Thursday, November 7, 2024

Time Event (+)
14:00 - 14:25 An introduction to the workshop - Sara Franceschelli, Olivier Gandrillon, Sophie Pantalacci  
14:30 - 15:15 With or without an epigenetic landscape? Waddington versus Schmalhausen about genetic assimilation - Laurent Loison  
15:15 - 16:00 Waddington’s Epigenetic Landscape: How catastrophes may explain Goldschmidt’s “Hopeful Monsters” hiding in the Adjacent Possible - Sui Huang  
16:00 - 16:45 Re-imagining Waddington's epigenetic landscape: Drawing the marble and the topography - Gemma Anderson  
16:45 - 17:30 Coffee break  
17:30 - 18:30 Drawing Workshop by Gemma Anderson - TBA  

Friday, November 8, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 09:45 Evolving phenotypic diversity without evolving the Waddingtonian - Berta Verd  
09:45 - 10:30 Stability/Flexibility: the tightly coupled homeostasis generator is at the same time the driver of change - Alessandro Giuliani  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:45 Canalization, Schmanalization: Genetic assimilation does not require canalization to evolve. - Ian Dworkin  
11:45 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:45 From Waddington via Smale and Thom to a landscape conceptual framework that models real embryonic data. - David Rand  
14:45 - 15:30 Toward studying developmental systems using transitions in collective system states - Aneta Koseska  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 17:00 Round Table