"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 WILL START A BIT LATER THIS YEAR, ON 4 OCT 2024 | ||||
| 4 Oct 2024 | Gautam Reddy | Dynamic landscapes during cellular growth and diversification | ||
| 11 Oct 2024 | Guillaume Montagnac | Associative memory in human cancer cells | ||
| 18 Oct 2024 | Michael Baym | Plasmid ecology | ||
| 25 Oct 2024 | Matthew Fisher | Quantum processing in the brain? | ||
| 1 Nov 2024 | Ayan Paul | Charting alternative splicing: the rise of the machines | ||
| 8 Nov 2024 | Mohit Kumar Jolly | Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks in cancer | ||
| 15 Nov 2024 | Adam Palmer | How combination therapy cures some cancers | ||
| 22 Nov 2024 | Stacey Finley | Exploring the tumor ecosystem: modeling across scales | ||
| 29 Nov 2024 | THANKSGIVING | |||
| 6 Dec 2024 | Stephen Wolfram | Computational irreducibility and minimal models of biology | ||
| 13 Dec 2024 | Richard Watson | Learning, memory and adaptation before evolution | ||
| WE TAKE A BREAK FROM 13 DEC 2024 - 7 FEB 2025 INCLUSIVE | ||||
| 14 Feb 2025 | Sahin Naqvi | Tradeoffs between transcriptional robustness and dosage sensitivity in development | ||
| 21 Feb 2025 | Suri Vaikuntanathan | Title to be announced | ||
| 28 Feb 2025 | Zev Gartner | Order from disorder: self-organization in development and disease | ||
| 7 Mar 2025 | Benjamin Allen | The evolutionary origins of collective action | ||
| 14 Mar 2025 | Steven Orzack | Science needs philosophy, but what philosophy? | ||
| 21 Mar 2025 | Leonor Saiz | Title to be announced | ||
| 28 Mar 2025 | Amy Shyer | Title to be announced | ||
| 4 Apr 2025 | Andrea Liu | Emergence of complex function in biological and physical adaptive matter | ||
| 11 Apr 2025 | Lucy O'Brien | How flux through the cell lifecycle enables organ adaptation | ||
| 18 Apr 2025 | EASTER WEEKEND | |||
| 25 Apr 2025 | Saad Bhamla | Movement sans ATP and learning sans neurons in curious ciliates | ||
| 16 May 2025 | Emily Miraldi | Genome-scale regulatory network modeling | ||
| 23 May 2025 | MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND | |||
| 30 May 2025 | Ivana Bozic | Evolutionary dynamics of cancer | ||
| 6 Jun 2025 | Francis Corson | Title to be announced | ||
| 13 Jun 2025 | Melissa Harrison | Pioneers, settlers and life on the Oregon trail | ||
| 20 Jun 2025 | Stephanie Palmer | Which part of a visual system should evolution modify first? | ||
| THEORY LUNCH GOES INTO RECESS AFTER 20 JUNE 2025 | ||||
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