Life has been a source of interesting fluid mechanics problems for more than a century. There has been a renaissance in the subject, and we will sample exciting recent work on the design principles of ciliary flows, cytoplastic movements in a developing embryo, and the strategies used by fish to sense flow in their surroundings. 

Iron, despite its abundance in Earth's crust, remains a critical limiting nutrient for microbial growth due to its poor bioavailability. To acquire iron, most microbes produce siderophores — diverse small molecules with high iron-binding affinities. These siderophore-iron complexes are specifically recognized and uptaken by corresponding…

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Spring

Recent developments in statistical physics have focused new attention on the relations between information theory and thermodynamics, and on experiments that characterize directly the violations of detailed balance in driven systems. This symposium will explore these ideas in simple model systems and in the full complexity of living systems,…

Leenoy Meshulam, University of Washington and Sam Reiter, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Octopus camouflage

Antonio Carlos Costa, École Normale Supérieure, and Claire Wyart, Paris Brain Institute
Zebrafish…