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Abstract The beetle is an insect that feeds on the excrement of animals much larger than itself, from which it extracts the appropriate substance to produce the carapace we know and love. In the same way, there is a form of writing that feeds on the waste …

Abstract What does observing what is furthest from oneself offer as a horizon for "   making the leap from the ferocious beast   "  ? The importance of the radically different. What does the encounter with the sphere farthest from oneself provoke in …

Drawing © Monika Jasnauskaite Virginijus Šikšnys is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Edith Heard. Abstract Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) pose a lethal threat to bacteria. In response, bacteria evolved …

Abstract of Christophe Chassenieux 's presentation Proteins as new sources of materials Beyond their everyday use in our diet, proteins are also functional building blocks that can be used to obtain materials with properties of interest. For example, milk …

Lecture outline : girard's paradox with one type of all types   ; difference with Russell's paradox   ; universe as reflection principle   ; algebraic proof of canonicity with the Artin gluing technique and normalization proof   ; application to proof …

Abstract The kingdom of Mari was dimorphic  : alongside the sedentary population, it included a very large nomadic population. It is usually said that we only know about nomads through the distorting prism of sedentary writings. This is not the case in …

Abstract In the performance of the nations most renowned for the quality of their primary and secondary mathematics training and for the excellence of their research, we observe the frequent practice of extracurricular investment in clubs and in training …

Project supervised by  : Pierre-Louis Lions, Chair of Partial Differential Equations and Applications . Abstract Changes in agricultural practices are inevitable and necessary. Inevitable, because climate change is having a growing impact on agriculture …

Abstract In 2003, the first   genes associated with autism were identified. Today, more than a hundred genes are known, and others are in the process of being identified. In some cases, a single genetic variation is involved  ; in others, thousands of …

Abstract Different mechanisms leading to enhancers moving closer to their target genes. CTCF dependence and non-dependence. Pathologies induced by causes involving enhancers (enhanceropathies) and the function of transposable elements in the evolution of …

Abstract The majority of quantitative traits, such as height or blood pressure, and common diseases, such as type   2 diabetes or COVID-19, result from the combined effects of many genes. This lecture will examine methods for identifying the genetic bases …

Abstract This first   conference will focus on the historiography of the Enlightenment. It will review research on the subject over the last few decades, and highlight the enormous expansion of public participation in literary and intellectual life …

Abstract Stage and auditorium, interior and exterior, stage curtain and iron curtain - these are all relationships that can be found both in the theater building and in the object of the performance given there. What, then, is this cramped, rough, black …

Abstract Ecology is the science of interactions between living beings and their environment ; this environment is itself made up of other living beings, themselves interacting with their environment, and other living beings. It's clear from the definition …