主催：東京大学生産技術研究所 定量生物学研究室、東京大学大学院総合文化研究科若本研究室

共催：東京大学生産技術研究所 統合バイオメディカルシステム国際研究センター

　　　東京大学生産技術研究所 工学とバイオグループ

　　　東京大学 複雑生命システム動態研究教育拠点

　　　東京大学 生物普遍性研究機構

Living matters are unique and distinctive in the physical world. The crucial factor differentiating the living matters from the other physical matters is the ability to grow in number by self-replication and to evolve as a result. This ability is the driving force to amplify and sustain otherwise rare living-matter specific phenomena, to form the world of living systems. Understanding life in terms of physics, therefore, inevitably requires establishing the physics of growing and evolving systems.

This issue accompanies several challenges and rises several questions. How to quantitatively observe growing and evolving populations? How to analyze growing system with lineage structures? What are the universal properties of the growing and evolving systems? How do the growth and evolution bias and shape the typical behaviors of living matters? What is the fundamental limit of growing systems and self-replication? In this workshop, we address these problems with the outstanding young researchers in this field. By showing recent experimental and theoretical advancements on how to quantitatively measure and consistently characterize growing and evolving systems, we try to draw a prospective picture for the fundamental and physical understanding in living matters.