Biological Physics & Physical Biology Seminar
Seminar information
BP/PB seminars are held most Fridays. The first talk begins at 8 am pacific/9 am mountain/10 am central/11am eastern in the US, which is 4 pm in the UK/5 pm in central Europe/9:30 pm in India (assuming that regular or daylight savings time is aligned across countries) The second talk starts at half past the hour.
The goal of the series is to highlight interesting current research in biophysics, broadly defined.
Email list signup and talk zoom information: Click here to join the mailing list and/or volunteer to speak. You can also join the email list by sending a message to bppb-reqest@lists.colorado.edu with the word "subscribe" in the subject line. Zoom information for each seminar will be shared with the mailing list the day before and day of the talk.
Past talk videos: The BP/PB youtube channel has recordings of selected past talks.
Organizers: This seminar is organized by Moumita Das, Enkeleida Lushi, Kimberly Weirich, and Jianhua Xing. Please contact us with any questions.
Upcoming seminars
Friday, May 27, 2022
Jose Alvarado
2: Mechanics of Primary Cilia
Yuan-Nan Young
Recent past seminars
Friday, May 13, 2022
Tutorial: Rheology of active suspensions
David Saintillan
Talk: Active hydrodynamics of interphase chromatin
David Saintillan
Friday, May 6, 2022
1. Topological Mechanics in Biological Systems
Camelia Prodan
2. Cell polarity as a driver of diversity and robustness in developing morphologies
Ala Trusina
Friday, April 29, 2022
1. Autonomous mechano-adaptation in bacterial swimming motility
Navish Wadhwa
2. Proteins in a crowd under heat and pressure
Margaret Cheung
Friday, April 22, 2022
1. Do active nematic self-mixing dynamics help growing bacteria colonies maintain genetic diversity?
Daniel Beller
2. Impact of mechanics on actin filament disassembly
Hugo Wioland
Friday, April 15, 2022
Top-down functional-based approaches to modelling cell state transitions
Carla Mulas
2. Cells use mechanical communication
to optimally network
Kinjal Dasbiswas
Friday, April 8, 2022
Mechanical limitation of bacterial sliding motility with expanding cell chains
Jing Chen
2. Using computational fluid dynamics to understand the mechanics of jellyfish swimming and feeding
Laura Miller
Friday, April 1, 2022
Principles of structure/function in biomolecular condensates
Jeremy Schmit
2. Predicting robust emergent function in stochastic systems
Evelyn Tang
Friday, March 25, 2022
Mechanisms and consequences of viscoelasticity in biomolecular condensates: some theoretical studies
Jie Lin
2. Physics of morphogenetic matter
Margaret Gardel
Friday, March 18, 2022
APS March Meeting, No talk
Friday, March 11, 2022
1. Cutting through the mechanics of three-dimensional elastic cell sheets
Stephanie Hoehn
2. Epigenetic inheritance and its influence on future generations phenotype in bacteria
Hanna Salman
Friday, March 4, 2022
1. Tutorial: Autonomous clocks: emerging mechanisms, design and biological functions
Mustafa Aydogan
2. Research talk: Cytoplasmic divisions without nuclei
Mustafa Aydogan
Friday, February 25, 2022
1. Biomechanics and mechanobiology funding opportunities for all career stages at the U. S. National Science Foundation
Wendy Crone
2. Bayesian nonparametrics for single molecule
Steve Presse
Friday, February 18, 2022
1. The dynamics of cell migration in flat and curved confining geometries
Chase Broedersz
2. Swimming through the weeds, bacterially
Suraj Shankar
Friday, February 11, 2022
1. Quantification of approximate symmetries in evolution and development
Adrianna Dawes
2. Phototaxis of microalgae: lessons from Chlamydomonas an Micromonas
Marco Polin
Friday, February 4, 2022
1. Tutorial: Fundamental equations for mechanics and transport of cytoskeleton
Alex Mogilner
2. Steady and wavy actomyosin contraction
Alex Mogilner
Friday, January 28, 2022
1. Design of vesicle prototissues as a model for cellular tissues
Laura Casanellas
2. From atomic scale molecular diffusion to hierarchical free energy landscape of transcription factor protein search on DNA
Jin Yu
Friday, January 21, 2022
1. Squeezing, pinching, dragging, and pulling: from multiscale models to morphogenesis
Lance Davidson
2. Visceral organ morphogenesis via calcium-patterned muscle contractions
Noah Mitchell
Please visit our previous past seminars page to see the topics in biological physics covered so far in this series.
Past talk videos: Please visit the BP/PB youtube channel to find recordings of selected past talks.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Sri Iyer-Biswas and Meredith Betterton who were part of the original 2020 organizing team that launched this seminar series! Also thanks to Wylie Ahmed, Nuris Figueroa Morales on the 2021 organizing team!
Thanks to those who have live-tweeted the talks: Peter Foster; Brian Munsky; Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan; Brian Camley; Vivek Prakash; Kirsty Wan; Akanksha Thawani; Haneul Yoo; Olivia Leland; Arnold Mathijssen; Jasmine Nirody; Tapomoy Bhattacharjee; Dan Rokshar; Purushottam Dixit; Anna Bajur; Todd Gingrich; Wallace Marshall; Eric Dufresne; Maggie Johnson; Kinjal Dasbiswas; Ned Wingreen; Rana Ashkar; Manasa Kandula.