2024, November 15th, Department of Computational Biology (DCB), University of Lausanne, 2nd Alma Dal Co memorial symposium

Friday November 15, 2024 UNIL/DBC  – AULA IDHEAP

To attend the event, please register here.

Provisional Program


Building on last year’s symposium, also this year we will commemorate our late colleague and friend Alma Dal Co, who was a professor at the Department of Computational Biology (DBC) of UNIL. 

In this 2nd Alma Dal Co memorial symposium six scientists who knew Alma will talk about their science and how it relates to her legacy.

10:00 – 10:15: Coffee
10:15 – 10:20: Welcome (DBC)


10:20 – 10:30: Margherita Turvani & Mario Dal Co (Alma Dal Co Foundation )
10:30 – 11:15: Emma Slack (ETH Zurich ) Spatial structure and mixing in gut bacterial communities
11:15 – 12:00: Silvia De Monte (École Normale Supérieur e ) TBA

12:00 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 14:15: Benjamin Towbin (Uni Bern ) Growth control from cells to organisms
14:15 – 15:00: Mor Nitzan (Hebrew University ) Robust self-organisation of multicellular structures

15:00 – 15:15: Coffee break

15:15 – 16:00: Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute ) TBA
16:00 – 16:45: Simon van Vliet (Uni Basel & UNIL ) From molecules to communities: predicting the emergent properties of spatially structured communities

16:45 – 17:00: Closing remarks 

17:00 – : Apero

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