<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:22pt;font-family:Arial;color:red"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span class=""><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;color:red">Coevolution</span></b></span><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;color:red"> in <span class="">proteins</span> and RNA,</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span class=""><span class=""><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;color:red">theory</span></b></span></span><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;color:red"> and <span class="">experiments</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:22pt;font-family:Arial;color:red"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:22pt;font-family:Arial;color:red"><img width="441" height="171" src="http://www.phys.ens.fr/~monasson/Cargese2016/workshop_cargese_fichiers/image002.png"></span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:22pt;font-family:Arial;color:red"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:green">Cargèse, <span class="">Corsica</span>, April 17th-23rd, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR"><img width="125" height="66" src="http://www.phys.ens.fr/~monasson/Cargese2016/workshop_cargese_fichiers/image004.png"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span class=""><span lang="FR" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Organizing</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial"> <span class="">committee</span> : S. Cocco (Ecole Normale Supérieure), R. Monasson (Ecole Normale Supérieure), M. <span class="">Weigt</span> (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span class=""><span lang="FR" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Scientific</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial"> <span class="">committee</span> : W. <span class="">Bialek</span> (Princeton <span class="">University</span>), E. <span class="">Domany</span> (Weizmann Institute), S. <span class="">Leibler</span> (The Rockefeller <span class="">University</span>), M.<span class="">Nilges</span> (Institut Pasteur)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span class=""><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:green">deadline</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:green"> for application : <span class="">December</span> 31st, 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">In the course of <span class="">evolution</span> RNA and <span class="">protein</span> <span class="">sequences</span> <span class="">undergo</span> mutations. The <span class="">statistics</span> of <span class="">those</span> mutations and of <span class="">their</span> <span class="">correlations</span> <span class="">reflects</span> the structural and <span class="">functional</span> <span class="">constraints</span> <span class="">exerted</span> on the <span class="">biomolecules</span>. A <span class="">fundamental</span> challenge <span class="">is</span> to <span class="">extract</span> and exploit <span class="">this</span> information <span class="">from</span> <span class="">rapidly</span> <span class="">growing</span> <span class="">sequence</span><span class="">databases</span>. The goal of the workshop <span class="">is</span> to <span class="">gather</span> <span class="">scientists</span> <span class="">involved</span> in the <span class="">study</span> of <span class="">coevolution</span> in <span class="">biomolecules</span> (<span class="">proteins</span> and RNA), <span class="">from</span> the points of<span class="">view</span> of <span class="">sequence</span> <span class="">analysis</span>, structural <span class="">prediction</span>, and <span class="">evolutionary</span> <span class="">dynamics</span>. <span class="">Those</span> <span class="">fields</span> are <span class="">at</span> the <span class="">crossroads</span> of <span class="">molecular</span>, structural, and <span class="">evolutionary</span><span class="">biology</span>, <span class="">biochemistry</span>, <span class="">statistical</span> <span class="">inference</span>, <span class="">statistical</span> <span class="">physics</span>, <span class="">bioinformatics</span>. This workshop <span class="">will</span> <span class="">be</span> a unique <span class="">opportunity</span> for experts in <span class="">those</span> <span class="">different</span><span class="">communities</span>, for <span class="">theoreticians</span> as <span class="">well</span> as for <span class="">experimentalists</span>, to <span class="">meet</span>, to <span class="">present</span> <span class="">their</span> <span class="">fields</span> of <span class="">research</span> and <span class="">recent</span> <span class="">results</span>, and to <span class="">foster</span> <span class="">fruitful</span>exchanges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">The workshop <span class="">will</span> combine long <span class="">invited</span> <span class="">talks</span> by <span class="">internationally</span> <span class="">recognized</span> experts, as <span class="">well</span> as <span class="">shorter</span> <span class="">talks</span> by <span class="">younger</span> <span class="">researchers</span>. The <span class="">list</span> of <span class="">invited</span>people <span class="">include</span>:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Courier"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Erik <span class="">Aurell</span> (KTH Stockholm, <span class="">Sweden</span>),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">John Barton (MIT, Cambridge, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class=""><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Arup</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> <span class="">Chakraborty</span> (MIT, Cambridge, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Arne <span class="">Elofsson</span> (Stockholm <span class="">University</span>, <span class="">Sweden</span>),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Sean Eddy (<span class="">Janelia</span> <span class="">Research</span> Campus, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Raphaël <span class="">Guerois</span> (CEA Saclay, France),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class=""><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Doeke</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> <span class="">Hekstra</span> (U. <span class="">SouthWestern</span> Texas, Dallas, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">David Jones (<span class="">University</span> <span class="">College</span> London, UK),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Paolo de Los Rios (EPFL, Lausanne, <span class="">Switzerland</span>),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class=""><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Faruck</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> Morcos (<span class="">University</span> of Texas <span class="">at</span> Dallas, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Clément <span class="">Nizak</span> (ESPCI, Paris, France),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Andrea <span class="">Pagnani</span> (<span class="">Politecnico</span> Torino, <span class="">Italy</span>),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Rama <span class="">Ranganathan</span> (U. <span class="">SouthWestern</span> Texas, Dallas, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Elena Rivas (<span class="">Janelia</span> <span class="">Research</span> Campus, <span class="">Ashburn</span>, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Olivier Rivoire (<span class="">Univ</span>. J. Fourier, Grenoble, France),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Eugene <span class="">Shakhnovich</span> (Harvard <span class="">University</span>, Cambridge, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Alexander <span class="">Schug</span> (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Hendrik <span class="">Szurmant</span> (</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(60,60,60)">The <span class="">Scripps</span> <span class="">Research</span> Institute, La <span class="">Jolla</span>, USA</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Olivier <span class="">Tenaillon</span> (Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class=""><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Michele</span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> <span class="">Vendruscolo</span> (Cambridge <span class="">University</span>, UK),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Aleksandra <span class="">Walczak</span> (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Tandy <span class="">Warnow</span> (<span class="">University</span> of Texas, Austin, USA),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Eric <span class="">Westhof</span> (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><i><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">In addition <span class="">we</span> <span class="">will</span> have a <span class="">limited</span> <span class="">number</span> of <span class="">contributed</span> <span class="">talks</span> as <span class="">well</span> as a poster session, <span class="">so</span> <span class="">that</span> <span class="">each</span> participant <span class="">will</span> <span class="">be</span> <span class="">offered</span> the <span class="">possibility</span> to <span class="">present</span><span class="">his</span>/<span class="">her</span> <span class="">work</span>. In total <span class="">we</span> <span class="">expect</span> to have about 60 participants (maximal <span class="">number</span> due to <span class="">space</span> <span class="">constraints</span>). The registration <span class="">fees</span> <span class="">amount</span> to 350 euros and<span class="">include</span> the <span class="">housing</span> (<span class="">shared</span> room) for the <span class="">whole</span> <span class="">week</span>, all breakfasts and lunches, and the <span class="">attendance</span> to the social <span class="">dinner</span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">The workshop <span class="">is</span> <span class="">funded</span> by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche <span class="">project</span> <span class="">Coevstat</span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.iesc.univ-corse.fr/en/participation/inscriptions-en-ligne/acces-enregistrement/idecole4/893/" style="color:purple">Registration</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.phys.ens.fr/~monasson/Cargese2016/Program" style="color:purple">Program</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.phys.ens.fr/~monasson/Cargese2016/Practical%25252520information" style="color:purple"><span class="">Practical</span> information</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;text-align:justify"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:18pt"> </span><br></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"> <br>Yours<br><br>Arne<br><i><br></i>-----------------------------------------<br>  Arne Elofsson                Science for Life Laboratory<br>  Tel:+46-(0)852481531     Stockholm University<br>  <a href="http://bioinfo.se/" target="_blank">http://bioinfo.se/</a>             Box 1031, <br>  Email: <a href="mailto:arne@bioinfo.se" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=c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