Condensed and Living Matter Seminars
Upcoming Condensed and Living Matter Seminars
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Of the Surface of Things: Ice, Drops, Bubbles, Singularities
Saurabh Nath (MIT)
Place a drop of water on an icy surface—it crystallizes at the point of contact, and a slow ice front steadily grows upwards. Place a bubble instead, and a burst of ice crystals erupts across its interface, far from…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Cellular collective behavior in spatially complex environments
Emily Hager (Boston University)
Collective behaviors are processes in which large-scale patterns arise from fundamentally local interactions among individuals; in biological systems, these can be organisms, cells, or molecules. A critical open…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Living systems in crowded spaces: from microbial communities to biomolecular condensates
Alejandro Martinez-Calvo (Princeton)
Spatial organization in living systems is crucial for their functioning and is typically achieved in complex environments––from molecular processes in the crowded cytoplasm to microbial collectives growing in…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Understanding spontaneous assembly in biology: How self-assembly and phase separation work together to build biological structures.
LaNell Williams (Princeton)
How does nature build complex structures from repetitive strands of nucleic acid lipids and proteins? Furthermore how does nature decide upon what physical principles to use to build these structures? We hope to…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Driven molecular fluxes control the number size and position of an essential phase-separated organelle in algae
Linnea Lemma (Princeton)
Phase separation of biological molecules has emerged as a key mechanism by which cells organize their interior spaces. Investigating the physical principles by which these biomolecular condensates facilitate cellular…