Friday, Oct 8
11:00 AM -
4:30 PM EDT
watch the presentations online
For this special online event, the Center for the Physics of Biological Function symposia committee invites students and postdoctoral fellows nominated by faculty mentors to present their research in a short talk format.
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Session 1: Entropy and information flow in living systems
Chairs: Trevor GrandPre and Kamesh Krishnamurthy
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Improved bounds on entropy production in living systems
Dominic Skinner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
E. coli chemotaxis is information-limited
Henry Mattingly, Yale University
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Information integration in gene regulation through allostery
Rosa Martinez-Corral, Harvard Medical School
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Session 2: From molecular interactions to cellular functions
Chairs: Endao Han and Caroline Holmes
1:00 - 1:30 PM
Quantifying protein-protein weak interactions in living cells
Yuhan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1:30 - 2:00 PM
Motor-free contractility in active gels
Sihan Chen, Rice University
2:00 - 2:30 PM
Scaling of subcellular actin structures with cell length through decelerated growth
Shane McInally, Brandeis University
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Session 3: Physics of behavior
Chairs: Marianne Bauer and Rahul Munshi
3:00 - 3:30 PM
First beats of a vertebrate heart
Bill Jia, Harvard University
3:30 - 4:00 PM
Hassenstein-Reichardt motion detectors in olfaction enhance natural plume navigation
Nirag Kadakia, Yale University
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Coordinating tiny limbs and long bodies: geometric mechanics of diverse undulatory lizard locomotion
Baxi Zhong, Georgia Institute of Technology
This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of The Graduate Center, CUNY and Princeton University.