PRX Life Symposium

Presentations

• 3D cell rearrangement progression and tissue structure during epithelial morphogenesis

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: PRX Life 4, 013005, 2026; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/l5r5-pb9t

  Presenters

  • Karen E Kasza

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Karen E Kasza

    • Columbia University

  • Erika M Kusaka

    • Columbia University

  • Sassan Ostvar

    • Columbia University

  • Xiaoyun Liu

    • Columbia University

  • Xun Wang

    • Columbia University

  • Tianyi Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Frustration and Percolation in the Collective Dynamics of Biological Neuron Networks

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: Collective Dynamics of Frustrated Biological Neuron Networks, Guanyu Li, Ryan LeFebre, Alia Starman, Patrick Chappell*, Andrew Mugler* and Bo Sun*, PRX Life 2025, 3, 033002
  Emergence of synchronized multicellular mechanosensing from spatiotemporal integration of heterogeneous single-cell information transfer, Amos Zamir, Guanyu Li, Katelyn Chase, Robert Moskovitch, Bo Sun*, Assaf Zaritsky*, Cell Systems, 2022, 13, 1-13
  Temporal signals drive the emergence of multicellular information networks, Guanyu Li, Ryan LeFebre, Alia Starman, Patrick Chappell*, Andrew Mugler*, Bo Sun*, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 119 (37) e2202204119
  Communication shapes sensory response in multicellular networks, Garrett Potter, Tommy A. Byrd, Andrew J. Mugler*, Bo Sun*, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(37), 10334 (2016)

  Presenters

  • Bo Sun

    • Oregon State University

  Authors

  • Bo Sun

    • Oregon State University

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• Physical modeling of embryonic transcriptomes identifies collective modes of gene expression

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.1103/7gs5-w48q

  Presenters

  • Dominic J Skinner

    • Flatiron Institute
    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Dominic J Skinner

    • Flatiron Institute
    • Northwestern University

  • Patrick Lemaire

    • Université de Montpellier

  • Madhav Mani

    • Northwestern University

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• From local motor protein activity to global chromosome order in bacteria

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49039-w
  https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/PRXLife.3.013014

  Presenters

  • Janni Harju

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Janni Harju

    • Princeton University

  • Till Armbruster

    • Utrecht University

  • Joris Messelink

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

  • Chase P Broedersz

    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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• How a neural network's signaling relates to its structure

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Publication: Sophie Dvali, Caio Seguin, Richard Betzel, Andrew M. Leifer, "Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network" PRX Life, 3, 033021; 3 Sept (2025)
  
  Francesco Randi, Anuj K. Sharma, Sophie Dvali, Andrew M. Leifer, "Neural signal propagation atlas of C. elegans." Nature 623, 406–414 (2023).

  Presenters

  • Andrew M Leifer

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Sophie Dvali

    • Princeton University

  • Caio Seguin

    • University of Melbourne

  • Richard F Betzel

    • University of Minnesota

  • Andrew M Leifer

    • Princeton University

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