Explanatory Integration in Developmental Biology

September 30, 2014
University of Cologne

Cologne
Germany

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Explanatory Integration in Developmental Biology

- Workshop with Alan C. Love -

Cologne, 30.09.2014
Richard-Strauss-Str. 2 (Bauwens building)
room 0.A02

Program
9:45            Welcome, Coffee
9:30 – 10:15    Alan C. Love (University of Minnesota): The Fate of Physical
Explanations of Development: Origination, Marginalization, and (Apparent)
Restoration
10:15 – 10:30   Kolja Ehrenstein (Universität zu Köln): Comment
10:30 – 11:00   Discussion

Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00   Discussion of 3 papers:
Brouzés/Farge (2004): “Interplay of mechanical deformation and patterned
gene expression in developing embryos”
Miller/Davidson (2013): “The interplay between cell signaling and mechanics
in developmental processes”
Brunet et al. (2013): “Evolutionary conservation of early mesoderm
specification by mechanotransduction in Bilateria”

Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:15   Siegfried Roth (Universität zu Köln): Mathematics and
biology: a Kantian view on the history of pattern formation theory
15:15 – 15:30   Thomas Reydon (Leibniz Universität Hannover): Comment
15:30 – 16:00   Discussion

Everybody is kindly invited. If you would like to participate please send a
short notice to [email protected].

DFG research group Causation and Explanation

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