Is life signs? Historical, philosophical, theoretical, and sociological approach

Hello, I am organizing a session on biosemiotics with the following description:

Biosemiotics is a relatively new scientific field that looks to combine insights from both biology and semiotics to deal with a set of complicated (and sometimes recalcitrant) problems surrounding living phenomena.
At first glance, biosemiotics might still look unorthodox, however, in the last two decades it has shown continuous growth in terms of its participants, its theoretical framework, and its connections with traditional fields both in biology and semiotics.
Concerning biology, biosemiotics has emphasized the existence of a close relationship between life, or living processes, and semiosis (which in broad terms comprises such things as interpretation, representation, and meaning), that is relevant to understanding the relationship that organisms have with other organisms and with their physical environment, as well as to help explain behavior, development, and even evolution.
Even when it might be challenging to guess what place biosemiotics will gain in biological thought in the following decades, its emergence already poses several questions whose examination is very timely. These are related both to its historical roots, its inter- or transdisciplinary nature, and its disciplinary, institutional and theoretical relationship with other biological frameworks.

If you are interested, please let me know by writing an email to david.suarez at ciencias.unam.mx with some words about your contribution to the session.