Biological Physics & Physical Biology Seminar

1. Phase Transitions in Evolutionary and Population Dynamics

Sonya Bahar

2. Activity suppressed phase separation in binary mixtures

Fernando Caballero

1. Self-organization of microtubules by tip-adhering molecular motors

Zvonimir Dogic

2. Energy harvesting from confined collective bacterial motion

Maria Luisa Cordero

1. Scaling in Drosophila embryogenesis

Chao Tang

2. Tuning the upstream migration of microswimmers

Quentin Brosseau

1. Are microtubules their own mechanosensors?

Olivier Hamant

2. Principles of cellular behavior: a unicellular walker controlled by a microtubule-based finite state machine

Benjamin Larson

1. Tutorial: Polymer physics of biological materials

Paul Janmey

2. Mechanical properties of cells and tissues

Paul Janmey

1. The bacterial cell cycle: an adder or a sizer?

Pieter Rein ten Wolde

2. Transcription factor dynamics in gene expression: the long and the short of it.

Arpita Upadhyaya

1. Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise

Bin Zhang

2. Gravity driven transport of flexible filaments in a quiescent viscous fluid

Veronica Raspa

1. Bats, Botox and Aerodynamics: The role of wing membrane muscles in controlling wing shape during flight

Kenneth Breuer

1. Bursting the Cell and the Nucleus to Mediate Immune Responses

Hawa Racine Thiam

1. Phase-field approach to cell migration on 3D asymmetric substrates

Igor Aronson

1. The mechanics of Drosophila mechanosensory chordotonal organ

Christoph Schmidt

2. Mechanobiology of vimentin intermediate filaments

Alison Patteson

1. Controlling flows and defects in biomolecular active liquid crystals

Linda Hirst

2. Active dynamics and tunable mechanics of actin-microtubule composites

Rae Robertson-Anderson

1. How chromosomes align on the spindle

Iva Tolic

2. Locomotion of Helicobacter pylori: Cell geometry and active confinement

Henry Fu

1. Tutorial: Cell mimics to study active movements and deformations by actin assembly

Cécile Sykes

2. Research seminar: How actin pulls the nucleus through constrictions

Cécile Sykes

1. Bacteria, soil, carbon, and biosurfactants: From climate related themes to bacterial spreading in unsaturated porous media

Howard Stone

2. Physics of flow sensing by cancer cells

Andrew Mugler

1. Power at the nanoscale: Speed, strength, and efficiency in biological motors

Carlos Bustamante

2. Active recognition at immune cell interfaces

Shenshen Wang

1. Tutorial: Ciliated tissues: from form to function

Eva Kanso

2. Spontaneous ciliary waves

Eva Kanso

1. Spatio-temporal control over near critical-point operation ensures fidelity of bacterial genome partition

Jian Liu

2. Picocalorimeter sensors for liquid samples with application to chemical reactions and biochemistry

Jinhye Bae

1. Enzyme-drive active matters

Jennifer Ross

2. Elastically limited liquid-liquid phase separation inside cells

Pierre Ronceray

1. Surprising twists in nucleosomal DNA with implications for higher-order chromatin folding

Wilma Olson

2. Metachronal waves in swarms of nematode Turbatrix aceti

Anton Peshkov

1. The structural origins of cartilage shear mechanics and fracture properties

Moumita Das

2. Modeling the composition and dynamics of contractile ring constriction

Daniel Cortes

1. Tutorial Talk: Electromechanics of biomembranes

Petia Vlahovska

2. Research Talk: Giant vesicles in electric fields

Petia Vlahovska

1. States of (active) matter: the single cell perspective

Kirsty Wan

1. Molecular to cellular mechanics probed by high-speed force microscopy

Felix Rico

1. Feeling for functional changes in cells

Jochen Guck

1. Tutorial talk: an application of persistent homology to allostery

Andrea Liu

2. Research talk: insight into protein allostery from designed mechanical networks

Andrea Liu

1. Regulation of cytoplasmic density

Fred Chang

1. From topological defects to fruiting bodies in bacterial colonies

Ricard Alert

1. Adventures in DNA replication using single-molecule biophysics

Nynke Dekker

1. Tutorial talk: Janssen's effect--an old problem with a new spin

Alberto Fernández-Nieves

2. Research talk: Columns of ants--mechanics, force chains, and waves

Alberto Fernández-Nieves

1. From individual to collective intermittent motion: from bacteria to sheep

Fernando Peruani

2. Motor guidance by long-range communication through the microtubule highway

Sithara Wijeratne

1. Transcription factor dynamics and nuclear organization during early embryonic development

Mustafa Mir

2. Bacterial active nematics: how modeling can be really quantitative

Hugues Chaté

1. Cytoskeletal interaction forces – from filament architecture to network mechanics

Sarah Koester

2. Opposite response of cancer cells to substrate viscoelasticity

Kalpana Mandal

1. Beating of artificial cilia

Jean-Francois Joanny

2. Functional consequences of microscopic skin features on snake locomotion

Jennifer Rieser

1. Tutorial talk: Bacterial chemotaxis

Thierry Emonet

2. Research talk: Is Escherichia coli information limited when navigating chemical gradients?

Thierry Emonet

1. Life in Complex Fluids

Paulo Arratia

2. Cell surface and ECM mechanics for pluripotency and development

Alba Diz-Munoz

APS March meeting - no seminar

1. Decision making in slime molds

Audrey Dussutour

2. Physical force regulation in cell migration

Mingming Wu

1. A protein that acts like a paper ball: Glassy dynamics and memory effects in the mechanical response of a disordered protein

Omar Saleh

2. Destructive testing on the cytoskeleton: probing the mechanics of cell division by laser ablation

Mary Elting

1. Aligning particles in confinement

Enkeleida Lushi

2. Cell fate and mechanical stress: Morphogen (or masquerade)?

David Lubensky

1. An Adaptive-Gravity Model for Insect Swarms: Miniature Star-Clusters Buzzing Above Your Heads in the Park

Nir Gov

2. Physics of epithelial lumen stability: How do cells build negative space?

Claudia Vasquez

1. Building home in a cholerae way: Morphogenesis of mechanically confined biofilms

Jing Yan

2. Opposing motors provide mechanical and functional robustness in the human spindle

Sophie Dumont

1.Tutorial talk: Scaling in branched networks: trees, blood vessels and neurons

Joe Howard

2. Research talk: Drosophila dendrites follow a novel diameter scaling law

Joe Howard

1. Anomalous run-to-tumble switching noise controls E.coli residence time at surfaces

Eric Clément

2. Ductile-to-brittle transitions in the tissues of a simple animal

Vivek N. Prakash

1. Collective dynamics in nuclear structure emerges from chromatin cross-links and motors

Jennifer Schwarz

2. Molecular mechanisms to overcome stochasticity in endosomal networks

Senthil Arumugam

1. Single-molecule motion and mixtures: how do human gut bacteria recognize carbohydrates?

Julie Biteen

2. Synthetic structural biology: exploiting viral assembly principles as an anti-viral strategy

Seth Fraden

1. Tutorial talk: Lipid bilayers and the geometry of surfaces

Robijn Bruinsma

2. Research talk: The tale of the stalled bud

Robijn Bruinsma