Editors for Physics of Living Systems
Senior editors
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Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Aleksandra Walczak received her PhD in physics at UCSD working on models of stochastic gene expression. After a graduate fellowship at KITP, she was a Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Fellow, focusing on applying information theory to signal processing in small gene regulatory networks. Currently she is a CNRS researcher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, interested in a variety of problems in the physics of living systems.
She actively works on development, collective behavior of bird flocks and statistical descriptions of the immune system.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biophysics
- quantitative immunology
- probabilistic data analysis
- theoretical models
- development
- collective behaviour
- Competing interests statement
- Aleksandra Walczak is the recipient of a CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, a FACCTS CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, an IRN CNRS Predictability, Adaptability Evolution network collaboration grant, a CNRS-MIT Cooperation Grant, a q-Life Grant "The physics of repair and silencing foci?, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant "Automated evaluation and correction of generation bias in immune receptor repertoires", a DFG CRC "Predictability in evolution", an ERC International Training Network QuanTII grant, and an ERC Consolidator Grant "Statistical physics of immune-viral co-evolution”.
Reviewing editors
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Alaa A Ahmed
University of Colorado Boulder, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biomechanics
- motor control
- motor learning
- decision making
- neuroeconomics
- computational neuroscience
- energetics
- Experimental organism
- human
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Toby W Allen
RMIT University, Australia
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- computational biophysics
- molecular dynamics
- free-energy calculations
- ion channels
- ion permeation
- membranes
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Ariel Amir
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- mathematical modeling
- stochastic processes
- microbial growth
- cell size control
- gene expression
- microbial evolution
- phenotypic variability
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Nathalie Q Balaban
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- self-replicating matter
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Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- physics of cells
- membrane biophysics
- mechanobiology
- intracellular traffic
- endocytosis
- adhesion
- cellular protrusions
- biomimetic membranes
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Kurt Beam
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle
- voltage-gated calcium channels
- calcium release channels
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Gordon Berman
Emory University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal behavior
- theoretical biophysics
- computational neuroscience
- computational ethology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
- rat
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Anne-Florence Bitbol
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne , Switzerland
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- biophysics
- theory and modeling
- protein sequence data
- models of evolution
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Felix Campelo
The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Cell Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- membrane mechanics
- membrane curvature
- intracellular trafficking
- membrane organization
- membrane contact sites
- Golgi complex
- endoplasmic reticulum exit sites
- super-resolution microscopy
- single-molecule microscopy
- Experimental organism
- human
- S. cerevisiae
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Irene Giardina
Università Sapienza, Italy
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active living matter
- collective behavior in groups (physicist perspective)s
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Raymond E Goldstein
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- Biological physics
- fluid dynamics
- multicellularity
- developmental biology
- Experimental organism
- Chlamydomonas
- volvox
- choanoflagellates
- dinoflagellates
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Martin Graña
Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- protein 3D structure
- structural bioinformatics
- structure/function relationships
- evolution
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Yaroslav Ispolatov
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- evolution
- diversification
- adaptive dynamics
- ecology
- systems biology
- CRISPR
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Megan C King
Yale School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- nuclear envelope
- nuclear lamins
- LINC complex
- nuclear mechanics
- DNA repair
- genome organisation
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Michael Kozlov
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- modeling membrane shapes
- membrane curvature
- membrane fusion
- membrane fission
- membrane bending by proteins
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David M Kramer
Michigan State University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Plant Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- photosynthesis
- bioenergetics
- electron and proton transfer
- computation
- phenotyping
- phenomics
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Sandeep Krishna
National Centre for Biological Sciences ‐ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- gene regulatory networks
- phage-bacteria interactions
- microbial communities
- multistability
- oscillations and synchronization
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Karsten Kruse
University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cell migration
- cell signalling
- theoretical biology
- molecular evolution
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Melike Lakadamyali
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- super resolution microscopy
- imaging
- image analysis
- chromatin structure
- genome organisation
- organelle trafficking
- motor proteins
- microtubule cytoskeleton
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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David Lentink
University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal locomotion
- comparative biomechanics
- animal navigation
- movement ecology
- evolutionary biology
- biofluids
- biophysics
- bioinspired robotics
- bioinspiration & biomimetics
- Experimental organism
- birds
- insects
- bats
- plant seeds
- fish
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Matthieu Louis
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- olfaction
- sensorimotor
- computational ethology
- motor control
- locomotion
- biomechanics
- tool development
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- C. elegans
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Pascal Martin
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active mechanical processes
- hair cells of the inner ear
- molecular motors and the cytoskeleton
- oscillations
- mechanosensitivity
- frequency selectivity
- in vitro reconstituted motor systems
- Experimental organism
- rat
- Xenopus
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Alphee Michelot
Institut de Biologie du Développement, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cytoskeleton
- actin dynamics
- motility
- endocytosis
- cytokinesis
- actin mechanics
- energy conversion
- force transduction
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Babak Momeni
Boston College, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- microbial communities
- community ecology
- mathematical modelling
- computational biology
- applied microbiology
- bioremediation
- mycotoxins
- nasal microbiota
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Arvind Murugan
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biological learning and adaptation in changing environments
- learned behavious in materials
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Marcos Nahmad
Centre for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- growth control
- drosophila genetics
- developmental patterning
- mathematical modelling
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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Armita Nourmohammad
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- population genetics
- computational immunology
- adaptive immunity
- statistical physics
- deep mutational scanning
- information theory
- statistical inference
- gene expression evolution
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- viruses
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Timothy O'Leary
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- computational neuroscience
- theoretical neuroscience
- neurophysiology
- systems neuroscience
- homeostasis
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- rat
- D. melanogaster
- cancer borealis
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C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Physics of Living Systems
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- disease ecology
- microbial evolution
- population genetics
- epidemiology
- evolutionary medicine
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- human
- P. falciparum
- S. cerevisiae
- viruses
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Rohit V Pappu
Washington University in St Louis, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biophysics
- intrinsically disordered proteins
- intracellular phase transition phenomena
- organization of proteins and nucleic acids
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Benjamin L Prosser
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- cardiac function
- muscle
- cardiomyocytes
- mechanotransduction
- cytoskeleton
- microtubules
- sarcomere
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Agnese Seminara
Université Côte d'Azur, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biomechanics of bacterial biofilm growth
- violent discharge
- atmospheric dispersal of fungal spores
- computational navigation
- Experimental organism
- B. subtilis
- mouse
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Pierre Sens
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- statistical physics
- soft matter
- membrane
- cell mechanics
- cell motility
- organelles
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Daniel Y Takahashi
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- social interaction
- vocal learning
- neurophysiology
- computational modeling
- ontogeny of behavior
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John C Tuthill
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- sensory coding
- motor control
- locomotion
- animal behavior
- proprioception
- weird insects
- Experimental organism
- drosophila
- chionea
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David Van Valen
California Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- encoding
- viral decision making
- living systems
- image segmentation
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Jie Xiao
Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- single molecule biophysics
- microbiology
- cell division
- cell wall
- gene expression
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
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Ahmet Yildiz
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- dynein
- kinesin
- myosin
- intraflagellar transport
- Experimental organism
- human
- yeast
- Chlamydomonas