Biological Physics & Physical Biology Seminar

1. Molecular mechanisms for symmetry breaking at cellular adhesion complexes

Alex Dunn

2. Physics of virus assembly

Roya Zandi

1. Mechanical properties of our unstable protein building blocks

Nancy Forde

2. Non-equilibrium fluctuations in living matter

Wylie Ahmed

1. Tutorial talk: Putting the squeeze on phase transitions

Eric Dufresne

2. Research talk: Growing droplets in cells and gels

Eric Dufresne

1. What do we think about when we think about (maggots) thinking?

Marc Gershow

2. The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes

Buzz Baum

1. Microfluidics platform for studying single-cell wound repair

Sindy Tang

2. Revving your molecular engine

David Sivak

1. Tutorial talk: Membrane phase separation in quasi-2D

Sarah Keller

2. Research talk: Surprising sizes – big domains in living membranes and little domains in model membranes

Sarah Keller

1. Measuring mass across scales: from AAV viral vectors to polyploid cells

Scott Manalis

2. How dx/dt shapes the regulatory genomes

Gene-Wei Li

1. Malaria parasites have intrinsic clocks

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

2. Fluid dynamics of living cells

Michael Shelley

1. The wetting and de-wetting of active droplets

Mike Murrell

2. How do cells in dense tissues know when to move? And when to stop moving?

Lisa Manning

1. Building order out of noise: How do heterogeneous ciliary carpets build directed flows?

Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan

2. Chaos in cells

Mogens Jensen

1. Research talk: Uncovering the neural architecture for motor control of insect flight

Itai Cohen

2. Tutorial talk: So, you want to do experiments with genetically modified flies... a physicist's tutorial

Itai Cohen

1. What can thermodynamics teach us about biology?

Massimiliano Esposito

2. The apples fall far from the tree: layers of heterogeneity and stress tolerance in tubercule bacilli

Bree Aldridge

1. The ecology of collective behavior

Deborah Gordon

2. From mechanical resilience to active material properties in biopolymer networks

Gijsje Koenderink

1. Coronavirus host cell entry and infection from an interdisciplinary view

Susan Daniel

2. Possible and impossible cells

Mukund Thattai

1. Tutorial talk: Correlation, response, and entropy production in active matter

Sriram Ramaswamy

2. Research talk: Non-mutual interactions and stealthy pursuit by motile particles in an elastic medium

Sriram Ramaswamy

1. Knowing where you are and where you want to go: navigating with a neural compass

Ann Hermundstad

2. Designing morphology of separated phases in multicomponent liquid mixtures

Andrej Košmrlj

1. Life in a tight spot: bacterial motility in heterogeneous media

Sujit Datta

2. Crystallized DNA: how bacteria protect their chromosome during stress

Anne Meyer

1. Unraveling the mysteries of bacterial flagella

Jasmine Nirody

2. Deciphering the mechanical code of the genome and epigenome

Taekjip Ha

1. Tutorial talk: soft material mechanics

Megan Valentine

2. Research talk: Reverse engineering nature: applying biological strategies to material design

Megan Valentine

1. Can biochemistry mimic mass on a spring?

Mike Rust

2. Tiny things to engineer solutions for life's big problems

Markita Landry

1. Magic numbers in protein phase separation

Ned Wingreen

2. Constitutive splicing and economies of scale in gene expression

Fangyuan Ding

1. How proteins find their way in cells

Erwin Frey

2. The role of tissue biophysics in cancer metastasis

Kandice Tanner

1. Flagellar length fluctuations follow a confined random walk

Wallace Marshall

2. Frustrated flocks of cancer cells

Ajay Gopinathan

1. How to make a stepping motor in bacteria

Jie Xiao

2. Mechanical hive mind

Orit Peleg

1. Tutorial talk: Nucleation kinetics and fluid dewetting in molecular systems

Joshua Shaevitz

2. Research talk: How and where microtubules nucleate in cells

Joshua Shaevitz

1. Cell mimicry in cells: mitochondrial division, geometry, and fate

Suiliana Manley

2. Organization of cleavage plane geometry in frog eggs

Tim Mitchison

1. The price of a pulse

Eleni Katifori

2. Seeing gut microbes swim, stick, and survive

Raghu Parthasarathy