Frisbi seminars were traditionally held in Mondi 3 at 15:00 on Fridays. Then, for a while all talks went online because of COVID restrictions. From this academic year (2021-22) however, we are offering a hybrid format, with both in-person seating in Mondi 2 as well as online streaming, still always at 15:00 on Fridays unless mentioned otherwise. All information (including Zoom links) is sent out via regular mails to our mailing list: FriSBi@lists.ist.ac.at.
Note: the following schedule contains both upcoming and former speakers, sorted by date. Affiliation – institute name for external speakers, group name(s) (in alphabetical order, if multiple) for internal speakers – is given in parentheses. External speakers are denoted in red.
Fall 2021/22 and Spring 2022
- Oct 08: Luis Gómez-Nava (Humboldt University of Berlin) – Intermittent individual and collective behavior in biological systems across scales
- Oct 15: Justin Crocker (European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg) – Multidimensional approach to decoding the mysteries of animal development
- Oct 22: David Brückner (Hannezo and Tkačik Groups) – Curvature induces active matter velocity waves in rotating multicellular spheroids
- Oct 29: Jeremy Gunawardena (Harvard University) – Information processing away from thermodynamic equilibrium
- Nov 05: Roderich Römhild (Guet Group) – The evolution of drug interaction patterns
- Nov 12: Nick Barton (Barton Group) – Adaptation in an infinitesimal world [Talk starts at 14:00, one hour earlier than usual]
- Nov 19: Ekaterina Krasnopeeva (Guet Group) – Glass transition in E. coli cytoplasm
- Dec 17: Zena Hadjivasiliou (The Francis Crick Institute and University College London) – Control of size and patterns across biological scales
- Jan 28: Francis Corson (Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Paris) – Mechanics of embryonic self-organization
- Feb 04: Galien Grosjean (Waitukaitis Group) – Triboelectrification: a little water goes a long way
- Feb 18: Diana Pinheiro (Heisenberg Group) – Turning gradients inside out: Morphogen gradient orchestrates pattern-preserving morphogenesis via motility-driven (un)jamming
- Mar 04: Edouard Hannezo (Hannezo Group) – Forces in biology across scales
- Mar 18: Gašper Tkačik (Tkačik Group) – Some biophysical mysteries in eukaryotic transcriptional regulation
- Mar 25: Anđela Šarić (Šarić Group) – One becomes two: proteins assemblies that split cells across evolution
- Apr 01: Luca Giorgetti (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel) – Towards a quantitative understanding of long-range transcriptional regulation
- Apr 22: Louisa Gonzalez Somermeyer (Kondrashov Group)
- Apr 29: Hermann Cuntz (Ernst Strüngmann Institute Frankfurt)
- May 13: Srđan Sarikas (Medizinische Universität Wien)
- May 20: Jaime Agudo-Canalejo (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
- Jun 03: Anna Erzberger (European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg)
- Jun 10: Ksenia Khudiakova (Barton and Maas Groups)
- Jun 24: Nicolas Ecker (Collège de France)
Fall 2020/21 and Spring 2021
- Nov 6: Gašper Tkačik (Tkačik Group) – Collective behavior of pancreatic beta cells
- Nov 13: Sebastian Fürthauer (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute) – The physics of highly crosslinked cytoskeletal networks
- Nov 20: Feyza Nur Arslan (Heisenberg Group)
- Nov 27: Stephan Uphoff (University of Oxford) – DNA repair and mutagenesis in bacteria: resolving dynamics and cellular heterogeneity using single-molecule imaging
- Dec 4: Wiktor Młynarski (Tkačik Group) – What is the “function” of sensory systems? The case of spatial hearing
- Dec 11: Zuzana Dunajová (Hannezo Group) – Simulating collective-single transition in confined cell migration
- Jan 8: TBA
- Jan 15: Thomas Gregor (Princeton University)
- Jan 22: M. Lisa Manning (Syracuse University) – What are the mechanisms that drive arrest of cell motion in confluent biological tissues?
- Jan 29: Mike Hennessey (Guet and Hof Groups)
- Feb 5: Michael Riedl (Hof and Sixt Groups)
- Feb 12: Fabrizio Lombardi (Tkačik Group)
- Feb 19: Daniel Boocock (Hannezo Group)
- Feb 26: Fernanda Pinheiro (University of Cologne)
- Mar 5: Claire Amadio-Dessalles (École Polytechnique and LadHyX)
- Mar 12: Kasumi Kishi (Hannezo and Kicheva Groups)
- Mar 19: Bernat Corominas-Murtra (Hannezo Group)
- Mar 26: Wolfgang Keil (Institut Curie)
- Apr 9: Christoph Zechner (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
- Apr 16: Carles Blanch-Mercader (Université de Genève)
- Apr 23: Jan Philipp Junker (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin) – Cellular drivers of injury response and regeneration in the zebrafish heart
- Apr 30: Tapomoy Bhattacharjee (Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University)
- May 21: Michal Hledík (Barton and Tkačik Groups)
- May 28: Peter Swain (Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh)
- June 11: Jeremy Gunawardena (Blavatnik Institute of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School)
Spring and Summer 2020 (Note: this list contains some scheduled speakers whose talks were later cancelled because of COVID restrictions)
- Jan 17: Jens Elgeti (Forschungszentrum Jülich) – Minimal physical modeling of living systems
- Jan 24: Daan Groot and Age Tjalma (University of Amsterdam) – Elementary approaches to growth rate maximization
- Feb 21: Jeroen van Zon (AMOLF, Amsterdam) – Maintaining form and function in the face of random variability
- Mar 6: Alex Fletcher (University of Sheffield)
- Mar 13: Daniel Boocock (Hannezo Group)
- Mar 20: Wolfgang Keil (Institut Curie)
- Mar 27: Nicoletta Petridou (Heisenberg Group)
- Apr 3: Bernat Corominas-Murtra (Hannezo Group)
- Apr 17: Moritz Kreysing (MPI-CBG Dresden)
- Apr 24: Jan Philipp Junker (MDC Berlin)
- May 29: Jaime Agudo-Canalejo (MPI Göttingen)
- June 23: Naama Barkai (Weizmann Institute)
Fall 2019
- Oct 18: Yiteng Dang (TU Delft) – Collective dynamics in systems of communicating secrete-and-sense cells
- Oct 25: Oleksandr Ostrenko (Hannezo and Heisenberg Groups) – Mathematical Modeling of Transport Processes in the Liver: Bile Flow and Vesicular Trafficking
- Nov 8: Christoph Flamm (University of Vienna) – Discovering Reaction Patterns in Chemical Reaction Networks
- Nov 22: Mehmet Can Ucar (Hannezo Group) – Collective force generation by molecular motors deduced from single-molecule properties
- Nov 29: Diana Fusco (University of Cambridge) – The role of spatial constraints in evolution: insights from microbes and phage
- Dec 6: Nick Jones (Imperial College, London) – Stochastic Survival of the Densest and Invasion Waves of Disadvantaged Mutations In Muscle Ageing
- Dec 13: Michal Komorowski (IPPT PAN, Warsaw) – Making sense of signaling complexity
Spring 2019
- March 1: Georgia Squyres (Harvard University) – The role and regulation of FtsZ dynamics in bacterial cytokinesis
- March 18: Chase Broedersz (LMU Munich) – Dynamics of Confined Cell Migration
- March 22: Bor Kavcic (Tkacik Group) – Perturbations of protein synthesis — from antibiotics to genetics and physiology
- March 25: Bart Smeets (KU Leuven) – Tissue structure and dynamics from active cell mechanical properties Theory and computational models
- April 5: Suyash Naik (IST Austria) – Tissue mechanics of a somersault
- April 12: Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute QMUL) – Measuring evolutionary dynamics of human cancers from genomic data
- April 15: Mike Springer (Harvard Medical School) – How and why cells decouple the decisions of whether and how strongly to express a gene
- April 18: Rudolf Hanel (MedUni Vienna) – Caught in the act: Elements of an Emerging Theory of Complex Adaptive Processes and their Applications
- April 26: Aditya Gilra (Tkacik Group) – Biologically-plausible learning in neural networks for movement control and cognitive tasks
- May 3: David Wolpert (Santa Fe Institute) – Fundamental limits on the thermodynamics of circuits
- May 10: Kathrin Tomasek (Guet Group) – How E. coli trick our immune system during UTIs
- May 17: Thomas Sokolowski (Tkacik Group) – Deriving the Drosophila gap gene system ab-initio from an optimization principle
- May 24: Shayan Shamipour (Heisenberg Group) – Phase Segregation in Zebrafish Oocytes
- June 7: Mantas Gabrielaitis (Tkacik Group) – Efficient coding at the first synapse in the auditory pathway
- June 14: Wiktor Mlynarski (Tkacik Group) – Adaptability and efficiency in neural coding
- July 19: Stefan Münster (MPI Dresden) – An integrin-mediated adhesion between embryonic tissue and vitelline membrane affects gastrulation of insects
- July 25: Dagmar Iber (ETH Zurich) – From Networks to Function: Computational Models of Organogenesis
- August 6: Nir Gov (Weizmann Institute) – The physics of cooperative transport in groups of ants
Fall 2018
- September 14: Francesco Romano (University of Michigan) – Liquid plug formation in human airways
- September 21: Pavel Payne (Bollback group) – CRISPR, herd immunity and transduction – the unexpected ways of how bacteria have sex
- October 19: Rok Grah (Guet and Tkacik groups) – Biophysically realistic genotype-phenotype maps for genetic regulatory networks
- October 23: Primoz Ziherl (Jožef Stefan Institute) – 3D vertex models of organoids
- November 9: Michael Riedl (Hof group) – The influence of shear stress on endothelial cell proliferation and the optimization of biofluidic transport networks
- November 16: Dmitry (Kondrashov group) – How to find epistasis in fitness landscapes?
- November 23: Barbara Casillas Perez (Cramer Group) – Individual and group-level decisions in ants
- November 27: Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh) – Modelling how cell wall targeting antibiotics work
- December 7: Michal Hiedik (Barton and Tkacik groups) – Architecture of gene expression and gene regulation
- December 14: Urban Bezeljak (Loose Group) – Cooperativity in Rab regulatory networks
- January 11: Martin Lenz (LPTMS of CNRS and Université Paris-Sud) – Why does actomyosin contract?
- January 18: Bernat Corominas-Murtra (Hannezo Group) – Global Rex1 expression patterns and the loss of pluripotency: The simplest dynamical hypothesis
- January 25: Hyun Youk (Delft University of Technology) – Quantitative principles of re-entering cell-cycle from quiescence
- February 1: Kirti Jain (Guet Group) – Dynamics of marRAB system in E. coli
- February 22: Stefanie Widder (Medical University of Vienna and Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) – Interactions and emergence in the lung microbiome of persons with cystic fibrosis
Spring 2018
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- March 1: Georg Pabst (University of Graz) – Physical insights on cell membrane function from complex mimetics
- March 9: Rok Grah (Guet and Tkacik Groups) – Can we have specificity without stable complexes?
- March 15: Peter Barancok (Comenius University in Bratislava) – Mathematical Model of Growth of Budding Yeast
- March 23: Roshan Prizak (Barton and Tkacik Groups) – Crosstalk results in improved estimates of ligand concentrations
- April 6: Nils Becker (University of Heidelberg) – Interferon codes in innate immunity / Hidden memory in cell-cycle times
- April 13: Gasper Tkacik – Can noise speed up evolutionary search for fit sequences?
- April 20: Thomas Jolou (University of Basel) – Revisiting diauxic growth: lessons from single-cell approaches
- April 27: Edouard Hannezo – Mechano-chemical descriptions of active gels
- May 4: Mike Hennessey (Hof Group) – Experimental droplet techniques for investigating codon survival probability
- May 18: Namiko Mitarai (University of Copenhagen) – Phage vs. Bacteria: The art of war among the unseen majority
- May 25: Marcin Zagorzski (Kicheva Group) – Source and target driven patterning in the developing spinal cord
- June 8: Magdalena Steinrueck (Guet Group) – What makes a bacterial promoter? Observations from walks through random sequence space
- June 18: Steffen Rulands (MPI Dresden) – Understanding cell fate regulation: from molecules to tissues
Fall 2017
- Sept 22: Bor (Tkacik group) – The translation stage-specific effects on antibiotic susceptibility
- Sept 29: Anna A (Tkacik and Guet Group) – Uneven partitioning, a structured population, and the question of whether it can bee seen?
- Oct 5: Remy (Guet Group) – Shaping bacterial population behavior through computer-interfaced control of individual cells
- Oct 13: Paulo (Loose Group) – Modulation of Z-ring Assembly by Bacterial Crosslinkers
- Oct 19: Claudia (Guet Group) – Crosstalk between temperate phages
- Nov 3: Kathrin (Guet Group)- Phase variation as a mechanism to establish recurrent (urinary tract) infections?
- Nov 10: Sarah (Tkacik group) – Information estimation for dynamic, single-cell signals
- Nov 17: Urban (Loose Group) – Rebuilding Rab5 activation in vitro
- Nov 24: Maria (Friml and Seikhaus Group) – Plant root growth inhibition by auxin: the role of auxin transport
- Dec 1: Srdjan (Barton and Guet Group) – Predicting the expression of a promotor sequence using 1) convolutional neural networks and 2) biophysical models.
Spring 2017
- March 3: Claudia (Bollback and Guet group) – Does E. coli have a good or a bad memory?
- March 10: Katka (Tkacik and Barton group) – Inference of probabilistic models of animal behavior
- March 17: Marta (Bollenbach group) – Modulating the evolvability of antibiotic resistance
- March 24: Anna (Guet group) – Comprehensive shuffling of relative gene order as a source of phenotypic diversity
- March 31: Gasper (Tkacik group) – Information in a genetic network is optimally decoded to establish unique cell identities
- April 7: Bor (Bollenbach and Tkacik group) – Predicting bacterial growth in response to antibiotic combinations using growth laws
- April 21: Daniele (Tkacik group) – Statistical mechanics of metabolic networks
- April 28: Urban (Loose group) – Rebuilding a signaling cascade from bottom up
- May 5: Roshan (Tkacik group) – Evolution of new regulatory functions on biophysically realistic fitness landscapes
- May 26: Natalia (Loose group) Reconstitution of bacterial cell wall synthesis
- June 2: Thomas (Tkacik group) – Using eGFRD for particle-based stochastic simulation of simple synthetic promoter architectures
- June 9: Bella and Rok(Guet group) – Gene amplification as a primitive means of gene regulation
Fall 2016
- September 16: Qi Qin (Bollenbach group) – Dissecting the molecular basis of interactions between trimethoprim and two macrolide drugs
- September 22: Jakob (Henzinger/Tkacik group) – A stochastic modeling perspective of bacterial restriction modification systems
- September 30: Nela (Guet group) – Activation of the MazF toxin promotes growth heterogeneity between single bacterial cells
- October 6 : Pavel (Barton/Bollback group) – The dynamics of CRISPR-based herd immunity in phage-bacterial communities
- October 13: Matthias (Cremer group) – Viral diversity in ant communities
- October 21: Maros (Guet group) – Temperate bacteriophages meet restriction-modification systems: The pioneers of Molecular Biology in an ecological context
- October 28: Sarah (Tkacik group) – Estimating information jointly carried by multiple intracellular signals at a temporally-resolved, single-cell level
- November 11: Srdjan and Mato (Barton and Guet group) – Context Dependence in RNA Polymerase Binding
- November 18: Andreas (Bollenbach group) – A growth-dependent negative feedback loop lowers the sensitivity to antibiotics
- November 25: Magdalena (Guet group) – Genetic basis of chromosomal neighborhood effects on adaptive evolution of gene expression
- December 2: Moritz (Guet group) – When being perfect is not good enough: Adaptation, Invariance, Internal Models and Differentiation
- December 16: Fabienne (Bollback group) – The lac operon in the wild, part II: A natural genotype-phenotype map
Spring 2016
- March 4: Tobias (Guet group) – Asymmetry in bacteria: concepts, mechanisms and consequences
- March 11: Fabienne (Bollback group) – Tales from the wild: uncovering the structure of a natural genotype-phenotype map
- March 18: Tamar and Roshan (Barton and Tkacik group) – An evolutionary-biophysical model of subfunctionalization in gene regulation
- April 1: Isabella (Guet group) – Amplifications as a crude means of gene regulation?
- April 8: Anna K. (Kicheva group)
- April 15: Jakob (Henzinger/Tkacik group)
- April 22: Marcin (Bollenbach group)
- May 13: Martin (Bollenbach group)
- May 31 (Tuesday!): Veronika (Bollenbach group)
- Jun 10: Hande (Bollback group)
Fall 2015
- October 16: Marta, Sebastian, Tiago (Bollenbach and Barton group) – Stress-induced mutagenesis: The more diverse the challenges, the better for the mutator.
- October 23: Anna A. (Guet group) – Reiteration no. 1 of a model of asymmetric division at cell division
- October 30: Gasper (Tkacik group) – Beyond the French Flag
- November 06: Karin (Bollenbach group) – Cause and physiological relevance of acid stress induction by Trimethoprim in bacteria
- November 13: Tomek (Tkacik group) – Constructing a predictive spatial-stochastic model of early embryogenesis
- November 20: Moges Kibret – Antibiotics in the wild
- November 27: Stefan Klumpp (U Göttingen), QSB seminar
- December 04: Katka (Tkacik group) – How quantitative traits follow entropy maximization principle
- December 10 (Thursday!): Karsten Kruse (U Saarland), QSB seminar
- December 18: Lenka (Uhler group) – Inferring causality in gene expression
- January 15: Georg (Tkacik group) – Biophysical constraints and the evolution of gene expression
- January 29: Murat (Barton group) – Biophysical and evolutionary characteristics of RNA polymerase binding in E. coli
- February 05: Sarah (Tkacik group) – Estimation of mutual information from pulsatile dynamics in yeast
Spring 2015
- February 13: Anna Staron (Guet group)
- February 27: Nick Barton (Barton group)
- March 6: Tamar Friedlander (Barton group)
- March 13: Maros Pleska (Guet group)
- June 5: Fabienne Jesse (Bollback group)
- July 3: Marjon (Bollenbach group)
- July 10: Georg (Tkacik group)
Fall 2014
- September 11: Murat (Barton group)
- September 26: Gasper (Tkacik group)
- October 24: Mateusz (Heisenberg group)
Spring 2014
- February 06: Georg (Tkacik group)
- February 21: Tamar (Barton group)
- February 28: Martin (Graduate school)
- March 21: Guillaume (Bollenbach group)
- March 28: Maros (Guet group)
- April 04: Pavel (Bollback group)
- April 25: Karin (Bollenbach group)
- June 27: Isa (Bollback group)
- July 04: Marjon (Bollenbach group)
Fall 2013