The Turing Centre deciphers the complexity and the dynamics of living systems

Jean-Baptiste Masson (Institut Pasteur) will give a short external seminar, hosted by Christian Vestergaard (CPT).

This seminar will take place in the Amphi 12, Bat B.
CENTURI is also providing for off-campus participants only a zoom link to attend the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85941690095?pwd=Nm5NVGhESGlUbG1FMnZ2dU5vSlkxUT09

Meeting ID: 859 4169 0095
Secret Code: 002024

Title: Embodied neuroAI with drosophila larva

Abstract:

Animals are not free-floating neural networks that perform classification tasks. Our body, the temporal continuity of our actions, and our sensory word shape the properties and computing of biological neural networks. Advances in Drosophila genetic manipulation, neural connectomics, and amortised inference have allowed us to study small neural circuits’ organisation, structure, and function. However, we still have a limited understanding of the forces organising small neural circuits. 

In this presentation, I will address finite element simulations of the Drosophila larva body coupled to neural dynamics simulation of selected circuits, phenotyping larva as a statistical test in a learned latent space, neuromodulation at the single neuron scale and a larva model of Alzheimer’s.

Lisa Manning (Syracuse University) will give a short external seminar, hosted by Thomas Lecuit (IBDM) and Matthias Merkel (CPT).

This seminar will take place in the Hexagone Auditorium.
CENTURI is also providing for off-campus participants only a zoom link to attend the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85941690095?pwd=Nm5NVGhESGlUbG1FMnZ2dU5vSlkxUT09

Meeting ID: 859 4169 0095
Secret Code: 002024

Title: Self-generated dynamical forces shape cells and organs in the zebrafish embryo

 

Abstract: We aim to understand the mechanisms that control precise cell and tissue shape changes required for organ function. Many studies focused on cell shapes have ignored the role of dynamic forces self-generated by slow tissue flows, but recent work showing tissues are near a jamming transition with diverging relaxation timescales suggests slow motion could give rise to large forces.  Through a combination of mathematical modeling, imaging, and mechanical perturbations to in vivo experiments, our work demonstrates that tissue-scale dynamic forces are sculpting the shape of an epithelial organ in the zebrafish embryo called Kupffer’s vesicle (KV). Because there are many processes during development that occur at similarly slow rates, this suggests that self-generated dynamic forces perhaps should be investigated more broadly.

Xingbo Yang (TU Dresden) will give a short external seminar, hosted by Emily Gehrels (CiNAM).

This seminar will take place in the Hexagone Auditorium.
CENTURI is also providing for off-campus participants only a zoom link to attend the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85941690095?pwd=Nm5NVGhESGlUbG1FMnZ2dU5vSlkxUT09

Meeting ID: 859 4169 0095
Secret Code: 002024

Title: Bioenergetics of spindle self-organization

Abstract:
Meiotic spindle is an important organelle that segregates chromosomes into daughter cells during meiosis. Defects in spindle can cause chromosome segregation errors leading to infertility, but the mechanism remains unknown. In this talk, I will explore how cell metabolism influences spindle self-organization using mouse oocytes as a model system.