Qlife Quantitative Biology Winter School : Active Matter in Biology

The course will explore Active Matter in biological systems across scales, from self-organization and assembly at the protein level to cellular motility and collective motions at larger scales. It will show how the principles of active matter are critical to describe the functioning of cellular processes and the emergence of complex behaviors in living systems. Specifically, the courses will cover the following key topics : out-of-equilibrium and active systems in biology (such as self-organization of the cytoskeleton and cellular motility), collective behaviors at different scales (from active cellular nematics and tissue dynamics to swarm of animals), phase transition and membrane-less organelles in cells.