(Please feel free to circulate this announcement)

On Monday, October 14th, we organize in Bordeaux, France (*UTC+2*), an
exceptional international conference with outstanding speakers on the
concept of symbiosis and the many emerging conceptual and theoretical
approaches to symbiosis and host-microbiome interactions in today's biology
and philosophy of biology.

*Program:*

   - Charlotte Brives
   <https://www.centreemiledurkheim.fr/notre-equipe/charlotte-brives/> (Centre
   Emile Durkheim, CNRS Bordeaux, France), "Thinking through pluribiosis: the
   case of phage/bacteria relationships"
   - Gérard Eberl
   <https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/team/microenvironment-and-immunity/>
   (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France), "How the immune system makes
   the difference between pathogens and mutualists… or not"
   - Hannah Kaminski <https://immunoconcept.cnrs.fr/people/hannah-kaminski/>
    (ImmunoConcept, University of Bordeaux, France), "Are damage and repair
   the features that microbiota and host develop to promote a stable
   association leading to symbiosis?"
   - Sarkis Mazmanian <https://sarkis.caltech.edu/> (Caltech, USA), "The
   Gut Microbiome Modulates Brain Pathologies in Parkinson's Disease"
   - Margaret McFall-Ngai
   <https://carnegiescience.edu/dr-margaret-mcfall-ngai> (Caltech, USA),
   "Symbiosis brings together communities of different expertise: Retaining
   rigor in developing this frontier"
   - Spencer V. Nyholm <https://mcb.uconn.edu/person/spencer-nyholm/>
   (University of Connecticut, USA), "Illuminating interactions
   between the immune system and symbiotic bacteria of the Hawaiian
   bobtail squid"

*All practical details:*
https://www.philinbiomed.org/event/symbiosis-conference/

*Registration (either in-person or virtual) is free but mandatory*: please
complete the following form:
https://rdv.immuconcept.org/studs.php?sondage=bf5q4zjqeenn51pe

This is a PhilInBioMed <https://www.philinbiomed.org/> and ImmunoConcEpT
event, organized by Thomas Pradeu, and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation.

Looking forward to seeing you at this event.

Sincerely,

Thomas Pradeu
CNRS Research Director in Philosophy of Science
Immunology Unit ImmunoConcEpT, UMR5164, CNRS & University of Bordeaux
Presidential Fellow, Chapman University, CA, USA
Team Leader Conceptual Biology and Medicine Team
<https://immunoconcept.cnrs.fr/conceptual-biology-medicine/>
Coordinator of the Philosophy in Biology and Medicine Network
<https://www.philinbiomed.org/> (PhilInBioMed)

Thomas Pradeu <thomas.pradeu.list@gmail.com>

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