Denis Noble is Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Physiology and Director of Computational Biology at the University of Oxford. He is the President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS). In 2006 he published The Music of Life (Oxford University Press), a popular book on Systems Biology that challenges many ‘dogmas’ of 20th century biology. This book has now been translated into 7 other languages. He chaired the 2009 debate in Oxford, Homage to Darwin, featuring Lynn Margulis, Richard Dawkins, Martin Brasier and Steve Bell.