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MIT Biophysics Seminar Series

We are pleased to announce the return of our bi-weekly MIT Biophysics Seminar Series! Spring 2025 seminars will be held every other Wednesday at 10:45am in the Duboc Room (4-331). 

Please find the offical dates and list of speakers below. This site will continue to be updated with more information as it comes in.

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Spring 2025 Biophysic Seminar Series Speakers: 

February 4, 2025 – Ziming Liu, MIT- “Towards Unification of Artificial Intelligence and Science” 
      *please note – this seminar is on a Tuesday in PLS (4-332) at 10:45 am 

February 19, 2025 – Thierry Emonet, Yale University- “Non-genetic adaptation by collective migration”  

March 12, 2025 – Anthony Fitzpatrick, Columbia University- “title to come”  

April 16, 2025 – Benjamin Machta, Yale University- “title to come” 

April 23, 2025 – Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard University- “title to come” 

April 30, 2025 – Shixin Liu, Rockefeller University- “Single-molecule studies of genetic and epigenetic machinery”  

May 7, 2025 – Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Kansas State University- “title to come” 

Other Biophysic Seminar Speakers: 

Previous Biophysics Seminar Speakers: 

September 11, 2024 – Ayusman Sen, Penn State University

September 25, 2024 – Ahmad Omar, University of California, Berkeley 

October 9, 2024 – Knut Drescher, Biozentrum, University of Basel 

October 23, 2024 – Armita Nourmohammad, University of Washington

November 6, 2024 – Sarah Loos, University of Cambridge 

November 20, 2024 – Melanie Ohi, University of Michigan 

December 4, 2024 – William Jacobs, Princeton 

December 11, 2024 – Leticia Cugliandolo, Sorbone Univeristy 

May 8, 2024 – Yariv Kafri, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

April 10, 2024 – Daniel Segrè,  Boston University

March 13, 2024 – Roya Zandi, University of California, Riverside

February 28, 2024 – Sebastian Streichan, University of California, Santa Barbara

December 6, 2023 – Ilya Nemenman, Emory University

November 29, 2023 – Thierry Mora, LPENS – The Ecole Normale Supérieure PSL

November 15, 2023 – Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, The University of Arizona 

November 8, 2023 – Ada Altieri, Paris City University 

November 1, 2023 – Frédéric van Wijland, Paris City University 

October 18, 2023 – Ned Wingreen, Princeton University 

October 4, 2023 – John Marko, Northwestern University 

September 20, 2023 – Stefano Di Talia, Duke University

September 6, 2023 – Erwin Frey, University of Munich

Other Previous Speakers: 

September 12, 2023 –  Mauro Mobilia, University of Leeds 

September 20, 2023 – Lanying Zeng, Texas A &M University 

Questions? Please email Tader Shipley ( tshipley@mit.edu )

Biophysics Seminars

Upcoming In-Person Seminars : 

** All seminars are to be held in the Duboc Room (4-331) and will begin at 10:45am, unless otherwise noted ** 

February 4, 2025

– Ziming Liu, MIT

        * hosted by Jeff Gore | Note: this seminar will take place on a Tuesday, in 4-332

February 19, 2025

– Thierry Emonet, Yale University

        * hosted by Arup Chakraborty

March 12, 2025

– Anthony Fitzpatrick, Columbia University

        * hosted by Joey Davis

April 16, 2025

– Benjamin Machta, Yale University

        * hosted by Mehran Kardar

April 23, 2025

– Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard University

        * hosted by Mehran Kardar

April 30, 2025

– Shixin Liu, Rockefeller University

        * hosted by Bin Zhang

May 7, 2025

– Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Kansas State University

        * hosted by Mehran Kardar

+ Indicates a Special Biophysics Seminar, in addition to the Biweekly Seminar Series