BPPB Seminar Series

Please join BPPB on Friday February 27 at 11 US Eastern time for talk by Jianhua Xing ("Physical Intuition in the Age of AI: Reflections from Studying the Bacterial Flagellar Motor"). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se.... #biophysics

Please join BPPB on Friday February 20 at 11 US ET for a talk by Takanari Inoue ("Light-Guided Actin Polymerization Drives Directed Motility in Protocells"). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join us on Friday February 13 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting Tutorial ("Learning the stochastic dynamics of living systems") and Talk ("Learning the statistical folding of bacterial chromosomes") by Chase Broedersz. For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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Please join BPPB Seminars on Friday Feb 6 at 11 am US Eastern Time for two exciting talks — 
Transcription Templated Assembly of the Nucleolus in the C. elegans Embryo, by Dr. Lishibanya Mohapatra, and Biophysical Modeling of Condensate Dynamics: Bridging Theory and Experiment by Dr. Yaojun Zhang.

Please join BPPB on Friday January 30 at 11 ET for a virtual talk by Gregor Neuert ("The Average Cell Does Not Exist: Using TrueProbes and TrueSpot to Study lncRNA Regulation"). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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Join us for the first BPPB talks of 2026, on Fri Jan 23 at 11ET! We will have talks by Michael Manhart @michaelmanhart.bsky.social ("Is microbial growth limited by multiple resources simultaneously?") and Hyunseok Lee @hyunseok-lee.bsky.social ("Topological landscapes for biological structures").

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Please join BPPB Seminars on Friday Dec 12 at 11 am US Eastern Time for an exciting talk by Haicen Yue on How Scattered Active Players Shape the Jamming of the Crowd.

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Please join BPPB on Friday Dec 5 for exciting talks by Ingmar Reidel-Kruse (Synthetic adhesins for engineering multicellular patterns) and Tara Finegan (How do epithelial tissues acquire and change their shape?). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join the BPPB seminar on Friday November 21 at 11 US ET for a talk by Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social (On the thermodynamics of ternary asymmetric lipid membranes).

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Please join BPPB on Friday November 14 at 11 US ET for talks by Caroline Martin Barotta (Cellular Giants: Understanding the biophysics of syncytia from the micron to the meter scale) and Corinna Maaß (Biomimetic navigation strategies in synthetic microswimmers: chemotaxis and magnetotaxis).

Please join BPPB on Friday November 7 at 11 AM US ET for an exciting talk by Oleg Igoshin (Data-driven approaches to understanding bacterial self-organization and pattern-formation: from agent-based models to AI feature extraction). For more info, visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Fri Oct 31 for talks by Kee Myoung Nam (Cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion jointly dictate bacterial biofilm morphogenesis) & Lalit Deshmukh (Interplay between ubiquitination and phase separation in reconstructed HIV-1 budding). For more info: sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Please join BPPB on Fri Oct 24 for exciting talks by Julija Zavadlav (Deep Learning-driven Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Material Design) & Ting Lu (Probing the Stability Landscape of a Synthetic Microbial Cross-Feeding Mutualism). For more information, visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday Oct 17 @ 11 US ET for exciting talks by Mirna Mihovilovic Skanata (When Senses Agree: Quenching Behavioral Variability) & Amy Rowat (Biophysical Approaches to Understand and Harness Cellular Mechanobiology). For more information visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday October 10 at 11 US Eastern time for a talk & tutorial from Gautam Reddy @gautamreddy.bsky.social on "Mechanisms for learning to learn in small transformer models". For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB Seminars on Friday October 10 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Gautam Reddy @gautamreddy.bsky.social 
on "Mechanisms for learning to learn in small transformer models". For more details, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Please join BPPB on Friday October 3 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Suliana Manley @sulianamanley.bsky.social on how "Smart microscopy reveals mechanisms underlying the mitochondrial life cycle". For more details, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday September 26 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Rizal Hariadi on "Multi-axial DNA origami force spectroscopy reveals hidden dynamics in biomolecular systems". For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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Join us Fri Sept 19 for a talk by Loïc Royer @loicaroyer.bsky.social (Omega — harnessing the power of large language models for bioimage analysis) & demo by Ilan Silva (An MCP server for agentic remote control of Napari) @czbiohub.bsky.social. For more info see sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Please join BPPB on Friday September 12 at 11 ET for exciting talks by Hawa Racine Thiam @hawa-racine.bsky.social (Chromatin Biophysics through the lens of NETosis) and Antun Skanata (Mechanisms of chemotaxis on rugged landscapes). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday August 15 @ 11 US ET for exciting talks by Ido Golding (Viral dormancy: Emerging principles & open questions) and Shu Yang (Snapping of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Touch-me-not Knots for Diverse Motions). For more details please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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Please join us on Fri Aug 8 at 11 US Eastern for a tutorial by Philip Nelson (Pattern formation in an active fluid: Prologue to a story about morphogenesis) and a talk by Alan Rodrigues (Using physical concepts to develop a 'post-molecular' understanding of organ patterning).

Please join BPPB on Fri July 25 for talks by Dagan Segal (Insights from zebrafish into cancer cell adaptation) and Trevor GrandPre (Trait-space patterning is dictated by the tempo & mode of mutation). For more information & to sign up for our email list, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Please join BPPB on Friday July 18 at 11 US Eastern time for talks by Lailai Zhu (Endowing Intelligence in Bionic Active Particles) and Sohan Kale (Mapping Cellular Tractions on Nanonets). For more information and to join our email list, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday July 11 at 11 AM US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Dibyajyoti Mohanta on Heterogenous Aging of RNA Condensates. For more information, a link to our YouTube channel, and a link to sign up for our email list, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...