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Thomas Pradeu is CNRS Senior Investigator at ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team, & PI of the ERC-funded IDEM project (2015-2020).

Thomas Pradeu is CNRS Senior Investigator at ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team, & PI of the ERC-funded IDEM project (2015-2020).

Samuel Alizon is a CNRS Research Director at MIVEGEC in Montpellier. He is an evolutionary ecologist specialised in the modelling of infectious disease dynamics.

Ann-Sophie Barwich is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is a cognitive scientist and empirical philosopher & historian of science, especially the philosophy of olfaction.

Leonardo Bich is a Professor in Philosophy of Biology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain). Previously, he was a post-doctoral fellow working with T. Pradeu at ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux, France.

Andreas Bikfalvi is Professor of Biology and Director of the Angiogenesis and Cancer Microenvironment Laboratory (INSERM U1029, Univ. Bordeaux, France)

Jonathan Birch is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specializing in Philosophy of the Biological. He works on evolution of social behaviour, the evolution of norms, animal sentience, and the relation between sentience and welfare.

Alexander Bird is Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at King’s College (London, UK). His research deals with philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology. He is member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Mina Bissell is Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has pioneered the field of tumor microenviornment and has significantly advanced the fields of breast cancer research. She is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Patrick Blanco is Professor of Immunology, Univ. Bordeaux, Pellegrin Hospital & ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux, France.

Federico Boem is a philosopher of science who focuses on the life sciences and biomedicine. His current research interests include scientific reasoning and its public dimension, especially science-based policies, and the host-microbiota interaction with a focus on cognitive functions and ecological dimension.

Thomas Boraud is Research Director in Neurosciences at CNRS,and Leader of the team Physiology and pathophysiology of executive functions, Bordeaux, France.

Thomas Boyer-Kassem is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Poitiers, France. He studies the collective and ethical aspects of decisions in medical contexts.

Cédric Brun is Associate Professor of Philosophy & Head of Philosophy Department, Univ. Bordeaux-Montaigne, France.

Nancy Cartwright is a Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She has a long history in the philosophy of the natural sciences, especially physics, but she has now turned to philosophy of the social sciences with special attention to economics. Her current research focusses on objectivity and evidence.

Michael Dietrich is a Professor and Department Chair at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He works on History and Philosophy of Biology with an emphasis on scientific controversies in twentieth century genetics and evolutionary biology as well as the histories of developmental biology and molecular evolution.

Melinda Fagan is Sterling McMurrin Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah (USA). Her research is in philosophy of science, focusing on experimental practice in biology (particularly stem cell and developmental biology), explanation, and conceptions of objectivity and evidence.

Paul Griffiths is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, and Associate Academic Director (Arts and Social Sciences) at the Charles Perkins Centre. He is a specialist of Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology.

Fridolin Gross is a postdoctoral researcher who works on computational models of the cell cycle at IFOM, Milan, and teaches philosophy at the University of Kassel.

Stephan Guttinger is a research associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the methodology and ontology of the contemporary life sciences.

Matt Haber is Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Utah (USA). His area of specialty is Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Science, particularly the philosophical and conceptual issues in systematics.

Valerie Gray Hardcastle is the St. Elizabeth Healthcare Executive Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and the Vice President for Health Innovations at Northern Kentucky University and an adjunct research professor at the University of Cincinnati (U.S.).

Laurence Huc is an INRA researcher in toxicology. She works on the impact of food contaminants on health and chronic diseases, as the head of the team COMICS in ToxAlim, Toulouse.

Philippe Huneman is Research Director in Philosophy of Science at CNRS, working at IHPST (CNRS, ENS & Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University).

Andrew Inkpen is an Assistant Professor at Brandon University in the Department of Philosophy. His works on issues surrounding the human-natural distinction as well as ecological function and health.

Eva Jablonka is Professor at Tel-Aviv University. Her research interests include Heredity, Epigenetics. Evolutionary Biology, Behavioural Ecology, Developmental Biology, Language and Cultural evolution, History of Genetics and the Philosophy of Science.

Hannah Kaminski is MD of Nephrology and Infectious diseases. She writes a PhD dissertation in Immunology in the ImmunoConcept lab under the supervision of Julie Déchanet-Merville.

Lara Keuck is a Branco Weiss Fellow and leads the junior research group “Learning from Alzheimer’s Disease” at the Department of History at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany).

Rob Knight is a Professor at the University of California San Diego and the co-founder of the American Gut Project. He is also a co-founder of the Earth Microbiome Project, and the founding Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation.

Jan Pieter Konsman is a researcher in neuroscience (neuroimmunology) at CNRS, INCIA lab, Bordeaux, France. He also works in philosophy of science.

Eugene Koonin is a Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information and head of the Evolutionary Genomics Research Group. He is a member of the PhilInBiomed Scientific Committee.

Lucie Laplane is a CNRS junior researcher in Philosophy of Biology and Medicine, at IHPST Paris and Gustave Roussy (1st European Cancer Centre), Paris, France.

Paôline Laurent is a PhD student in Immunology, under the supervision of Thomas Pradeu and Marie-Elise Truchetet, at ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux, France.

Sophie Layé is Research Director at INRA, Head of Unit Nutrition and Integrative Neurobiology, Bordeaux, France.

Maël Lemoine is Full Professor in Philosophy of Medical Sciences, Univ. of Bordeaux, France, and a member of the ImmunoConcept lab.

Sabina Leonelli is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter (UK). She serve as the Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), where she leads the Data Studies research strand.

Tim Lewens is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He works on the philosophy of biology, biomedical ethics, and general philosophy of science. He is the author of several books, the most recent being Why We Disagree about Human Nature (OUP 2018) (edited with Beth Hannon) .

Stefan Linquist is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph. His work is at the interface between ecology, genomics, evolution, and psychology. Much of his work involves extending ecological and evolutionary theories into new domains.

Pekka Louhiala is Professor of Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is on leave from a lectureship medical ethics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Alan Love is John M. Dolan Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (USA) and Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on conceptual issues in biology and has concentrated on evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-devo), developmental biology, molecular biology, and paleontology.

Kate MacCord is Program Administrator and McDonnell Foundation Fellow at the MBL. She works with Jane Maeischein at the interface between biology, history of science, and philosophy of science.

Koffi Maglo is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. His interests include philosophy of biology and biomedicine, ethics and population health.

Jane Maienschein is Professor in History and Philosophy of Biology at Arizona State University. She also directs the History and Philosophy of Science Project at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Maria Mamani Matsuda is Associate Professor in Immunology, ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux, France.

Alberto Mantovani is the Scientific Director of the Humanitas Clinical and Research Center in Milan, Italy. He is also the President and Founder of the Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, and Professor of Pathology at the State University of Milan.

Deborah Mayo is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. Her research topics include underdetermination, the role of novel evidence, and the nature of scientific progress. She is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Margaret McFall-Ngai is Professor and Director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Her research focuses on host responses to interactions with beneficial microbes. She is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Rodrigo Medel is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chile, and member of the team Scientia at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. His research interests include general philosophy of science with emphasis in evolutionary biology, natural selection, and the nature of scientific discovery.

Ruslan Medzhitov is a Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on the analysis of the innate immune system, inflammatory response, innate control of the adaptive immunity, and host-pathogen interactions.

Pierre-Olivier Méthot is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Université Laval (Québec). He specializes in the history and philosophy of the biological and medical sciences, with a particular focus on microbiology, ecology, and evolution (and their interaction).

Rick Michod is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. His lab uses mathematical modeling, genomics, phenomics, molecular biology, ecology, and philosophy to study the evolution of multicellularity and evolutionary transitions in individuality.

Thierry Michon is a researcher at INRA (UMR1332, Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie), Bordeaux, France.

Alessandro Minelli is a Professor emeritus of Zoology at the University of Padua. His work focuses on evolutionary developmental biology and he has contributed to laying the conceptual foundations for this discipline.

Michel Morange is a professor of biology at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, a historian of molecular biology, and president (2015–2017) of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB).

Nicolae Morar is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies & Philosophy at University of Oregon. He is interested in Bioethics (Biomedical, Genethics, Environmental, & Research Ethics), Philosophy of Biology, and Recent Continental Philosophy.

Jean-François Moreau is Professor of Immunology, Univ. Bordeaux, Pellegrin Hospital & ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux, France.

Alvaro Moreno Bergareche is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain). Founder of the Philosophy of Biology Group at the UPV/EHU, he is a specialist of Philosophy of Biology, Artificial Life, Complex Systems and Cognitive Science.

Gerd B. Müller is Professor and Head of the Department of Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna (Austria). He is the President of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI).

Samir Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol (UK) and a specialist of foundational and conceptual questions surrounding evolutionary theory. He is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Duygu Özpolat is a Principal Investigator and Hibbitt Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, USA. As a developmental biologist she holds a passion for live-imaging embryos and regeneration. She is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Mathieu Paoletti is a CNRS researcher at IGBC, member of the team Non-Self Recognition in Fungi, Bordeaux, France.

Diane Pataki is Professor of Biological Sciences and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah. She studies human-environment interactions related to urban biodiversity, resource use, and landscape design. She is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Leïla Périé is a CNRS researcher in immunology and team leader in the Biophysics lab at the Institut Curie (Paris, France).

Thomas Polger is Professor of Philosophy, and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. He studies the relationships between explanations, models, and entities of different sciences — especially those of the cognitive and brain sciences.

Angela Potochnik is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati.​ Her research intests include the relationships between science and the public, and methods in population biology.

David Queller is a Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. His work focuses on both theoretical and empirical aspects of the evolution of social interactions, including both sexual selection and kin selection.

Suresh Rattan is at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark. His interests and expertise include the biological basis and modulation of ageing.

Robert Richardson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include philosophy of science, cognitive science, and the history of modern philosophy.

Jason Robert holds the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and is director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. A bioethicist and philosopher of biology, his research is animated by the question of what is ‘good’ science – that is, science that is both efficacious and ethical.

Elena Rondeau is a PhD student in Oncoimmunology under the supervision of Thomas Pradeu and Nicolas Larmonier at ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux, France.

Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biology Emerita at Stanford University and Affiliated Faculty at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, U. of Hawaii (USA). She is an expert in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Philippe J. Sansonetti is a microbiologist, Professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he is the head of the Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis lab, and at the Collège de France, where he holds the Chair in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Jérôme Santoloni is a researcher at CEA, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule, Saclay, France.

Isabella Sarto-Jackson is the Executive Manager of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Klosterneuburg, Austria.

Sven Saupe is Research Director at CNRS, PI of Non-Self Recognition in Fungi team, IBGC, Bordeaux, France.

Kenneth F. Schaffner is Distinguished University Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is a specialist of philosophy of biology and philosophy of medicine and is member of the PhilInBIoMed Scientific Committee

Nicholas Shea is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, in University of London. He works on Philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, Philosophy on Mind. He is in charge of the ERC Project on Metacognition of Concepts.

Jonathan Sholl is a post-doctoral researcher at the ImmunoConcept Lab at Bordeaux University. His research focuses on various issues within the philosophy of medicine and biology, such as physiological concepts of health, concepts in systems biology, and most recently, the intersection of microbiology and cancer. He is also interested in the nutrition sciences, aging, and historical epistemology.

Derek Skillings is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Before he was a Post-doctoral fellow in Philosophy of Biology at ImmunoConcept, CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

Robert Skipper is a faculty member of the Philosophy Department of the University of Cincinnati. His research focus has been mainly on the origin and development of evolutionary genetics. Other interests include environmental ethics, bioethics, and epistemology.

Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine and a Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is now working on evolution of conventions and the social contract. His other research interests include inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation,and Truth.

Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. He is one of the founders of the field of philosophy of biology, and a specialist of evolution. He is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Miriam Solomon is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University. Her research interests are in philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, history of science, epistemology, gender and science and biomedical ethics. She is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee

Jacob Stegenga is a University Lecturer in philosophy of science. His research focuses on methodological problems of medical research, conceptual questions in evolutionary biology, and fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality. He recently published the book Medical Nihilism.

Adrian Stencel is a research assistant and PhD student at Jagiellonian University, Poland. He was also a visiting student at University in Bordeaux, France.

Beckett Sterner is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the question: “When and why is mathematics useful for biology?”

Jim Tabery is an Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, with additional appointments in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Utah.

Paul Thagard is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. His writing in the philosophy of medicine includes the book How Scientists Explain Disease, articles on mental illness, and work in progress on balance disorders.

Marie-Elise Truchetet is Associate Professor in Rheumatology, Univ. Bordeaux, Pellegrin Hospital & ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux, France.

Christophe Tzourio is Professor of Epidemiology, and Director of the Bordeaux Population Health Centre (Unit U1219 Inserm-University of Bordeaux)

Walter Veit is a PhD student at the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is writing a thesis on the connection between ‘pathological complexity’ and the evolution of minds.

Michel Vervoort is a Professor in Biology (Evolution, Genetics, Eco-Devo) at Paris-Diderot University and Institut Jacques Monod, and co-leader of the team “Evolution and Development of Metazoans“, Paris, France. He is a member of the PhilInBioMed Scientific Committee.

Eric Vivier is Professor of Immunology, and Director of the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille, France.

Günter Wagner is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, USA. In his research he uses mathematical modeling, comparative sequencing and transgenic techniques to understand the evolution of developmental control genes.

Jerry Wakefield is a Professor at the New York University. He is interested in the conceptual foundations of clinical theory, the philosophy of psychopathology, psychiatric epidemiology of depression, and integrative clinical theory.

Jonathan Weitzman is a Professor of Genetics at the Université Paris-Diderot, founding director of the Center for Epigenetics and Cell, leader of the team Plasticity of Cellular Phenotypes in Paris, France.

Joeri Witteveen is an Assistant Professor in history and philosophy of science at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He specializes in history and philosophy of biology. In his research he combines philosophical analysis with historical case studies while paying close attention to scientific practice.

Jessey Andrew Wright is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University, USA. He is primarily interested in the Philosophy of Neuroscience, but his research ranges from general philosophy of science to the epistemology of neuroscience.