Jan 13 | Seminar: Jack Binysh (Bath) Active Elasticity |
Jan 20 | Presenter: Chiu Fan Lee Paper: A Testa et al (2021) Sustained enzymatic activity and flow in crowded protein droplets Nature Communications 12, 6293 |
Jan 27 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Ben Simons (Cambridge) Spermatogenesis: a paradigm of stem cell regulation Time: 3-4pm; Venue: G47A Flowers |
Feb 3 | Presenter: Charlotte Manser Paper: Julie Klepstad and Luciano Marcon (2023) A Clock and Wavefront Self-Organizing model explains somitogenesis in vivo and in vitro bioRxiv 2023.01.18.524516 |
Feb 10 | Presenter: Sulaimaan Lim Paper: Kiandokht Panjtan Amiri, Asa Kalish, and Shankar Mukherji (2023) Robustness and Universality in Organelle Size Control Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 018401 |
Feb 17 | Presenter: Ruben Perez-Carrasco Paper: Wang et al. (2022) Periodic spatial patterning with a single morphogen Cell Systems 13, 1033 |
Feb 24 | Presenter: Alastar Phelan Paper: Rodrigo García-Tejera, et al., (2022) Regulation of stem cell dynamics through volume exclusion Proc. R. Soc. A. 478 20220376 |
Mar 3 | Presenter: Eloise Lardet Paper: Nico Schramma, Cintia Perugachi Israëls and Maziyar Jalaal (2023) Chloroplasts in plant cells show active glassy behavior under low-light conditions PNAS 120, 3 |
Mar 10 | Presenter: Henry Alston Paper: Billie Meadowcroft, Ivan Palaia, Anna-Katharina Pfitzner, Aurélien Roux, Buzz Baum, and Anđela Šarić (2022) Mechanochemical Rules for Shape-Shifting Filaments that Remodel Membranes Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 268101 |
Mar 17 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Isabella Guido (Surrey) Bottom-up engineering of bioinspired active systems for biological activity |
Mar 24 | Presenter: Patrick Jentsch Paper: van der Kolk et al. (2022) Anomalous collective dynamics of auto-chemotactic populations arXiv: 2209.01047 |
Apr 21 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Victor Sourjik (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology) Physics, physiology and evolutionary optimization of bacterial motility |
Apr 28 | Presenter: Gunnar Pruessner Paper: Demarchi et al (2023) Enzyme-Enriched Condensates Show Self-Propulsion, Positioning, and Coexistence Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 128401 |
May 5 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Martin Howard (John Innes Centre) Setting timescales for epigenetic switching |
May 12 | Presenter: Keith Willison Zhou et al. (2023) Engineering longevity—design of a synthetic gene oscillator to slow cellular aging Science 380, 376–381 |
May 19 | Presenter: Jacob Knight Paper: Marbach, Zheng and Holmes-Cerfon (2022) present “The nanocaterpillar's random walk: diffusion with ligand–receptor contacts Soft Matter 18, 3130-3146 |
May 26 | Presenter: Robert Endres Paper: Tom W Hiscock and Sean G Megason (2015) Orientation of Turing-like Patterns by Morphogen Gradients and Tissue Anisotropies Cell Syst 1, 408-416 |
Jun 2 | Presenter: Sam Whitby Paper: A Klosin et al (2020) Phase separation provides a mechanism to reduce noise in cells Science 367, 464-468 |
Jun 16 | Presenter: Thibault Bertand Paper: Hopkins et al., (2022) Local Yield and Compliance in Active Cell Monolayers PRL 129, 148101 |
Jun 23 | Presenter: Charlotte Manser Paper: Calderwood et al. (2021). Comparative transcriptomics reveals desynchronisation of gene expression during the floral transition between Arabidopsis and Brassica rapa cultivars Quantitative Plant Biology 2, E4 |
Jun 30 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Uli Gerland (Technical University of Munich) Spatially orchestrated reaction kinetics in biological systems Time: 12-1pm; Venue: RSM 303 |
Jul 7 | Presenter: Jacob Knight Paper: Villa-Torrealba, Navia, and Soto (2023) Kinetic modeling of the chemotactic process in run-and-tumble bacteria Phys. Rev. E 107, 034605 |
Jul 13 | Imperial Physics of Life - Early Career Researchers Summer Symposium 2023 |
Jul 21 | Presenter: Alastar Phelan Paper: Jolly et al., (2022) CycleFlow simultaneously quantifies cell-cycle phase lengths and quiescence in vivo Cell Reports Methods 2, 10 |
Jul 28 | Presenter: Henry Alston Paper: Bonazzi et al. (2018) Intermittent Pili-Mediated Forces Fluidize Neisseria meningitidis Aggregates Promoting Vascular Colonization Cell 174, 143 |
Sep 1 | Presenter: Sulaimaan Lim Paper: De Leon, M.P., Wen, FL., Paylaga, G.J. et al. (2023) Mechanical waves identify the amputation position during wound healing in the amputated zebrafish tailfin Nat. Phys. |
Sep 8 | Presenter: Ruben Perez-Carrasco Paper: Rory J. Maizels, Daniel M. Snell, James Briscoe (2023) Deep dynamical modelling of developmental trajectories with temporal transcriptomics bioRxiv 2023.07.06.547989 |
Sep 15 | Presenter: Gunnar Pruessner Paper: A. P. Solon and J. Tailleur (2015) Flocking with discrete symmetry: The two-dimensional active Ising model Phys. Rev. E 92, 042119 |
Sep 22 | Presenter: Robert Endres Paper: Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek, and David J. Schwab (2022) Emergence of local irreversibility in complex interacting systems Phys. Rev. E 106, 034102 |
Sep 29 | Presenter: Sam Whitby Paper: John Zenk and Rebecca Schulman (2014) An Assembly Funnel Makes Biomolecular Complex Assembly Efficient PLoS ONE 9 e111233 |
Oct 6 | Presenter: Eloise Lardet Paper: William Bialek, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, and Aleksandra M. Walczak (2012) Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds PNAS 109 (13) 4786-4791 |
Oct 13 | Presenter: Patrick Jentsch Paper: Yongick Cho and William M. Jacobs (2023) Tuning Nucleation Kinetics via Nonequilibrium Chemical Reactions PRL 130, 128203 |
Oct 27 | Presenter: Antonio Matas Gil Paper: Alejandro Martínez-Calvo, Ned S. Wingreen, Sujit S. Datta (2023) Pattern formation by bacteria-phage interactions bioRxiv 2023.09.19.558479 |
Nov 3 | Presenter: Charlotte Manser Paper: Derek E. Moulton, Hadrien Oliveri, Alain Goriely, and Chris J. Thorogood (2023) Mechanics reveals the role of peristome geometry in prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants (Nepenthes) PNAS 120 (38) e2306268120 |
Nov 10 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Boris Shraiman (UCSB) Physics of Morphogenesis Time: 3-4pm; Venue: Blackett Lecture Theatre 113 |
Nov 17 | Presenter: Jacob Knight paper: Ricard Alert, Alejandro Martínez-Calvo, and Sujit S. Datta (2022) Cellular Sensing Governs the Stability of Chemotactic Fronts Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 148101 |
Dec 1 | Physics of Life Network seminar series Henrik Jensen (Imperial) Emergence through mutations, selection, and adaptation: The Tangled Nature model of evolutionary ecology Time: 2-3pm; Venue: G47A Flowers |
Dec 8 | Presenter: Alastar Phelan Paper: L. Pujo-Menjouet (2016) Blood Cell Dynamics: Half of a Century of Modelling Math. Model. Nat. Phenom. 11, 92-115 |
Dec 14 | Early Career Researcher Winter Symposium Time: 1-4pm; Venue: SEC LINK |