| 08:00 - 16:30 |
Arrival, registration (guesthouse 4, library) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Welcome and opening - Jan Michael Rost (director of MPIPKS) and scientific coordinators |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 13:45 |
Krishna Shrinivas
(Northwestern University)
Decision making by biomolecular phase transitions |
| 13:45 - 14:30 |
Thomas Ouldridge
(Imperial College London)
Thermodynamic limits in far-from-equilibrium molecular templating networks |
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:30 |
Mustafa Khammash
(ETH Zürich)
Colloquium (chair: Pierre Haas) - Perfect Adaptation in Biological Networks |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Discussions |
| 17:00 - 17:25 |
Brayden Kell
(EMBL Heidelberg)
The rate of information exchange between components limits noise suppression in biochemical reaction networks |
| 17:25 - 17:50 |
Jenna Elliott
(EMBL Heidelberg)
Selective information transmission by protein distributions |
| 17:50 - 18:15 |
Bartolo M. Mognetti
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Training chemical networks |
| 18:15 - 19:00 |
Discussions |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Welcome Dinner |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Pawel Romanczuk
(Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Self-organization, criticality and collective information processing in animal groups |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Agnese Seminara
(University of Genoa)
Noise enhances odor source localization |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Antonio Celani
(ICTP)
Decoding behavior with interpretable agent models |
| 11:45 - 12:10 |
Artemy Kolchinsky
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Quantifying goal-directed behavior in a minimal physical system |
| 12:10 - 12:35 |
Matthew Leighton
(Yale University)
Quantifying and bounding flows of information in collective navigation |
| 12:35 - 13:20 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:20 - 14:00 |
Discussions |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Viola Priesemann
(Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
Information Flow in Living Neural Networks |
| 14:45 - 15:10 |
Menachem Stern
(AMOLF)
Diverse functional solutions in physical learning machines |
| 15:10 - 15:35 |
Henry Alston
(LPENS & CNRS)
Optimal Sensing through Phase Separation |
| 15:35 - 16:05 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:05 - 16:50 |
Tetsuya Kobayashi
(The University of Tokyo)
Quantification of Information Flow by Dual Reporter System and Its Application to Bacterial Chemotaxis |
| 16:50 - 17:35 |
Thierry Emonet
(Yale University)
Adaptive navigation in bacteria and flies |
| 17:35 - 18:45 |
Discussions |
| 18:45 - 20:00 |
Dinner |
| 20:00 - 21:30 |
Poster Session I |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Pieter Rein ten Wolde
(AMOLF)
Navigation driven by sensorimotor feedback |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
On dynamical internal representations in cells |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:25 |
Benjamin Friedrich
(TU Dresden)
Information theory of chemotactic agents using both spatial and temporal gradient-sensing |
| 11:25 - 11:50 |
Michael Abbott
(Yale University)
To steer or not to steer? Strategies for navigation with limited information |
| 11:50 - 12:15 |
Ivan Di Terlizzi
(MPIPKS)
Information Processing with Limited Information and Finite Energy |
| 12:15 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 19:00 |
Excursion (Hike through Saxon Switzerland) |
| 19:00 - 22:00 |
Social Dinner |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Gašper Tkačik
(ISTA)
Invariances and the molecular complexity in gene regulation |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Sophie de Buyl
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Structural vs chemical information transmission in toy model embryos |
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
Group Photo/Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 11:40 |
Lakshmi Balasubramaniam
(University of Cambridge)
Modelling vasculogenesis: the emergence of a network to promote efficient transportation |
| 11:40 - 12:05 |
Izaak Neri
(King's College London)
Amendable decisions in living systems |
| 12:05 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:15 |
Christoph Zechner
(SISSA)
State- versus reaction-based information processing in biochemical networks |
| 14:15 - 15:00 |
Benjamin Machta
(Yale University)
TBD |
| 15:00 - 15:25 |
Claudio Hernández-López
(AMOLF)
Biochemical decision-making via optimized signaling trajectories: an information-theoretical approach |
| 15:25 - 15:50 |
Olivier Witteveen
(TU Delft)
Statistical mechanics of connected graphs in Scrabble |
| 15:50 - 16:25 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:25 - 18:45 |
Scientific Activity (open discussion in smaller groups on various topics) |
| 18:45 - 20:00 |
Dinner |
| 20:00 - 21:30 |
Poster Session II |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Monika Scholz
(Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior)
Evolvability and weak synaptic linkage in foraging circuits |
| 09:45 - 10:10 |
José Ramón Alvarado
(UT Austin)
Adaptability through control in robotic and active systems |
| 10:10 - 10:35 |
Kaining Zhang
(ICTP)
Attractor Dynamics in the Orbitofrontal Cortex Underlie Economic Decisions |
| 10:35 - 11:05 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:05 - 11:30 |
Davor Curic
(Hotchkiss Brain Institute)
Effective Connectivity from Spontaneous Activity Tracks Structural Networks and Brain State |
| 11:30 - 12:15 |
Sarah Marzen
(Claremont Colleges)
How do neurons, humans, and artificial neural networks predict? |
| 12:15 - 13:00 |
Discussions |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Farewell |
Invited talks have a duration of 30' talk time + 15' Q&A. Contributed talks have a duration of 15' talk time and 10' Q&A.