BPPB Seminar Series
@bppbseminar.bsky.social
BPPB is a weekly virtual seminar series covering topics in biological physics, physical biology, and everywhere in between. We are excited to be joining bluesky! Please visit https://sites.google.com/view/bppb-seminar for more information.
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).
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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....
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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...
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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....
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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....
October 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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....
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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...
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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....
October 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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....
September 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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....
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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....
August 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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).
August 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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...
July 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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....
July 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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...
July 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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....
June 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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).
June 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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....
May 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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....
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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....
May 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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...
April 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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....
April 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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
April 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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...
April 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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...