| Jan 10 | Presenter: Luca Cocconi Paper: Zur H and Tuller T (2016) Predictive biophysical modeling and understanding of the dynamics of mRNA translation and its evolution Nucleic Acids Research 44, 9031 |
| Jan 17 | BPJC presenter: Maksym Romenskyy Paper: Harpaz R, Tkačik G, and Schneidman E (2017) Discrete modes of social information processing predict individual behavior of fish in a group PNAS 114, 10149 |
| Jan 24 | BPJC presenter: Gunnar Pruessner Paper: Stenhammar J, et al. (2013) Continuum Theory of Phase Separation Kinetics for Active Brownian Particles PRL 111, 145702 |
| Jan 29 | Invited seminar: Holger Kress (University of Bayreuth) Physical determinants of the cellular uptake and intracellular transport during phagocytosis Time: 1-2pm; Venue: SAF G34 |
| Jan 31 | BPJC presenter: Henry Cavanagh Paper: Weinreb C, et al (2018) Fundamental limits on dynamic inference from single-cell snapshots PNAS 115, E2467-E2476 |
| Feb 7 | BPJC presenter: Andrew Killeen Paper: Barton D L, et al. (2017) Active Vertex Model for cell-resolution description of epithelial tissue mechanics PLoS Comput Biol 13, e1005569 |
| Feb 21 | BPJC presenter: Jenny Poulton
Paper: Piñeros W D and Tlusty T Kinetic Proofreading and the Limits of Thermodynamic Uncertainty arXiv:1911.04673 |
| Feb 28 | BPJC presenter: Jacob Cook Paper: Yamagishi J F, Saito N, and Kaneko K (2020) Advantage of Leakage of Essential Metabolites for Cells Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 048101 |
| Mar 6 | BPJC presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Paper: Mueller R, Yeomans J M, and Doostmohammadi A (2019) Emergence of Active Nematic Behavior in Monolayers of Isotropic Cells Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 048004 |
| Mar 13 | BPJC presenter: Gcina Maziya Gompper G, et al. (2020) The 2020 motile active matter roadmap J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 32 193001 |
| May 1 | Presenter: Ziluo Zhang Paper: Tailleur J and Cates M E (2008) Statistical Mechanics of Interacting Run-and-Tumble Bacteria Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 218103 |
| May 15 | Presenter: Thibault Bertrand Paper: Atia L et al. (2018) Geometric constraints during epithelial jamming Nature Physics 14, 613-620 |
| May 22 | Presenter: Andrea Cairoli Paper: Buchmann B et al. (2019) Mechanical plasticity of the ECM directs invasive branching morphogenesis in human mammary gland organoids bioRxiv:10.1101/860015 |
| June 5 | Presenter: Zigan Zhen Paper: Reimann P, et al (2001) Giant Acceleration of Free Diffusion by Use of Tilted Periodic Potentials Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 010602 |
| Jun 12 | Presenter: Jessica McQuade Paper: Barbier I, Perez Carrasco R, and Schaerli Y (2019) Controlling spatiotemporal pattern formation in a concentration gradient with a synthetic toggle switch bioRxiv:10.1101/849711 |
| Jun 19 | Presenter: Keith Willison Paper: Hill J, et al (2019) Recurrent convergent evolution at amino acid residue 261 in fish rhodopsin PNAS 116, 18473 |
| Jun 26 | Presenter: Andrew Killeen Paper: Li X, Das A, and Bi D (2019) Mechanical Heterogeneity in Tissues Promotes Rigidity and Controls Cellular Invasion Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 058101 |
| Jul 3 | Physics of Life Symposium Speakers: Chris Dunsby, Robert Endres, Rosalba Garcia Millan, Nate Goehring, Chiu Fan Lee, Jenny Poulto, Gunnar Pruessner, Andela Šarić, and Giovanni Sena |
| Jul 10 | Presenter: Ben Partridge Paper: Jeon J-H, et al. (2016) Protein Crowding in Lipid Bilayers Gives Rise to Non-Gaussian Anomalous Lateral Diffusion of Phospholipids and Proteins Phys. Rev. X 6, 021006 |
| Jul 24 | Presenter: Maksym Romenskyy Paper: Bastien R and Romanczuk P (2020) A model of collective behavior based purely on vision Science Advances 6, eaay0792 |
| Sept 11 | Presenter: Gunnar Pruessner Paper: Kostinski S and Reuveni S (2020) Ribosome Composition Maximizes Cellular Growth Rates in E. coli Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028103 |
| Sept 18 | Physics of Life Network seminar series: Margaret Gardel (Chicago) Mechanical Homeostasis in the Actin Cytoskeleton Time: 3-4pm |
| Sept 25 | Presenter: Jenny Poulton Paper: Murugan A, Zou J and Brenner M P (2015) Undesired usage and the robust self-assembly of heterogeneous structures Nature Communications 6, 6203 |
| Oct 2 | Presenter: Henry Cavanagh Paper: Liu M et al. (2018) Temporal processing and context dependency in Caenorhabditis elegans response to mechanosensation eLife 7, e36419 |
| Oct 9 | Presenter: Jacob Cook Paper: Grilli J (2020) Macroecological laws describe variation and diversity in microbial communities Nature Communications 11, 4743 |
| Oct 23 | Presenter: Keith Willison Paper: Lai M, et al (2015) Modulation of Calmodulin Lobes by Different Targets: An Allosteric Model with Hemiconcerted Conformational Transitions PLoS Comput Biol 11, e1004063 |
| Oct 30 | Physics of Life Network seminar series: Nigel Goldenfeld (UIUC) Is there universality in biology? Time: 3-4pm |
| Nov 6 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Paper: Agudo-Canalejo J and Golestanian R (2019) Active Phase Separation in Mixtures of Chemically Interacting Particles Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 018101 |
| Nov 13 | Presenter: Jessica McQuade Paper: Brauns F, Halatek J, and Frey E (2020) Diffusive coupling of two well-mixed compartments elucidates elementary principles of protein-based pattern formation Preprint: arXiv:2010.15095 |
| Nov 20 | Presenter: Thibault Bertrand Paper: Copenhagen K et al. (2020) Topological defects induce layer formation in Myxococcus xanthus colonies Preprint: arXiv:2001.03804 |
| Nov 27 | Physics of Life Network seminar series: Arvind Murugan (Chicago) Neural network-like collective dynamics in molecules Time: 3-4pm |
| Dec 4 | Presenter: Luca Cocconi Paper: Antebi Y E, et al. (2016) Combinatorial Signal Perception in the BMP Pathway Cell 170, 1184 |
| Dec 11 | Physics of Life Network seminar series: Greg Stephens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Theory, reimagined Time: 2-3pm |
| Dec 18 | Presenter: Andrew Killeen Paper: Balasubramaniam L, et al. (2020) Nature of active forces in tissues: how contractile cells can form extensile monolayers BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.28.358663. |