Cellular Sensing and Signaling II

Presentations

• Physical limits on the evolution of bacterial chemotactic behavior Victor Sourjik

  Invited-In-person · Invited

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

  Publication: Kargeti, M.; Kalita, I.; Hoch, S.; Ratnikava, M.; Xu, W.; Ni, B.; Dy, R. L.; Bannard, C.; Sourjik, V. Experimental evolution partially restores functionality of bacterial chemotaxis network with reduced number of components. PLOS Genetics 21 (7), e1011784 (2025)
  
  Lisevich, I.; Colin, R.; Yang, H. Y.; Ni, B.; Sourjik, V. Physics of swimming and its fitness cost determine strategies of bacterial investment in flagellar motility. Nature Communications 16 (1), 1731 (2025)
  

  Presenters

  • Victor Sourjik

    • Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

  Authors

  • Victor Sourjik

    • Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

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• Regulatory Regions in Gene Regulation as an Information Bottleneck

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07641

  Presenters

  • Marianne Bauer

    • Delft University of Technology

  Authors

  • Marianne Bauer

    • Delft University of Technology

  • Tamara Mijatovic

  • Aimee Kok

  • Merlijn Brueggen

  • Jos Zwanikken

  • William Bialek

    • Princeton University

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• Directional Sensing by Eukaryotic Receptors

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Purushottam Dixit

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Purushottam Dixit

    • Yale University

  • Andrew Goetz

    • Yale University

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• Investigating conditions of perfect adaptation in equilibrium signaling networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Lucy Sullivan

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Lucy Sullivan

    • Yale University

  • Purushottam Dixit

    • Yale University

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• Behavior-environment information loop drives sensory navigation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Kevin Chen

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Kevin Chen

    • Yale University

  • Damon Clark

    • Yale University

  • Thierry Emonet

    • Yale University

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• Spatial Computation of Quorum Sensing Bacterial Hopfield Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Nathan Prouse

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Nathan Prouse

    • University of Southern California

  • James Boedicker

    • University of Southern California

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• Optimal sensing through phase separation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19021

  Presenters

  • Henry Alston

    • Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPENS

  Authors

  • Henry Alston

    • Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPENS

  • Mason Rouches

    • University of Chicago

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

  • Aleksandra Walczak

    • CNRS

  • Thierry Mora

    • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

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• How can phase separation be used for kinetic proofreading?

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Myles O'Leary

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Myles O'Leary

    • Princeton University

  • William Jacobs

    • Princeton University

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• Experimental evolution of kinetic proofreading

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Riccardo Ravasio

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Riccardo Ravasio

    • University of Chicago

  • Kabir Husain

    • University of Chicago

  • Kristen Vosberg

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

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• Stepping both forward, and back: How cells might sense right from abundant wrong

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: (A manuscript supporting this work is in progress.)

  Presenters

  • Gabriel Salmon

    • National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology

  Authors

  • Gabriel Salmon

    • National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology

  • Dongyang Li

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Michael Elowitz

    • Caltech

  • Rob Phillips

    • Caltech

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• Information Flows to Auditory Hair Bundles near Criticality

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Charles Metzler-Winslow

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Charles Metzler-Winslow

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Dolores Bozovic

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Are otoacoustic emissions high-frequency extended modes?

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Asheesh Momi

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Asheesh Momi

    • Yale University

  • Michael Abbott

    • Yale University

  • Isabella Graf

  • Ben Machta

    • Yale University

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• Characterizing Nonlinear Dynamics of Sound Detection in the Auditory System via Entrainment Analysis

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Publication: We will likely submit a manuscript early next year, but it is unlikely to be published before the APS meeting.

  Presenters

  • Dzmitry Vaido

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Dzmitry Vaido

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Justin Faber

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Yuttana Roongthumskul

  • Dolores Bozovic

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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