Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology
@veniceevodevo.bsky.social
The FEBS/EMBO Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology #VeniceEvoDevo organized by James DiFrisco, Nicole Repina, and Johannes Jaeger
What a week! A huge thank you to all the students and teachers for the for the engaged discussions, thoughtful questions, and good vibes. Rock on, and stay curious! 🤓 ✨
#VeniceEvoDevo #levels #morphogenesis #sysbio #evodevo
#VeniceEvoDevo #levels #morphogenesis #sysbio #evodevo
September 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What a week! A huge thank you to all the students and teachers for the for the engaged discussions, thoughtful questions, and good vibes. Rock on, and stay curious! 🤓 ✨
#VeniceEvoDevo #levels #morphogenesis #sysbio #evodevo
#VeniceEvoDevo #levels #morphogenesis #sysbio #evodevo
Our teachers this year:
Günter Wagner
Günter is an evolutionary biologist studying evolutionary innovations, with a special focus on mammalian female
reproduction.
He will talk about a model of multi-scale tissue evolution, which is based on metabolic interdependence.
Günter Wagner
Günter is an evolutionary biologist studying evolutionary innovations, with a special focus on mammalian female
reproduction.
He will talk about a model of multi-scale tissue evolution, which is based on metabolic interdependence.
March 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Our teachers this year:
Günter Wagner
Günter is an evolutionary biologist studying evolutionary innovations, with a special focus on mammalian female
reproduction.
He will talk about a model of multi-scale tissue evolution, which is based on metabolic interdependence.
Günter Wagner
Günter is an evolutionary biologist studying evolutionary innovations, with a special focus on mammalian female
reproduction.
He will talk about a model of multi-scale tissue evolution, which is based on metabolic interdependence.
Our teachers this year:
Ben Steventon (@bensteventon.bsky.social)
Ben investigates the mechanisms that ensure the development of robust and reproducible morphologies during embryogenesis.
He will talk about the role of downward causation from the tissue level in development.
Ben Steventon (@bensteventon.bsky.social)
Ben investigates the mechanisms that ensure the development of robust and reproducible morphologies during embryogenesis.
He will talk about the role of downward causation from the tissue level in development.
March 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Our teachers this year:
Ben Steventon (@bensteventon.bsky.social)
Ben investigates the mechanisms that ensure the development of robust and reproducible morphologies during embryogenesis.
He will talk about the role of downward causation from the tissue level in development.
Ben Steventon (@bensteventon.bsky.social)
Ben investigates the mechanisms that ensure the development of robust and reproducible morphologies during embryogenesis.
He will talk about the role of downward causation from the tissue level in development.
Our teachers this year:
Merljin Staps
Merlijn uses theory to study the evolution of multicellularity, colony organization in social insects, and vertebrate color patterns.
He will talk about the role of the environment in major transitions and how to account for this in formal models.
Merljin Staps
Merlijn uses theory to study the evolution of multicellularity, colony organization in social insects, and vertebrate color patterns.
He will talk about the role of the environment in major transitions and how to account for this in formal models.
March 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Our teachers this year:
Merljin Staps
Merlijn uses theory to study the evolution of multicellularity, colony organization in social insects, and vertebrate color patterns.
He will talk about the role of the environment in major transitions and how to account for this in formal models.
Merljin Staps
Merlijn uses theory to study the evolution of multicellularity, colony organization in social insects, and vertebrate color patterns.
He will talk about the role of the environment in major transitions and how to account for this in formal models.
Our teachers this year:
Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis.
She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.
Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis.
She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.
March 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Our teachers this year:
Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis.
She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.
Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis.
She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.
Our teachers this year:
Mihaela Pavličev
Mihaela co-chairs the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uni Vienna. She studies mammalian reproduction to understand how organismal organization affects variation.
She will present a model of tissue evolution based on metabolic interdependence.
Mihaela Pavličev
Mihaela co-chairs the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uni Vienna. She studies mammalian reproduction to understand how organismal organization affects variation.
She will present a model of tissue evolution based on metabolic interdependence.
March 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Our teachers this year:
Mihaela Pavličev
Mihaela co-chairs the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uni Vienna. She studies mammalian reproduction to understand how organismal organization affects variation.
She will present a model of tissue evolution based on metabolic interdependence.
Mihaela Pavličev
Mihaela co-chairs the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uni Vienna. She studies mammalian reproduction to understand how organismal organization affects variation.
She will present a model of tissue evolution based on metabolic interdependence.
Our teachers this year:
Wallace Marshall (@wallaceucsf.bsky.social)
Wallace studies how cells solve engineering problems, how geometry arises within cells, and how it shapes and constrains cellular behavior.
He'll be telling us how cell shape constrains underlying pathways.
Wallace Marshall (@wallaceucsf.bsky.social)
Wallace studies how cells solve engineering problems, how geometry arises within cells, and how it shapes and constrains cellular behavior.
He'll be telling us how cell shape constrains underlying pathways.
March 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our teachers this year:
Wallace Marshall (@wallaceucsf.bsky.social)
Wallace studies how cells solve engineering problems, how geometry arises within cells, and how it shapes and constrains cellular behavior.
He'll be telling us how cell shape constrains underlying pathways.
Wallace Marshall (@wallaceucsf.bsky.social)
Wallace studies how cells solve engineering problems, how geometry arises within cells, and how it shapes and constrains cellular behavior.
He'll be telling us how cell shape constrains underlying pathways.
Our teachers this year:
Nicole King
Nicole is an HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley who studies the genetic and developmental foundations of multicellularity and the origin of animals using choanoflagellates as a model system.
At our school, she'll teach about the origin of multicellularity.
Nicole King
Nicole is an HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley who studies the genetic and developmental foundations of multicellularity and the origin of animals using choanoflagellates as a model system.
At our school, she'll teach about the origin of multicellularity.
February 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Our teachers this year:
Nicole King
Nicole is an HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley who studies the genetic and developmental foundations of multicellularity and the origin of animals using choanoflagellates as a model system.
At our school, she'll teach about the origin of multicellularity.
Nicole King
Nicole is an HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley who studies the genetic and developmental foundations of multicellularity and the origin of animals using choanoflagellates as a model system.
At our school, she'll teach about the origin of multicellularity.
Our teachers this year:
Ronald Jenner
Ron works at the Natural History Museum London where he studies the evolution of animal venoms. He is the author (with Eivind Undheim) of 'Venom' & 'Ancestors in Evolutionary biology'.
He will be talking about the role of conflict in the emergence of levels.
Ronald Jenner
Ron works at the Natural History Museum London where he studies the evolution of animal venoms. He is the author (with Eivind Undheim) of 'Venom' & 'Ancestors in Evolutionary biology'.
He will be talking about the role of conflict in the emergence of levels.
February 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Our teachers this year:
Ronald Jenner
Ron works at the Natural History Museum London where he studies the evolution of animal venoms. He is the author (with Eivind Undheim) of 'Venom' & 'Ancestors in Evolutionary biology'.
He will be talking about the role of conflict in the emergence of levels.
Ronald Jenner
Ron works at the Natural History Museum London where he studies the evolution of animal venoms. He is the author (with Eivind Undheim) of 'Venom' & 'Ancestors in Evolutionary biology'.
He will be talking about the role of conflict in the emergence of levels.
Our teachers this year:
Zena Hadjivasiliou
Zena is a mathematician with an interest in animal development and its evolution, who works at the Crick Institute in close collaboration with experimentalists.
She will talk about biophysical modeling of morphogen-driven self-organization across scales.
Zena Hadjivasiliou
Zena is a mathematician with an interest in animal development and its evolution, who works at the Crick Institute in close collaboration with experimentalists.
She will talk about biophysical modeling of morphogen-driven self-organization across scales.
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Our teachers this year:
Zena Hadjivasiliou
Zena is a mathematician with an interest in animal development and its evolution, who works at the Crick Institute in close collaboration with experimentalists.
She will talk about biophysical modeling of morphogen-driven self-organization across scales.
Zena Hadjivasiliou
Zena is a mathematician with an interest in animal development and its evolution, who works at the Crick Institute in close collaboration with experimentalists.
She will talk about biophysical modeling of morphogen-driven self-organization across scales.
Our teachers this year:
Thibaut Brunet (@thibautbrunet.bsky.social)
Thibaut studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at Institut Pasteur in Paris.
He will be teaching us about this and also how multicellularity first arose in evolution.
Thibaut Brunet (@thibautbrunet.bsky.social)
Thibaut studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at Institut Pasteur in Paris.
He will be teaching us about this and also how multicellularity first arose in evolution.
February 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Our teachers this year:
Thibaut Brunet (@thibautbrunet.bsky.social)
Thibaut studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at Institut Pasteur in Paris.
He will be teaching us about this and also how multicellularity first arose in evolution.
Thibaut Brunet (@thibautbrunet.bsky.social)
Thibaut studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at Institut Pasteur in Paris.
He will be teaching us about this and also how multicellularity first arose in evolution.
Our teachers this year:
Dan Brooks (@dsbrooks.bsky.social)
Dan's research interests span the history & philosophy of the life sciences, concept usage in science & theory in biology.
At our school, he'll have a thing or two to say about levels of organization, what they are & where they come from.
Dan Brooks (@dsbrooks.bsky.social)
Dan's research interests span the history & philosophy of the life sciences, concept usage in science & theory in biology.
At our school, he'll have a thing or two to say about levels of organization, what they are & where they come from.
February 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Our teachers this year:
Dan Brooks (@dsbrooks.bsky.social)
Dan's research interests span the history & philosophy of the life sciences, concept usage in science & theory in biology.
At our school, he'll have a thing or two to say about levels of organization, what they are & where they come from.
Dan Brooks (@dsbrooks.bsky.social)
Dan's research interests span the history & philosophy of the life sciences, concept usage in science & theory in biology.
At our school, he'll have a thing or two to say about levels of organization, what they are & where they come from.
Our teachers this year:
Yogi Jaeger (@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy)
Is interested in why organisms are not machines, and what that has to do with their multi-level organization.
Will teach about the emergence of new levels of organization at the school.
Yogi Jaeger (@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy)
Is interested in why organisms are not machines, and what that has to do with their multi-level organization.
Will teach about the emergence of new levels of organization at the school.
February 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our teachers this year:
Yogi Jaeger (@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy)
Is interested in why organisms are not machines, and what that has to do with their multi-level organization.
Will teach about the emergence of new levels of organization at the school.
Yogi Jaeger (@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy)
Is interested in why organisms are not machines, and what that has to do with their multi-level organization.
Will teach about the emergence of new levels of organization at the school.
Our teachers this year:
Nicole Repina (@nrepina.bsky.social)
Nicole is using quantitative imaging to study how complex tissue shape can emerge from cell interactions.
In Venice, she will be speaking about how we can use imaging for multiscale analysis of multicellular systems.
Nicole Repina (@nrepina.bsky.social)
Nicole is using quantitative imaging to study how complex tissue shape can emerge from cell interactions.
In Venice, she will be speaking about how we can use imaging for multiscale analysis of multicellular systems.
February 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Our teachers this year:
Nicole Repina (@nrepina.bsky.social)
Nicole is using quantitative imaging to study how complex tissue shape can emerge from cell interactions.
In Venice, she will be speaking about how we can use imaging for multiscale analysis of multicellular systems.
Nicole Repina (@nrepina.bsky.social)
Nicole is using quantitative imaging to study how complex tissue shape can emerge from cell interactions.
In Venice, she will be speaking about how we can use imaging for multiscale analysis of multicellular systems.
Our teachers this year:
James DiFrisco
James is a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist working @crick.ac.uk on the evolution of gene regulatory networks, modularity and pleiotropy, vertebrate gastrulation, and the developmental basis of morphological homology/tissue organization.
James DiFrisco
James is a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist working @crick.ac.uk on the evolution of gene regulatory networks, modularity and pleiotropy, vertebrate gastrulation, and the developmental basis of morphological homology/tissue organization.
February 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Our teachers this year:
James DiFrisco
James is a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist working @crick.ac.uk on the evolution of gene regulatory networks, modularity and pleiotropy, vertebrate gastrulation, and the developmental basis of morphological homology/tissue organization.
James DiFrisco
James is a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist working @crick.ac.uk on the evolution of gene regulatory networks, modularity and pleiotropy, vertebrate gastrulation, and the developmental basis of morphological homology/tissue organization.