PAST SEMINARS:

1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, Spring 2005, 2005-6, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008 Fall 2008

Jan 8 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: E. Siggia
Jeremy England, Stanford University
Confined Water, Hydrophobicity, and Protein Stability in vitro and in vivo

Jan 13 -host: E. Katifori
Aravi Samuel, Harvard University
How simple animals navigate gradients

Jan 20 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: E. Siggia
Natalie Arkus, Harvard University
Self-Assembly of Spherical Particles at Low N

Jan 21 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: E. Siggia
Sidhartha Goyal, Princeton University
Understanding quorum sensing in bacteria

Jan 22 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: E. Siggia
Gordan Berman, Cornell University
Optimization, Control, and Flies: Quantitative Studies of Insect Flight

Jan 26 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: E. Siggia
Nikolai Sinitsyn, Los Alamos National Labs
Geometric phases in stochastic kinetics: new design principles in molecular robotics

Jan 27 -host: E. Katifori
Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers University
Action at a Distance in Eukaryotic Gene Regulation

Feb 3 -host: E. Katifori
Edward C. Cox, Princeton University
Biased random walks: how do eukaryotic cells find hidden targets?

Feb 10 -host: M. Geffen
Laurence T. Maloney, New York University
Movement planning under risk

Feb 12 (4PM, coffee prior) -host: Albert Libchaber
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, University of Geneva
A model of heat conduction

Feb 17 -host: E. Katifori
Itai Cohen, Cornell University
Soft squishy tissue: investigating the depth dependent shear properties of cartilage

Feb 24 -host: Stan Leibler
Arup Chakraborty, MIT
How T cells “see” antigen to orchestrate adaptive immunity

Feb 27 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: Bill Bialek
Reidun Twarock, University of York
A new geometric principle in virus architecture and its implications for virus assembly and viral evolution

Mar 3 (4PM, coffee prior) -host: M. Magnasco
Marcelo A. Montemurro, University of Manchester
LFPs and spikes: the frame of reference for reading the brain code

Mar 5 (4PM, coffee prior) -host: E. Katifori
Michael A. Lomholt, University of Southern Denmark
Facilitated diffusion of proteins on coiled DNA and the slightly peculiar case of EcoRV

Mar 10 -host: M. Magnasco
Andrea Jimenez Dalmaroni, University Collge London, UK
Physical description of mitotic spindle orientation during cell division

Mar 24 -host: E. Katifori
Benny Davidovitch, U. Mass Boston
Instabilities and morphological phases of stressed elastic membranes

Mar 26 (4PM, coffee prior) -host: A. Libchaber
Elisha Moses, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Simple Computation Devices from Living Neural Networks

Mar 31 -host: M. Magnasco
Guillermo Cecchi, IBM Watson Research Center
Act local, think global: function and emergent features in complex biological networks

Apr 03 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: William Bialek
Andrea Cavagna, INFM - CNR (Rome, Italy)
Collective animal behavior: Theories and experiments on starling flocks

Apr 07 -host: Konstantin Goulianos
Andrea Vacchi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN - Trieste
A possible signal of Dark Matter from a satellite experiment

Apr 08 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: Konstantin Goulianos
Paul Vaska, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Detection strategies for PET imaging of small animals and beyond

Apr 14 -host: E. Katifori
Maria Geffen, Rockefeller University
Encoding of natural signals in olfaction and audition

Apr 15 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: S. Leibler
Daniel S. Fisher, Stanford University
Quantitative Questions about Dynamics and Mechanisms of Microbial Evolution

Apr 21 -host: M. Geffen
Eero Simoncelli, NYU
Characterization of neural response with stochastic stimuli

Apr 28 -host: P. Kumar
Johan Paulsson, Harvard University
Random fluctuations in cells

May 5 -host: M. Geffen
Michael Berry, Princeton University
Predictive Pattern Detection in the Retina

May 11 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: Peter Veerman
Misha Lyubich, Stony Brook University
Yair Minsky, Yale University
Folkert Tangerman, Stony Brook University
Universality and Geometry

May 12 -host: E. Katifori
Patrick Eichenberger, NYU
A systems-level analysis of spore coat assembly in Bacillus subtilis

May 19 -host: E. Katifori
Bence Olveczky, Harvard University
Singing in the brain: Neurobiology of vocal learning in songbirds

May 22 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: Stan Leibler
Natalie Q. Balaban, Hebrew University
Bacterial persistence: causes and consequences