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The I2CELL Seed Award will support an experimental project exploring the algorithmic processing of information in living cells.

Joined February 2019
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I2CELL is an initiative to foster a research community on using information processing concepts & tools in cell biology. It started by a seminar summarized in EMBO reports and it continues with a seed award of €250K during 3y for an experimental project. i2cell.science
Our September issue is online at bit.ly/2PG0sBY Cover from Science & Society article bit.ly/2oEhi8K
Great project which won the I2CELL competition organized by @FondationFG. Cellular biologists and computer scientists collaborate to present and answer biological questions in a different light.
Excited to have the opportunity to present this work. Maybe the first time I will be presenting it to an outside audience. It's fun to think that this all started as a side project during an MBL Physiology Course rotation. Thanks to the Fondation Fourmentin-Guilbert for funding
"Someday it may become quite natural to think of cells as robots or computers". Inspiring commentary by @WallaceUcsf in @CurrentBiology
Cellular Cognition: Sequential Logic in a Giant Protist sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #protists
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Congratulations to Professor Wallace Marshall from @ucsf_biochem! The I2CELL Seed Award goes to his project to model single cell organisms as finite state automata @WallaceUcsf: i2cell.science/the-laureate/
Thanks to all PIs who participated in the first round of the I2CELL Seed Award! The jury received 53 letters of intent and retained 6 for full proposal evaluation.
At the I2CELL seminar Antoine Danchin @snoria explains the “cell as computer” metaphor and the necessity to take the concept of information into consideration. Watch video here: i2cell.science/antoine-danch… …
A very important work to consider to get a better picture of how cells process information!
Our MxD paper is out! Omnipresent Maxwell's demons orchestrate information management in living cells - Microbial Biotechnology - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Cover steampunk illustration of a Turing biomachine for I2CELL by Molecule of the Month author David Goodsell for the article "Will biologists become computer scientists?"
Our September issue is online at bit.ly/2PG0sBY Cover from Science & Society article bit.ly/2oEhi8K
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