Imperial College Network of Excellence in Physics of Life
Biological Physics Journal Club (2025)

Our weekly Physics of Life seminars and journal clubs at Imperial College covers a wide range of topics in biological and soft matter physics. It aims to provide a highly interactive platform to facilitate discussion between researchers from different departments. Anyone is welcome and you can subscribe to the mailing list here. Regular attendees of the BPJC are expected to present on a rotational basis at the BPJC.

BPJC organiser: Eloise Lardet
Time: Fridays 2-3pm [Unless indicated otherwise]
Venue: Sir Ernst Chain Building Rm. 319, South Kensington Campus

Upcoming meetings

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
Feb 7	Presenter: Alastar Phelan
Feb 11	Physics of Life Network seminar series Argo Mukherjee (ENS, France) Topological interactions drive the first fate decision in the fly embryo
Feb 13	Physics of Life Network seminar series Mark Leake (York)
Feb 14	Presenter: Eloise Lardet
Feb 21	Presenter: Smitha Maretvadakethope
Feb 28	Presenter: Daniel O’Hanlon
Mar 7	Presenter: Robert Endres
Mar 14	Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee
Mar 21	Presenter: Tina Jia
Mar 28	Presenter: Jacob Knight
Apr 4	Presenter: Sam Whitby
Apr 11	Presenter: Thibault Bertrand

Past meetings

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

BPJC in 2024
BPJC in 2023
BPJC in 2022
BPJC in 2021
BPJC in 2020
BPJC in 2019
BPJC in 2018
BPJC in 2017
BPJC in 2016