2018 Conference on Theory & Biology

Talks

• Agenda

  Friday, April 13^th

  8:15-9:00 AM	Check-in and breakfast
  9:00 - 9:10 AM	Welcome
  9:10 -9:40 AM	Shashi Thutupalli (NCBS), Self-organized structures of active matter via controlled phase separation
  9:40 - 10:10 AM	Arvind Murugan (Chicago), Internal models of the external world
  10:10-10:40 AM	Break
  10:40 - 11:10 AM	Lisa Manning (Syracuse), Soft yet sharp interfaces in biological tissues
  11:10 - 11:40 AM	Aryeh Warmflash (Rice), Studying self-organized pattern formation with stem cells
  11:40 AM- 1:40 PM	Lunch and Posters
  1:40 - 2:10 PM	Daniel Weissman (Emory), Clones, Sex, and Hitchhiking in Space
  2:10 - 2:40 PM	Sam Brown (Georgia Tech), Collective bacterial decision-making: Mechanism, functions and infection context
  2:40 - 3:10 PM	Break
  3:10 - 3:40 PM	Surya Ganguli (Stanford), Emergent Elasticity in the Neural Code for Space
  3:40 - 4:10 PM	Terry Hwa (San Diego), Strategy of Bacterial Growth Control
  4:10-4:20 PM	Break
  4:20 -5:00 PM	Boris Shraiman (UCSB), Big(ger) Questions in Physics of Living Matter
  5:00 - 6:00 PM	Reception