Biological Physics & Physical Biology Seminar

Rizal Hariadi

Multi-axial DNA origami force spectroscopy reveals hidden dynamics in biomolecular systems

Suliana Manley

TBA

Gautam Reddy

Tutorial & Talk 

TBA

Mirna Mihovilovic Skanata

TBA

Amy Rowat

TBA

Julija Zavadlav

TBA

Ting Lu

TBA

Lalit Deshmukh

TBA

Kee Myoung Nam

TBA

Hammad Faizi

Active membrane deformations of a minimal synthetic cell

Oleg Igoshin

TBA

Caroline Martin

TBA

Divya Naradsu

TBA

Loïc Royer

Omega — harnessing the power of large language models for bioimage analysis 

Ilan Theodoro

Demo: Napari-MCP — An MCP server for agentic remote control of Napari

Hawa Racine Thiam

Chromatin Biophysics through the lens of NETosis

Antun Skanata

Mechanisms of chemotaxis on rugged landscapes

Ido Golding

Viral dormancy: Emerging principles & open questions

Image credit: Ido Golding

Shu Yang

Snapping of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Touch-me-not Knots for Diverse Motions

Philip Nelson

Tutorial 

Pattern formation in an active fluid: Prologue to a story about morphogenesis

Alan Rodrigues

Using physical concepts to develop a 'post-molecular' understanding of organ patterning

Dagan Segal

Insights from zebrafish into cancer cell adaptation

Trevor GrandPre

Trait-space patterning is dictated by the tempo and mode of mutation

Lailai Zhu

Endowing Intelligence in Bionic Active Particles

Sohan Kale

Mapping Cellular Tractions on Nanonets

Dibyajyoti Mohanta

Heterogenous aging of RNA condensates

Emily Gehrels

How embryos generate polarized tissue flows during development

Rachel Bennett

Analytical framework for coordination of metachronal cilia

Krešimir Josić

The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Growing Synthetic Microbial Consortia

Paul Atzberger

Drift-Diffusion Dynamics of Proteins within Heterogeneous Membranes with Non-Equilibrium Concentration and Temperature Gradients 

Guang Yao

Modeling and validating the missing links in the circadian regulation of cellular dormancy 

Justin Burton

Biology in the air: from hitchhiking microbes to jumping nematodes

Xiang Cheng

Locomotion of flagellated bacteria: the influence of complex fluids and aerotaxis

Yashashree Kulkarni

Statistical mechanics of active vesicles and implications for vesicle size distribution

Muhammed Simsek

Erk signalling dynamics required for segmented body plan of vertebrate embryos

C. Nadir Kaplan

Mechanobiology of mesenchymal cell migration: from holistic to reductionist modeling

David Hathcock

Mechanisms for dissipation-enhanced adaptation and cooperative sensing in bacterial chemotaxis

Shailaja Seetharaman

Mechanosensitive LIM domain protein FHL2 tunes endothelial function

Andrew Spakowitz

Talk & Tutorial 

Modeling DNA methyltransferase function to predict epigenetic correlation patterns in healthy and cancer cells

Margaret Johnson

The right timing for self-assembly

Debraj Ghose

How do cells sense and respond to chemical gradients?

Ankit Agrawal

Inferring Cell-Cell Communication from Single-Cell Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data

Falko Schmidt

Dynamic 3D Optofluidic Control as a Multifunctional Platform for Microfluidic Applications

Lauren Altman

Holography and Effective Medium Theory Uncovers the Structure and Dynamics of Microscopic Media

Jingjie Hu

Transcatheter injectable embolic agent for minimally invasive vascular intervention

Clarice Aiello

Weak magnetic field effects in biology are measurable—accelerated Xenopus embryogenesis in the absence of the geomagnetic field

Boris Veytsman

Motion of Influenza A virus: The role of irreversibility

Jingyu Zhang

Long-range genomic loci stochastically assemble into combinatorial forms of chromosome skeleton

Amaresh Sahu

Geometry and dynamics of drawing tethers from flat lipid membranes

Julia Yeomans

Tutorial

Active nematic theories

of collective cell motility

Research Talk

Cell sorting and the

dynamics of cancer lesions

Karen Alim

Lessons from smart slime

Qin (Maggie) Qi

Modelling particle-membrane interactions for biomaterial designs

Tapomoy Bhattacharjee

Physical confinement selectively favours bacterial growth based on cell shape

Raffaella De Vita

The Vagina Dialogues: Breaking Taboos with Biomechanics

Emanuela Del Gado

Tutorial 

Investigating structure, dynamics and topology in gels using computer simulations of microscopic models. 

Research Talk

Soft particulate gels: timescales, rigidity, and their hidden hierarchical nature. 

Sara Jabbari Farouji

Active polymers and filaments in static and dynamic heterogeneous media

Munehiro Asally

Microbial Electrophysiology: can electrically induced membrane potential dynamics be a sign of “livingness”?

Brian Camley

The physics of protein diffusion controls how cells respond to electric fields

Maciej Lisicki

Tutorial

Singular solutions of Stokes equations as elementary flow components

Research Talk

Tales of tails. Elastohydrodynamics of microscale filaments.

Robin Selinger

How are topological defects created? The Frank-Read source mechanism

Image visualization created by Cheng Long

Pierre Haas

Mechanics of poking cysts and folding tissues

Sarah Veatch

Protein prewetting at membranes is enhanced by the membrane phase transition

Zian Jia

Biological architected materials with extreme and unusual properties

Arnold Mathijssen

Tutorial

Holographic microscopy to track bacterial motility in 3D

Talk

Bacterial upstream swimming in complex fluids

Mehrana Nejad

Activity-induced interfacial pattern in bacterial droplet

Itay Budin

How phospholipids change their shape for life in the deep sea

Tine Curk

Collective effects in super-selective targeting of cell membranes

Zheng Shi

Aspirating Condensates in Living Cells

Luciana Bruno

The mechanical crosstalk between mitochondria and the cytoskeleton

Nuris Figueroa

Bacteria swimming in anisotropic media: Locomotion strategies in the face of physical constraints

Alfredo Sciortino

Microtubules as Maxwell's demons: active transport-based phase-separation of a binary motor mixture

Sahand Rahi

Gambling with your future: Why and how the DNA damage checkpoint does not play it safe

Eleonora Secchi

Formation Dynamics And Rheology of Bacterial Biofilms under Fluid Flow

Rumiana Dimova

Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: when a membrane meets a drop

Liselotte Jauffred

How motility and morphology accelerates expansion

Cristina Savin

Uncovering the neural dynamics underlying latent state inference

Yun Chen

Studying under-explored physical parameters in biology: viscosity and magnetism

Mattia Serra

Control of Modular Tissue Flows Shaping the Embryo in Avian Gastrulation

Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga

Dissecting the Structural Basis of Huntingtin Pathogenesis - one molecule at a time

Ewa Paluch

Tutorial and Talk: 

Mechanics of cellular shape control

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Ian Wong

Topological data analysis of collective cell migration

Mengsen Zhang

Multistability and transitions – the connecting thread across neural-social systems

Shiladitya Banerjee

Dynamic Energy Allocation Theory

Alexander Mietke

Mechanics of asymmetric cell division

Sho Takatori

Phase separation in 2D active networks

Yi Jiang

Collective cancer invasion with and without leaders 

Jake Socha

The mechanics of snakes in flight

Maryam Kohram

Bacterial aging as a consequence of heterogeneity-driven adaptability

Raj Kumar Manna

Dynamical forces drive organ morphology changes during embryonic development

Margaret Byron

Flexibility and flow: deformable biopropulsors at intermediate Reynolds numbers

Mazi Jalaal

Light Production and Adaptive Morphodynamics in an Active Biological System

Karen Kasza

Stress management: dissecting how epithelial tissues flow and fold

Cynthia Reichhardt

Complex Dynamics in Active Matter Systems, Frustration Effects, Magnus Forces, and Machine Learning

David Zwicker

Physics of phase separation inside biological cells

Suckjoon Jun

Tutorial 

Towards econophysiology: principles of cellular resource allocation in E. coli

Research Talk

Towards econophysiology: principles of cellular resource allocation beyond E. coli

Daniel Charlebois

Genetic networks, gene expression noise, and drug resistance evolution

Francisca Guzmán-Lastra

Active carpets in floating viscous films

Sara Walker

Assembly Theory

Eric Deeds

A lack of distinct cellular identities in scRNA-seq data: revisiting Waddington’s landscape

Sara Hashmi

Intermittency and clogging in complex fluid flows through confined geometries

Sunny Jung

Physics in spore dispersal

Katie Newhall

Different relative scalings between transient forces and thermal fluctuations tune regimes of chromatin organization

Hernan Garcia

Lighting up vertebrate segmentation

Abby Plummer

Obstructed swelling and fracture of hydrogels

Allen Liu

Building synthetic cells with a cytoskeleton

Dimitrios Vavylonis

Cell patterning for division and growth

Rastko Sknepnek 

Cell-level modelling of active forces in early-stage embryo development

Paul Wiggins 

When is too much not enough? Protein overabundance and the principles of central dogma regulation

Moumita Das 

Circadian materialscape: Scheduled material self-assembly controlled by bacterial clock proteins

Natasha Mhatre 

What moves (in) an insect ear: active auditory amplification in tree crickets

Sadjad Arzash

Rigidity of Epithelial Tissues as a Learning Problem

John Bechhoefer 

TUTORIAL (Control Theory for (Bio)Physicists) 

John Bechhoefer 

Talk (Motors made with Maxwell demons)

Anne Staples 

Bioinspired microfluidics: Lessons from insect respiratory mechanics

Daniel Matoz-Fernandez

Crafting Shapes: The Impact of Active Mechanics on Thin Sheet Structures

Mikhail Tikhonov

Emergent Simplicity in Microbial Ecosystems

Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin

Communication and collective behavior in animal societies

Takao Sasaki

Collective learning and coordination

Mimi Koehl

Tutorial

Locomoting in a turbulent environment: Ways to study microscale processes in a large-scale ocean

Mimi Koehl

Talk

How do microscopic larvae of bottom-dwelling marine animals recruit to suitable habitats in turbulent water flow?

Medha Pathak

Molecular Choreography of Piezo1 during Development and Repair 

Julio Belmonte

Connectivity and Contraction in Cytoskeletal Networks

Matej Krajnc

Graph vertex model of cell aggregates

Bekele Gurmessa

The Interplay of F-Actin Stabilization and Crosslinking: A Microrheological Exploration

Ioana Ilie

From atoms to blobs: Multiscale simulations of amyloidogenic polypeptides

Aleksandra Nelson

Non-reciprocity permits edge states and strong localization in stochastic topological systems

Nenad Pavin

Exploring Tumor Karyotype Evolution Using the 'Macro-Karyotype’ Concept 

Abhyudai Singh

Stochasticity in timing of intracellular events: A first-passage time approach

Daniel Needleman

Active Matter, Microtubules, and Cell Division

1. Saad Bhamla

The Blob: Topologically Entangled Living Matter

2. André Longtin

Entropy production and flow in humans under heat stress and exercise

1. Silke Henkes

Making the cornea spiral: Constructing quantitative simulations of epithelial cell sheets

2. Kayla Sprenger

Design of vaccine components and protocols for inducing protective antibodies against HIV

Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

“Active” associative memory

1. Allyson Sgro

Understanding the emergence of microbial collective behaviors

2. Jürgen Kurths

Stability of power grid concerning tropical cyclones: Increasing resilience by protecting critical lines

1. Jing Chen

Sticking with two poles: Critical biophysical factors for rescuing mitotic spindle from monopolar and multipolar abnormalities

2. Zhiyue Lu

A Far-from-steady-state Theoretical Framework for Information Transduction via Stochastic Biosensors

1. Juan B. Gutiérrez

Collective Human Behavior

2. Abdul N. Malmi Kakkada

Collective Cell Migration Driven by Mechanical Coupling 

1. Elio Abbondanzieri

A bridge too far: Bridging DNA contacts allow Dps from E. coli to condense DNA

2. Daniel Paranhos Zitterbart

Phase transitions in emperor penguin huddling behavior and its application in conservation biology

1. Wenying Shou

Towards Quantitative Microbial Biology

1. Gregor Neuert 

Unraveling Multiple Mechanisms of Long Non-Coding RNA Regulation through Transcriptional Stochasticity

2. Elizabeth Read

Modeling and Inference to Understand Collective Stability of Epigenetic Marks

2. Marija Vucelja

Anomalous thermal relaxations in Langevin dynamics and antiferromagnets

1. Brato Chakrabarti 

Quantized metachronal waves in arrays of cilia

2. Jie Liang

Minimalist 3D Chromatin Polymer Models: Structure and Function of 3D Genome