Workshop on robustness: Philosophical, biological and medical issues (Pey Berland, University of Bordeaux, France)

Fridolin Gross: "Robust mechanisms or mechanisms of robustness?"

Marie-Elise Truchetet & Thomas Pradeu: "Re-thinking our understanding of immunity: Robustness in the tissue reconstruction system"

Jonathan Sholl: "Physiological robustness"

Paul Griffiths: Beyond canalisation: robustness in developmental systems

Elena Rondeau: "Understanding cancer progression and its control: the (im)balance between tissue construction, destruction and reconstruction?"

Jan Pieter Konsman: "Central components of the systemic inflammatory response confer robustness to the infected host through functionally redundant regulatory processes"

Chaired by Maël Lemoine.