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

Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00.

“Evolution as prediction: temperature compensated circadian clocks and how to change a fly into a mosquito".
Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00.

Lunch @ 1145, seminar 12-1:00.

Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00.

Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00.

"Nuclear Pore Complex: Simple Physics of a Complex Biomachine"
Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00.

“Evolutionary Dynamics in High Dimensions”
Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00.

"Insect flight: from Newton’s law to Neurons"
Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00.

"How do distant DNA segments find each other? From trajectories to principles to testable predictions”.
Lunch @ 11:45, seminar 12-1:00

The Datta lab studies how information from the outside world is detected, encoded in the brain, and transformed into meaningful behavioral outputs. We address this fundamental problem by characterizing the olfactory system, the sensory system used by most animals to interact with their environment. Here we discuss recent results relevant to…

One of the distinguishing features of many living systems is their ability to move, to self-propel, to be active. Through their motion, either voluntarily or involuntarily, living systems are able self-assemble: birds flock, fish school, bacteria swarm, etc. But such behavior is not limited to living systems. Recent advances in colloid…

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

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

To colonize surfaces, bacteria must adhere and proliferate. How those terms compete to shape the foundations of biofilm is barely understood. When bacteria grow between a coverslip and a gel pad, they form microcolonies, which develop initially in a plane before terraces establish at their centre. In this configuration, we developed methods to…

Our lab focuses on mechanical studies of fundamental biological processes in biology: transcription and replication. These are highly dynamic processes that are carried out by molecular motors that translocate along, and rotate around, DNA. We are interested in forces and torques generated by these motor proteins and how their mechanics…

A hallmark of mitosis in mammalian cells is the alignment of chromosomes into a thin metaphase plate. This conserved, reproducible structure probably arises from a coordinated interaction between dynamic microtubule ends, kinetochores, molecular motors, centromeric chromatin, and the spindle checkpoint machinery, but the contributions of these…

Chromatin structure and dynamics control all aspects of DNA biology yet are poorly understood. In interphase, time between two cell divisions, chromatin fills the cell nucleus in its minimally condensed polymeric state. Chromatin serves as substrate to a number of biological processes, e.g. gene expression and DNA replication, which require it to…