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Quan Wen: Organizing Motor Behaviors Across Timescales
Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 12:30 pm1:30 pm

Animal behaviors are complex and hierarchical spatiotemporal patterns. In the popular model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, behavioral sequences on a slower timescale emerge from ordered and flexible transitions between different motor states, such as forward movement, reversal, and turn. On a faster timescale, intricate head…

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Mathieu Louis: Neural computations directing olfactory navigation in the Drosophila larva
Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 12:30 pm1:30 pm

Behavioral strategies employed for chemotaxis have been studied across phyla, but the neural computations underlying navigational decisions remain elusive. By combining electrophysiology, quantitative behavioral analysis and computational modeling, we explore how olfactory signals experienced during free motion are processed by the olfactory…

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Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall
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Jonas Cremer: Causes and consequences of bacterial growth - from protein synthesis to the human gut microbiota
Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 12:30 pm1:30 pm

Growth is central to life, shaping physiology, ecology, and evolution. In this talk, I discuss our efforts to elucidate the causes and consequences of bacterial growth across scales. Starting from resource allocation models and the molecular and energetic demands of protein synthesis, I first introduce how bacterial cells adjust their…

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Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall
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Allyson Sgro:TBA
Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 12:00 pm1:30 pm
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Jadwin Hall
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Canceled. To be re-scheduled: Jasmine Nirody: TBA
Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 12:30 pm1:30 pm
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Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall
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Patrick Secor: Filamentous bacteriophages: Master manipulators of bacterial virulence potential
Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen. Most P. aeruginosa isolates are infected by a filamentous virus (phage) called Pf. At sites of infection, filamentous Pf virions accumulate where they increase mucus viscosity, promote bacterial colonization, and directly stimulate innate anti-viral immune…

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Jadwin Gym
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Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models
Fri, Apr 26, 2024

Featuring talks from

Danqi Chen, Princeton University
Irina Risch, MILA
Alexander Rush, Cornell University

Location
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, NYC)
Amy Shyer: TBA
Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 12:30 pm1:30 pm
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Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall
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Symposium on microbial collectives
Fri, May 3, 2024, 9:30 am4:00 pm

Ami S Bhatt, Stanford University
Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DAMPT Cambridge
Forest Rohwer, San Diego State University

Registration TBA

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Science Center (Room 4102) at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, NYC)
Michael Hinczewski: The price of evolution: how thermodynamics shapes gene regulation
Mon, May 6, 2024, 12:30 pm1:30 pm

Many of the physical processes in a cell consume energy, but we are only beginning to understand how these costs have influenced the course of evolution. Biology is strewn with counter-intuitively complex mechanisms whose evolutionary predecessors must have consumed significant energy resources without any clear fitness benefit.  So…

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Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall
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