| Jan 12 | Presenter: Rosalba Garcia Millan Papers: 1. Roostalu J, Hentrich C, Bieling P, Telley I A, Schiebel E and Surrey T (2011) Directional Switching of the Kinesin Cin8 Through Motor Coupling Science 332 94–9 2. Saito N and Kaneko K (2017) Embedding dual function into molecular motors through collective motion Scientific Reports 7 44288 |
| Jan 19 | Presenter: Robert Endres Papers: 1. Tu Y (2008) The nonequilibrium mechanism for ultrasensitivity in a biological switch: sensing by Maxwell’s demons Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 105 11737–41 2. Wang F, Shi H, He R, Wang R, Zhang R and Yuan J (2017) Non-equilibrium effect in the allosteric regulation of the bacterial flagellar switch Nat. Phys. 13 710–4 Venue: B204 in the Bessemer building |
| Jan 26 | Presenter: Andrea Cairoli Paper: Nikola N, Solon A P, Kafri Y, Kardar M, Tailleur J and Voituriez R (2016) Active Particles with Soft and Curved Walls: Equation of State, Ratchets, and Instabilities Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 98001 |
| Feb 2 | Presenter: Jacob Cook Papers: 1. Wissner-Gross A D and Freer C E (2013) Causal Entropic Forces Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 168702 2. Hornischer H, Herminghaus S and Mazza M G (2017) Intelligence of agents produces a structural phase transition in collective behaviour Eprint: arxiv.org:1706.01458 Venue: B204 in the Bessemer building |
| Feb 9 | Presenter: Jessica McQuade Paper: Whitelam S (2015) Hierarchical assembly may be a way to make large information-rich structures Soft Matter 11 8225–35 Venue: B204 in the Bessemer building |
| Feb 16 | Presenter: Linus Schumacher Paper: Adler M, Mayo A, Zhou X, Franklin R A, Jacox J B, Medzhitov R and Alon U (2018) Endocytosis as a stabilizing mechanism for tissue homeostasis Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 201714377 |
| Feb 23 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Paper: Patel A, Malinovska L, Saha S, Wang J, Alberti S, Krishnan Y and Hyman A A (2017) ATP as a biological hydrotrope Science 356 753–6 |
| Mar 2 | Presenter: Nanxin Wei Paper: Williams M (2017) Statistical physics of the symmetric group Phys. Rev. E 95 42126 |
| Mar 9 | Presenter: David Nesbitt Paper: Doostmohammadi A, Shendruk T N, Thijssen K and Yeomans J M (2017) Onset of meso-scale turbulence in active nematics Nat. Commun. 8 1–7 |
| Mar 16 | Presenter: Kim Parker Paper: Kumar A, Henriquez Rivera R G and Graham M D (2014) Flow-induced segregation in confined multicomponent suspensions: Effects of particle size and rigidity J. Fluid Mech. 738 423–62 |
| April 20 | Research seminar: Alex Mietke (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex systems) Self-organisation of curved and deforming active surfaces |
| May 4 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee
Paper: Giavazzi F, Paoluzzi M, Macchi M, Bi D, Scita G, Manning L, Cerbino R and Marchetti M C (2018) Flocking Transitions in Confluent Tissues Soft Matter |
| May 11 | Presenter: Rosalba Garcia Millan
Paper: Touboul J and Destexhe A (2017) Power-law statistics and universal scaling in the absence of criticality Phys. Rev. E 95, 012413 |
| May 18 | Presenter: Johannes Pausch
Paper: Drescher K, Dunkel J, Cisneros L H, Ganguly S and Goldstein R E (2011) Fluid dynamics and noise in bacterial cell-cell and cell-surface scattering Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 108 10940–5 |
| May 25 | Presenter: Robert Endres
Paper: Andrieux D and Gaspard P (2008) Nonequilibrium generation of information in copolymerization processes Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105 9516–21 |
| Jun 1 | Presenter: Ignacio Bordeu-Weldt
Paper: Brackley C A, Johnson J, Michieletto D, Morozov A N, Nicodemi M, Cook P R and Marenduzzo D (2017) Nonequilibrium Chromosome Looping via Molecular Slip Links Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 1–5 |
| Jun 8 | Presenter: Gunnar Pruessner
Paper: Terakawa T, Bisht S, Eeftens J M, Dekker C, Haering C H and Greene E C (2017) The condensin complex is a mechanochemical motor that translocates along DNA Science 358 672–6 |
| Jun 15 | Presenter: Ben Partridge Paper: Whitelam S, Klymko K and Mandal D (2018) Phase separation and large deviations of lattice active matter J. Chem. Phys. 148 154902 |
| Jun 22 | Presenter: Jessica McQuade Paper: Wang S-C, Low T Y F, Nishimura Y, Gole L, Yu W and Motegi F (2017) Cortical forces and CDC-42 control clustering of PAR proteins for Caenorhabditis elegans embryonic polarization Nat. Cell Biol. 19 988–95 |
| Jun 29 | Presenter: Jacob Cook Paper: Marsland R, Cui W, Goldford J, Sanchez A, Korolev K and Mehta P (2018) Available energy fluxes drive a phase transition in the diversity, stability, and functional structure of microbial communities E-print: arXiv:1805.12516 |
| Jul 6 | Simon Schnyder (Kyoto University) Research seminar: Colony growth of cells on a substrate Venue: 2.24 in the Royal School of Mine |
| Oct 5 | Presenter: Rosalba Garcia Millan Paper: Marsland R and England J (2018) Active regeneration unites high- and low-temperature features in cooperative self-assembly Physical Review E 98, 022411 |
| Oct 12 | Presenter: Kim Parker Paper: Judea Pearl (2018) Theoretical Impediments to Machine Learning With Seven Sparks from the Causal Revolution https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04016 |
| Oct 19 | Presenter: Nanxin Wei Paper: Tang Q-Y, et al (2017) Critical Fluctuations in the Native State of Proteins Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088102 |
| Oct 26 | Presenter: Ignacio Bordeu-Weldt Paper: Rulands S, et al (2018) Universality of clone dynamics during tissue development Nature Physicsv 14, 469–474 |
| Nov 2 | Presenter: Andrea Cairoli (2017) Paper: Kawaguchi K, Kageyama R and Sano M Topological defects control collective dynamics in neural progenitor cell cultures Nature 545, 327 |
| Nov 9 | Presenter: Ben Partridge Paper: Manrique P D, et al (2018) Generalized Gelation Theory Describes Onset of Online Extremist Support Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 048301 |
| Nov 16 | Presenter: Rosalba Garcia Millan Paper: Cuartero S, et al (2018) Control of inducible gene expression links cohesin to hematopoietic progenitor self-renewal and differentiation Nature Immunology 19, 932 |
| Nov 23 | Presenter: Maksym Romenskyy Paper: Pearce D J G and Turner M S Emergent behavioural phenotypes of swarming models revealed by mimicking a frustrated anti-ferromagnet J. R. Soc. Interface 12: 20150520 |
| Nov 30 | Presenter: Jacob Cook Paper: Geyrhofer L and Brenner N (2018) Coexistence and cooperation in structured habitats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/429605v1 |
| Dec 7 | Presenter: David Nesbitt Paper: Schnyder S K, Molina J J, Tanaka Y and Yamamoto R (2017) Collective motion of cells crawling on a substrate: roles of cell shape and contact inhibition Scientific Reports 7, 5163 |
| Dec 14 | Presenter: Jessica McQuade Paper: Gross P, et al (2018) Guiding self-organized pattern formation in cell polarity establishment Nature Physics |