"Cluster crystals and other surprises in the flatland."
Lunch @11:45.

“Can connectomics help us understand neural computation? Insights from the fly visual system”
Lunch @11:45.

“Functional trade-offs and phenotypic diversity in cellular migration”
Lunch @11:45.

“Gene regulation at the single molecule level”
Lunch @11:45.

“The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks”
Lunch @11:45.

"Neural mechanisms underlying the sequencing of complex learned behaviors"
Lunch @11:45. NOTE: This talk is in partnership with Neuroscience and will take place on Friday 10/25 - an exception to the usual Monday Biophysics seminar day.

“Rationally-designed cellular reprogramming protocols from epigenetic landscapes”
Lunch @11:45.

'Lipid rafts reach a critical point'
Lunch @11:45.

“How to hit HIV where it hurts”
Lunch @ 11:45.

“From Genotype to Phenotype: a physics perspective”
Lunch @11:45.

"Uncovering scaling laws to infer multi-drug response of resistant microbes and cancer cells"
Lunch @ 11:45

Lunch @ 11:45, talk @ 12-1:00

Lunch @ 11:45, talk @ 12-1:00

Lunch @ 11:45, talk @ 12-1:00

The protein content of a cell is a primary determinant of its phenotype. Yet, large fluctuations in protein numbers are observed among genetically identical cells grown under identical conditions. Recently, cellular protein variability has been a hot topic of research, with microorganisms providing a popular model system. Despite much work and…

Lunch @ 11:45, talk @ 12-1:00

At a time when microbial ecology is largely traveling along genomic roads, we cannot forget that the functions and services of microbes depend greatly on their behaviors, encounters, and interactions with their environment. New technologies, including microfluidics and high-speed video microscopy, provide a powerful opportunity to spy on the…

Einstein argued in 1905 that the mean squared displacement of a microscopic particle suspended in a fluid at rest is proportional to time with the constant of proportionality giving the particle's diffusion coefficient. Since then, diffusion coefficients have been determined from particle trajectories by fitting a straight line to the observed…

Observing cellular responses to perturbations is central to generating and testing hypothesis in biology. Time-lapse microscopy is a powerful tool for studying cellular phenotypes, but has been refractory to proteome-wide investigations. We developed a live-cell microarray integrated with a massively parallel microchemostat array to quantify…

Recent experiments on confluent layers of epithelial cells and vibrated granular media have motivated interest in the behavior of active systems at high density, where the interplay of steric repulsion and activity can yield active glassy or jammed states. In this talk I will discuss the behavior of dense collections of self-propelled particles…