"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? | ||
| 8 Nov 2024 | Mohit Kumar Jolly | Low dimensionality of phenotypic space as an emergent property of biological regulatory networks | ||
| 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 | ||
| 11 Apr 2025 | Lucy O'Brien | How flux through the cell lifecycle enables organ adaptation | ||
| 18 Apr 2025 | EASTER WEEKEND | |||
| 23 May 2025 | MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND | |||
| 20 Jun 2025 | Stephanie Palmer | Which part of a visual system should evolution modify first? | ||
| THEORY LUNCH GOES INTO RECESS AFTER 27 JUNE 2025 AND RESTARTS IN SEPTEMBER | ||||
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