Dynamics Club in 2022: A Summary
Thank everyone for supporting the Dynamics Club. In 2022, we’ve had 16 events in total (see below) and seen tremendous growth of the community! Congrats to all the speakers and cheers to all the participants. Looking forward to more discussions in 2023.
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) | Materials |
| Jan 20 | Introduction + Cell Fate Transition | Ivy Xiong (Host) | Contents |
| Feb 17 | Bifurcations in Cell Fate Transition | Ivy Xiong (Host) | Contents |
| Mar 31 | Cell Fate Transitions: From Cells to Tissues | Megan Rommelfanger (MacLean Lab, USC) | PubMed Contents |
| Apr 21 | Modeling NF-kB Signaling in CAR Cell Design | Vardges Tserunyan (Finley Lab, USC) |
Preprint |
| May 5 | Creative Functions of Biological Oscillations | Ivy Xiong (Host) | Preprint |
| May 26 | Physics-informed Learning for Dynamical Systems | Xiaojun Wu (MacLean Lab, USC) |
Article 1 Article 2 Preprint |
| Jun 9 | NF-kB Oscillations in Immune Response | Dr. Katherine Sheu (Hoffmann Lab, UCLA) |
Pubmed |
| Jun 16 | Erk Wave in Whole-Body Regeneration | Yuhang Fan (Wang Lab, Stanford) |
Pubmed |
| Jul 7 | A Lack of Distinct Cellular Identities in Single Cell Data | Dr. Breanne Sparta (Deeds Lab, UCLA) |
Preprint |
| Jul 28 | Guest Lecture: Towards a Transcriptomic Physics [Cancelled] | Dr. Madhav Mani (Northwestern) |
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| Aug 11 | Comparing Complex Model Outputs with Siamese Neural Networks Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cell Dynamics in Metastasis |
Colin Cess (Finley Lab, USC) Dr. Jesse Kreger (MacLean Lab, USC) |
Preprint Preprint |
| Sep 22 | The influence of the endothelial surface layer on the motion of red blood cells | Dr. Ying Zhang (Brandeis) | Preprint |
| Sep 26 | Introducing CellRank 2 | Philipp Weiler (Theis Lab, Helmholtz Munich) |
Preprint |
| Oct 20 | Guest lecture: Control of Epithelial Morphogenesis Model Informed Drug Discovery and Development |
Dr. Dagmar Iber (ETH Zürich BSSE) Dr. Denis Menshykau (UCB, Belgium) |
Preprint Post-Doc Position |
| Nov 9 | Dynamics in plant tissue patterning | Dr. Renee Dale (Danforth Center, St Louis) |
Preprint |
| Dec 15 | Guest lecture: Controlling Oscillation Dynamics | Dr. Steven Haase (Duke University) | Pubmed Preprint |