Physics of Life: Students and Postdocs Edition

Date
Nov 17, 2023, 9:30 am4:00 pm
Location
Room 9206/9207 at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan)

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Event Description

Please join us in supporting the work of the following doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows who have been selected from a wide pool of applicants this semester:

9:30 AM Coffee and bagels

10:00 AM A fitness landscape instability governs the morphological diversity of tip growing cells
Maxim Ohairwe, New York University

10:30 AM Biophysical principles predict fitness of SARS-CoV-2 variants
Dianzhuo John Wang, Harvard University 

11:00 AM Cell geometry and biochemistry interact to dynamically regulate cAMP domains
Katherine Xiang, Harvard University 

11:30 AM Break

12:00 PM Topology and robustness in early fate decision in the fly embryo
Arghyadip Mukherjee, ENS Paris

12:30 PM Correlated dense associative memories
Tom Burns, Brown University

1:00 PM Memorization and consolidation in associative memory networks
Danil Tyulmankov, Columbia University

1:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM Ring attractor dynamics underlies the learning of stable working memory representation
Alexandre Mahrach, IDIBAPS

3:00 PM Critical dynamics in the subspace for spontaneous behavior
Antonio Jorge Fontenele Neto, University of Arkansas

3:30 PM Signatures of critical slowing down in the visual cortex during attension
Roxana Zeraati, University of Tübingen