Friday, Mar 25
11:00 AM -
5:00 PM EDT
The Center for the Physics of Biological Function (CPBF) is proud to present a diverse group of graduate student and postdoctoral speakers working in biophysics, broadly defined, who will share their research in a short talk format.
10:00 - 11:00
Coffee and bagels (Room 5209)
- Symposium Program (Segal Theater, 1st floor) -
Molecules, sensing, and control
11:00 - 11:30
Co-translational folding allows misfolding-prone proteins to circumvent deep kinetic traps
Amir Bitran
Harvard University
11:30 - 12:00
Mechanical control of transcription by DNA supercoiling
Shubham Tripathi
Rice University
12:00 - 12:30
Sensitive thermometry with TRP channels through self-tuning to a bifurcation point
Dr. Isabella Graf
Yale University
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch
Patterns and communities
1:30 - 2:00
The emergent coarse-grainability of microbial ecosystems
Jacob Moran
Washington University in St. Louis
2:00 - 2:30
Manipulating bacterial aggregation alters competition and dynamics of multi-species communities in the zebrafish gut
Deepika Sundarraman
University of Oregon
2:30 - 3:00
Visceral organ morphogenesis via calcium-patterns muscle contractions
Dr. Noah Mitchell
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
3:00 - 3:30
Break
Neurons, networks, and behavior
3:30 - 4:00
Mitochondrial distribution and maintenance in neurons: interplay of dynamics and morphology
Anamika Agrawal
University of California San Diego
4:00 - 4:30
A stable hippocampal code in freely flying bats
Dr. William Liberti
University of California, Berkeley
4:30 - 5:00
Learning and organization of memory for evolving patterns
Dr. Oskar Schnaack
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function and the CUNY doctoral programs in Biology and Physics. The Center for the Physics of Biological Function is a joint effort of The Graduate Center, CUNY and Princeton University. Special thanks to the CPBF symposia committee (Trevor GrandPre, Endao Han, Caroline Holmes, Kamesh Krishnamurthy, Chris Lynn, Rahul Munshi, and David Schwab) for their programming efforts.