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Bordeaux-Sydney Mini-Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Biomedicine, featuring junior & senior speakers
23 November 2020 | 9 h 00 min - 24 November 2020 | 11 h 00 min
Monday, November 23rd
(Chair: Imane Barbara)
9h-9h30: Paul Griffiths, “Mismatch in evolutionary medicine”
9h30-10h: Jan Pieter Konsman, “A balance sheet of homeostasis: Some discipline!”
(Chair: Kate Lynch)
10h-10h30: Walter Weit, “Scuba divers, turtles, and mososaurs: a challenge for evolutionary accounts of health and disease”
10h30-11h: Elena Rondeau, “Understanding cancer progression and its control: from the ‘seed and soil’ analogy to immune involvement in metastasis”
Tuesday, November 24th
(Chair: Saliha Bayir)
9h-9h30: Pierrick Bourrat, “Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties”
9h30-10h: Jonathan Sholl, “Is cancer a disease of the meta-organism? A critical assessment of recent work on host-microbiota interactions in oncology”.
(Chair: Elena Rondeau)
10h-10h30: Carl Brusse, “Cultural phenotypes and biological normativity”
10h30-11h: Martin Zach, “Modeling in Cancer Immunology: A Complementary Account”