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Courses / Cours
Research
and university teaching cannot be separated. A
scientist's career is therefore inevitably
intertwining lectures and courses, over the years. A
few excerpts of courses and lectures that were given
in a thirty years period are presented here. The first
formal account of the creation of the course in
Biology, at the Ecole Polytechnique in the mid-1970's,
with Maurice Guéron, was summarized in a first book in
French: Ordre et Dynamique du Vivant
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La
recherche et l'enseignement supérieur ne peuvent être
séparés. La carrière d'un chercheur est donc toujours
jalonnée de périodes d'enseignement, brèves ou plus
longues. Quelques extraits de cours et de conférences
dispensées au cours du temps sont présentées ici. Le
premier compte-rendu détaillé de la création du cours
de Biologie à l'Ecole Polytechnique avec Maurice
Guéron, au milieu des années 1970, a donné lieu à un
premier livre (en français)
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A Danchin
Ordre et Dynamique du Vivant. Chemins de la Biologie
Moléculaire
Le Seuil (1978) 350 pages

1980
- 1995
1993 - 1998 Cours de Biotechnologie à l'Ecole
des Mines de Paris
"De l'origine de la vie à la
biotechnologie"
Plan du
cours
The
biotech connection: dream or reality?
1994 - 1995 Cours de Microbiologie Générale de
l'Institut Pasteur
"Régulation de l'expression génétique chez
Escherichia coli: activation et répression du gène
de l'adénylate cyclase"
2006
- 2008
- Cours de Mastère I, Evolution, Ecole
Normale Supérieure 2007
Ecole Normale Supérieure
7 janvier 2008
« Ce que nous apprend la structure des
génomes bactériens de l'origine de la vie à la biologie
synthétique »
Cours (2,6 Mo) ; compléments
sur l'origine de la vie

- Cours de Mastère I, Evolution, Ecole
Normale Supérieure 2007
Ecole Normale Supérieure
9 janvier 2007
« Archives ou palimpsestes ? Les
génomes bactériens nous parlent de l'origine de la
vie »
Cours (2,9 Mo) ; compléments
sur l'origine de la vie

- Cours d'Analyse des Génomes 2006-2007
Institut Pasteur
15 décembre 2006
« De la biologie symplectique à la biologie
synthétique : quels gènes pour faire une cellule ? »
Cours (2,6 Mo) ;

Lectures / Conférences
2006-2007
- ESF Programme on frontiers of functional genomics
European Conference on Synthetic Biology ECSB07
Design, programming and optimisation of biological systems
Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
24-29 november 2007
«Will we be able to construct a synthetic bacterium?»
Presentation (1.3 kb)

- What are the theoretical tools most useful for
understanding biological systems?
Quels sont les outils théoriques les plus utiles pour
comprendre les systèmes biologiques ?
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES),
Bures-sur-Yvette, France
12-15 november 2007
« The constructor and the replicator: prerequisites for
the construction of a synthetic cell »
Presentation (1.8 kb)

- Synthetic Biology 3.0 Conference
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich,
Switzerland
24-26 june 2007
« Can we design de novo a bacterial genome »
Presentation (864 kb)

- 6th Annual International Symposium, Systems Biology and
the Environment
The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA
22-23 april 2007
« Archives or palimpsests? Bacterial genomes unveil a
scenario for the origin of life »
Presentation (1.3 Mb)

- Transcultura International Meeting
Order
and Disorder
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
5-7 march 2007
« Survivre dans un avenir imprévisible : quelques
conséquences malheureuses de la génération de la diversité,
et la Civilisation comme remède »
Presentation in English (772 kb)


- Les Rencontres du Palais Thott
Ambassade de France, Kongens Nytorv, November 23, 2006
« Nature and Artifice: a reflection on domestication and
GMOs »
Conference (628 kb)
BioCampus Conference « Public Perception of GMO »
November 24, 2006, The Old University building, Copenhagen
« An avatar of domestication: GMOs »
Summary (428 kb)
Questions and Answers on the Danish TV (DR2)

- L'Homme Artificiel, au service de la Société
Collège de France, Paris
12-13 octobre 2006
« De la biologie symplectique à la biologie synthétique :
saurons-nous construire un organisme vivant ? »
Conférence (1,4 Mo)

- 40 years Spetsai Summer School Anniversary Workshop on
Molecular and Cell Biology at Spetsai: Past, Present and
Future — A Forty Years's Anniversary
Spetses Hotel, Island of Spetses, Greece
1-5 september 2006
« From symplectic biology to synthetic biology: Universals
in microbial genomes »
Lecture (1.4 Mb)

« Symplectic biology: lessons from microbes »
« Coping with cold and aging: lessons from the genome of Pseudoalteromonas
haloplanktis »

« Symplectic biology: Universals in microbial genomes »
Presentation
(1.4 Mb)
- Taipei, Taiwan
22 february 2006
« Symplectic biology: Lessons from microbial genomes »
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
25 january 2006
« Coping with cold and aging: Lessons from the genome of the
versatile Antarctica bacteria Pseudoalteromonas
haloplanktis TAC125 »
1995
- 2005


- Le Logique et le Biologique
Université Paris I Sorbonne
22 avril 2005
Paris, France
« La métaphore de l’ordinateur est-elle appropriée pour
décrire les organismes vivants? Stabilisation
fonctionnelle sélective »
Présentation (0,88 Mo)

- How complex is functional genomics?
Sixth Bologna Winter School
13-19 February 2005
Bologna, Italy
Related
publications:
C Médigue, T Rouxel,
P Vigier, A Hénaut, A Danchin
Evidence for horizontal gene transfer in Escherichia
coli speciation
J Mol Biol (1991) 222: 851-856
M Borodovsky, JD
McIninch, EV Koonin, KE Rudd, C Médigue, A Danchin
Detection of new genes in a bacterial genome
using Markov models for three gene classes
Nucleic Acids Res (1995) 23: 3554-3562
A Danchin
mRNA turnover and DNA synthesis: a lesson
from bacterial genome comparisons Mol Microbiol (1996)
20: 895-897
A Danchin
Comparison between the Escherichia coli
and Bacillus subtilis genomes suggests that a major
function of polynucleotide phosphorylase is to synthesize CDP
DNA Res (1997) 4: 9-18 
P Nitschké, P
Guerdoux-Jamet, H Chiapello, G Faroux, C Hénaut, A Hénaut, A
Danchin
Indigo: a World-Wide-Web review of genomes
and gene functions
FEMS Microbiol Rev (1998) 22: 207-227
EPC Rocha, A
Sekowska, A Danchin
Sulphur islands in the Escherichia coli
genome: markers of the cell's architecture?
FEBS Lett (2000) 476: 8-11
A Sekowska, V
Dénervaud, H Ashida, K Michoud, D Haas, A Yokota, A Danchin
Bacterial variations on the methionine
salvage pathway
BMC Microbiol (2004) 4: 9 

- First EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2004)
25-28 August 2004
Stockholm City Conference Centre in Stockholm, Sweden


- 8th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical
Biology
11-14 July 2002
Biological Information Beyond Metaphor
Organized by Werner Callebaut and Sahotra Sarkar
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research,
Altenberg, Austria
"Living Turing Machines"
Summary 1
Summary 2

- 25-28 September 1996
Final EU Conference of the "Yeast Genome Sequencing Network"
Trieste, Italy.
"In silico comparison of bacterial genomes"
P Glaser, F Kunst, M Arnaud, M-P Coudart, W
Gonzales, M-F Hullo, M Ionescu, B Lubochinsky, L Marcelino, I
Moszer, E Presecan, M Santana, E Schneider, J Schweizer, A
Vertes, G Rapoport, A Danchin
Bacillus subtilis genome project:
cloning and sequencing of the 97 Kb region from 325o
to 333o
Mol Microbiol (1993) 10: 371-384
- 10 -14 September 1992 "Colibri: a functional database for
the Escherichia coli genome"
First Escherichia coli genome meeting - Madison, USA
C Médigue, A Viari, A
Hénaut, A Danchin
Colibri: a functional data base for the Escherichia
coli genome
Microbiol Rev (1993) 57: 623-654

A Danchin
A brief history of genome research and
bioinformatics in France
Bioinformatics (2000) 16: 65-75
- 2-6 October 1994 "On genomes and cosmologies: the Bacillus
subtilis example"
Twentieth EMBO Annual Symposium 1994 "Genomes and
Chromosomes", Heidelberg, Germany
- 4 -12 November 1994 "Large scale analysis of the E.
coli genome"
Third International Escherichia coli Genome Meeting -
Woods Hole MA, USA
C Médigue, T Rouxel, P Vigier, A Hénaut, A
Danchin
Evidence for horizontal gene transfer in Escherichia
coli speciation
J Mol Biol (1991) 222: 851-856
The concept of neighborhood, later to
be the basis for a new area of bioinformatics
has been proposed as a basis for inductive reasoning in genome
studies and illustrated in all the following lectures:
Slide (1995) of an
unlimited list of relevant neighborhoods to be combined to
construct an inductive approach to biological functions 
- 25-28 June 1995
Eighth Bacillus subtilis international conference,
Standord, Ca, USA
"New insights from the study of B. subtilis in
silico"
P Nitschké, P Guerdoux-Jamet, H Chiapello,
G Faroux, C Hénaut, A Hénaut, A Danchin
Indigo: a World-Wide-Web review of genomes and
gene functions
FEMS Microbiol Rev (1998) 22: 207-227

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- 5-8 October 1996
Eighth International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference
Hilton Head Island, Savannah, USA
"Small genomes: sequencing, functional characterization
and comparative genomics"
- 23-27 October 1996
Genome Symposium, Seoul, South Korea
"Lessons from in silico comparison of bacterial genomes"
- 27-30 October 1996
"Recent Advance in Genome Biology of Micro-organisms".
International symposium, Kasuza DNA Research Institute, Japan
"Bacterial genomes in silico"
- 25-28 January 1997
Small genomes: sequencing, functional characterization and
comparative genomics (TIGR Science Education Foundation,
inc;), Hilton Head, Savannah, USA.
"Lessons from bacterial genomes comparison in silico"
- 6-9 April 1997 Integrating Genetic, Biochemical and other
Data in the Post-Genomics Era
The Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
- 24-27 June 1997
The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for
Molecular Biology (ISMB-97) Hakidiki, Greece.
"The concept of neighborhood in genome exploration"

Related publications:
A Danchin
The Delphic boat or what the genomic texts tell us
Bioinformatics (1998) 14: 383
A Danchin
From protein sequence to function
Curr Opin Struct Biol (1999) 9: 363-367 

- Université de tous les savoirs
Qu'est-ce que la vie?
Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, quatrième confèrence, 4
Janvier 2000
Paris
Extraits vidéo de la conférence
Publication associée:
A Danchin
L'identité génétique
Volume 1: Qu'est-ce que la vie? coordonné par Yves Michaud,
Odile Jacob (2000) p 59-68

- 7th Western Pacific Congress on
Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases
WPCCID, 11-14 December 2000
Hong Kong, China
S Brunak, A Danchin, M Hattori, H Nakamura,
K Shinozaki, T Matise, D Preuss
Nucleotide sequence database policies
Science (2002) 298: 1333

- Mining bacterial genomes
National Research Council, April 16-17, 1999
Roma, Italy
"The map of the cell is in the chromosome"
Related
publication:
A Danchin, A
Hénaut
The
map of the cell is in the chromosome
Curr Opin Genet Dev (1997) 7: 852-854

- Eighth Workshop on Genome Informatics (GIW '97)
University of Tokyo
12- 13 December 1997
Tokyo, Japan
"The map of the cell is in the chromosome"

- 8th European Congress on Biotechnology
70th Event of the European Federation of the Biotechnology
17- 21 August 1997
Budapest, Hungary
"Biotechnology and genomes"
Summary of the
presentation

1995 l'année Pasteur
Related
publications:
A Danchin
Homeotopic transformation and the origin of
translation
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (1989) 54:
81-86
S Lévy, A Danchin
Phylogeny of metabolic pathways: O-acetylserine
sulphydrylase A is homologous to the tryptophan synthase beta
subunit
Mol Microbiol (1988) 2: 777-783
A Danchin
Une Aurore de Pierres. Aux origines de la vie
Le Seuil (1990), 276 pp
A Danchin
"Uma aurora de pedras. Nas origens da vida", Portuguese
translation; Almedina, Coimbra 1992
A Danchin
Dai minerali alla vita
Prometeo (1996) 14: 16-21
A Danchin
Des minéraux à la vie:
une alternative à la soupe prébiotique
In: Dictionnaire de l'ignorance, Aux frontières de la
Science (PUF) (1998) pp 196-212
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