Dear Colleagues, Today's BPPB seminar by @haicenbiophy.bsky.social starts in less than 2 hours. Details below!

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. For more information, and to sign up for our email list please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

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).

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....

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....

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...

Please join BPPB on Friday June 13 @ 11 EDT for exciting talks by Rachel Bennett (Analytical framework for coordination of metachronal cilia) & Emily Gehrels (How embryos generate polarized tissue flows during development). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Fri June 6 @ 11 US Eastern time for talks by Paul Atzberger (Drift-Diffusion Dynamics of Proteins within Heterogeneous Membranes with Non-Equilibrium Concentration & Temperature Gradients ) & Krešimir Josić (The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Growing Synthetic Microbial Consortia).

Please join BPPB on Friday May 23 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Guang Yao on "Modeling and validating the missing links in the circadian regulation of cellular dormancy". For more details, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday May 16 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Justin Burton @burtonlab.bsky.social on "Biology in the air: from hitchhiking microbes to jumping nematodes". For more details & to sign up to receive Zoom links for the talks, visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday May 2 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting research talk by Xiang Cheng ("Locomotion of flagellated bacteria: the influence of complex fluids and aerotaxis"). For more information & a link to sign up for our email list, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Fri April 25 for talks by Yashashree Kulkarni (Statistical mechanics of active vesicles and implications for vesicle size distribution) & Muhammed Simsek (Erk signalling dynamics required for segmented body plan of vertebrate embryos). More info @ sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Please join BPPB on Friday April 18 for an exciting talk by C. Nadir Kaplan on "Mechanobiology of mesenchymal cell migration: from holistic to reductionist modeling". For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Join us Friday April 11 for talks by David Hathcock @davidhathcock.bsky.social (Mechanisms for dissipation-enhanced adaptation & cooperative sensing in bacterial chemotaxis) & Shailaja Seetharaman @sseethar.bsky.social (Mechanosensitive LIM domain protein FHL2 tunes endothelial function) #biophysics

Please join us on Friday April 4 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk and tutorial by Andrew Spakowitz: Modeling DNA methyltransferase function to predict epigenetic correlation patterns in healthy and cancer cells. For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Please join BPPB on Friday March 28 at 11 US Eastern Time for exciting talks by Margaret Johnson (The right timing for self-assembly) and Debraj Ghose (How do cells sense and respond to chemical gradients?). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Please join BPPB on Friday March 14 at 11 AM EDT for exciting talks by Ankit Agrawal (Inferring Cell-Cell Communication from Single-Cell Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data) and Falko Schmidt (Dynamic 3D Optofluidic Control as a Multifunctional Platform for Microfluidic Applications).

Please join BPPB on Friday March 7 at 11 Eastern US time for exciting talks by Lauren Altman (Holography and Effective Medium Theory Uncovers the Structure and Dynamics of Microscopic Media) and Jingjie Hu (Transcatheter injectable embolic agent for minimally invasive vascular intervention).

Please join us Fri Feb 28 for exciting talks by Clarice Aiello @claricedaiello.bsky.social (Weak magnetic field effects in biology are measurable—accelerated Xenopus embryogenesis in the absence of the geomagnetic field) & Boris Veytsman (Motion of Influenza A virus: The role of irreversibility).

Please join BPPB Fri Feb 21, for talks by Jingyu Zhang (Long-range genomic loci stochastically assemble into combinatorial forms of chromosome skeleton) & Amaresh Sahu (Geometry and dynamics of drawing tethers from flat lipid membranes). For more info see sites.google.com/view/bppb-se... #biophysics

Please join BPPB @ 11 Eastern US time on Friday Feb 14 💗 for an exciting tutorial (Active nematic theories of collective cell motility) & research talk (Cell sorting & the dynamics of cancer lesions) from Julia Yeomans! For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se.... #biophysics

Please join BPPB on Friday February 7 at 11 US Eastern for exciting talks by @karenalim.bsky.social (Lessons from smart slime) and Qin (Maggie) Qi (Modelling particle-membrane interactions for biomaterial designs). Find more information & sign up for our email list @ sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Please join BPPB on Friday January 31 for exciting talks by Tapomoy Bhattacharjee (Physical confinement selectively favours bacterial growth based on cell shape) and Raffaella De Vita (The Vagina Dialogues: Breaking Taboos with Biomechanics). #biophysics