Friday, April 4th
10:30 AM - 5:30 PM EST
Science Center (Room 4102) and via Zoom
PHYSICS OF LIFE: STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS EDITION
The Physics of Life: Students and Postdocs Edition is returning this April! This symposium, organized by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function (CPBF) and the Initiative for Theoretical Sciences (ITS), provides a platform for early-career researchers to present their work at the interface of physics and biology. We invite graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to share their insights into the fundamental principles that govern living systems, from molecular to ecological scales.
SCHEDULE:
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Breakfast
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
A doubly stochastic model of gene expression
Amara McCune
NYU
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Cellular growth from an organelle perspective
Shixing Wang
Washington University in St Louis
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Design principles of the killer T-cell response to acute infection
Obinna Ukogu
University of Washington
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Transient contacts in intrinsically disordered proteins
Lillian Otteson
Arizona State University
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Mechanics and pattern formation in human embryo models
Laurent Jutras-Dubé
Rockefeller University
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Environments, interactions and gene content across natural microbiomes
Kyle Crocker
University of Chicago
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee and discussion
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Predictive power of global epistatic and pleiotropic trends in multiple environments
Caelen Brooks
Harvard University
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Self-organization of the simple Cnidarians nervous system
Raymond Adkins
Yale University
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Resource-efficient control in brains and machines
Itzel Olivos-Castillo
Rice University
6:00 PM
Dinner
Sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate Center.