Dynamics Club in 2023: A Summary
Thank everyone for supporting the Dynamics Club. In 2023, we’ve had 16 talks and one departmental seminar (see below)! Congrats to all the speakers and cheers to all the participants. Check out our 2024 events: bit.ly/3X9LUgj
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) | Materials |
| Jan 12 | Clock transcription factor dynamics in cancer | Yuanzhong Pan (Kay Lab, USC) |
Pubmed |
| Feb 2 | Tissue mechanics in regenerative wound healing | Dr. Hans Harn (USC, Keck Medicine) |
Pubmed |
| Feb 9 | Department Seminar: How bacteria use electrochemical potentials to solve complex problems | Dr. Gürol Süel (UCSD) | Pubmed |
| Mar 23 | Asymmetry buffering mechanism of the segmentation clock | Dr. Kana Ishimatsu (Brandeis) | |
| Apr 6 | Guest lecture: Emergent features of collective cell dynamics | Dr. Tamal Das (TIFR Hyderabad) |
Preprint |
| Apr 13 | Guest lecture: Metabolic regulation of species-specific developmental rate in mouse and human cells | Dr. Margarete Diaz-Cuadros (Massachusetts General Hospital) |
Pubmed Pubmed |
| May 11 | Investigating feedback control on potassium homeostasis using a mathematical model | Melissa Stadt (Layton Group; UWaterloo) |
Pubmed |
| Jun 1 | Guest lecture: Data driven model discovery of tumor-immune dynamics | Dr. Alexander Brummer (College of Charleston) |
Pubmed |
| Jun 7 | Nonlinear Dynamics of Sound Detection in the Auditory System | Dzmitry Vaido (Bozovic Lab; UCLA) |
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| Jul 5 | Sex differences in pancreatic β-cell insulin release | Noelia Jacobo-Piqueras (Tuluc Lab; Innsbruck) |
Pubmed |
| Aug 9 | Guest lecture: Integrating mitochondrial energetics, redox and ROS metabolic networks: from steady states to chaos | Dr. Jackelyn M. Kembro (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) |
Pubmed Pubmed |
| Aug 23 | p53 oscillations optimize DNA repair by regulating foci formation | Alessandra Lucchetti (Jensen Group; Copenhagen) |
Pubmed |
| Sep 27 | Periodicity, mixed-mode oscillations, and multiple timescales in a phosphoinositide-Rho GTPase network | Dr. Chee San Tong (Yale University) |
Pubmed |
| Oct 11 | Chaos, synchronization, and signal detection by active hair cells of the auditory system | Dr. Justin Faber (UCLA) | Pubmed |
| Nov 15 | Phase synchronization rules in an embryonic oscillator ensemble | Dr. Christine Ho (EMBL & USC) | |
| Nov 22 | An investigation of the interplay between reproductive hormones and ovarian follicles | Dr. Sophie Fischer-Holzhausen (University of Bergen, Norway) | Pubmed |
| Dec 6 | Choreography of hormonal rhythms: mathematical analysis and clinical significance | Dr. Eder Zavala (University of Birmingham, UK) | Pubmed |