lacoste david

Research director @cnrs @ESPCI_paris @psl_univ

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What is compositional memory and what is its role in the origins of life ? See our recent work (and summary: https://t.co/cjyZ3ZTUCJ) based on experiments from the lab of R. Mizuuchi at Univ. of Tokyo :
https://t.co/hm0eXGnqjU

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We are organizing a workshop on “Thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reaction networks: from cell metabolism to design principles for synthetic life”, in Garching near Munich, from September 7 to September 18, 2026. Details can be found on the website:
https://t.co/FM30fNiul8

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We are organizing a summer school in Beg Rohu, in Brittany in France from May 25th to May 29th 2026. The school targets at early-career researchers, PhD students and postdocs and is on
Biopatterning: Patterning principles in biophysics.
🔗 Website: https://t.co/7pdsIcAeOf

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Very honored to participate in the workshop "Extremal Statistics in Biology", which is organized by A. Amir, C. Dellago and E. Levien at the Schrödinger Institute in Wien. It starts next week.
https://t.co/O30qonwzZa

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Very pleased to participate in the OIST TSVP Program entitled "Computational & Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing" that starts next week in Okinawa. Here is more info about it : https://t.co/VWUc2DmJQd

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@myphysicsvoyage @Ariel_4321 Very nice, congratulations !

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In this recent preprint, we propose a simple model to explain how antibiotics inhibits bacterial growth. It works reasonably well with experiments. Feel free to comment if you like !
https://t.co/DEKzxjghTi

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Our paper on the risk-return trade-off in Kelly's gambling with extensions of the model relevant to understand growth and adaptation of biological systems in an uncertain environment is now out in Physica A (and free to download this month): https://t.co/prQjTVOb6X

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On November 21st, A. Despons is defending his thesis on the topic of 'Physical aspects of autocatalysis'. The thesis was supervised by J. Unterberger and myself. You are all welcome to the defense, which will take place at IPGG near ESPCI in Paris at 2pm.

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In case you have missed the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Sadi Carnot's publication on the second law of thermodynamics last month (see my previous post), here is where you can find the recordings of the event :
https://t.co/PtsmRvo91R

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Don't miss the colloquium we organize next week at the Ecole Polytechnique from September 16 to 18th to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Sadi Carnot's publication on the second law of thermodynamics.
https://t.co/mAXbgflLVx

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@CRC392MolEvo Congratulations and see you soon !

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We are organizing a colloquium to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Sadi Carnot's publication on the second law of thermodynamics. This will take place at the Ecole Polytechnique from September 16 to 18, 2024 (registration required before August 31th) :
https://t.co/mAXbgflLVx

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Pleased to participate in a concert-conference on the Music of science on May 13th at 8pm. The concert is the result of a collaboration between 4 researchers and 4 composers, and will feature original music composed for this event: https://t.co/N9neqRxvDo.

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We are organizing a week of lectures on March 4th at ESPCI "Some basic science questions raised by adaptation to climate change". Program and registration for students of PSL university at https://t.co/wAaYejU99m . Lectures in french can be followed remotely upon request.

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What is the risk-return trade-off in Kelly's gambling and why is it relevant to understand the process of growth and adaptation of biological systems in an uncertain environment ? To find out, check our latest preprint :
https://t.co/dtfbgFlIKL

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How is the emergence of biological asymmetry related to that of the first polymers ? Here, we propose a scenario where homochirality is assisted by template-directed ligation and polymerization in a non-equilibrium RNA reactor: https://t.co/pByMgVnQZa

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How to analyse population experiments in which some lineages end prematurely ? Can we disentangle selection effects from survival effects ? To find out, see our recent paper now out in PRX Life : https://t.co/VbxJPEgSC9

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Our preprint on the thermodynamics of autocatalytic chemical networks is out now:
https://t.co/M3XznAWVA5
In it, we show that there is a minimal topology-dependent energetic cost for running an autocatalytic network.

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Actually, the registration will be opened after today.