2018 Conference on Theory & Biology

Name: 2018 Conference on Theory & Biology
Start: 2018-04-13T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-04-13T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium

Friday April 13, 2018

The Simons Foundation held its fifth annual all-day Conference on Theory and Biology.

Talks

Video Thumbnail — Shashi Thutupalli (NCBS) Self-Organized Structures of Active Matter via Controlled Phase Separation
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Agenda

8:15-9:00 AM	Check-in and breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 AM	Welcome
9:10 -9:40 AM	Shashi Thutupalli (NCBS), Self-organized structures of active matter via controlled phase separation
9:40 - 10:10 AM	Arvind Murugan (Chicago), Internal models of the external world
10:10-10:40 AM	Break
10:40 - 11:10 AM	Lisa Manning (Syracuse), Soft yet sharp interfaces in biological tissues
11:10 - 11:40 AM	Aryeh Warmflash (Rice), Studying self-organized pattern formation with stem cells
11:40 AM- 1:40 PM	Lunch and Posters
1:40 - 2:10 PM	Daniel Weissman (Emory), Clones, Sex, and Hitchhiking in Space
2:10 - 2:40 PM	Sam Brown (Georgia Tech), Collective bacterial decision-making: Mechanism, functions and infection context
2:40 - 3:10 PM	Break
3:10 - 3:40 PM	Surya Ganguli (Stanford), Emergent Elasticity in the Neural Code for Space
3:40 - 4:10 PM	Terry Hwa (San Diego), Strategy of Bacterial Growth Control
4:10-4:20 PM	Break
4:20 -5:00 PM	Boris Shraiman (UCSB), Big(ger) Questions in Physics of Living Matter
5:00 - 6:00 PM	Reception

Friday, April 13th

Friday, April 13^th