BPPB Seminar Series
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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 Fri Oct 2 for exciting talks by Zhixin Lu (Discovering Stochastic Dynamics from Snapshots without Density or Score Estimation) & Chunzi Liu (Eggshell elasto-osmotic coupling governs Schistosoma mansoni hatching). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....
October 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Please join BPPB on Fri Oct 2 for exciting talks by Zhixin Lu (Discovering Stochastic Dynamics from Snapshots without Density or Score Estimation) & Chunzi Liu (Eggshell elasto-osmotic coupling governs Schistosoma mansoni hatching). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....
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....
September 23, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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....
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....
September 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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....
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....
September 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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....
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....
August 26, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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....
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....
August 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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....
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....
July 15, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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....
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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July 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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....
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....
July 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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....
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....
June 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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....
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").
June 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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").
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....
June 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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....
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....
May 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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....
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....
May 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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....
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....
May 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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....
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....
May 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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....
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".
April 23, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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".
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....
April 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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....
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....
March 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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....
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.
March 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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.
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
February 25, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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
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....
February 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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....
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....
February 11, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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....
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.
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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.
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....
January 29, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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....