PoLS-SRN EVENTS at UMD

Spring 2024 Seminars

March 1, 2024
PSC 1136 12:00 – 1:00pm
Anna Emenheiser - Large scale collective biological neural network dynamics

March 15, 2024
PSC 1136 12:00 – 1:00pm
Nathan Zimmerberg - Modeling the mechanical and chemical interactions between non-muscle myosin II and actin filaments

April 5, 2024
PSC 1136 12:00 – 1:00pm
Elissa Moller - MscS in context of the native membrane

April 19, 2024
PSC 1136 12:00 – 1:00pm
Raunak Dey - Inferring connections in virus=microbe networks using machine learning

May 3, 2024
PSC 1136 12:00 – 1:00pm
Aashli Pathni - Mechanical regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics and function in cytotoxic T lymphocytes

Fall 2023 Seminar

November 3, 2023
PSC 1136 1:00 – 2:00pm
Raunak Dey - Higher order interactions shaping virus microbe community dynamics

Fall 2022 Seminars

September 30, 2022
PSC 1136 1:00 – 2:00pm
Sylvester Gates - Neural biomechanical development and coupling to ionic dynamics

November 11, 2022
PSC 1136 1:00 – 2:00pm
Lukas Herron - Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models and RNA folding

Spring 2022 Seminars

April 29, 2022
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Shams Mehdi - Thermodynamics of interpreting artificial intelligence and other obscure models

May 20, 2022
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Spandan Pathak - Local vs. Central nervous system control of hindgut motility

Fall 2021 Seminars

October 8, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Corey Herr - Phase field modeling of cell motility on asymmetric nanotopography

October 15, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Qin Ni - Cell volume regulation under mechanical stimuli

October 29, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Cathy Gu - Label-free cell tracking and dynamic rearrangements in epithelial monolayers

November 12, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Aashli Pathni - T lymphocyte activation signals modulate cytoskeletal dynamics and mechanical force generation

December 3, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Yihang Wang - AI augmented molecular simulations for probing ligand dissociation from flexible proteins and nucleic acids

Spring 2021 Seminars

April 2, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Aravind Chandrasekaran - The roles of Ena and Arp2/3 in actin networks: Computational simulations reveal how they are similar, and how they are different

April 9, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Philip Alvarez - From ms to min: Bridging dynamics across scales in electrically active cells

April 30, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Amitava Banjeree - Neural time series analysis with machine learning

May 7, 2021
Zoom Webinar: 12 pm
Nick Mennona - TBA

Fall 2020 Seminars

August 21, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 1 pm
Kaustubh Wagh - A tale of two rings: experiments and simulations on actin organization at the T cell synapse

September 11, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 1 pm
Samira Aghayee - Developing new experimental techniques to understand neuronal networks.

September 25, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 3 pm
Qixin Yang - TBA

October 16, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 1 pm
Naoran Ni - Mechanochemical cytoskeleton simulation with membrane

November 6, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 11 am
Philip Alvarez - Imaging and Measuring Biological Information Flow Across Scales

November 20, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 1 pm
Sung-Ting Tsai - Learning and predicting dynamics in chemical or biological systems

Spring 2020 Seminars

May 8, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 1pm
Yihang Wang - How do proteins, nucleic acids and ligands talk to each other: Insights from AI augmented molecular simulations.

May 15, 2020
Zoom Webinar: 1pm
Abby Bull - TBA

Fall 2019 Seminars

August 22, 2019
PSC 3150 3:30 - 4:30pm
David Garcia – New Emergent Properties of Transcription Factor Dynamics and Their Interactions with Chromatin

September 20, 2019
PSC 3150 12:00 – 1:00pm
Lenny Campanello – Quantifying micron-scale polymerization and depolymerization dynamics in immune cells

October 18, 2019
PSC 3150 12:00 – 1:00pm
Aravind Chandrasekaran – Morphological Transitions in Actin Bundles are Determine by Their Initial Polarity, Myosin Activity, Crosslinking, and Filament Treadmilling
Qin Ni – Tensile Stress Induced Cytoskeletal Reorganization: Mechanics before Chemistry

December 6, 2019
PSC 3150 12:00 – 1:00pm
Zachary Smith - From atoms to pathways: automated protein conformational sampling with AMINO and RAVE

Special iPoLS Faculty Seminar

October 31, 2019
IPST 1116 1:00 - 2:00pm
Dr. Margaret Cheung (University of Houston, Department of Physics) – Physics of Memoryand Learning – from the Perspective of Interacting Biomolecules