DBIO Early Career Prize Session

Presentations

• Overcoming thermal fluctuations requires large energetic costs for biological computation

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:36 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, 3:36 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:48 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, 3:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:00 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, 4:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:12 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, 4:12 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:48 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, 4:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:00 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, 5:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:12 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, 5:12 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:24 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, 5:24 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:36 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, 5:36 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:48 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, 5:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 6:00 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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