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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please join BPPB on Fri Sept 25 @ 11 ET for talks by David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social (Information flow in self-organized developmental systems) and Ofer Kimchi (The fast search for an RNA target within the complex soup of the cell). For more info, visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday Sept 18 at 11 ET for exciting talks by Padmini Rangamani (Kinetic Trapping of Actin Filaments in Condensates) and Maijia Liao (Dendritic morphology constrains microtubule dynamics and organization). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Please join BPPB on Fri Sept 4 for talks by Andrij Goychuk (Chromatin conformations & dynamics in the presence of active condensate chemistry & correlated flows) & Sarah Loos (Moving with minimum effort: Optimal control at the microscale). For more info, visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday August 28 at 11 US ET for talks by Premila Samuel Russell (Simulating in-cell enzyme dynamics and organization) and Ameya Jalihal (Nuclear interactions drive cell cycle asynchrony in a syncytium). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Please join BPPB on Fri Aug 14 @ 11 ET for talks by Max Brambach (How self-tolerance can be faster than immunity and what that could mean for cancer therapy) & Sumantra Sarkar @sumantrasarkar.bsky.social (Glass transition in epithelial tissues). For more info, see sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday July 17 at 11 Eastern for exciting talks by Samantha McBride (Crystal motion and self-assembly induced by fluid physics) & Carlos Castro (Engineering DNA nanodevices to interrogate biomolecules in situ). For more information please visit: sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Please join BPPB on Fri July 10 at 11 ET for exciting talks by José Vargas-Muñiz ("How do different septin complexes contribute to fungal cell biology?") & Yanlan Mao ("Tissue dynamics during development, homeostasis and repair"). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday July 3 at 11 ET / 5 CET for an exciting talk by Christina Kurzthaler on Optimal Strategies for Active Dynamics in Complex Media. For more information and to sign up for our email list, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Please join BPPB on Fri June 19 @ 11 ET for talks by Tatjana Trcek (Characterizing the intermolecular interactions that underlie RNA condensation in vivo) & Nidhi Pashine (Granular materials from frictional, deformable particles). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday June 12 for two exciting talks by Keng-hui Lin -- a research talk ("Mechanical waves in vivo") and a talk on science & society ("Why does the largest chipmaker in the world struggle to recruit more women engineers? The current status of women in STEM in Taiwan").

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday June 5 for talks by Fridtjof Brauns (Emergent elasticity and mechanical self-organization of epithelial tissue) and Colm Kelleher (Active Liquid Crystal Physics in the Spindle Microtubule Network). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday May 29 at 11 ET for exciting talks by Bhargav Karamched (Dynamic Homeostasis in Relaxation and Bursting Oscillations) and Eric Beyerle (Reweighting Protein Ensembles Using a Langevin Prior). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Join BPPB on Friday May 22 for talks by Jeanne Stachowiak (Intrinsic disorder organizes the cellular plasma membrane) & Sirui Ning (On the Electromechanical Stability of Biological Membranes: The Importance of Thickness Effects). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday May 15 at 11 US ET for talks by Miranda Lynch ("Choking on DNA: Geometric perspectives on how G-quadruplexes disrupt DNA replication") and Chrisy Xiyu Du ("Design Parameter Interaction in Self Assembly"). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Please join BPPB on Fri May 8 for exciting talks by Helena Cantwell (Mechanisms of spindle morphology changes at the meiosis to mitosis transition) & Jin Yu (Protein Target Search Free Energy Landscape around DNA binding site with Flanking Sequences). For more info: sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Please join us at the BPPB Seminars on Friday April 24, 11 am US EST, for an exciting talk by Florencia Carousela, on "The rise of a multitasking bacterium: the journey of Pseudomonas extremaustralis 2E-UNGS from a polluted river to the laboratory and modeling".

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday April 3 at 11 US ET for a historical perspective ("Studies on the origins of life: a forgotten story") and research talk ("De novo emergence of metabolically active protocells") by Shashi Thutupalli. For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Please join us on Friday March 13 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social on "Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING". For more information please visit our website sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday March 6 at 11 ET for a tutorial (Stochastic agent-based Monte Carlo simulations for reaction-diffusion models, population dynamics, and epidemic spreading) and research talk (Invading activity fronts stabilize excitable systems against stochastic extinction) by Uwe Täuber.

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday February 27 at 11 US Eastern time for talk by Jianhua Xing ("Physical Intuition in the Age of AI: Reflections from Studying the Bacterial Flagellar Motor"). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se.... #biophysics

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday February 20 at 11 US ET for a talk by Takanari Inoue ("Light-Guided Actin Polymerization Drives Directed Motility in Protocells"). For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Please join us on Friday February 13 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting Tutorial ("Learning the stochastic dynamics of living systems") and Talk ("Learning the statistical folding of bacterial chromosomes") by Chase Broedersz. For more information, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Please join BPPB Seminars on Friday Feb 6 at 11 am US Eastern Time for two exciting talks —  Transcription Templated Assembly of the Nucleolus in the C. elegans Embryo, by Dr. Lishibanya Mohapatra, and Biophysical Modeling of Condensate Dynamics: Bridging Theory and Experiment by Dr. Yaojun Zhang.

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Please join BPPB on Friday January 30 at 11 ET for a virtual talk by Gregor Neuert ("The Average Cell Does Not Exist: Using TrueProbes and TrueSpot to Study lncRNA Regulation"). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Join us for the first BPPB talks of 2026, on Fri Jan 23 at 11ET! We will have talks by Michael Manhart @michaelmanhart.bsky.social ("Is microbial growth limited by multiple resources simultaneously?") and Hyunseok Lee @hyunseok-lee.bsky.social ("Topological landscapes for biological structures").

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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...

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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).

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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).

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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...

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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...

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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...

BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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).

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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...

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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).

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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....

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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....

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