Friday, 21 February
10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Segal Theater (1st floor)
It’s an exciting time for the physics of life, as our community explores an ever wider range of problems, from molecules to ecosystems with stops at every scale in between. This symposium brings together the growing groups at Princeton, The City University of New York, and Yale, and we hope others will join in. Lectures will be accessible to students and there will be plenty of time for informal discussion.
10:30 AM
Coffee and bagels
11:00 AM
Architecture of the human erythrocyte ankyrin-1 complex
Francesca Vallese, CUNY
11:30 AM
Cell states dictate fidelity of cellular signaling
Purushottam Dixit, Yale
12:00 PM
Decoding and controlling self-organization in stem cell models of embryonic development
Harry McNamara, Princeton/Yale
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM
Energetic constraints on cell division
Michael Murrell, Yale
2:30 PM
Nutrient availability shapes the diversity and stability of microbial communities
Martina Dal Bello, Yale
3:00 PM
Coffee + discussion
4:00 PM
Nonequilibrium fluctuations at biomolecular condensate interfaces
William Jacobs, Princeton
4:30 PM
Linear dimension of neural manifolds and the structure of mixed selectivity
Tatiana Engel, Princeton
5:00 PM
How constraints on editing affect cultural evolution: From humans to songbirds
Ofer Tchernichovski, CUNY
6:00 PM
Informal dinner (Room 5209)
This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate Center.