Physics of Life: Students and Postdocs Edition

Date
Mar 1, 2024, 9:30 am4:00 pm
Location
Science Center (Room 4102) at CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, NYC)

Details

Event Description

9:30 AM Breakfast 

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 
Molecular mechanisms of precise timing in cell lysis
Anupam Mondal, Rice University

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Cell-motility self-regulated by secreted footprints
Emiliano Perez Ipiña, Johns Hopkins University

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 
Understanding CAR organization and immune pathway modulation
Rhythm Shukla, AMOLF (Netherlands)

11:30 AM Break

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
E. coli uses the growth arrest to reshape its proteome under starvation
Théo Gervais, Basel University (Switzerland)

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Quantifying information flow in single cells
Mirna Kramar, Institut Curie (France)

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Interplay between morphology and competition in two dimensional colony expansion
Daniel Swartz, MIT

1:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
The ground is good: a numerical approach to understanding acoustic tool use in crickets
Erin Brandt, University of Chicago

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Olfactory search with finite-state controllers
Kyrell Vann Verano, ICTP (Italy)

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Simultaneous dimensionality reduction: A possible solution to neuroscience's data complexity
Eslam Abdelaleem, Emory University