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Past Seminars - 2023

 

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

A mechano-biological feedback between cancer organoids and the ECM initiates and sustains collective invasion

Speaker: Marino Arroyo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Host: Alejandro Torres- Sánchez (EMBL Barcelona)

Decoding vascular regression in limb development

Speaker: Giovanni Dalmasso (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona)
Host: James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Bridging scales in biophysics using in silico microrheology

Speaker: David Oriola (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Host: Tina Haase

Building tissues to understand how tissues build themselves

Speaker: Zev Gartner (University of California, San Francisco (UCSF, USA)

Transitions in epigenetic landscapes in response to accumulation of DNA damage

Speaker: Tomás Alarcón (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona)

Gene-regulatory heterogeneity and canalization in aging

Speaker: Nick Stroustrup (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Active mechanochemical patterns: cell polarity, curvature induced waves, and asymmetries during cytokinesis

Speaker: Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy - International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS, Bangalore, India)

The Thermodynamics of Mind

Speaker: Gustavo Deco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Artificial neural networks to infer mutational signatures

Speaker: Donate Weghorn (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona)

Synthetic biology for terraforming semiarid soils

Speaker: Nuria Conde (EMBL Barcelona)

Cooperative Control of Environmental Extremes: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Study on Collaboration and Human Bases

Speaker: Martí Sànchez-Fibla (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Decoding and Encoding of Molecular Information in Distributed Cellular Systems

Speaker: Madan Rao (NCBS, Bangalore, India)

Optimal decoding of glycan information in single cells

Speaker: Mukund Thattai (NCBS, Bangalore, India)

A new transition for diffusion - driven patterning of cell fates

Speaker: Marta Ibañes (Universitat de Barcelona)

Cellular Phylogenetics: what can cell ancestries teach us about development, aging and cancer?

Speaker: Alejandro Rodriguez-Fraticelli (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IRB)

Somatic mutations in tumors and normal tissues

Speaker: Nuria Lopez-Bigas (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IRB)

Where is dynamical function encoded in gene circuits? A study of design space for simple bi-functional networks

Speaker: James Sharpe (Head of EMBL Barcelona)

The Evolution of Local Energetic Frustration in Protein Families

Speaker: Gonzalo Parra (Barcelona Supercomputing Centre)

Onsager’s variational principle: theory and application to the fracking of cell adhesions by osmotic pressure

Speaker: Alejandro Torres-Sanchez (EMBL Barcelona)

Topological transitions and cell-cell adhesion properties in development

Speaker: Bernat Corominas Murtra (University of Graz)

Active surface flows, patterning and biological morphogenesis

Speaker: Prof. Guillaume Salbreux (University of Geneva)

Information processing through molecular binding in gene regulation (and beyond)

Speaker: Rosa Martinez-Corral (CRG)