Walter Fontana, one of the project’s Scientific Board of Advisors, co-wrote the Open Access article “Probabilistic Inference with Polymerizing Biochemical Circuits” published in Entropy in April 2022. The authors write, “Our approach relies on assembling linear polymers that record the history of environmental changes, where the polymerization process produces molecular complexes that reflect posterior probabilities.”
Richard Watson, associate professor at the University of Southampton and part of the “Agential Behavior and Plasticity in Evolution” group of projects, recently contributed to the “Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality” article published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Tom Williams, part of Phil Donoghue’s “Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres” project, contributed to “The origin and evolution of stomata” recently published in Current Biology.
Christopher Lean, a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, working out of the Institute of Society and Culture at Western Sydney University, wrote “Authenticity and Autonomy in De-Extinction” in Ethics, Policy & Environment. He is part of Derek Skillings’ “Directedness in holobiont systems” Purpose Project.
Professor Gillian Roehrig, part of the Snell-Rood Lab’s “‘Function’ in biology and bio-inspired design” Purpose Project, is one of the authors of the recent article, “A closer look to STEM education across continents: insights from a multicultural panel discussion.” The panel was part of the 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON).
