Systems Biology Theory Lunch

"Chalk" talks (whiteboard only, no slideware) on conceptual issues in biological systems. Open to all.
To join the mailing list or for more information, contact the organiser, jeremy (at) hms.harvard.edu

Theory Lunch now has a hybrid format following the pandemic.
You are welcome to participate remotely over zoom but please try to keep your video on.
To receive zoom details, you need to be on the mailing list.
(R) = remote speaker.

Recordings of talks, if available, are accessible through abstracts

Schedule of talks for 2023-24 (and 2024-2025)

HMS, Warren Alpert Building, Room 563, 12-2pm (US Eastern Time).
Lunch is served from 12noon; the talk starts at 12.15pm and is expected to finish around 1.30pm with further time for discussion until 2pm.


      THEORY LUNCH STARTS ON THE LAST FRIDAY IN SEPTEMBER, 29 SEP 2023

29 Sep 2023  Aleksandra Walczak  How to build an adaptive immune system
6 Oct 2023  Rui Diogo  A broader view of life: linking evolution, behavior, medicine and conservation
20 Oct 2023  Marcos Simoes-Costa  The genome as a processor of spatial information
3 Nov 2023  Michael Strevens  The highly effective irrationality of science
10 Nov 2023    VETERAN'S DAY
17 Nov 2023  Eric Deeds  A lack of distinct cell identities in single-cell measurements: revisiting Waddington’s landscape
24 Nov 2023    THANKSGIVING
1 Dec 2023  Matthias Heinemann  Could a metabolic oscillator provide the rhythm for the eukaryotic cell growth and division cycle?
8 Dec 2023  Songi Han  The shape of water on active biomolecular surfaces
15 Dec 2023  Leonid Mirny  Chromosomes as memory machines

      WE TAKE A BREAK FROM 22 DEC 2023 - 16 FEB 2024 INCLUSIVE

23 Feb 2024  Herbert Levine  Epigenetic effects can reshape cell-fate landscapes
1 Mar 2024  Samuel Gershman  Reimagining the biology of memory
8 Mar 2024  Dani Smith Bassett  How humans build models of the world
15 Mar 2024  Niall Mangan  Data-driven model discovery meets mechanistic modeling for biological systems
22 Mar 2024  John Albeck  Linking cellular and organismal metabolic homeostasis: what do mTOR and AMPK really do?
29 Mar 2024    EASTER WEEKEND
5 Apr 2024  Denise Okafor  Investigating interdomain allosteric communication in nuclear receptors
12 Apr 2024  Kirill Korolev  Evolution in growing populations via pulled and pushed waves
19 Apr 2024  Carlos Carmona-Fotaine  Nutrients as positional information within tumors
26 Apr 2024  Pulin Li  How do cells message each other and how can we check their history of received messages?
3 May 2024  Domitilla del Vecchio  Analog epigenetic cell memory by graded DNA methylation
10 May 2024  John Tsang  Immune variation and sensing across scales
17 May 2024  Daniele Canzio  The role of genome architecture in shaping brain architecture
24 May 2024    MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
31 May 2024    !!! NO THEORY LUNCH BECAUSE
7 June 2024    !!! WAB 563 IS BEING UPGRADED
14 Jun 2024  Kate Adamala  Title to be announced
21 Jun 2024  Sujit Datta  The wisdom of the crowd: how bacterial collectives (re)shape themselves
28 Jun 2024  Katie Bentley  Title to be announced

      THEORY LUNCH GOES INTO RECESS AFTER 28 JUNE 2024 AND RESTARTS IN SEPTEMBER


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