Biological Physics & Physical Biology Seminar

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

Maciej Lisicki

Tutorial + Talk TBA

Ting Lu

TBA

Jingjie Hu

TBA

Munehiro Asally

TBA

Brian Camley

TBA

Sara Faraouji

TBA

Clarice Aiello

TBA

Emanuela Del Gado

Tutorial & Talk TBA

Tapomoy Bhattacharjee

TBA

Raffaella De Vita

TBA

Karen Alim

TBA

Qin (Maggie) Qi

TBA

Julia Yeomans

Tutorial & Talk TBA

Amaresh Sahu

TBA

Jingyu Zhang

TBA

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

2. Andela Saric 

One becomes two: assemblies that split cells across evolution

1.  Daphne Klotsa: A touch of non-linearity: mesoscale swimmers and active matter in fluids

2. Thomas Fai: Modeling the fluid dynamics of vesicle transport into dendritic spines

2: Time-evolution of mechanical and transport characteristics in crowded biomimetic networks
Janet Sheung

2: Multiscale spatiotemporal reconstruction of single-cell genomics data
Qing Nie