| Jan 15 | Presenter: Maksym Romenskyy Paper: Deblais A, Maggs A C, Bonn C, and Woutersen S (2020) Phase Separation By Entanglements of Active Polymerlike Worms Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208006 |
| Jan 22 | Presenter: Gunnar Pruessner Paper: Geoffrey J. Goodhill Jeffrey S. Urbach (1999) Theoretical analysis of gradient detection by growth cones J Neurobiol 41 230-41 |
| Jan 29 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Amy Gladfelter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) RNA-driven phase separation from cells to SARS Time: 3-4pm |
| Feb 5 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Paper: Carles Blanch-Mercader, Pau Guillamat, Aurélien Roux, and Karsten Kruse (2021) Quantifying Material Properties of Cell Monolayers by Analyzing Integer Topological Defects Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 028101 |
| Feb 12 | Presenter: Ben Partridge Paper: Tom Serge Weber, Irene Jaehnert, Christian Schichor, Michal Or-Guil and Jorge Carneiro (2014) Quantifying the Length and Variance of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Phases by a Stochastic Model and Dual Nucleoside Pulse Labelling PLoS Computational Biology 10, 7 |
| Feb 26 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Ned Wingreen (Princeton) Magic numbers in protein phase transitions Time: 3-4pm |
| Mar 5 | Presenter: Jacob Cook Paper: L. Shenhav, D. Zeevi (2020) Resource conservation manifests in the genetic code Science 370, 683 |
| Mar 12 | Presenter: Shalabh Anand Paper: DB Liarte, X Mao, O Stenull, and TC Lubensky (2019) Jamming as a Multicritical Point Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 128006 |
| Mar 19 | Presenter: Jordan Juritz Templated polymer copying |
| Mar 26 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Michael Levin (Tuft University) Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives: Bioelectrical pattern memories, regeneration, and synthetic living organisms Time: 3-4pm |
| Apr 9 | Presenter: Henry Cavanagh Paper: J C Marques, S. Lackner1, R. Félix and M B Orger (2018) Structure of the Zebrafish Locomotor Repertoire Revealed with Unsupervised Behavioral Clustering Current Biology 28, 181 |
| Apr 16 | Presenter: Robert Endres Paper: H H Mattingly, K Kamino, B B Machta, and T Emonet E. coli chemotaxis is information-limited Preprint: arXiv:2102.11732 |
| Apr 23 | Presenter: Patrick Jentsch Paper: O Feinerman, I Pinkoviezky, A Gelblum, E Fonio, and N S Gov (2018) The physics of cooperative transport in groups of ants Nature Physics 14, 683 |
| Apr 30 | Presenter: Luca Cocconi Paper: G Duclos et al. (2020) Topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics Science 367, 1120 |
| May 7 | Presenter: John-Antonio Argydiadis Paper: F Hinzpeter, U Gerland and F. Tostevin (2017) Optimal Compartmentalization Strategies for Metabolic Microcompartments Biophysical Journal 112, 767 |
| May 14 | Physics of Life Network seminar series José Onuchic (Rice University) Energy landscapes, order and disorder, and protein sequence coevolution: From proteins to chromosome structure Time: 3-4pm |
| May 21 | Presenter: Andrew Killeen Paper: M Takahashi et al. (2021) Reconciling Flux Experiments for Quantitative Modeling of Normal and Malignant Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Dynamics Stem Cell Reports 16, 741-753 |
| May 28 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Lisa Manning (Syracuse University) How do single cells program collective behavior at the scale of tissues? Time: 3-4pm |
| June 4 | Presenter: Henry Alston Paper: A. Cavagna et al. Marginal speed confinement resolves the conflict between correlation and control in natural flocks of birds Preprint: ArXiv:2101.09748 |
| June 11 | Presenter: Gunnar Pruessner Paper: Guo et al. Play. Pause. Rewind. Measuring local entropy production and extractable work in active matter Preprint: ArXiv:2105.12707 |
| June 25 | Presenter: Thibault Bertrand Paper: N. I. Petridou, B. Corominas-Murtra, C.-P. Heisenberg and E. Hannezo (2021) Rigidity percolation uncovers a structural basis for embryonic tissue phase transitions Cell 184, 1914–1928 |
| July 1 & 2 | Physics of Emergent Behaviour III: From origin of life to multicellularity (Virtual workshop) |
| July 9 | Presenter: Shalabh Anand Paper: K Morse, et al. (2021) A direct link between active matter and sheared granular systems PNAS 118, e2019909118 |
| Sept 3 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Paper: J. Li, et al. (2021) Role of the Cell Cycle in Collective Cell Dynamics PHYSICAL REVIEW X 11, 031025 |
| Sept 10 | Presenter: Henry Cavanagh Paper: Mayer A, et al, (2019) Regulation of T cell expansion by antigen presentation dynamics PNAS 116, 5914 |
| Sept 17 | Presenter: Luca Cocconi Paper: S Mukherjee, et al (2021) Anomalous Diffusion and Lévy Walks Distinguish Active from Inertial Turbulence Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 118001 |
| Oct 1 | Presenter: Robert Endres Paper: Yazdani A, Lu L, Raissi M, Karniadakis GE (2020) Systems biology informed deep learning for inferring parameters and hidden dynamics PLoS Comput Biol 16: e1007575 |
| Oct 8 |
Presenter: Patrick Jentsch Paper: C Pagani and L Canet (2021) Spatio-temporal correlation functions in scalar turbulence from functional renormalization group Phys Fluids 33, 065109 |
| Oct 15 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Jack Szostak (Harvard University) Physics and the Origin of Life: From Chirality to Membranes to Information Time: 3-4pm |
| Oct 22 | Presenter: Luca Cocconi Paper: Yang X, et al. (2021) Physical bioenergetics: Energy fluxes, budgets, and constraints in cells PNAS 118, e2026786118 |
| Oct 29 | Presenter: Keith Willison Paper: Macro N, et al (2021) Slowdown of Water Dynamics from the Top to the Bottom of the GroEL Cavity J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 5723 |
| Nov 5 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Gili Bisker (Tel Aviv University) Nonequilibrium self-assembly and time-irreversibility in living systems |
| Nov 12 | Presenter: Henry Alston Paper: Takayuki Ariga, Keito Tateishi, Michio Tomishige, and Daisuke Mizuno (2021) Noise-Induced Acceleration of Single Molecule Kinesin-1 Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178101 |
| Nov 26 | Presenter: Ruben Perez-Carrasco Paper: Karkaria B D, Manhart A, Fedorec A J H, and Barnes C P Chaos in small microbial communities bioRxiv 2021.09.06.459097 |
| Dec 3 | Presenter: Antonio Matas Gil Paper: Jiang Q, et al (2021) Neural network aided approximation and parameter inference of non-Markovian models of gene expression Nat Commun 12, 2618 |
| Dec 10 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Pankaj Mehta (Boston University) Towards a Theory of Microbial Ecosystems Time: 3-4pm |