Quantitative Cell Physiology II

Presentations

• Surplus of central biosynthetic components benefits physiological adaptation in Escherichia coli

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Fangwei Si

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  Authors

  • Fangwei Si

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Huijing Wang

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Rami Pugatch

  • Dotan Goberman

  • Christopher Aldrich

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• From bacterial growth laws to detecting drug action mechanisms

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: Leon Seeger, Fernanda Pinheiro, Michael Lässig. Resource allocation in biochemically structured metabolic networks.
  bioRxiv 2024.03.27.586223; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.27.586223

  Presenters

  • Michael Lassig

    • University of Cologne

  Authors

  • Leon Seeger

    • University of Cologne

  • Fernanda Pinheiro

  • Michael Lassig

    • University of Cologne

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• Hidden variables and divergent time-scales: Non-bistable mechanisms for phenotypic diversification under stress

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678360v1.abstract

  Presenters

  • Ethan Levien

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Ethan Levien

    • Dartmouth College

  • Daniel Schultz

  • João Pedro Teuber Carvalho

  • Linh Huynh

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• Heteroresistance as a Stochastic Property of a Dynamical System in Bacterial Populations

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Minsu Kim

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Minsu Kim

    • Emory University

  • Muqing Ma

  • Tats Akiyama

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• E. coli exploits growth arrest to quickly adapt its phenotype under carbon starvation

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: "E. coli prepares for starvation by dramatically remodeling its proteome in the first hours after loss of nutrients" doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.29.582700

  Presenters

  • Théo Gervais

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Théo Gervais

    • Stanford University

  • Björn Kscheschinski

  • Michael Mell

  • Nevil Goepfert

  • Erik Van Nimwegen

  • Thomas Julou

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• Single-cell dynamics of antibiotic persistence reveal diverse modes of survival

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Publication: Miki Umetani, Miho Fujisawa, Reiko Okura, Takashi Nozoe, Shoichi Suenaga, Hidenori Nakaoka, Edo Kussell, Yuichi Wakamoto (2025) Observation of persister cell histories reveals diverse modes of survival in antibiotic persistence eLife 14:e79517, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79517

  Presenters

  • Miki Umetani

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Miki Umetani

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Miho Fujisawa

  • Reiko Okura

  • Takashi Nozoe

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Shoichi Suenaga

  • Hidenori Nakaoka

  • Edo Kussell

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Yuichi Wakamoto

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• Aging as a loss of communication fidelity in gene regulatory networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Publication: We are planning to submit a paper on this work

  Presenters

  • Brooke Emison

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Brooke Emison

    • Yale University

  • Purushottam Dixit

    • Yale University

  • Andrew Mugler

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Fabrisia Ambrosio

  • Christopher Lynn

    • Yale University

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• Viper Vision 1: Fundamental physics of biological vision systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • SM Umayer

    • University of California, Riverside

  Authors

  • SM Umayer

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Jacky Wan

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Narendra Bam

  • Zachary Miller

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Nathaniel Gabor

    • University of California, Riverside

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• Noise Enhances Multisensor Olfactory Predictions

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Francesco Marcolli

    • University of Genova

  Authors

  • Francesco Marcolli

    • University of Genova

  • Martin James

  • Agnese Seminara

    • University of Genova

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• Characterizing Chaotic Cardiac Voltage Dynamics across Space, Time, and Species

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Mikael Toye

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Mikael Toye

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Dessi Pinson

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Carolyn Martsberger

  • Flavio Fenton

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Gated recurrent neural networks as a framework for studying neuromodulation: improving memory capacity and appearance of generalization due to neuropeptide-like action

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Hector Manuel Lopez Rios

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Hector Manuel Lopez Rios

    • University of Chicago

  • Daiki Goto

    • University of Chicago

  • Monika Scholz

  • Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

    • University of Chicago

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• Calcium dynamics of living neural networks under modulated brain metabolic stresses

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Jake Miller

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Jake Miller

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Sylvester Gates III

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