{"id":9934,"date":"2025-10-09T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/?post_type=news_events&#038;p=9934"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:50:27","slug":"14th_elsi_international_symposium","status":"publish","type":"news_events","link":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/en\/news_events\/events\/2025\/14th_elsi_international_symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration open for the 14th ELSI International Symposium \u2014 Individuality Across the Biosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registration is now open for the 14th ELSI International Symposium, \u201cIndividuality Across the Biosphere.\u201d The symposium will explore how individuality\u2014often assumed to be a clear-cut concept\u2014emerges, evolves, and reorganises across biological and planetary contexts. From genes to genomes, from replicators to multicellular organisms, individuality appears at multiple scales. It has likely been reinvented many times throughout the history of life. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together perspectives from evolutionary biology, artificial life, statistical physics, information theory, and planetary science to re-examine individuality as both a conceptual and biological phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Key topics include:<\/p>\n<p>Major transitions and multi-level evolution<\/p>\n<p>Planetary and geochemical influences on the emergence of individuals<\/p>\n<p>Experimental, synthetic, and artificial life systems<\/p>\n<p>Philosophical and theoretical perspectives on defining and measuring individuality<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The symposium is open to researchers across disciplines, with opportunities for poster presentations, and aftershops discussion sessions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dates: Wednesday-Friday, 7-9 January 2026<\/p>\n<p>Registration and more info: <a href=\"https:\/\/sympo14.elsi.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sympo14.elsi.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Location: Digital Hall, Institute of Science Tokyo, Ookayama Campus, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELSI_sympo14_Poster_Final.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELSI_sympo14_Poster_Final.png 495w, https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELSI_sympo14_Poster_Final-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9935,"template":"","news_events_cat":[6],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events\/9934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events_cat?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}