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Speaker: Howard A. Stone Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. Title: Short Stories of Transport Processes and Molecular …

Speaker: Alexander Schier, Ph.D., Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel Title: Developmental dynamics during vertebrate embryogenesis Breakthroughs in single-cell genomics have begun to comprehensively identify …

Speaker: Corey Taylor, Volkamer Lab Topic: QM/MM simulation – Introduction, practicalities and case studies Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are a popular tool for the …

1st speaker: Aidan Daly, Ph.D., Flatiron Research Fellow, Systems Biology Topic: Inferring cell type-specific gene expression signatures from multi-tissue spatial transcriptomics data 2nd speaker: Surya …

Speaker: Corey Taylor, Volkamer Lab Topic: QM/MM simulation – Introduction, practicalities and case studies Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are a popular tool for the …

Speaker: Eric E. Keaveny Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics Imperial College London Title: Coordinated motion of active filaments on spherical surfaces Abstract: Filaments (slender, microscopic elastic …

Speaker: Stefano Di Talia, Ph.D., Duke University School of Medicine Topic: Mechanochemical control of nuclear positioning in Drosophila embryos I will describe our attempts at understanding nuclear …

Speaker: Ken A. Dill, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Physics Stony Brook University Title: Darwinian evolution as a principled physical process. What drives it? Where did it come from …

Speaker: Gil Ariel, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan Title: Inferring entropy from structure The thermodynamic definition of entropy can be extended to nonequilibrium systems based on …

1st speaker: Jasmin Alsous, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Developmental Dynamics Topic: Sperm Storage – an overlooked leg of the journey Before fertilizing the egg, sperm is typically stored in …

… the leading edge of polarized motile cells.

Speaker: Corey Taylor, Volkamer Lab Topic: QM/MM simulation – Introduction, practicalities and case studies Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are a popular tool for the …

Speaker: Anton Persikov, Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University Topic: A systematic approach for predicting DNA recognition byCys2His2 zinc finger proteins Cys2His2 zinc finger (ZF) proteins represent …

Speaker: Anton Persikov, Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University Topic: A systematic approach for predicting DNA recognition byCys2His2 zinc finger proteins Cys2His2 zinc finger (ZF) proteins represent …

Speaker: Mohammed AlQuraishi Assistant Professor of Systems Biology (in Computer Science) Department Systems Biology Title: Protein structure prediction in a post-AlphaFold2 world AlphaFold2 burst on the life …

Presenter: Taeyoon Kim, Associate Professor Purdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Topic: Reconstructing the Mechanical and Dynamic Behaviors of Cells in Silico Actin cytoskeleton is a dynamic …

Speaker: Taeyoon Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Purdue University Title: Reconstructing the Mechanical and Dynamic Behaviors of Cells in Silico Actin cytoskeleton is a dynamic structural scaffold used …

Speaker: Alain Goriely, Ph.D. Title: Multiscale modeling of dementia: from proteins to cognitive functions Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s are devastating conditions with …

Speaker: Anne Goriely, Ph.D. Title: “Ageing men, their selfish testes, new mutations and human disease” Abstract: Because mutations are at the origin of all genetic variations, understanding …

Speaker: Anne Goriely, Ph.D. Title: “Ageing men, their selfish testes, new mutations and human disease” Abstract: Because mutations are at the origin of all genetic variations, understanding …

Speaker: Corey Taylor, Volkamer Lab Topic: QM/MM simulation – Introduction, practicalities and case studies Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are a popular tool for the …

Presenter: Rogerio Feris, Research Manager (Computer Vision), Master Inventor (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Topic: Computational Visual Pathways for Multi-Task Learning and Simulation In this talk …

Presenter: Weiguang Mao, Ph.D. ( University of Pittsburgh) Topic: Generative Models of Biological Variations in Bulk and Single-cell RNA-seq The explosive growth of transcriptomic profiling has …

Presenter: Ripla Arora, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Topic: Form and Function: Uterine 3D structure-function relationships in early pregnancy Although much is known about the …

Speaker: Sarah Rauscher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Topic: All-Atom Molecular Simulations of Disordered and Flexible Proteins Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a useful tool …

Presenter: Ripla Arora, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Topic: Form and Function: Uterine 3D structure-function relationships in early pregnancy Although much is known about the …

Presenter: Benjamin P. Brown (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) Topic: Designing a customizable platform for small molecule drug design compatible with protein flexibility and sequence design Computer-aided …

Presenter: Victor Chardès, Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure Topic: Inference and modeling of biological networks, from active matter to the immune repertoire Active matter and …

1st Presenter: Wen Yan, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Biophysical Modeling Topic: Failures and lessons: the flip side of developing aLENS This short talk is a companion to my …

Presenter: Henry Mattingly, Ph.D., Yale University Topic: How do inferences shape functions in biology? Organisms’ survival depends on their abilities to sense the environment and act appropriately …

Presenter: Debora Tenenbaum, Ph.D. Student, Brandis University Topic: Transcriptional coupling of neighboring genes in bacteria Many cellular functions require the coordinated activity of multiple genes. In bacteria …

Presenter: Andrea Liu, Ph.D., Hepburn Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania Title: Learning about learning with physical networks Physical networks such as mechanical spring networks or flow …

… iterations to study neurodegenerative protein aggregation in presence of model membranes and other co-solutes.

… in gene expression space.

Presenter: Jan Rozman (Jožef Stefan Institute) Topic: Collective cell mechanics of organoids and epithelial sheets The study of organoids, artificially grown cell aggregates with the functionality and small …

Presenter: Vikram Mulligan Topic: RosettaQM: Enabling quantum chemistry calculations in peptide and protein modelling Physics-based heteropolymer modelling methods remain an important complement to machine learning (ML) based …

Presenter: Wai Shing Tang (Brown University) Topic: Topological Data Analytic Approach for Discovering Biophysical Signatures in Protein Dynamics Identifying structural differences among proteins can be a non-trivial …

Presenter: John Treado (Yale University) Topic: From single cells to collective response in jammed model tissues The mechanical, structural, and ultimately functional properties of tissues depend heavily on …

… vascular topology.

Presenter: Julia Koehler Leman Topic: How to write a scientific paper Scientific writing and scientific communication is the bread and butter of any scientist. Since I find myself …

… iterations to study neurodegenerative protein aggregation in presence of model membranes and other co-solutes.

Presenter: Christine A. Rushlow, PhD (NYU) Topic: An “individualist” model of an active genome in a developing embryo The early Drosophila embryo provides unique experimental advantages for addressing …

Presenter: Harmen Bussemaker, Ph. D (Columbia University) Topic: Probing the DNA binding specificity of transcription factor complexes with deep sequencing and biophysically interpretable machine learning Quantifying sequence-specific …