ANR-DFG SYMBIONT project meeting in Paris

Inria Paris

Building C, room J.L. Lions, ground level

2 rue Simone Iff

Paris 12

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Registered participants:

Orianne Bargain (Saclay, France) Eléonore Bellot (Saclay, France) Aurelien Desoeuvres (Montpellier, France) François Fages (Saclay, France) Mathieu Hemery (Saclay, France) François Lemaire (Lille, France) Alexandru Losif (Aachen, Germany) Eva Philippe (Saclay, France) Adrien Poteaux (Lille, France) Ovidiu Radulescu (Montpellier, France) Jakob Ruess (Pasteur Paris, Saclay France) Mathias Seiss (Univ. Kassel, Germany) Sylvain Soliman (Saclay, France) Andreas Weber (Bonn, Germany)


Tentative schedule

April 4 2019

9.30 Coffee

10.00 Andreas Weber, Univ. Bonn

Symbiont advances, deliverables and deadlines

10.30 Ovidiu Radulescu, Montpellier

Progress report on tropical geometry inspired model analysis

11.30 coffee

12.00 Jakob Ruess, Inbio - Pasteur, Lifeware - Inria Saclay

Molecular noise of innate immunity shapes bacteria-phage ecologies

13.15 lunch at bistro Le Repaire 100 av Daumesnil (100 meters)

14.30 Aurélien Desoeuvres, Montpellier

On network robustness

15.30 Mathieu Hemery, Inria Saclay

Around approximate majority processes

16.30 coffee

19.00 DInner at L'alchimiste 181 rue de Charenton (200 meters)


April 5th

9.00 Coffee

9.30 Eléonore Bellot, Inria Saclay,

On justifying chains of Michaelis-Menten reductions

10.00 François Lemaire, Lille

Slow/fast reduction in Maple using differential algebra

11.00 Alexandru Losif, Aachen

Dynamical systems with toric positive steady states

12.00 Lunch at Bistro Le Repaire

13.30 Extra talks and dIscussions

16.00 end


Abstracts of talks (20-40mn)

Andreas Weber, Univ. Bonn

Symbiont advances, deliverables and deadlines

Ovidiu Radulescu, Montpellier

Progress report on tropical geometry inspired model analysis

Aurélien Desoeuvres, Montpellier

On network robustness

Eléonore Bellot, Inria Saclay,

On justifying chains of Michaelis-Menten reductions

François Lemaire, Lille

Slow/fast reduction in Maple using differential algebra

Alexandru Losif, Aachen

Dynamical systems with toric positive steady states

Systems with toric positive steady states are generalizations of mass-action networks with binomial steady state ideal. This is of particular interest as in many applications only the positive steady states are relevant. For these systems we show that, in the space of total concentrations, multistationarity is scale invariant. Moreover, for these systems we give semialgebraic conditions for multistationarity in terms of only the total concentrations. For the sequential distributive two-site phosphorylation we show that multistationarity is possible only if the total concentration of the substrate is larger than either the concentration of the kinase or the phosphatase (Michaelis-Menten regime). In general testing for toric positive steady states is a hard problem. In this context we discuss dynamical systems with the isolation property and we show that they have toric positive steady states. This work is part of the author's PhD thesis (to be defended) and it is joint work with Carsten Conradi and Thomas Kahle.

Jakob Ruess, Inbio - Pasteur, Lifeware - Inria Saclay

Molecular noise of innate immunity shapes bacteria-phage ecologies

Mathematical models have been used successfully at diverse scales of biological organization, ranging from ecology and population dynamics to stochastic reaction events occurring between individual molecules in single cells. Generally, many biological processes unfold across multiple scales, with mutations being the best studied example of how stochasticity at the molecular scale can influence outcomes at the population scale. In many other contexts, however, an analogous link between micro- and macro-scale remains elusive, primarily due to the challenges involved in setting up and analyzing multi-scale models. We employ such a model to investigate how stochasticity propagates from individual biochemical reaction events in the bacterial innate immune system to the ecology of bacteria and bacterial viruses. We show analytically how the dynamics of bacterial populations are shaped by the activities of immunity-conferring enzymes in single cells and how the ecological consequences imply optimal bacterial defense strategies against viruses. Our results suggest that bacterial populations in the presence of viruses can either optimize their initial growth rate or their steady state population size, with the first strategy favoring simple and the second strategy favoring complex bacterial innate immunity.

Mathieu Hemery, Inria Saclay

Around approximate majority processes