Biological Physics & Physical Biology Seminar

Sho Takatori

TBA

Yi Jiang

Collective cancer invasion with and without leaders 

Dani Bassett

TBA

Deepak Krishnamurthy

TBA

Cristina Savin

TBA

Alexander Mietke

TBA

Ian Wong

TBA

Mengsen Zhang

TBA

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Ewa Paluch

Tutorial and Talk TBA

Mattia Serra

TBA

Piere Rodriguez Aliaga

TBA

Yun Chen

TBA

Liselotte Jauffred

TBA

Rumiana Dimova

TBA

Sahand Rahi

TBA

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

2. Using computational fluid dynamics to understand the mechanics of jellyfish swimming and feeding

Laura Miller