EvoEvo 2015 - Evolution of Evolution Workshop

Variation and Selection are the two core processes of Darwinian Evolution. Yet, both are directly regulated by many processes that are themselves products of evolution. This results in the ability of evolution to self-modify its operators, hence its dynamics. We call this process "Evolution of Evolution" or EvoEvo. The objective of this workshop is to gather people coming from evolutionary biology, computational biology and artificial life to study EvoEvo experimentally (either in vivo or in silico), to identify the main EvoEvo strategies at the genomic, cellular and population levels, and to better understand how these strategies interact. Ultimately we aim at identifying a new scientific community interested in studying EvoEvo processes in various organisms and models. This workshop is funded by the FP7 EU-FET grant EvoEvo (ICT-610427).