Complexity in Biological systems A

Chair Information
Chairman: 
Avraham Be'er
Chairman details: 
Avraham Be'er (Ben Gurion University)
Information
Location: 
Eng. 271
Program start time: 
14:15
Program end time: 
16:00

Lectures for this program:

Lecture Time Speaker Lecture subject
14:15-14:45 (invited) Yaron Ideses [1] The dynamics of buckling of self-organizing contractile sheets
Plant and animal tissues adopt curved shapes through buckling and folding instabilities.
14:45-15:00 Inbal Hecht Diversity and heterogeneity in the service of cancer metastasis
Cancer metastases are responsible for more than 90% of solid tumor deaths.
15:00-15:15 Dan Gorbonos [1] Long-range Acoustic Interactions in Insect Swarms: An Adaptive Gravity Model
The collective motion of groups of animals emerges from the net effect of the interactions between
15:15-15:30 Eran Even-Tov Social evolution selects for complexity in bacterial communication systems
Quorum sensing is a process of chemical communication that bacteria use to monitor cell density and coordinate cooperati...
15:30-15:45 Adar Sonn-Segev [1] Statistics of discrete motor-driven events in active actin-myosin networks
Active materials inspired from biological systems are a paradigmatic model to study non-equilibrium statistical mechanic...
15:45-16:00 Roman Golkov Shape regulation generates elastic interaction between active force dipoles
Recently   published   experimental   results   show   that ...