Friday April 21
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Science Center (Room 4102)
and via Zoom
watch the presentations online
9:30 AM
COFFEE AND BAGELS
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MOLECULES, CELLS, AND SIGNALS
10:00 AM
Near-critical tuning revealed by spontaneous switching in a protein signalling array
Fotios Avgidis
AMOLF
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10:30 AM
Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals
Leticia Galera-Laporta
University of California, San Diego
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11:00 AM
Protein-membrane interaction and fluorescence correlation in 2 dimensions
Natalia Philipp
University of Buenos Aires
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11:30 AM
BREAK
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THERMODYNAMICS, INFORMATION, AND EVOLUTION
12:00 PM
Stochastic Thermodynamics through the lens of transitions
Pedro Harunari
University of Luxembourg
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12:30 PM
The evolution of kinetic proofreading
Kabir Husain
University of Chicago
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1:00 PM
Environmental vs demographic noise in range expansions
Jimmy Gonzalez Nuñez
Johns Hopkins University
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1:30 PM
LUNCH
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NETWORK DYNAMICS AND LEARNING
2:30 PM
Tracking cell fate transitions with attractor-network-inspired order parameters
Maria Yampolskaya
Boston University
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3:00 PM
Granger causality analysis for calcium transients in neuronal networks
Faustine Ginoux
Paris Brain Institute
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3:30 PM
A general theory of Hebbian sequence learning
Matthew Farrell
Harvard University
This event is made possible by generous support from the NSF Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Simons Foundation.