<div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear colleagues, </span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">I hope this mail finds you well. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">As promised during my presentation, here is a proposition of project for the structuring og the Morphogenesis research and community.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">I&#39;d be delighted to have you (and your collaborators) join us if you&#39;re interested in the project. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please find below a detailed summary.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Very sincerely, </span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Pierre Galipot</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-9556" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916667rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-9556</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Project Morpho Summary</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am writing to you as a researcher in biological morphogenesis, currently at the edge between a postdoc and (hopefully) a position in academics. Since my PhD, I have enjoyed trying to decipher the formation of shapes and patterns, in plants, animals, or fungi, like PGTCPs (Turing patterns disrupted by growth), checkerboard or cracking patterns. Nevertheless, I am now motivated to put myself in a complementary position to teams working on morphogenesis. I would like to make links between research works in very different taxa, scales or approaches and therefore strengthen the links between morphogeneticists by helping build a proper ‘morphogenesis community’.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">This brought me to ask myself the following questions and to try to propose answers: </span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Can we define and classify morphogenetic processes and (biological) shapes? If so, how to define the categories&#39; boundaries? Would it be relevant in terms of development and evolution or is it only a human mental abstract construction? Would it be useful for researchers in morphogenesis to have such categories? If so, could we imagine a universal way to express morphogenesis events, in a sort of logical formula (or should I say a FORMula)?</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Here&#39;s how far I&#39;ve come:</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yes, shapes can be named and classified, in fact it is already done in literature although not harmonized. We might find a balance between a precise mathematical description (e.g. a cone) and be driven by the biological function(s) to help name and delimitate them (e.g. a spike). To cope with the immense number of potential categories of biological forms, we should first list those produced by the morphogenetic mechanisms that will be identified.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Morphogenetic mechanisms/processes are also already (but partially) described and named in the literature (e.g. Turing mechanism). Two kinds of mechanisms come to my mind, the first one able to create a shape/pattern alone (a generator) and the other one only able to modify (a modulator).</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yes, it should be useful to name and build categories, at least to pinpoint evolutionary convergences. For example, two teams have independently described a common way to produce a complex color pattern, in shells of mollusks and feathers of birds. We would benefit to give it a name (e.g. Printing mechanism), to pinpoint the common features and differences, and to ask ourselves if it has been selected in other taxa during Evolution.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Finally, by using the precedent categories of shapes and mechanisms, together with simple logical symbols (but precisely described) like « + », « x », « → » etc., we should be able to represent a morphogenesis sequence.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">And now? </span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Of course, I could try to write an article about it and to submit it to reviewers, but I think it would be a thousand times more interesting and useful to the community to try to build it together. After taking advice since a little less than one year, I have finally come with a proposition, and if you are interested in, it will be available in two levels of implication, the choice being yours: </span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><ul style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><li style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><b style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">First, a survey to evaluate the usefulness of this project to the very diverse community of people working on shapes, patterns, and/or their formation, and to collect your feelings about the questions asked earlier.</span></b></li></ul><b style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></b><ul style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><li style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><b style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Secondly, a collaborative place to debate, improve or completely redesign the project, on a Slack-type platform, well structured to conduct the discussion remotely while aiming for a certain efficiency. I think that a couple of months to a semester should be sufficient to achieve a satisfactory final form. If a consensus is reached, the result would logically be (at least) an article with all the signatories, as in a consortium, and the construction of databases.</span></b></li></ul><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">To make this project as relevant as possible, we need people from diverse domains of research (biology, physics, mathematics), objects and scale of interest (molecules, cells, organisms, models), and of course representative of biological diversity.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">I plan to release the platform in two weeks, the 1st of April, but don’t worry, it would be possible to join the project after that. In the meantime, the best way to express your interest about this project is either to respond to this mail and/or to fill some information on this Google Sheets link: </span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12-PQ8-Dy1U3NzsYyxxzbP8Oz-FT_9Lw46KxSdxE_EYs/edit" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(17,85,204);color:rgb(17,85,204)">Project Morpho</span></a></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">To simplify the search for contacts, I have focused majoritarily on team leaders, but this is of course open for everybody in research, as PhD students, postdocs or early career researchers would be precious to give a fresh impulse to this project.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:&#39;-apple-system&#39;,&#39;helvetica neue&#39;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:-apple-system,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">I&#39;d be then infinitely grateful if you could pass this message on to your colleagues and students, as well as to anyone else I might have forgotten, who might be interested in participating.</span></p><br></div><div dir="auto">Very sincerely, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pierre </div>