Biophysics Seminars

Benjamin Lovegren de Bivort: The neural circuit basis of behavioral individuality

Benjamin Lovegren de Bivort: The neural circuit basis of behavioral individuality
Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 12:00 pm

Individuals animals vary in their behaviors even when their genetics and environment are held constant. The mechanisms underlying this variation is still largely uncharacterized, though we have made some progress in understanding genetic and circuit variants that lead a population of animals to exhibit high or low variability in behavior.

Daniel Cohen: Crowd Control: Applying Swarm Engineering to Control Collective Cell Dynamics

Daniel Cohen: Crowd Control: Applying Swarm Engineering to Control Collective Cell Dynamics
Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 12:00 pm

Multicellular life is driven by collective cell migration spanning morphogenesis, growth, wound healing, and even cancer invasion.  Our group seeks to better understand such collective behaviors in living tissues in order that we can learn to control them, much as a shepherd and sheepdog herd sheep.

Simona Cocco: Inference of effective networks form neural data to better understand spatial navigation

Simona Cocco: Inference of effective networks form neural data to better understand spatial navigation
Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 12:00 pm

As an animal moves in space and receives external sensory inputs, it must dynamically maintain the representations of its position and environment at all times. How the hippocampus, a brain area crucial for spatial representations, achieves this task, and manages possible conflicts between different inputs remains unclear.

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