DBIO Early Career Prize Session

Presentations

• Overcoming thermal fluctuations requires large energetic costs for biological computation

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 6:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 6:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin B Machta

    Yale University

  Authors

  • Benjamin B Machta

    Yale University

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• Principles of Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 6:36 PM – March 17, 2025, 6:48 PM

  Publication: Mohanty, V. and Shakhnovich, E.I. Principles of Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design. Manuscript Under Preparation.

  Presenters

  • Vaibhav Mohanty

    Harvard University/MIT

  Authors

  • Vaibhav Mohanty

    Harvard University/MIT

  • Eugene I Shakhnovich

    Harvard University

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• Direct estimates of the irreversibility from time-series data

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 6:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Trevor K GrandPre

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Trevor K GrandPre

    Princeton University

  • Gianluca Teza

    Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • William S Bialek

    Princeton University

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• A theory of ecological invasions and its implications for short-term eco-evolutionary dynamics

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 7:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Zhijie Feng

    Boston University

  Authors

  • Zhijie Feng

    Boston University

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• DBIO Dissertation Award Emergent behaviors in complex microbial ecosystems

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 7:12 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:48 PM

  Publication: 1. Hu, Jiliang, et al. "Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms." Science 378.6615 (2022): 85-89.
  2. Hu, Jiliang, et al. "Collective dynamical regimes predict invasion success and impacts in microbial communities." Nature Ecology&Evolution (accepted)

  Presenters

  • Jiliang Hu

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  Authors

  • Jiliang Hu

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

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• Biophysical limits of ultrafast cellular motility

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 7:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:00 PM

  Publication: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.22.609204v1

  Presenters

  • Ray Chang

    Stanford University

  Authors

  • Ray Chang

    Stanford University

  • Manu Prakash

    Stanford University

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• Pf bacteriophages hinder sputum antibiotic diffusion via electrostatic binding

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:12 PM

  Publication: Chen Q, Cai P, Chang TH, Burgener E, Kratochvil MJ, Gupta A, Hargill A, Secor PR, Nielsen JE, Barron AE, Milla C, Heilshorn SC, Spakowitz AJ, Bollyky PL. Pf bacteriophages hinder sputum antibiotic diffusion via electrostatic binding. Science Advances. 2024 May 31;10(22):eadl5576.

  Presenters

  • Pamela Cai

    University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Pamela Cai

    University of Chicago

  • Andrew J Spakowitz

    Stanford University

  • Sarah Heilshorn

    Stanford University

  • Paul Bollyky

    Stanford University

  • Qingquan Chen

    Stanford University

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• Three Dimensional structures determine fast dynamics between distal loci pairs in Interphase Chromosomes

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:12 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Guang Shi

    University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Guang Shi

    University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Sucheol Shin

    University of Texas at Austin

  • Dave Thirumalai

    University of Texas at Austin, UT Austin

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• Explaining the in vivo–in vitro transition of Min protein patterns

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:24 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:36 PM

  Publication: H Weyer, S Meindlhumer, M Yan, J Schönberger, J Kerssemakers, M Grooters, C Dekker, and E Frey. Explaining the in vivo–in vitro transition of Min protein patterns (in preparation).

  Presenters

  • Henrik Weyer

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

  Authors

  • Henrik Weyer

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

  • Sabrina Meindlhumer

    Delft University of Technology

  • Mingqi Yan

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU Munich)

  • Joel Schönberger

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU Munich)

  • Jacob Kerssemakers

    Delft University of Technology

  • Mandy Grooters

    Delft University of Technology

  • Cees Dekker

    Delft University of Technology

  • Erwin A Frey

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

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• Macroscopic patterns of tractions, stress, and proliferation in freely-expanding and externally driven epithelia.

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:36 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Isaac Boris Breinyn

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Isaac Boris Breinyn

    Princeton University

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• Understanding Evolving Living Tissues Using Geometric Deep Learning

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 9:00 PM

  Publication: Yang, H., Meyer, F., Huang, S., Yang, L., Lungu, C., Olayioye, M. A., Buehler, M. J., & Guo, M. (2024). Learning collective cell migratory dynamics from a static snapshot with graph neural networks. Accepted for publication at PRX Life.
  Yang, H., Nguyen, A. Q., Bi, D., Buehler, M. J., & Guo, M. (2024). Multicell-Fold: geometric learning in folding multicellular life. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07055.

  Presenters

  • Haiqian Yang

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Haiqian Yang

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Markus Buehler

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Ming Guo

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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