The 10th international workshop of the *Jacques Loeb Centre for the History
<br>and Philosophy of the Life Sciences* at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
<br>in Beesheva, Israel will take place on *9-10 December 2019* in the
<br>auditorium of the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
<br>Building (Building 51
<br>
<br>).
<br>Titled *Data, Knowledge and Genomic Causality, *this two-day workshop will
<br>explore how the era of 'Big Data' technology and computation has impacted
<br>scientific practice and philosophy in 21st-century informational biology.
<br>Just a few of talks include:
<br>
<br> - *James Briscoe, *Francis Crick Institute, U.K
<br> “Gene regulatory networks and embryonic pattern formation: Experiment,
<br> theory and simulation”
<br>
<br> - *Douglas Erwin*, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.
<br>
<br> “Inferring ancestral functions for highly conserved developmental genes
<br> in early animals and their ancestors”
<br>
<br> - *Dan Graur*, University of Houston, U.S.A.
<br> “Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not
<br> wisdom, wisdom is not truth: The many methodological crimes of data-driven
<br> big science”
<br>
<br> - *Jeremy Gunawardena*, Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.
<br> “Beyond ‘Big Data’ and ‘Big Model’: The role of abstraction in
<br>biology”
<br>
<br> - *Robert Weinberg*, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, U.S.A.
<br> “The significant limits of genomic analyses”
<br>
<br>Further information and the full program can be found here:
<br>https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/loeb/Pages/Scientific-Knowledge.aspx
<br>
<br>*Registration is free, but required for planning purposes. Please visit:*
<br>https://forms.gle/9ghKUrgGdAJNKovC7
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