Background on qbio.ca seminars

The intention is to have talks twice a year with two invited (20min+10min Q&A) and several contributed talks (10+5min). The theme is biological physics, and we intend to have at least one talk  from a Canadian group every time (see qbio.ca for more of them). We aim to have a diversity of speakers, identities, perspectives, and topics. All are welcome! Email andrew.rutenberg@me.com or aidan.brown@torontomu.ca with suggestions about talks you'd like to see and speakers you'd like to hear, to volunteer for a contributed talk, or if you'd like to be removed from the list.

Previous qbio.ca seminars:

Joel Zylerberg(York University)http://www.jzlab.orgIncorporating biophysical neuron models into modern      machine learning architectures to make digital twins of the eyes and brain

Elena Koslover(UCSD)http://koslover.ucsd.eduEmergent Architecture of Active Organelle Networks

Nico Schramma(UvAmsterdam, group of Mazi Jalaalhttps://www.fluidlab.nl)Light-induced Chloroplast-Morphodynamics in a single celled AlgaeJosh Milstein (UTM) "Learning to Count Proteins in Cells with Single-Molecule Imaging" http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/milsteinlab/

Clinton Durney (JIC (UK)) "Three-Dimensional Vertex Modelling of Drosophila Salivary Gland Invagination" https://clintondurney.github.io

Sarah Rauscher (UTM) "Molecular Simulations of Disordered and Flexible Proteins"

https://rauscher-group.physics.utoronto.ca

Paul Francois (McGill) "Timers, Sizers, Adders : evolving cell cycle control in silico"

https://www.mcgill.ca/francois-group

Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan (UofT) "Modelling biological tissues: embryonic development and tissue repair"   group of https://www.quantmorph.ca

Natasha Mhatre (UWO) "Identifying single molecule contributions in high frequency auditory amplification ininsects’https://www.natashamhatre.net

Daniel Charlebois (Alberta) https://sites.ualberta.ca/~dcharleb/ "Lattice-based simulations of yeast colony       growth under low-nutrient conditions and magnetic field exposure"

Sid Goyal (UofT) https://goyallab.wordpress.com "Statistical dynamics of tumor initiation and progression"

Steven Blaber (SFU) "Minimum-Dissipation Protocols and Optimal Free Energy Estimation"

    group of David Sivak https://www.sfu.ca/physics/sivakgroup.html

Isaac Li (UBC Okanagan) "Imaging molecular force by the fluorescence adhesion footprint"

https://people.ok.ubc.ca/isaacli/

Rachael Mansbach (Concordia) "Venomous Landscapes and Viral Trajectories:Evaluation of Free Energy       Surfaces for Disulfide-Rich Peptide Design and a Side Story about the SARS-CoV2 Spike Protein" https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/physics/research/mansbach-research-group.html

Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie) "The Physics of Aging and Death" rutengroup.ca

Stephanie Weber (McGill) "No membrane, no problem: Condensing bacterial organelles.”

https://weberlab.ca/

Sven van Teeffelen (UdeM/Pasteur) "Coordination of volume growth and biomass growth in bacteria” https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/microbial-morphogenesis-and-growth/

Catherine Beauchemin "The fascinating world of defective, interfering flu virions!”

https://ithems.riken.jp/en/members/catherine-beauchemin

https://phymbie.physics.ryerson.ca

Aidan Brown "Nonequilibrium and geometric effects control mRNA localization to mitochondria” https://www.physics.ryerson.ca/aidan.brown/research.html