Section: Dissemination

Participation in workshops, seminars and miscellaneous invitations

• Frederic Boudon gave a talk at the seminar computational plant of Agropolis in June. He presented the work on plant sketching at the Eurographics conference. He was also attending the AFIG conference in Arles. He gave presentations at the XLIM lab and at BMV group of the University of Calagary.

• Christophe Godin an invited speaker in the following events in 2008:

  • University of Montpellier, LIRMM, Modélisation du développement des plantes à différentes échelles , 15 Jan 2009.

  • University of Helsinki, Dept of Ecology, Modeling meristem development : towards an integrated perspective , 12 Feb 2009.

  • University of Calgary, Dept of Computer Science, Structural comparison of biological forms , 6 May 2009.

  • SEB conference, workshop on Modelling Plant Systems: Molecules to Agro-ecosystems, Modeling meristem dynamics: towards an integrated perspective , 28 June 2009

  • Plant Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Summer school, Components of a virtual tissue , Nottingham, UK, 27-31 July 2009

  • International conference on Plant Molecular Biology, Virtual meristem. Modeling shape development at cellular resolution , St Louis, MO, USA, 26 Oct. 2009

  • International conference on Integrative Post-Genomics, The components of a virtual meristem , Lyon, 19 Nov 2009

• Jérôme Chopard, Etienne Farcot, Christophe Godin and Michael Walker attended the second workshop of the Flower Model ANR-BBSRC project, in Autrans in May 2009.

• Etienne Farcot gave talks at the "Constructing gene networks: observation, analysis and control" workshop in January in Paris, at the MERE seminar in June in Montpellier, at the Agropolis Seminar in September in Montpellier, and at the ANR project 'ANAR' workshop in La Rochelle in December.

• Romain Fernandez gave talks at both the Asclepios and Virtual Plants seminars about his PhD results. He was an invited speaker at the CNRS Colloquium "la journée MRI" on the 13th October 2009.

• Yassin Refahi attented the following summer school: 'Modélisation et simulation de processus biologiques dans le contexte de la génomique' from March 29th to April 3rd, 2009, near Nice. He gave a talk at the 'UMR DAP Forum' in December in Montpellier.