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Past Seminars

 

Universal properties of cellular input-output functions

Speaker: Jeremy Gunawardena (Harvard University, Cambridge)
Host: Rosa Martínez-Corral (Barcelona Collaboratorium & Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Exploiting evolution to design better cancer therapies

Speaker: Alexander Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Phenotypic association in biological systems: principles and applications in drug design

Speaker: Giuseppe Battaglia (IBEC, Barcelona)
Host: Rosa Martínez-Corral (Barcelona Collaboratorium & Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Networks, forces and metabolism: A synthetic approach to understand patterning in multicellular systems

Speaker: Vikas Trivedi (EMBL Barcelona)
Host: ‪Alejandro Torres-Sánchez (EMBL Barcelona)

Mining Multi-Omics by New AI Algorithms to Enable Precision Medicine

Speaker: Natasa Przulj (BSC, Barcelona)
Host: Nora Martin (Barcelona Collaboratorium & Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Modeling biological growth and pattern formation

Speaker: Saúl Ares (CNB-CSIC, Madrid)
Host: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (UPF, Barcelona)

Searching for Design Principles of Cellular Behaviour

Speaker: Michael Stumpf (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Self-organization of the cytoplasm in early embryogenesis

Speaker: Jan Brugues (TU Dresden, Physics of Life Excellence Cluster)
Host: David Oriola (UPC)

Solving amyloid nucleation by deep mutagenesis

Speaker: Benedetta Bolognesi (IBEC, Barcelona)
Host: Ben Lehner (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Variance sum rule for entropy production

Speaker: Fèlix Ritort (Universitat de Barcelona)
Host: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (UPF, Barcelona)

Self-organization of primitive metabolic cycles and shape-shifting complexes due to non-reciprocal interactions

Speaker: Ramin Golestanian (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Germany & Oxford University, UK)
Host: Nora Martin (Barcelona Collaboratorium & Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Making quantitative phenotypic predictions and understanding molecular mechanisms from genome-wide gene expression dynamics

Speaker: Mirko Francesconi (ENS Lyon, France)
Host: Nick Stroustrup (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Gene-free landscape models for development

Speaker: Meritxell Saez (Institut Químic de Sarrià, Barcelona)
Host: Rosa Martínez-Corral (Barcelona Collaboratorium & Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

The Mechanobiology of Bacterial Filamentation

Speaker: Javier Buceta (I2SysBio, CSIC-UV, Valencia)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Geometry-driven organisation in living matter

Speaker: Anna Erzberger (EMBL Heidelberg)
Host: Alejandro Torres-Sánchez (EMBL Barcelona)

Back of the envelope cell biology

Speaker: Jané Kondev (Brandeis University, US)
Host: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (UPF, Barcelona)

Inverse methods for optimal locomotion and morphogenesis

Speaker: José Muñoz (UPC, Barcelona)
Host: Alejandro Torres-Sánchez (EMBL Barcelona)

Unveiling tipping mechanisms: About transients and warning signals in Ecology and Biomedicine

Speaker: Josep Sardanyés (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona)
Host: Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

An AI Engine for Deep Drug Discovery

Speaker: Jordi Mestres (Universitat de Girona)
Host: Luis Serrano (CRG, Barcelona)

The physical laws of small life

Speaker: Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute, US)
Host: Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Growth control from cells to organisms

Speaker: Ben Towbin (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
Host: Nick Stroustrup (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

The fascinating world of in vitro neuronal cultures: complex networks, engineering, and biological computation

Speaker: Jordi Soriano (UB, Barcelona)
Host: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (UPF, Barcelona)

Stochastic thermodynamics: promises and challenges for studying living systems

Speaker: Artemy Kolchinsky (UPF, Barcelona)
Host: Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

How geometry and randomness regulate the stem cell numbers

Speaker: Bernat Corominas Murtra (University of Graz, Austria)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Viral Odyssey: Navigating Genotype Spaces from a Virus' Perspective

Speaker: Susanna Manrubia (CNB-CSIC, Spain)
Host: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (UPF, Barcelona)

Controllable protein design with unsupervised language models

Speaker: Noelia Ferruz (IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona)
Host: Mafalda Dias (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Hydrodynamics of tissues. Biological complexity under the rug?

Speaker: Jaume Casademunt (Universitat de Barcelona)
Host: Vikas Trivedi (EMBL Barcelona)

The extended genotype

Speaker: Amélie Baud (CRG, Barcelona)
Host: Jonathan Frazer (CRG, Barcelona)

Oriented flows in biological tissues

Speaker: Matthias Merkel (CENTURI, Marseille)
Host: Vikas Trivedi (EMBL Barcelona)

Origins of Life: Chemistry and Evolution

Speaker: Loren Williams (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
Host: Artemy Kolchinsky (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Synthetic genomics to unravel the regulatory code of lineage-specific gene expression in blood

Speaker: Lars Velten (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)
Host: Mafalda Dias (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

The (complete) zoo of pattern-formation gene networks

Speaker: Isaac Salazar (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Supercomputers and Virtual Human: the next medical revolution is coming

Speaker: Mariano Vasquez (Barcelona Supercomputing Centre)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Chromatin (re)organization and regional mutation rates in cancer genomes

Speaker: Fran Supek (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona)
Host: Ben Lehner (CRG, Barcelona)

‘Cybernetics’ of development: How can we predict and control development under changing environment?

Speaker: Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Coupling AI with bio-based hardware: accelerated synthetic evolution of gene editors and writers

Speaker: Marc Güell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Host: Jonathan Frazer (CRG, Barcelona)

(A)symmetry and complexity in neural systems

Speaker: Luís F. Seoane (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CBN, CSIC, Spain)
Host: Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Blending Chemistry and Biology to Enable Systems Pharmacology

Speaker: Patrick Alloy (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona)
Host: Vikas Trivedi (EMBL Barcelona)

“The effect of mutations on folded RNA structures: thermodynamic principles, indels and evolving populations”

Speaker: Nora Martin (Collaboratorium Independent Fellow & CRG)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

How to interpret the cis-regulatory sequence rules learned by a deep learning model

Speaker: Julia Zeitlinger (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, US)
Host: Ben Lehner, CRG