Conference Program

Invited Speakers

Antonio Celani	International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste
Abigail Plummer	Harvard University
Eleni Katifori	University of Pennsylvania
Eva Kanso	University of Southern California
Farzan Beroz	University of Michigan
Brian Camley	Johns Hopkins University
Andrea Liu	University of Pennsylvania
Edouard Hannezo	IST Austria
Jinghui Liu	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ryan Shea	Providence College
Shou-Wen Wang	Harvard Medical School
Jacques Prost	Institut Curie
Jennifer Schwarz	Syracuse University
Anna Erzberger	Rockefeller University
Massimo Vergassola	University of California San Diego

Videos

Antonio Celani

Learning to navigate in dynamic environments

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Abigail Plummer

Fixation probabilities in compressible turbulence

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Eleni Katifori

Emergent phenomena in biological flow systems

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Eva Kanso

Structural unity and functional diversity in eukaryotic flagella

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Farzan Beroz

Physical limits to the perception of mechanical properties

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Brian Camley

Leader cells in collective chemotaxis: optimality and tradeoffs

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Andrea Liu

Revisiting the structure-function relationship with persistent homology

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Edouard Hannezo

Self-organized principles of morphogenesis

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Jinghui Liu

Topological turbulence in the membrane of a living cell

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Ryan Shea

Why Bother Trying to Understand Life?: Some Reflections on the Purpose(s) of Knowledge

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Shou-Wen Wang

Emergence of collective oscillations in adaptive cells

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Jacques Prost

Tissues as active systems

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Jennifer Schwarz

From modeling cerebellar shape to the correlated motion of chromatin

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Anna Erzberger

Symmetry breaking during morphogenesis of a mechanosensory organ

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Massimo Vergassola

Waves and flows during Drosophila early morphogenesis

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