Spring 2015

  • Tue, January 20, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Live 3D modeling with colloids
    Frans Spaepen, Harvard School of Engineerting and Applied Sciences
  • Wed, February 4, 2015, 4 PM
    Location: 114 DA
    Mechanochemical Properties of DNA Tetraplexes
    Hanbin Mao, Kent State University
  • Tue, February 17, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Toy Mechanics: Popping Poppers & Slinking Slinkys
    Douglas Holmes, Boston University Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Tue, March 24, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Network Physiology: Mapping interactions between complex physiological systems
    Plamen Ivanov, Boston University Physics Department
  • Tue, April 7, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Reconstruction and analysis of cardiac signaling networks
    Jeff Saucerman, Biomedical Engineering Dept., University of Virginia
  • Tue, April 14, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: Dana Bldg 5 th floor CCNR – 4:00 PM
    Regulation of Calcium Homeostasis by MicroRNAs in Heart Failure
    Dmitry Terentyev, Brown University
  • Tue, May 5, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Reversibility and Criticality in Amorphous Solids
    Ido Regev, Havard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Fri, June 5, 2015, 3 PM
    Location: 114 DA
    Using Optical Traps and Fluorescence Microscopy to Directly Visualize and Quantify Biological Interactions at the Single-Molecule Level
    Ineke Brouwer, Free University of Amsterdam

Fall 2015

  • Wed, September 9, 2015, 2 pm
    Location: 114 DA
    Uni-flagellated motility: mechanics and molecular regulation
    Michael Morse, Brown University
  • Tue, September 22, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    New Millisecond Movement Biomarkers to Study and Analyze Individuals with Compromised Nervous Systems
    Jorge Jose, Physics Department, Indiana University
  • Tue, September 29, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 DA
    Origin of rigidity in dry granular materials
    Sumantra Sarkar, Brandeis University
  • Tue, November 3, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Microfluidics for the study of Biological Systems
    Assaf Rotem, Harvard University
  • Fri, November 13, 2015, 2:00 PM
    Location: 114 DA – 2:00 PM
    Statistical inference, statistical physics, and the community detection problem
    Cris Moore, Santa Fe Institute
  • Tue, November 17, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Modeling emergent behaviors in biology: from cell fate to complex microbial communities
    Pankaj Mehta, Physics Department, Boston University
  • Tue, December 1, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Systematic approaches to in vivo biology using high-throughput screens in zebrafish
    Calum MacRae , Harvard Medical School
  • Tue, December 8, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana 4:00 PM
    Stick and move: Integrin-mediated mechanosensing and cellular durotaxis
    Cornelis Storm, Eindhoven University of Technology and Harvard

Spring 2014

  • Tue, January 14, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4 PM
    Protein fluctuations and function: More questions than answers
    Lee Makowski, Northeastern University
  • Tue, January 21, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 DA – 4:00 PM
    Hydrodynamic quantum analogs: Droplets walking on the Impossible pilot wave
    John Bush, MIT
  • Tue, February 4, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 DA
    Manipulating natural bioelectric gradients to control growth and form in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer
    Michael Levin, Tufts University
  • Tue, February 25, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 DA – 4:00 PM
    Clash of populations: Host-Microbe Interactions in C. elegans
    Erel Levine, Harvard
  • Tue, April 15, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana
    Exploring the Network Anatomy of Visual Cortical Processing
    Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Harvard Medical School

Fall 2014

  • Thu, September 18, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    From Chaos to Cures: Controlling the Complex Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cardiac Arrhythmias Using a Theoretical, Numerical and Experimental Integrative Approach
    Flavio Fenton, Physics Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Tue, September 30, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Designing and Navigating Biological Microstructures with Magnetic Nanoparticles
    Erb Randall, MIE Department, Northeastern University
  • Tue, October 14, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Soft particles near jamming
    Craig Maloney, MIE Department, Northeastern University
  • Wed, November 12, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Assessing the pandemic potential of the Ebola West Africa outbreak
    Alessandro Vespignani, Department of Physics College of Computer and Information Sciences Bouve’ College of Health Sciences Northeastern University
  • Thu, November 13, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Programmable DNA Compartments as Artificial Cells on a Chip
    Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Thu, December 4, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    CONCEPTS OF PROTEIN DYNAMICS AND NEUTRON SCATTERING
    Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Tue, December 16, 2014, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana
    Neural activity patterns required for learning and memory
    Shantanu Jadhav, Dept. of Psychology & Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

Spring 2013

  • Fri, February 15, 2013, 2:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana
    Stochastic movement variability in humans: Cognitive developmental effects
    Jorge Jose, Indiana University
  • Tue, April 9, 2013, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana
    Nonequilibrium nanoscale self-organization under irradiation
    Mike Aziz, Harvard University
  • Tue, May 28, 2013, 11:00 AM
    Location: 114 Dana
    Multi-scale mechanics and mechano-adaptation in bone
    Sandra Shefelbine, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London