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
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
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
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

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
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


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BPJC in 2018
BPJC in 2017
BPJC in 2016