Through six talks by Laura Schaedel (Saarbrücken), Atef Asnacios, Marc Durand, Jonathan Fouchard (Paris), Angélique Stéphanou and Philippe Marmottant (Grenoble), we will consider the dynamics of living matter from the molecular scale of the cytoskeleton up to an entire organsim, in systems ranging from tumours to plants and with both experimental and numerical approaches.

Reputed for its placidity, the plant world is not entirely silent, however, and some plants can even perceive acoustic vibrations. Philippe Marmottant is a guest on France Culture's CQFD program.

While this dimer is one of the simplest molecular complexes, it is also one of the most fragile. Its detection at room temperature took the community by surprise.

In this month’s issue of Nature Physics, Dorian Bouchet proposes a popular science article about the Fisher information. This quantity, which is a cornerstone in statistical estimation theory, also emerges an an important quantity in different areas of physics.

Emmanuel Siéfert, who joined LIPhy this year as a CNRS research fellow, has just been awarded a “Starting” grant from the European Research Council (ERC), which provides substantial funding for projects by young researchers.

Ali Wahhod (MC2)

Marc Grosjean (OPTIMA)

Manon Valet (TU Dresden, Germany)