What is PhilInBioMed?

PhilInBioMed is both an interdisciplinary institute located at the University of Bordeaux, France, and a national and international network of interdisciplinary institutes. PhilInBioMed aims at promoting philosophy in the biological and medical sciences, a co-production of knowledge by the direct interactions of philosophers, biologists, and medical doctors.

The mission of PhilInBioMed is to promote short-term and long-term stays of philosophers in biology and medicine labs, as well as short-term and long-term stays of biologists and MDs in philosophy labs, and, ultimately, collaborative publications by philosophers, biologists, and medical doctors.

 

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New BJPS post by Elliott Sober on Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Virulence Elliott Sober BJPS, Auxiliary Hypotheses http://www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/evolution-of-virulence-sober/    

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Three positions in the Conceptual Biology and Medicine Group at University of Bordeaux (June 2020)

  Two PhD positions and one Postdoc position are open at the University of Bordeaux. They are open to philosophers of biology or medicine and to biologists alike. Both the PhD positions and the postdoc position are 3 year-long. The research of the PhD students and the postdoc will be on cancer. The method will necessarily… Read more »

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PhilInBioMed elected 1 of 6 Useful Resources For Biology Enthusiasts

The video platfrom Wiki.ezvid.com is a free-to-use video wiki, where a user is introduced to a concept in the space of a four-to-seven minute video presentation, and then additional text, images, data, and links to third-party information sources are provided to add more detail to each topic. The website aims to answer questions on the… Read more »

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Latest projects

ERC-funded project: Immunity, DEvelopment, and the Microbiota (IDEM)

6 June 2017
Biology
Medicine
Philosophy

IDEM is an ERC-funded project (2015-2020) located at the interface between philosophy of biology and biology. Hosted by the CNRS in Bordeaux, France, IDEM is conducted by Thomas Pradeu. More information about this project here.  

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The definition of the tumor microenvironment

5 June 2017
Biology
Medicine
Philosophy

The members of this interdisciplinary project attempt to propose a refined definition of the notion of tumor microenvironment, at the interface between cancer biology, developmental biology, immunology, and studies on angiogenesis. People involved: Andreas Bikfalvi (Inserm), Dorothée Duluc, Lucie Laplane (IHPST & IGR), Nicolas Larmonier, Thomas Pradeu. More information about this project here.  

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Immunity, mobility, and aging

5 June 2017
Biology
Medicine
Philosophy

Initiated by Jean-François Moreau, this project is based on the idea that mobility is central to immunity. In the transition from unicellularity to multicellularity, all cells have mostly lost their mobility – except for the immune cells. We are interested in better characterizing this link between immunity and mobility, and the way it emerged through… Read more »

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Latest publications

Frontiers in Physiology: Understanding Multicellularity – The Functional Organization of the Intercellular Space

23 September 2019
Biology
Medicine
Philosophy

Multicellularity exists in all domains of life, spanning from microbial biofilms to plans and metazoans. Clearly multicellularity offers many advantages (increase in size, division of labor, increased complexity), but also comes with a number of challenges (control and coordination of cells, availability of nutrients and signaling molecules,…). A number of publications have looked at the… Read more »

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International Journal of Cancer: Beyond the tumour microenvironment by Laplane et al.

24 May 2019
Biology
Medicine
Philosophy

For decades cancer research had focused exclusively on the tumor. Later the vision was broadend to the tumor microenvironment (TME). Today five researchers – both philosophers and scientists – call for a look beyond the tumor microenvironment. In the minireview they show the crucial importance of the tumor organismal environment (TOE). Find the full article… Read more »

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Philosophy of Biology: The challenges of big data biology by Sabina Leonelli

9 April 2019
Biology
Philosophy

    The availability of big data has the potential to transform many areas of the life sciences and usher in new ways of doing research. Sabina Leonelli argues that big data biology also raises fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: for example, what is a good dataset, and how can reliable knowledge be… Read more »

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