Physics of Life - Students and Postdocs Edition

CPBF Symposium at CUNY
Date
Nov 11, 2022, 10:00 am4:30 pm
Location
Skylight Room at the CUNY Graduate Center and via Zoom

Details

Event Description

If you wish to attend in person and do not have a CUNY Cleared4access pass, please register by Wednesday Nov 9 to ensure building access. Thanks!

9:30 AM
Breakfast

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Temperature-dependent molecular folding landscape measured from single-molecule force experiments
Marc Rico-Pasto, University of Barcelona

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Experiment and simulation reveal atomistic details for how target binding tunes calmodulin’s calcium-binding properties
Jules Nde, University of Washington

11:00 - 11:30 AM
Statistical analysis of sharing across immune repertoires
Maria Ruiz Ortega, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

11:30 AM
Break

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Antigen Encoding and Antagonism in T Cell Activation Dynamics
François Bourassa, McGill University

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Coupled Oscillators during patterning: cell cycle and the segmentation clock
Usha Kadiyala, University of Michigan

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Theory of cell size homeostasis
Motasem ElGamel, University of Pittsburgh

1:30 PM
Lunch

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Dynamic and thermodynamic bounds on the performance of multi-component molecular machines
Matthew Leighton, Simon Fraser University

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Signatures of irreversibility in microscopic models of flocking
Federica Ferretti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
A perturbative approach uncovers context-dependent processing of natural scenes in the retina
Samuele Virgili, The Vision Institute, Sorbonne

 

Sponsor
Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences