[Midisciences 2026] February 12 - Natacha Collomb: «Faire science du vivant: quelles similitudes et quelles divergences entre anthropologie et biologie du développement?»
Date and place : Thursday 12 February 2026
From 1pm to 2pm
Avignon University, Hannah Arendt Campus, city centre site, Amphi 2E01
Free admission
Live on V-AU
The replay will be available on Canal U
On 12 February 2026, Natacha Collomb, anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS, will present a Midiscience on the theme :
«Making science of the living: what similarities and what differences between anthropology and developmental biology?»
On the basis of an investigation in a laboratory studying the mechanical dimensions of the pre-implantation development of embryos (essentially on the mouse model), the anthropologist is led to question what constitutes science on both sides of these two disciplines which, beyond their differences, share the same interest in living organisms. Methods and epistemologies are at the heart of these questions.
Natacha Collomb is an anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS. Her various investigations (early childhood in Laos, perinatal psychiatry, developmental biology) explore the vast questions of origins, beginnings and processes through a reflective and sensitive approach.
