"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
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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