Global Satellite Session: ICTP-SAIFR Brazil – Physics of Life: Across the Americas

Presentations

• Where Physics Meets Behavior in Animal Groups

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 10:30 AM – March 16, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Publication: [1] Nguyen, C., & Peleg, O. (2025). Where Physics Meets Behavior in Animal Groups. PRX Life, 3(3), 037001.
  [2] Peleg, O. (2024). A New Chapter in the Physics of Firefly Swarms. Nature Reviews Physics, 6(2), 72-74.

  Presenters

  • Orit Peleg

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Orit Peleg

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Collective dynamics of self-propelled agents inspired by quorum-sensing bacteria and tissue cells

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 11:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 11:30 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11793;
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.02935

  Presenters

  • Pablo de Castro

  Authors

  • Pablo de Castro

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• Tunable matter as a unifying paradigm for biological function

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 11:30 AM – March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Andrea Jo-Wei Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Andrea Jo-Wei Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Yue Shang

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Adam Gabriel Frim

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Sidney Robert Nagel

    • University of Chicago

  • Haina Wang

    • Princeton University
    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Marco Galvani Cunha

    • Radian Group, Inc.

  • John C Crocker

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Sadjad Arzash

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • M Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University
    • Syracuse University, Bioinspired Institute
    • Department of Physics and BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University
    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244,BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

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• Characterizing the regulatory logic of transcriptional control at the DNA sequence level by ensembles of thermodynamic models

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:30 PM

  Publication: Barr KA, Reinitz J. A sequence level model of an intact locus predicts the location and function of nonadditive enhancers. PLoS One
  2017;12:e0180861. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180861;
  
  Sabino AU, Guerreiro D de M, Kim A-R, Ramos AF, Reinitz J. Characterizing the regulatory logic of transcriptional control at the DNA sequence level by ensembles of thermodynamic models. Bioinformatics. 2025 ; 41( 10): 01-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf534
  
  Ramos AF. Cells are entities specialized in machine learning.

  Presenters

  • Alexandre Ferreira Ramos

  Authors

  • Alexandre Ferreira Ramos

  • Alan U. Sabino

    • Universidade de São Paulo

  • Drielly M. Guerreiro

    • Universidade de São Paulo

  • Ah-Ram Kim

    • School of Life Science, Handong Global University

  • John Reinitz

    • University of Chicago

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