Biological Physics & Physical Biology Seminar

Tutorial + Talk: Tim Atherton

Shape Sculpting and Shapeshifting with Soft Matter

Tao Zhang

Modeling collective interactions between spheroids and collagen fibers

1. Herve Turlier

From microscopy images to mechanical models of tissues and back

2. Daniel Cohen

Adventures in Cellular Herding—understanding and controlling collective cell migration

2. Harishankar Manikantan

Active and collective dynamics within fluid membranes

1. Guillaume Duclos

Microscopic interactions control a structural transition in active mixtures of microtubules and molecular motors

2. Zeb Rocklin

Modeling rigidity in tensegrity systems

1. Kate Jensen
Liverwort gemmae interact as capillary multipoles

2. Yaouen Fily
Evolution of Collective Swimming in the Mexican Cavefish

Irene Georgakoudi

Tutorial: Label-free, two photon metabolic imaging 

Talk: Disease detection and treatment monitoring via non-invasive, high resolution, optical metabolic imaging 

1. Ben Rogers
The role of complexity in self-limited assembly of tubules from nanoscale building blocks

1. Giovanni Volpe

Deep Learning for Imaging and Microscopy

2. Jonathan Michel

Tuning Semiflexible Biopolymer Network Mechanics through Structurally Correlated Assembly

1. Stefanie Redemann

The Chromokinesin KLP-19 affects microtubule dynamics and shifts the force balance during mitosis

2. Vincent Debets

Glassy Dynamics in Dense Active Matter: 

from Cells to Particles

1. Timo Betz (University of Gottingen)

Inferring intracellular mechanics from active and passive measurements

2. Hossein Jashnsaz (Vanderbilt University)
Predictive mathematical models of signal transduction in temporal environments

1. Marileen Dogterom (TU Delft)

Building a minimal cytoskeleton for synthetic cells

2. Biswajit Das (Peking University)

The asymmetric torque-speed relationships provide a clutch for a bacterial flagellar motor.

1. Tutorial: Gautam Menon (Ashoka University, Haryana, India)

2. Gautam Menon

1. Ronit Freeman

Talking to Cells: Engineering Dynamic Cell-Material Interfaces to Guide Cell Fate 

2. Meng (Stephanie) Shen

Tuning Electrostatic-Mediated Self- Assembly Beyond the Classical Theory 

1. Anand Singh

Opto-imaging to dissect transcriptional dynamics and regulation in vivo

1) Keisukei Ishihara, University of Pittsburgh

Topological control of organoid morphogenesis

2)  Diego Krapf, Colorado State University

Understanding non-Brownian diffusion in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells

1. Cornelia Monzel 

 Uncovering Cell Signal Initiation with Multiparametric Image Spectroscopy

2. Zhiyuan Li 

Game of iron: mining microbial coevolution for ecological phase transitions

1. Gabor Balazsi

Mapping the fitness landscapes of cancer

John Tyson, Virginia Tech, Department of Biological Sciences

Tutorial: A Dynamical Paradigm for Molecular Cell Biology 

1. Sidhartha Goyal, University of Toronto, Physics Department

Statistical dynamics of tumor initiation and progression

2. Barbara Jones IBM Quantum, IBM Research Almaden

Dynamics of Viral Evolution and Mutation: a study of viruses in and around cells

1: Synthetic Biology: Physical Biology by Design
James J. Collins

2: Role of Cell Surface Mechanics in Leukocyte Adhesion
Richard Waugh

1: The Hopfield Network and its generalizations
Pankaj Mehta

2: scTOP: physics-inspired order parameters for cell identity and development

 
Pankaj Mehta 

1: Tutorial -- Stochastic System Identification Toolkit to Interpret and Design Noisy Single-Cell FISH Experiments
Brian Munsky

2: Integrating Mechanistic Models and Machine Learning to Interpret and Design single-mRNA Nascent Chain Tracking Experiments
Luis Aguilera de Lira 

1: What wakes us? Networked clocks in the brain vs. Daylight Saving Time
Erik Herzog

2: Biological Physics of Chromatin Structure-Mediated Gene Regulation in Yeast & Fly
Alexandre Morozov

1: Information transduction in heterogeneous cell populations
Purushottam Dixit 

2: Emergent Actin Flows Explain Distinct Modes of Gliding Motility
Christina Hueschen

1: Dynamics-based data science in biology
Luonan Chen

2:Coordinating systems-level organelle biogenesis with cellular growth
Shankar Mukherji

1: Tutorial: Structured population models: PDEs and applications
Tom Chou

2: Structured population models: applications and kinetic theory
Tom Chou

1: Curvature sensing as an emergent property of multi-scale assembly of septins
Ehssan Nazockdast

1: How cells stay out of thermal equilibrium by proliferating at high and frigid temperatures
Hyun Youk

2: Genes on the move: Measuring the rate and evolution of horizontal gene transfer
Ben Kerr

1: Genome: A heterogeneously designed soft-matter system
Masaki Sasai

2: The intricate interplay of RNA structure and RNA-protein interactions
Ralf Bundschuh

1: Tutorial: Building a proportional cell
Jane' Kondev

2: Research Talk:  How cells measure length
Jane' Kondev

1: Current issues with Molecular Dynamics force fields for intrinsically disordered proteins
Brigita Urbanc

1: Observing membranes in action on nanosecond timescales
Rana Ashkar

2: From nanotech to living sensors: unraveling the spin physics of biosensing at the nanoscale
Clarice Aiello

1: Tutorial Talk: Multicellular is Different: Biophysics and the Evolution of Multicellularity
Peter Yunker

2: Research Talk: Soft Matter of Life: The Evolution of Multicellularity
Peter Yunker

1: Getting cool things for 'free': biophysical insights from our Multicellularity LTEE (Long Term Evolution Experiment)
Will Ratcliff

2: The geometry of phenotypes : Cell shapes as a mirror of Cell states
Ashok Prasad

1: Self-organization via non-reciprocal interactions
Ramin Golestanian

2: Stochastic Phase Synchronization in Focal Neocortical Seizures
Sonya Bahar

1: Emergent phases of diversity and dynamics in ecological communities
Jeff Gore

2: Pulsating active matter
Étienne Fodor

1: Self-organization and shape regulation in bio-inspired droplets
Kimberly Weirich

2: Cytoplasmic streaming during 3D cell migration
Wanda Strychalski 

1: Hill-type, bioinspired actuation delivers energy economy in DC motors
José Alvarado

2: Mechanics of Primary Cilia

Yuan-Nan Young

Tutorial: Rheology of active suspensions

David Saintillan

Talk: Active hydrodynamics of interphase chromatin

David Saintillan

1. Topological Mechanics in Biological Systems

Camelia Prodan 

2. Cell polarity as a driver of diversity and robustness in developing morphologies

Ala Trusina

2. Proteins in a crowd under heat and pressure

Margaret Cheung 

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

1. Top-down functional-based approaches to modelling cell state transitions

Carla Mulas

2. Cells use mechanical communication 

to optimally network

Kinjal Dasbiswas

1. Mechanical limitation of bacterial sliding motility with expanding cell chains

Jing Chen

1. Principles of structure/function in biomolecular condensates

Jeremy Schmit

1. Mechanisms and consequences of viscoelasticity in biomolecular condensates: some theoretical studies

Jie Lin

2. Physics of morphogenetic matter

Margaret Gardel

APS March Meeting, No talk

1. Tutorial: Autonomous clocks: emerging mechanisms, design and biological functions

Mustafa Aydogan

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

1. The dynamics of cell migration in flat and curved confining geometries

Chase Broedersz

2. Swimming through the weeds, bacterially

Suraj Shankar

1. Quantification of approximate symmetries in evolution and development

Adrianna Dawes

2. Phototaxis of microalgae: lessons from Chlamydomonas an Micromonas

Marco Polin

1. Tutorial: Fundamental equations for mechanics and transport of cytoskeleton

Alex Mogilner

1. Design of vesicle prototissues as a model for cellular tissues

Laura Casanellas

1. Squeezing, pinching, dragging, and pulling: from multiscale models to morphogenesis

Lance Davidson

2. Visceral organ morphogenesis via calcium-patterned muscle contractions

Noah Mitchell