An interdisciplinary Biophysics Seminar Series designed to create a dynamic platform for emerging researchers to share, discuss, and advance innovative research at the intersection of biology and physics. Early career researchers (Ph.D., Postdocs) are invited to share their recently published or unpublished research for discussion and collaboration. The seminar focuses on research in Biological Physics, Physics-based biological applications, and interdisciplinary research bridging biology and physics.

We will be hosting a session on the first Monday of each month, featuring 3-4 talks per session.

Please join us for our fourth meeting on June 2nd 2025. We are excited to feature three fantastic speakers spanning a wide range of topics:

• Dennis Huang (University of Pennsylvania) - Pulsatory response of the BcLOV4 photoreceptor through intramolecular feed-forward regulation

• Mariia Kryvoruchko (Johns Hopkins University) - Stochastic Modeling of Contact Inhibition of Locomotion

• Jacopo Pasqualini (University of Basel) - Emergent ecological patterns and modeling of gut microbiomes in health and in disease

Each speaker will give a talk (12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes discussion) during the meeting, scheduled from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST).

Accepting submissions for the fifth series of talks on July 7th, 2025 at 11 am EST! Deadline 23rd June 2025. Abstracts accepted for talks will be notified one week after the submission deadline.

Previous talks:
Session 1 (March 2025):

• Chathuddasie Amarasinghe (University of Tennessee) – The role of non-equilibrium ribosomal dynamics in facilitating nucleoid separation

• Dongheon Lee (Duke University) - Principles of metabolic pathway control by biomolecular condensates in cells

• Vikas Pandey (Riken CBS) – Shaping condensates at Post Synaptic Density

• Davide Zanchetta (University of Padua) - Emergence of ecological structure from fluctuating metabolic strategies

Session 2 (April 2025):

• Sreepadmanabh M  (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ) - Physical confinement selectively favours bacterial growth based on cell shape

• William R. Shoemaker (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics) – Macroecological Insights into Microbial Communities via Coarse-graining

• Oscar Gallardo (Weizmann Institute of Science) – Dynamically induced spatial segregation in multispecies bacterial bioconvection

Session 3 (May 2025):

• Amrit Bagchi (University of Pennsylvania) – Fast yet force-effective mode of supracellular collective cell migration due to extracellular force transmission

• Mu-Hung Chang (University of Tennessee) – Effects of the central dogma processes on compaction and segregation of bacterial nucleoids

• Suryanarayana Maddu  (Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation) - Inference of biophysical models from cross-sectional omics data

• Ani Chattaraj (Harvard University) - Functional implications of biomolecular condensate size distribution

Click here to submit your abstract (200 words)
The speaker list will be updated here 2 weeks before the talks. Stay tuned!

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