Physics of the Immune System & Immunology II

Presentations

• Mapping the dynamics of the vertebrate immune system

  Invited-In-person · Invited

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

  Presenters

  • Deepika Sundarraman

    • The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network

  Authors

  • Deepika Sundarraman

    • The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network

  • Fitzgerald Small

  • Jordão Bragantini

  • Ilan Theodoro

  • Jared Nigg

  • Sheng Xiao

  • Merlin Lange

  • Loïc Royer

  • Keir Balla

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• Structural determinants of bacteriophage antigenicity

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Krista Freeman

    • Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Krista Freeman

    • Case Western Reserve University

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• Biophysical Modeling for Predicting Human T Cell Repertoire Specificity

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: 1. Wang, A., Lin, X., Chau, K.N., Onuchic, J.N., Levine, H. and George, J.T., 2024. RACER-m leverages structural features for sparse T cell specificity prediction. Science Advances, 10(20), p.eadl0161.
  2. Ghoreyshi, Z.S., Tubo, N., Zammataro, L., Mao, X., Ngai, H., Wang, D., Chen, Y., He, Q., Cisneros, E., Liang, S. and Koppikar, P.J., 2025. Biophysical modeling for accurate T cell specificity prediction of viral and tumor antigens. bioRxiv, pp.2025-05.

  Presenters

  • Zahra Ghoreyshi

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Zahra Ghoreyshi

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Noah Tubo

  • Priya Koppikar

  • Herbert Levine

    • Northeastern University

  • José Onuchic

    • Rice University

  • Xingcheng Lin

  • Jeffrey Molldrem

  • Jason George

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• Dynamics of systemic inflammatory response

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Elizabeth Jerison

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Chenjia Lin

  • Duke Chiow

  • Binaya Paudyal

  • Melbourne Tang

    • University of Chicago

  • Elizabeth Jerison

    • University of Chicago

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• Heterogeneity in mechanical response of αβ T cell receptors

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Wonmuk Hwang

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Wonmuk Hwang

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Aoi Akitsu

  • Kristine Brazin

  • Jonathan Duke-Cohan

  • Evan Kirkpatrick

  • Robert Mallis

  • Andrew Parkins

  • Hannah Stephens

  • Kemin Tan

  • Matthew Lang

  • Ellis Reinherz

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• Inferring systemic inflammatory dynamics from time-series gene expression

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Melbourne Tang

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Melbourne Tang

    • University of Chicago

  • Nicolas Romeo

    • University of Chicago

  • Chenjia Lin

  • Aaron Dinner

    • University of Chicago

  • Elizabeth Jerison

    • University of Chicago

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• Live imaging and optogenetic control of infections and immune responses in fruit fly larvae

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Spatial microenvironments tune immune response dynamics in the Drosophila larval fat body, bioRxiv 2024.09.12.612587

  Presenters

  • Brandon Schlomann

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Brandon Schlomann

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ting-Wei Pai

  • Jazmin Sandhu

  • Thomas Graham

  • Ruby Knudsen

  • Hernan Garcia

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Diffusive queues with finite resources as a model for cell signalling

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Zakariah Saeed

    • New York University Abu Dhabi

  Authors

  • Zakariah Saeed

    • New York University Abu Dhabi

  • Fakun Cao

  • Binaya Paudyal

    • New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • Marcus Taylor

  • Kabir Ramola

  • Arjun Narayanan

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• Derivation of elemental concentrations maps in a thin lamb bone sample from a two-dimensional synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence scanning experiment

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Submitted manuscript to the Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express journal (BPEX-105521).

  Presenters

  • Mihai Gherase

    • California State University, Fresno

  Authors

  • Mihai Gherase

    • California State University, Fresno

  • David Fleming

  • Renfei Feng

    • Canadian Light Source

  • Nikhil Hematillake

    • University of California, Merced

  • Gavin Hopper

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• Multiparametric Tissue Mimics for Breast Imaging and Medical Device Testing

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Keenan KE, Wilmes LJ, Aliu SO, Newitt DC, Jones EF, Boss MA, Stupic KF, Russek SE, Hylton NM. Design of a breast phantom for quantitative MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Sep;44(3):610-9. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25214. Epub 2016 Mar 7. PMID: 26949897; PMCID: PMC4983524.

  Presenters

  • Todor Karaulanov

    • CaliberMRI, Inc. (CMRI)

  Authors

  • Stephen Russek

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder

  • Todor Karaulanov

    • CaliberMRI, Inc. (CMRI)

  • Willaim Hollander

  • Chamni Jayarathna

  • Callie Weiant

  • John Wenzel

  • Shannon John

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