Training school on "The riddle of the genetic code"

For three days (May 1- 3, 2024) members of the competence center will organise a training school on aspects of the genetic code in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Professors Fimmel and Strüngman are members of the European COST action CA21169 - Information, Coding, and Biological Function: the Dynamics of Life (DYNALIFE) - and as such will be the main organisors of the training school. Six invited researchers from differnet countries who are experts in different fields like Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Statistics will give introductory courses to their field in relation to the genetic code. A list of 15 international trainees (mostly PhD students or young post docs) will attend the courses. The school will be held in the catholic academy "Die Wolfsburg" in Mülheim an der Ruhr. 

The school is funded by the European union COST project DYNALIFE and participants come from countries from all over the wolrd: France, Italy, Mexico, Armenia, Spain, Germany, Serbia, Hungary, Norway, Turkey, Montenegro and Cameroon.

More information can be found here: Training school

6th International Conference on Code Biology

For one week, more than 30 scientists from 17 countries discussed topics ranging from biology, computer science and mathematics to linguistics and philosophy. The 6th international conference on code biology was sponsored by the German Research Foundation and took place in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt. The team around Professors Fimmel und Strüngmann from the competence center Cammbio of the HS Mannheim was happy about the numerous talks around the Codes of Life and about the successful realization of the event.

The international Code Biology Society (http://www.codebiology.org/) was founded in 2012 by the renowned scientist Prof. Marcello Barbieri and brings together internationally renowned scientists from more than 20 countries and different scientific disciplines (including biology, bioinformatics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, biosemiotics, cognitive linguistics, philosophy) who are committed to the study of codes of life, from genetic codes to cultural codes. In 2014, the first annual meeting of the Society was held in Paris (http://www.codebiology.org/conferences/home.html). Since then, the scientists have met regularly for annual conferences in Jena (Germany), Urbino (Italy), Köszeg (Hungary) and Granada (Spain). It was a particular pleasure that the Society's sixth annual conference was now held in Germany and that the HS Mannheim was also able to present itself as an internationally recognized location for research in this field (http://www.codebiology.org/conferences/Friedrichsdorf2019)

The conference was attended by scientists from Italy, France, the USA, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Serbia, Croatia, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Germany, and New Zealand.