"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 (WAB), 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 | Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes | ||
| 28 Feb 2025 | Zev Gartner | Order from disorder: self-organization in development and disease | ||
| 7 Mar 2025 | POSTPONED TO 9 MAY FOR THE STAND-UP-FOR-SCIENCE MEETING | |||
| 14 Mar 2025 | Steven Orzack & James DiFrisco | Science needs philosophy, but what philosophy? | ||
| 21 Mar 2025 | Leonor Saiz | The reasonable and unreasonable effectiveness of equilibrium statistical mechanics in gene regulation | ||
| 28 Mar 2025 | Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues | Supracellular morphological self-organization | ||
| 4 Apr 2025 | Andrea Liu | Complex biological function as an inverse input-output problem | ||
| 11 Apr 2025 | Lucy O'Brien | How flux through the cell lifecycle enables organ adaptation | ||
| 18 Apr 2025 | EASTER WEEKEND | |||
| DUE TO THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AFFECTING ALL US UNIVERSITIES, WE WILL NO LONGER | ||||
| BE ABLE TO SERVE LUNCH NOR TO BRING REMOTE SPEAKERS TO BOSTON IN PERSON. | ||||
| THEORY LUNCH WILL BE MOVING TO ZOOM, AS IT DID DURING THE PANDEMIC. WE WILL | ||||
| CONTINUE TO MEET IN WAB 563. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH OR JOIN US ON ZOOM. | ||||
| 25 Apr 2025 | Saad Bhamla | The Blob: topologically entangled living matter | ||
| 9 May 2025 | Benjamin Allen | Is it time to stop fighting about cooperation? IN PERSON | ||
| 23 May 2025 | MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND | |||
| 30 May 2025 | Ivana Bozic | Evolutionary dynamics of cancer | ||
| 6 Jun 2025 | Francis Corson | How cells agree on making an embryo | ||
| 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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