The next in our series of day-long symposia will be on Friday, February 21, 2025 (soon).  We have a wonderful lineup of faculty speakers from Princeton, CUNY, and Yale, offering the opportunity not just to hear excellent science but to strengthen regional community.  Topics will range (literally) from single molecules to collective behavior, hopefully with some common themes and connections emerging.  There will be lots of time for discussion during breaks for coffee and lunch, and we will continue over a light dinner at 6:00 PM.  Full program below.We hope you can join us.  To get the food order right, please follow links to register here (website still being updated, but link should work). 

Physics of Life, along the Northeast Corridor
Friday, February 21, 2025Skylight Room (9100)The CUNY Graduate Center365 Fifth Ave, between 34th and 35th Sts.

10:30 AM Coffee and bagels

11:00 AM Architecture of the human erythrocyte ankyrin-1 complexFrancesca Vallese, CUNY

11:30 AM Cell states dictate fidelity of cellular signalingPurushottam Dixit, Yale 

12:00 PM Decoding and controlling self-organization in stem cell models of embryonic developmentHarry McNamara, Princeton/Yale 

12:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Energetic constraints on cell divisionMichael Murrell, Yale 

2:30 PM Nutrient availability shapes the diversity and stability of microbial communitiesMartina Dal Bello, Yale 

3:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM Nonequilibrium fluctuations at biomolecular condensate interfacesWilliam Jacobs, Princeton

4:30 PM Linear dimension of neural manifolds and the structure of mixed selectivityTatiana Engel, Princeton

5:00 PM How constraints on editing affect cultural evolution: From humans to songbirdsOfer Tchernichovski, CUNY

5:30 PM break

6:00 PM Dinner Room 5209