Congratulations to Felix Hol who is now Dr. Hol. His Ph.D. Thesis was titled “Bacterial Societies: cooperation, colonization & competition in micro-scale ecosystems” (TUD 2014). Felix, is now doing a postdoc at the TU Delft.

Simon et al.´s paper The Effects of Chemical Interactions and Culture History on the Colonization of Structured Habitats by Competing Bacterial Populations got finally published in BMC Microbiology! thanks to all who helped.

Unfortunately the GRC on Complex Adaptive Matter was canceled. We expext news from the organizers to set up a new date for another conference on the subject. Will keep you posted.

The GRC conference on Complex Adaptive Matter: towards a unifying perspective of emergent complexity is coming up now in July 13-18 in Hong Kong, China. Deadline for applications is June 15. We will be leading discussion on a conference section on the origin of complexity and the Ur cell concept. Other sections in the conference include: How can Information control matter? How do we make active matter adaptive? Are bacteria adaptive computers? and What is the emergence of death?

Our book chapter on the complexity of cancer ecosystems will be published in: Frontiers in Ecology, Evolution and Complexity Edited by Mariana Benitez, Octavio Miramontes and Alfonso Valiente.

佩佩 ‘s paper Nanoscale Probing the Kinetics of Oriented Bacterial Cell Growth Using Atomic Force Microscopy has been accepted in Small. 佩佩 and all involved， 谢谢！ [see paper]

For the school’s program see here

The website for the ISCV is up: link

Students who have been invited to participate of the school are listed at iscv’s website.

Applications for the CSSS at ISCV are closed and we are now in the process of selecting students! Thanks to all who were interested and applied.