| Oct 17 | Presenter: Callum Britton Alemi, A. A. , Bierbaum, M. , Myers, C. R. , Sethna, J. P. (2015) You can run, you can hide: The epidemiology and statistical mechanics of zombies Phys. Rev. E, 92, 052801 |
| Oct 23 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Massimiliano Esposito (Luxembourg) Energy transduction in chemical reaction networks: From single molecules to ecosystems Venue: G47A, Flowers Building; Time: 3-4pm |
| Oct 24 | Presenter: Sulaimaan Lim |
| Oct 31 | Presenter: Alastar Phelan |
| Nov 7 | Presenter: Ross Monaghan |
| Nov 14 | Presenter: Elephes Sung |
| Nov 21 | Presenter: Eloise Lardet |
| Nov 28 | Presenter: Smitha Maretvadakethope |
| Dec 5 | Presenter: Daniel O'Hanlon |
| Dec 12 | Presenter: Thibault Bertrand |
| Jan 10 | Presenter: Callum Britton Paper: Chen, C. H., Hsieh, T. H., Huang, H. Y., Cheng, Y. C., and Hong, T. M. (2024) Formation and mechanics of fire ant rafts as an active self-healing membrane Physical Review E, 109, 014607 |
| Jan 16 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Jeremy Gunawardena (Harvard) Universal properties of cellular input-output functions Time: 3-4pm; Location: RSM131 |
| Jan 24 | Presenter: Sulaimaan Lim Kalukula, Y., Luciano, M., Charras, G., Brueckner, D., Gabriele, S. (2024) The actin cortex acts as a mechanical memory of morphology in confined migrating cells bioRxiv, 2024-08. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.05.606589 |
| Jan 31 | Presenter: Ruben Perez-Carrasco Albert Alonso, Julius B Kirkegaard Learning optimal integration of spatial and temporal information in noisy chemotaxis PNAS Nexus (2024) Jun 14;3(7) |
| Feb 7 | Presenter: Alastar Phelan Paper: Manacorda and Fodor (2024) Diffusive oscillators capture the pulsating states of deformable particles https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14370 |
| Feb 11 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Argo Mukherjee (ENS, France) Topological interactions drive the first fate decision in the fly embryo Time: 3-4pm; Location: RSM303 |
| Feb 13 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Mark Leake (York) The Biophysics of Mesoscale, Reversible, Biomolecular Liquid Assemblies Time: 3-4pm; Location: G47A, Flowers Building |
| Feb 14 | Presenter: Eloise Lardet Paper: Alas, C. D., Wu, L., Pinaud, F., and Haselwandter C. A. (2025) Diffusion-driven self-assembly of emerin nanodomains at the nuclear envelope Phys. Rev. Research. 7, L012019 |
| Feb 21 | Presenter: Smitha Maretvadakethope Paper: Hsieh, F. S., Nguyen, D. P., Heltberg, M. S., Wu, C. C., Lee, Y. C., Jensen, M. H., Chen, S. H. (2024) Plausible, robust biological oscillations through allelic buffering Cell Systems, 15(11), 1018-1032 |
| Feb 26 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Nobuyasu Koga (University of Osaka) Design of Proteins with Various Shapes Time: 2-3pm; Location: RSM228 |
| Feb 28 | Presenter: Daniel O’Hanlon Paper: Jain, Moksh, et al. (2022) Biological sequence design with gflownets Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 162:9786-9801 |
| Mar 7 | Presenter: Robert Endres Paper: Hathcock, D., Yu, Q., Tu, Y (2024) Time-reversal symmetry breaking in the chemosensory array reveals a general mechanism for dissipation-enhanced cooperative sensing Nat Commun 15, 8892 |
| Mar 14 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Paper: Tang et al (2024) Cell Division and Motility Enable Hexatic Order in Biological Tissues Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 218402 |
| Mar 28 | Presenter: Jacob Knight Paper: C Maggi, et al. (2023) Thermodynamic limits of sperm swimming precision PRX Life 1, 013003 |
| Apr 11 | Presenter: Emir Sezik
Paper: Daviet, R., Zelle, C. P., Asadollahi, A., Diehl, S. (2024) Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling in time-crystalline matter ArXiv:2412.09677 |
| Apr 24 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Ai Shinobu (University of Osaka) Integrating mathematical modeling and molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect of EGFR mutations in lung cancer Time: 1-2pm; Location: RSM303 |
| May 2 | Presenter: Thibault Bertrand Paper: Andersen, B.H., Safara, F.M.R., Grudtsyna, V. et al. (2025) Evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological matter Nat. Phys. 21, 618–623 |
| May 8 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Patrick Pietzonka (University of Edinburgh) Energetic cost of precision in biomolecular systems Time: 2-3pm; Venue: RSM Rm 1.31 |
| May 16 | Presenter: Callum Britton Paper: Yin, Z., Zinn-Björkman, L. (2020) Simulating rolling paths and reorientation behavior of ball-rolling dung beetles Journal of Theoretical Biology, 486, 110106 |
| May 23 | Presenter: Ross Monaghan Paper: Nguyen, A. Q., Huang, J., Bi, D. (2025) Origin of yield stress and mechanical plasticity in model biological tissues Nature Communications, 16(1), 3260 |
| Jun 6 | Presenter: Alastar Phelan Paper: E.M. Muro, F.J. Ballesteros, B. Luque, J. Bascompte (2025) The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (13) e2422968122 |
| Jun 13 | Presenter: Elphes Sung Das, J. (2010) Activation or Tolerance of Natural Killer Cells Is Modulated by Ligand Quality in a Nonmonotonic Manner Biophys. J. 99(7) 2028–2037 |
| Jun 20 | Presenter: Eloise Lardet Staddon, M. F. (2024) How the zebra got its stripes: Curvature-dependent diffusion orients Turing patterns on three-dimensional surfaces Physical Review E 110, 034402 |
| Jun 26 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Rob Jack (University of Cambridge) Dynamical patterns in active-passive particle mixtures with non-reciprocal interactions: Exact hydrodynamic analysis Time: 2-3pm; Venue: G47A, Flowers Building |
| Jun 27 | Presenter: Smitha Maretvadakethope Paper: Wu-Zhang, B. et al. (2025) Run-and-tumble dynamics of Escherichia coli is governed by its mechanical properties Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 22(227), 20250035 |
| Jul 4 | Presenter: Daniel O’Hanlon Xue, C., Goldenfeld, N. (2016) Stochastic predator-prey dynamics of transposons in the human genome Physical review letters, 117(20), 208101 |
| Jul 10 | Physics of Life Summer ECR Symposium |
| Sept 12 | Presenter: Robert Endres Paper: Mattingly, H. H., Kamino, K., Ong, J., Kottou, R., Emonet, T., Machta, B. B. (2025) Chemotaxing E. coli do not count single molecules ArXiv:2407.07264 |
| Sept 19 | Presenter: Emir Sezik Cavagna, A., Cimino, G., Cristín, J., Fiorini, M., Giardina, I., Giustiniani, A., Grigera, T. S., Melillo, S., Palombella, R. A., Parisi, L., Ponno, A., Scandolo, M., Stamler, Z. S. (2025) Spin-Waves without Spin-Waves: A Case for Soliton Propagation in Starling Flocks arXiv:2505.19665 |
| Sept 26 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Marklund et al. (2022) Sequence specificity in DNA binding is mainly governed by association Science 375, 442–445 |
| Oct 3 | Presenter: Gunnar Pruessner Sorkin, B. , Diamant, H. , Ariel, G. , Markovich, T. (2024) Second Law of Thermodynamics without Einstein Relation Phys. Rev. Lett., 133, 267101 |