BIOINTERACTION

Biological interaction and the intermittent character of Evolution

Coordinatore	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE    more  Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Brooke Cognome: Alasya Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 594 1181 Fax: +44 207 594 1418
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	165˙540 €
EC contributo	165˙540 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-07-01   -   2012-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE  Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Brooke Cognome: Alasya Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 594 1181 Fax: +44 207 594 1418	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	165˙540.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The objective of BioInteraction is to gain mathematical insights on the intermittent process of biological evolution, where periods of ecological stability are punctured by brief phases in which the biological system readjusts by eliminating networks of species and generating new ones. BioInteraction will confront such process from the perspective of statistical physics, the branch of science that yielding the most advanced tools for linking individual-level interaction to complex aggregate phenomena. Darwin’s insights regarding the interplay between the everyday interacting ecology and long-term evolution have received relatively little attention due to the great complexity involved in such process. The increasingly globalised nature of our world, however, is revealing that an understanding of systems comprising many interacting agents is a result that needs to be delivered by research if some of the most important issues facing us from an environmental, energetic and social point of view are to be met. Within this Project the fellow will start from a successful interacting framework for the mathematical study of evolution which has been developed by the host (the Tangled Nature model), in order to probe ways of characterizing evolution by observable quantities, as well as by studying in depth the process of information feedback between individual genotypes and phenotypes. For the fellow the biological nature of the Project will represent a definite paradigm shift with respect to his background in the study of social systems: the common substrate of statistical physics, however, will allow him to build a personal and independent contribution, while acquiring a wealth of new skills. Such valuable scientific cross-fertilization will add to the Project’s opportunity of securing a scientific bond between two important European regions (UK and Italy) which the fellow has been carefully setting up through the course of his career.'