iPoLS Program, June 8-11
Talks 10-12 EDT daily.
Posters T, Th 12 noon-1PM EDT

Virtual Talks (12+3 mins)

June 8
Introduction - Herbie Levine, José Onuchic, Krastan Blagoev
Brief virtual welcome from Dan Goldman (GT)
Biomolecular Processes 1, Moderator: JC Gumbart

  1. Christian Gebhardt (Cordes, LMU Munich) and Ganesh Agam (Lamb, LMU Munich) “Watching single proteins dancing: Angstrom precision distance measurements in dynamic proteins with single-molecule Förster-resonance energy transfer”
  2. David Garcia: (Upadhyaya, UMD) “Single molecule tracking of transcription factors reveals novel dynamics that regulate transcriptional response"
  3. Michael Ryan: (Kim, GT) “Anharmonic bending stiffness of DNA base pair mismatch”
  4. Alessandro Crnjar: (Molteni, King’s College London) “Investigating Key Features for Protein Function in a Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channel with Atomistic Simulations”
  5. James Liman: (Cheung, Rice) “Avalanches in simulations of branched actomyosin networks with the Arp2/3 complex”
  6. Hao Yan: (Mochrie, Yale) "Dynamics of loop extruding polymers”
  7. Rohit Vaidya: (Selvin, UIUC) “Covid-19 Detection Through Its Surface Proteins”
  8. Asem Hassan: (Whitford, Northeastern) “Using simulations to identify precise single-molecule probes for ribosome dynamics”

June 9
Organisms, Moderator: Dan Goldman

  1. Elodie Coutenier: (Villard, Institut Curie) “Growth and migration of individual mycelium filaments”
  2. Antoine Fruleux: (Boudaoud, ENS Lyon) “Physics of plant development”
  3. Kanishk Jain (Berman, Emory), “Mapping the long timescale dynamics of rat behavior”
  4. Ahmed Roman (Nemenman, Emory), “Modeling learning and behavior in C. elegans”
  5. Baxi Chong: (Goldman, GT) “The role of geometric phase in locomotion across scales”
  6. Albert Lin: (Samuel, Harvard) “Whole-brain functional imaging in C. elegans with deterministic landmarking”
  7. Mariela Petkova: (Engert, Harvard) “Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy in an Intact Larval Zebrafish”

POSTER SESSION

June 10
Biomolecular Processes 2, Moderator: Arpita Upadhyaya (UMD)

  1. Mason Rouches: (Machta, Yale) “Wetting of Critical Membranes by Protein Droplets”
  2. Sagar Setru: (Shaevitz & Petry, Princeton) “A hydrodynamic instability drives protein droplet formation on microtubules to nucleate branches (phase separation/cytoskeleton)”
  3. Fernando Bruno da Silva: (Vitor Barbanti Pereira Leite, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil) “Non-native interactions modulate protein folding Kinetics"
  4. Roger Zou: (Ha, JHU) “Very fast Cas9 deactivation”

Dynamical Systems & Networks, Moderator: Ilya Nemenman (Emory)

  1. Xiowen Chen: (Bialek, Princeton) “Emergent long time scales without fine tuning in linear models of neural networks”
  2. Shubham Tripathi: (Levine, Northeastern) “Networks Regulating Cell Fate Choice are Minimally Frustrated”
  3. Carlos Floyd: (Papoian & Jarzynski, UMD) "Hessian Analysis Enables Prediction of Cytoquake Occurrence”
  4. Basilio Cieza-Huaman: (Ha, JHU) “Nucleation andNon-Equilibrium Drives Phase Separation in A Cooperative Kinetic Reaction-Diffusion Model”

June 11
Cellular dynamics & processes, Moderator: Kurt Schmoller

  1. Ingrid Bernardes Santana Martins: (Alexandre Suman de Arauj, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil) “Investigation of the interactions between mastoparan-like antimicrobial peptides with bacterial membrane models by Molecular Dynamics Simulations”
  2. Madeline Galbraith: (Onuchic, Rice) “Towards understanding stem cell differentiation by random parametric perturbation”
  3. Feng Yuan: (Stachowia, UT Austin) “Membrane bending by protein phase separation”
  4. Aleksandar Atemin: (Stoynov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia) “Dia2 on the Crossroad between DNA Replication and Regulation of Cell Growth and Division”
  5. Zane Thornburg: (Luthey-Schulten, UIUC) “Stochastic Spatial Simulation of Gene Expression in a Minimal Cell”
  6. Robert Hubner: (Wallingford, UT Austin) “Cadherin clustering controls heterogeneous, asymmetric junction dynamics during vertebrate axis elongation.”
  7. Joris Messelink: (Broedersz, LMU Munich) “Learning the distribution of single-cell chromosome conformations in bacteria reveals emergent order across genomic scales”

June 12
Biomolecular processes 2, Moderator: Arpita Upadhyaya

  1. Mason Rouches: (Machta) “Wetting of Critical Membranes by Protein Droplets”
  2. Sagar Setru: (Shaevitz & Sabine Petry) A hydrodynamic instability drives protein droplet formation on microtubules to nucleate branches (phase separation/cytoskeleton)
  3. Hao Yan (Mochrie, Yale University) "Dynamics of loop extruding polymers"

Dynamical systems & networks--Moderator: TBA

  1. Shubham Tripathi: (Levine) Networks Regulating Cell Fate Choice are Minimally Frustrated
  2. Carlos Floyd: (Garegin Papoian and Christopher Jarzynski) "Hessian Analysis Enables Prediction of Cytoquake Occurrence.”