Learn more about current research at the Center, see the work to be presented at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society

Evolutionary dynamics of cancer on complex stress landscapes Abstract

E. coli Bacteria near "Black Hole" Abstract

The role of heterogeneous environments and docetaxel gradients in the emergence of polyploid, mesenchymal and resistant prostate cancer cells Abstract Abstract

Collective Robot Sex on Dynamic Resource Landscapes Abstract

Continuum modeling of bacterial biofilm development Abstract

Morphogenesis and fractal dimension of bacterial pellicles Abstract

A statistical ensemble approach to understanding adaptive immunity: using sequence data to quantify the extraordinary diversity, in both sequence and protective specifictiy, of the T- and B-cells cells that make up an individual human's immune system Abstract

Searching for emergent long time scales without fine tuning Abstract

Information costs in the control of protein synthesis Abstract

Information tradeoffs in sensing and sampling Abstract

Quantifying success and failure in simple models of large neural populations Abstract

Trading bits in the readout of positional information Abstract

Information-bottleneck renormalization group for self-supervised representation learning Abstract

Compression as a path to simpler models of collective neural activity Abstract

Opto-genetic control of gene regulation in living fly embryos Abstract

Live measurements of transcriptional bursting and dynamic gene regulation in early fly embryos Abstract

Multi-animal pose tracking using deep neural networks Abstract

Predicting the future from the past in visual object motion: optimal representations of mixed stochastic/deterministic trajectories Abstract

How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing Abstract

A mechanical model for supervised learning Abstract

Niche-Neutral Transition in a Lotka-Volterra Model of Diverse Ecosystems Abstract

Theory of gating in recurrent neural networks Abstract

Connecting Dynamics and Trainability in Recurrent Neural Networks Abstract

Scalable maximally informative dimensions analysis of deep neural networks Abstract

3D particle diffusion in Escherichia coli cells Abstract

Social context alters behavioral interactions in bumblebees Abstract

One fish, two fish, win fish, lose fish: Imaging and analyzing the fighting behavior of zebrafish in 3D Abstract

Swimmers at low Reynolds number driven by Quincke rotation Abstract

Self-driven phase transitions in living matter Abstract

Topological defects drive layer formation in bacteria colonies Abstract

A hydrodynamic instability drives TPX2 protein droplet formation on microtubules and leads to branching microtubule nucleation Abstract

Growth and dynamics of active nematic droplets of Myxococcus xanthus bacteria Abstract

Sequential and efficient neural-population coding of complex task information Abstract

Investigating the eukaryotic CO2-fixing phase-separated organelle, the pyrenoid Abstract

Cross-feeding is not necessarily evolutionarily stable Abstract

New mechanism of motility-induced phase separation in active colloids Abstract

Phase separation in the nucleus is limited by chromatin mechanics Abstract

Subdiffusive Dynamics of Optogenetic Droplets Report on Local Chromatin Mechanics Abstract

Motif Sequences and Intracellular Phase Separation Abstract

Immune repertoire dynamics out of steady state Abstract

Learning the Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Brownian Movies Abstract

Stochastic Force Inference Abstract