Please join us for a day of science featuring:

keynote talk by Yuhai Tu (Flatiron Institute)
invited talks
lightning talks
poster presentations

We are looking for students and postdocs to present their work!

Attendance is open to all undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty from the Pittsburgh biological physics community. Registration is free and includes lunch.

Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 (schedule)

Location: Mellon Institute, Auditorium

Deadline: Register via website by September 5, 2025

Please contact Hanna Salman (hsalman@pitt.edu), Keisuke Ishihara (ishihara@pitt.edu) or Fangwei Si (fsi@cmu.edu) with any questions.

9:00am – 9:20am: Coffee

9:20am – 9:30am: Introduction

9:30am – 10:00am: Jianhua Xing (University of Pittsburgh): Cell State Transition Dynamics through the Lens of Theoretical Physics

10:00am – 10:30am: Fangwei Si (Carnegie Mellon University): Cellular surplus benefits cell adaptation in bacteria

10:30am – 11:00am: Coffee

11:00am – 12:00pm: Keynote, Yuhai Tu (Flatiron Institute): Nonequilibrium thermodynamics in living systems: Towards answering Schrödinger’s question

12:00pm – 1:30pm: Lunch (provided with registration)

1:30pm – 2:00pm: Robin Lee (University of Pittsburgh): Cytokine signaling dynamics: Lessons from single particle and cross-species experiments

2:00pm – 2:40pm: Pitt graduate talk: Maryam Kohram (Princeton University): Tissue-level dynamics of engineered tumors under dietary perturbations

2:40pm – 3:10pm: Coffee

3:10pm – 3:40pm: Andrew Mugler (University of Pittsburgh)

3:40pm – 4:10pm: Lightning talks

4:10pm – 6:00pm: Poster session