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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

What a week! A huge thank you to all the students and teachers for the for the engaged discussions, thoughtful questions, and good vibes. Rock on, and stay curious! 🤓 ✨ #VeniceEvoDevo #levels #morphogenesis #sysbio #evodevo

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Our teachers this year: Günter Wagner Günter is an evolutionary biologist studying evolutionary innovations, with a special focus on mammalian female reproduction. He will talk about a model of multi-scale tissue evolution, which is based on metabolic interdependence.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Our teachers this year: Ben Steventon (@bensteventon.bsky.social) Ben investigates the mechanisms that ensure the development of robust and reproducible morphologies during embryogenesis. He will talk about the role of downward causation from the tissue level in development.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our teachers this year: Merljin Staps Merlijn uses theory to study the evolution of multicellularity, colony organization in social insects, and vertebrate color patterns. He will talk about the role of the environment in major transitions and how to account for this in formal models.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Our teachers this year: Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social) Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis. She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Our teachers this year: Mihaela Pavličev Mihaela co-chairs the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uni Vienna. She studies mammalian reproduction to understand how organismal organization affects variation. She will present a model of tissue evolution based on metabolic interdependence.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Our teachers this year: Wallace Marshall (@wallaceucsf.bsky.social) Wallace studies how cells solve engineering problems, how geometry arises within cells, and how it shapes and constrains cellular behavior. He'll be telling us how cell shape constrains underlying pathways.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Our teachers this year: Nicole King Nicole is an HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley who studies the genetic and developmental foundations of multicellularity and the origin of animals using choanoflagellates as a model system. At our school, she'll teach about the origin of multicellularity.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Our teachers this year: Ronald Jenner Ron works at the Natural History Museum London where he studies the evolution of animal venoms. He is the author (with Eivind Undheim) of 'Venom' & 'Ancestors in Evolutionary biology'. He will be talking about the role of conflict in the emergence of levels.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Our teachers this year: Zena Hadjivasiliou Zena is a mathematician with an interest in animal development and its evolution, who works at the Crick Institute in close collaboration with experimentalists. She will talk about biophysical modeling of morphogen-driven self-organization across scales.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Our teachers this year: Thibaut Brunet (@thibautbrunet.bsky.social) Thibaut studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at Institut Pasteur in Paris. He will be teaching us about this and also how multicellularity first arose in evolution.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Our teachers this year: Dan Brooks (@dsbrooks.bsky.social) Dan's research interests span the history & philosophy of the life sciences, concept usage in science & theory in biology. At our school, he'll have a thing or two to say about levels of organization, what they are & where they come from.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Our teachers this year: Yogi Jaeger (@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy) Is interested in why organisms are not machines, and what that has to do with their multi-level organization. Will teach about the emergence of new levels of organization at the school.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Our teachers this year: Nicole Repina (@nrepina.bsky.social) Nicole is using quantitative imaging to study how complex tissue shape can emerge from cell interactions. In Venice, she will be speaking about how we can use imaging for multiscale analysis of multicellular systems.

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Our teachers this year: James DiFrisco James is a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist working @crick.ac.uk on the evolution of gene regulatory networks, modularity and pleiotropy, vertebrate gastrulation, and the developmental basis of morphological homology/tissue organization.

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