Spring 2023 Physics of Life: Students and Postdocs Edition

Apr 21, 2023 Science Center, CUNY Graduate Center
MOLECULES, CELLS, AND SIGNALS
Near-critical tuning revealed by spontaneous switching in a protein signalling array
Fotios Avgidis, AMOLF
Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals
Leticia Galera-Laporta, University of California, San Diego
Protein-membrane interaction and fluorescence correlation in 2 dimensions
Natalia Philipp, University of Buenos Aires
THERMODYNAMICS, INFORMATION, AND EVOLUTION
Stochastic Thermodynamics through the lens of transitions
Pedro Harunari, University of Luxembourg
The evolution of kinetic proofreading
Kabir Husain, University of Chicago
Environmental vs demographic noise in range expansions*
Jimmy Gonzalez Nuñez, Johns Hopkins University
NETWORK DYNAMICS AND LEARNING
Tracking cell fate transitions with attractor-network-inspired order parameters
Maria Yampolskaya, Boston University
Granger causality analysis for calcium transients in neuronal networks
Faustine Ginoux, Paris Brain Institute
A general theory of Hebbian sequence learning
Matthew Farrell, Harvard University
*This talk is made available to our live audience only.