Students and Postdocs Edition

Date
Apr 21, 2023, 9:30 am4:00 pm
Location
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue in New York), Science Center (Room 4102)

Details

Event Description

9:30 AM
COFFEE AND BAGELS

MOLECULES, CELLS, AND SIGNALS

10:00 AM
Near-critical tuning revealed by spontaneous switching in a protein signalling array
Fotios Avgidis
AMOLF

10:30 AM
Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals
Leticia Galera-Laporta
University of Califonia, San Diego

11:00 AM
Protein-membrane interaction and fluorescence correlation in 2 dimensions
Natalia Philipp
University of Buenos Aires

11:30 AM
BREAK

THERMODYNAMICS, INFORMATION, AND EVOLUTION

12:00 PM
Stochastic Thermodynamics through the lens of transitions
Pedro Harunari
University of Luxembourg

12:30 PM
The evolution of kinetic proofreading
Kabir Husain
University of Chicago

1:00 PM
Environmental vs demographic noise in range expansions
Jimmy Gonzales Nuñez
Johns Hopkins University

1:30 PM
LUNCH

NETWORK DYNAMICS AND LEARNING

2:30 PM
Tracking cell fate transitions with attractor-network-inspired order parameters
Maria Yampolskaya
Boston University

3:00 PM
Granger causality analysis for calcium transients in neuronal networks
Faustine Ginoux
Paris Brain Institute

3:30 PM
A general theory of Hebbian sequence learning
Matthew Farrell
Harvard University