rapha‘l Guerois (CEA
Saclay, France),
Doeke Hekstra (U. SouthWestern Texas, Dallas, USA),
David Jones (University
College London, UK),
Paolo de Los Rios (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland),
Faruck Morcos (University of Texas at Dallas, USA),
Clˇment Nizak
(ESPCI, Paris, France),
Andrea Pagnani (Politecnico Torino, Italy),
Rama Ranganathan (U.
SouthWestern Texas, Dallas, USA),
Elena Rivas (Janelia
Research Campus, Ashburn,
USA),
Olivier Rivoire (Univ.
J. Fourier, Grenoble, France),
Eugene Shakhnovich
(Harvard University, Cambridge, USA),
Alexander Schug
(KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany),
Joanna Sulkowska
(University of Warsaw, Poland),
Hendrik Szurmant (The Scripps
Research Institute, La Jolla,
USA),
Olivier Tenaillon
(Universitˇ Paris Diderot, Paris, France),
Michele Vendruscolo (Cambridge University, UK),
Aleksandra Walczak
(Ecole Normale Supˇrieure, Paris, France),
Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA),
Eric Westhof (Universitˇ Louis
Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
In addition we will have a limited number of contributed talks as well as a poster
session, so that each participant will be offered the possibility to present his/her work.
In total we expect to have
about 60 participants (maximal number due to space constraints). The
registration fees amount to
350 euros and include the housing
(shared room) for the whole
week, all breakfasts and lunches, and the attendance to the social dinner.
The workshop is funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche project Coevstat and the CNRS GDRI evolution, regulation, signalling.