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Theory of Living Matter Group
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TLM is an initiative to build a network for researchers interested in theory and modelling of biological phenomena. We are on X (old twitter) @TLM_Cambridge, @TLM_Cambridge@mstdn.science. Or follow our website for more details: tlmcambridge.blog
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🍻TLM Pub Talks are back! 🍻
Join us for an evening of interesting talks to discuss over a drink in a social environment. All those interested in the intersection of biology and theory are welcome!
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🚨 TLM Seminar Series - 19.11.25 | 16:00 UK

Eric Libby (
@elibbyscience.bsky.social
): "Informational constraints on the regulation of early multicellular life cycles"

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November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 05.11.25 | 16:00 UK
Malte Mederacke: "The emergence of the fractal bronchial tree"
Rory Cooper: " The mechanics of crocodile and tortoise head scale patterning"
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October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🚨TLM Seminar Series in collaboration with @cammorphoseries.bsky.social will host @pflenne.bsky.social from IBDM for a hybrid seminar on Monday 20th October at 14:30 UK Time🚨Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - TODAY 16:00 UK
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"

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October 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 08.10.25 | 16:00 UK
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"

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Poster with a picture of the speaker, Pablo Saez, advertising his talk: Decision Making during cell migrations. Abstract: Moving cells navigate inside living tissues often encountering obstacles and junctions, where their path branches into alternative directions of migration. This is the case of cells moving on top or within blood vessels, which often bifurcate into branches. Cells have diverse migratory strategies that differentially rely on the adhesion to the substrate. Cells that undergo mesenchymal migration are highly dependent on the adhesion to the substrate, and when facing bifurcations are forced to coordinate the adhesion and detachment of the competing branches. Recent studies showed how the decision is made -to keep or retract a branch and choose a new direction- when there is bias: open versus dead-end, differences in pressure, presence/absence of a chemoattractant. However, much less is know about how cells decide a new direction when the decision is unbiased. Similarly, it is poorly understood how migrating cells coordinate membrane dynamics during branching to maintain a good trade-off between microenvironmental exploration and migratory efficiency. Here, we use in vitro live-cell imaging using different levels of complexity, and advanced image analysis to analyze the response of migrating cells when facing symmetric junctions, and extreme branching when cells simultaneously face several bifurcations. We found that actin and membrane dynamics play a key role to choose a new direction path in both cases i) when cells face a single junction (Ron et al. 2024), and ii) when cells exhibit high levels of branching because they face several junctions at the same time (Liu et al.). In addition, we found that migrating immune cells have a fine tune regulation of branching in order to coordinate surveillance and migration. These results shed light on the mechanisms by which cells resolve unbiased junctions and branching during cell migration.
October 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🚨New academic year calls for a new lineup of speakers. ✍️Sign up to our mailing list to hear these wonderful array of speakers this term. Please reshare among your networks 📩 lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
October 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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🚨Next week, Wed 09/07 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨

"Feedback between morphogen signalling and tissue architecture drives robust developmental patterning" by Dr Zena Hadjivasiliou.

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July 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🚨Our next seminar on, Wed 25/06 | 16:00 UK - online by Karen Kasza from @Columbia. Join us online🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
June 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🚨Our next seminar on, Mon 16/05 | 14:30 UK - Hybrid Seminar in collaboration with @cammorphoseries.bsky.social at @slcuplants.bsky.social we have Chii Jou Chan from @mbisg.bsky.social Come join us in person if you are in Cambridge🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
May 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 28.05.2025 | 16:00 UK
Xavier Salvatella: "Sequence-Encoded Determinants of Condensate Kinetic Stability"

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May 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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🚨 TLM Cambridge Online Seminar - 14.05.25 | 16:00 UK
Alessandra Villa & Berk Hess (KTH) : "Enhance simulation sampling using GROMACS"

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May 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🚨Next week, Wed 30/04 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨

"Learning the emergent order of living matter from bacteria" by Prof Yilin Wu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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April 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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📢 Exciting news!!
🌟We have a stellar line up of speakers this Easter Term. Join us for online and hybrid talks that you won't want to miss.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🚨Next week, Wed 05/03 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨

"Turning morphology into numbers across microscopy scales and modalities" by Dr Virginie Uhlmann.

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Poster for Theory of Living Matter seminar series talk 05 March 2025 at 16:00 UK time. Speaker is Virginie Uhlmann from BioVisionCenter, University of Zurich and EMBL-EBI. The talk is entitled "Turning morphology into numbers across microscopy scales and modalities", with the following abstract: Microscopy image data constitute the primary source of observational data on living systems across scales, and recent advances in microscopy technologies now enable the multi-modal observation of identical biological specimen. A key question emerges from this abundance of image data: how can we consistently quantify what we see? This endeavour is particularly complex for morphology, which involves intricate combinations of visual features that appear fundamentally different across various imaging modalities. Motivated by this challenge, my research group has been focusing on abstracting the problem of image-based morphology quantification from specific imaging modalities. In this seminar, I will present how we are building bits by bits the computational tools needed to extract modality-agnostic shape descriptors from microscopy images, how we use them to investigate fundamental biological questions, and what are the promising directions we are pursuing towards establishing a general framework to quantify biological morphology across imaging modalities.
February 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🚨Today, Wed 26/02 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar "Role of mechanics in shaping tissues" by Prof. Lisa Manning. Please repost & to attend online please register athttps://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscribe/ucam-tlm-talks
February 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🚨TODAY Online Seminar at 16:00 UK🚨 - Jacopo Grilli (ICTP) on " Microbial community dynamics in-silico, in-vitro, and in-vivo "

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February 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🚨Next week, Wed 29/01 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨
"Patterning, waves and synchronization in cilia arrays" by Dr. Guillermina Rochelle Ramirez-San-Juan. Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
#cilia #livingmatter #biophysics
January 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📢 Exciting news!!
🌟We have a stellar line up of speakers this Lent Term. Join us for online and hybrid talks that you won't want to miss.
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January 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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🚨Next week, Wed 04/12 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨
"Cheater driven evolution of reproductive division of labour" by Dr. Nobuto Takeuchi. Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
#biophysics #ecology #evolution
November 28, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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🚨Next week, Wed 20/11 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨
"Mechanics of basal body patterning during multiciliated cell morphogenesis" by Dr. Jakub Sedzinski. Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
#mechanobiology #DevBio #cellbiology
November 13, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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📢 Exciting news!!
🌟We have a stellar line up of speakers this Michaelmas Term. Join us for online and hybrid talks that you won't want to miss.
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November 7, 2024 at 10:10 PM