GECO 2010

November 25^th 2010

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

welcome to the website of the First International Multidisciplinary Congress on Evolution in Communication and Neural Processing, that was held in Modena the 18-19 of November 2010.

For the first time, researchers on Plant Physiology, Ethology, Entomology, Engineering, Physics, Medicine, commonly considered to belong to different worlds, joined together to share their opinion about

Can plants discriminate between self and non-self?
Does it exist a leitmotiv linking insects, animals, men, plants, and robots?
Different evolutionary processes lead to develop communication at all levels of biological organization, from individual organism to ecological communities: from plants that integrate information from the environment into responsive "behaviour", to human mind and artificial intelligence, to the behaviour of more or less decentralized intelligence systems, such as those found in social insects.

Sincere appreciation and cordial thanks are extended to all those who attended this symposium as speakers, poster authors, or audience, since all helped to make this such an excellent Congress. My deepest gratitude is given to Proff. Mancuso, Baluska, and Arecchi, members of the Scientific Committee, for their support and advice, and to all those who helped in the preparations, including the members of the organizing committee and staff. The generous support of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, CRM Foundation, Warrant Group, and of the other local sponsors, is also gratefully acknowledged.

I hope you will join us again at the next meeting, and that this event could grow up year by year.

My best regards,
yours faithfully
Laura

Download the Book of Abstracts GECO2010

Laura Arru, PhD
Plant Physiology Researcher
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT)
Dept. Agricultural and Food Sciences
laura.arru@unimore.it

EVOLUTION IN COMMUNICATION AND NEURAL PROCESSING

FROM FIRST ORGANISMS AND PLANTS TO MAN ..AND BEYOND