Spring 2021

  • Tue, Mar 9, 2021 03:00 PM
    Location: Zoom Meeting
    From gene expression to function – a pipeline for manipulating and characterizing human iPSC-cardiomyocytes.
    Dr. Emilia Entcheva, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University.
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Spring 2020

  • Thu, January 23, 2020, 2 pm
    Location: 177 Huntington Ave. 13th floor, 2:00 pm
    Colloidal Gels: Rheology, Thixotropy and Microstructure
    Safa Jamali, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
  • Thu, January 30, 2020, 2:30 pm
    Location: 114 Dana 2:30 pm
    The three-dimensional architecture of the human genome: it’s nuclear physics!
    Michele Di Pierro, Department of Physics, Northeastern University
  • Wed, February 12, 2020, 12:00
    Location: 105 Shillman, 12:00 noon
    Cellular circuits for probabilistic inference
    Yarden Katz, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
  • Wed, February 19, 2020, 12:00 noon
    Location: 105 Shillman, Noon
    Understanding how gene regulatory circuits drive cellular state transitions
    Mingyang Lu, Jackson Laboratory
  • Tue, February 25, 2020, 4:00 pm
    Location: 177 Huntington, 13th floor, 4:00 pm
    Biologically fabricated materials from engineered microbes
    Neel Joshi, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
  • Tue, April 21, 2020, 4:00 pm
    Location: 114 Dana, 4:00 pm
    TBD
    Hannah Yeveck, MIT

Fall 2020

  • Wed, September 30, 2020, 4:00 pm
    Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 995 9592 7747 Passcode: 906740
    Topological Floppy Modes in Aperiodic Networks and a Mechanical Duality Theorem
    Xiaoming Mao, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
  • Wed, October 14, 2020, 4:00 pm
    Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 966 2894 5229 Passcode: 779853
    Novel Interaction Mechanisms of Highly Charged Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy
    Alessandro Borgia, Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Thu, October 29, 2020, 2:00 pm
    Location: NOTE: NEW DATE Zoom Meeting ID: 919 6935 0431 Passcode: 839147
    From super-resolution imaging to theory: cadherin clustering drives asymmetric glassy dynamics during vertebrate embryo elongation
    Abdul Malmi-Kakkada, Department of Physics, Augusta University
  • Wed, November 4, 2020, 4:00 pm
    Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 932 2384 1545 Passcode: 582868
    Biological physics and molecular coevolution: from structure to design and back to evolution
    Faruck Morcos, Department of Biological Sciences, U Texas Dallas
  • Wed, November 18, 2020, 4pm
    Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 962 6475 9469 Passcode: 4e489m
    Connecting Intracellular Signaling Dynamics to Multicellular Decision Making
    Allyson Sgro, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
  • Wed, December 9, 2020, 4:00 pm
    Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 939 7921 9436 Passcode: 082521
    Eco-evolutionary dynamics of adaptive immunity: the emergence of generalist response
    Shenshen Wang, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

Fall 2019

  • Wed, September 11, 2019, 4 PM
    Location: 177 Huntington Ave., 13th floor 4:00 pm
    Beyond 2D: Self-Organizing Patterns in Cancer and Nanomaterials
    Ian Wong, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Engineering, Brown University
  • Wed, September 25, 2019, 4 PM
    Location: 114 Dana 4:00 pm
    Bacterial swimming, swarming and biofilm formation
    Jörn Dunkel, Physical Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT
  • Wed, October 9, 2019, 4 PM
    Location: 114 Dana 4:00 pm
    Active Matter: A Theoretical Overview
    Aparna Baskaran, Department of Physics, Brandeis University
  • Wed, October 23, 2019, 4 PM
    Location: 114 Dana 4:00 pm
    Universality classes in the evolutionary dynamics of expanding populations
    Kirill Korolev, Biological Physics, Statistical Physics, Department of Physics, Boston University
  • Wed, November 6, 2019, 4 PM
    Location: 177 Huntington Ave., 13th floor 4:00 pm
    Biomechanical imaging of cells, extracellular matrix, and cancer invasion in 3D
    Ming Guo, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  • Wed, November 20, 2019, 4 PM
    Location: 117 Huntington Ave., 13th floor 4:00 pm
    Thermodynamics of Biological Active Matter
    Nikta Fakhri, Biophysics, Department of Physics, MIT
  • Wed, December 4, 2019, 4 PM
    Location: 177 Huntington Ave., 13th floor 4:00 pm
    Instabilities and topological defect loops in 3D active nematics
    Guillaume Duclos, Department of Physics, Brandeis University

Spring 2018

  • Tue, January 16, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Advances in Short-Pulse Lasers For Nonlinear Microscopy
    Frank Wise, Applied Physics Department, Cornell University
  • Tue, February 6, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Dynamic response phenotypes in systems biology as tools for model discrimination
    Eduardo Sontag, Bioengineering and Electric & Computer Engineering Departments, Northeastern University
  • Tue, March 27, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Predicting perturbation patterns from the topology of biological networks
    Marc Santolini, CCNR Northeastern University