Biological Physics and Statistical Mechanics: from molecules to cells and beyond

from lunedì 9 giugno 2025 (00:00) to venerdì 13 giugno 2025 (18:00)
Hotel Palazzo Alabardieri (Sala Caracciolo)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
09 giu 2025
10 giu 2025
11 giu 2025
12 giu 2025
13 giu 2025
AM
11:00
Registration (until 14:00) (Sala Caracciolo)
09:00
Session 2 (until 12:50) (Sala Caracciolo)
09:00 Phase transitions in the nucleus of cells - Prof. MARIO NICODEMI (Università di Napoli "Federico II")   (Sala Caracciolo)
09:30 Entropy and topological weight of chromatin loop networks - Prof. ENZO ORLANDINI (Università di Padova)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:00 Unzipping, Twisting, and Unknotting: How Nanopore Translocation Reshapes DNA - Prof. Cristian Micheletti (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Effective models of chromatin dynamics - Prof. Guido Tiana (University of Milano)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:30 TBA - Dr. Andrea Maria Chiariello (Dipartimento di Fisica Ettore Pancini, Università di Napoli Federico II)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:00 Mechano-kinetic characterisation of a small ensemble of myosin motors: a stochastic fitting approach to actin-myosin interaction dynamics - Dr. Valentina Buonfiglio (CNR-INO)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:20 Exploring Protein Conformational Transitions in the Second Timescale through multiscale Molecular Dynamics: the Case of SHP2 Activation - Dr. Paolo Calligari (Tor Vergata University of Rome)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:40 Diffusion and enzymatic reactions in solutions crowded by branched polymers - Dr. Giuliano Migliorini (University of Florence; CNRS; University of Orléans)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:45 A Single-Cell Microfluidic Device for Studying Leukemia Cell Proliferation - Dr. Simone Scalise (Sapienza University of Rome & Italian Institute of Technology, Rome)   (Sala Caracciolo)
00:40
Session 4 (until 12:45) (Sala Caracciolo)
09:00 The role of criticality in the structure-function relationship in the human brain - Prof. Silvia Scarpetta (Dept. of Physics "E.R.Caianiello" University of Salerno Laboratorio di Reti Neurali "Maria Marinaro)   (Sala Caracciolo)
09:30 Exploring cooperative effects among features in explainable artificial intelligence - Prof. Sebastiano Stramaglia (UNIBA & INFN, Sezione di Bari)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:00 The Laplacian Renormalization Groups (LRG) unveils the structural organization of heterogeneous networks - Prof. Andrea Gabrielli (Department of Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering, University “Roma Tre”)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Functional bottlenecks can emerge from non-epistatic underlying traits - Mr. Francesco Zamponi (Sapienza Università di Roma)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:30 Emergent time scales of epistasis in protein evolution - Dr. Leonardo Di Bari (Politecnico di Torino & Sorbonne Universitè)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:35 Fluctuations and the limit of predictability in protein evolution - Dr. Saverio Rossi (Sapienza università di Roma)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:55 Integrating experimental feedback improves generative models for biological sequences - Dr. Giovanni Peinetti (Sorbonne Université/Politecnico di Torino)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:00 Inference of lineage hierarchies and growth mechanisms in cell populations without tracking - Dr. Andrea Piras (University of Turin)   (Sala Caracciolo)
09:00
Session 5 (until 12:50) (Sala Caracciolo)
09:00 Predicting the structure of enzymes with metal cofactors: The example of [FeFe] hydrogenases - Prof. Velia Minicozzi (Department of Physics, University of Roma Tor Vergata and INFN, Roma, Italy)   (Sala Caracciolo)
09:30 All-atom Simulations unveil Physiological and Pharmacological Role of Protein Folding Intermediates - Prof. Pietro Faccioli (Università Milano-Bicocca and INFN)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:00 Reconceiving microRNAs as post-transcriptional frequency decoders - Prof. Carla Bosia (Politecnico di Torino)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Reinforcement Learning and animal behavior - Prof. Antonio Celani (ICTP)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:30 Microbial billiards - Prof. Roberto Di Leonardo (DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA SAPIENZA Università di Roma)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:00 Calorimetric cooperativity revisited and generalized: the role of intermediate states - Dr. Antonio Trovato (University of Padova)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:20 Cross-feeding dynamics in microbial communities under different environmental - Dr. Gabriele Micali (IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:40 Inference of Chromatin Architecture in Sleep-Deprived Neurons - FLORINDA DI PIERNO (INFN)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:45 Boosted continuous Wang-Landau Algorithm: A Novel Approach for Soft Matter Sampling - Dr. Camilla Spreti (UNITN - TIFPA)   (Sala Caracciolo)
09:00
Session 7 (until 11:40) (Sala Caracciolo)
09:30 Self-organized molecular sorting - Prof. Andrea Gamba (Politecnico di Torino)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:00 Molecular Sorting on Fluctuating Membranes - Prof. Luca Dall'Asta (Politecnico di Torino)   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:30 Eigenstructure of Hi-C contact matrices: a spectral network approach to generate synthetic data - Dr. Alessandra Merlotti (Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi")   (Sala Caracciolo)
10:50 Tuning transduction from hidden observables to optimize information harvesting - Dr. Daniel Maria Busiello (University of Padova)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:10 Signal transduction in cells as a non-equilibrium process: The case of GPCRs and G proteins - Dr. Thibault Fillion (University of Florence, INFN florence)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:30 A phase diagram for active phase separation - Dr. Damiano Andreghetti (Politecnico di Torino)   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:35 Small-coupling expansion of dynamic cavity equations for stochastic systems on sparse networks - Dr. Mattia Tarabolo (Politecnico di Torino - Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT))   (Sala Caracciolo)
11:40
Concluding remarks (until 11:55) (Sala Caracciolo)
PM
13:00
Lunch (until 14:00) (Sala Caracciolo)
14:00
Opening (until 14:15) (Sala Caracciolo)
14:15
Session 1 (until 18:05) (Sala Caracciolo)
14:15 A simple model of a sequence-reading diffusion: non-self-averaging and self-averaging properties - Prof. Enzo Marinari (Sapienza Università di Roma)   (Sala Caracciolo)
14:45 Orientational Order in Biological Development – Superfluid Shrimp - Prof. Mark Bowick (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics UCSB)   (Sala Caracciolo)
15:15 Daydreaming Hopfield Networks and their surprising effectiveness on correlated data - Prof. Federico Ricci Tersenghi (Dip. di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma)   (Sala Caracciolo)
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15 The hydrodynamics of disordered active flocks - Dr. Alessandro Manacorda (CNR-ISC)   (Sala Caracciolo)
16:35 Anomalous transport properties of an active tracer in a crowded environment - Dr. Alessandro Sarracino (University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli")   (Sala Caracciolo)
16:55 Single-molecule trajectories of reactants in chemically active condensates - Dr. Stefano Bo (King's College London)   (Sala Caracciolo)
17:15 Mapping Single-Cell Division Fluctuations to Population Dynamics - Dr. Domenico Caudo (University of Rome "La Sapienza")   (Sala Caracciolo)
17:20 Inferring Global Exponents in Subsampled Neural Systems - Dr. Davide Conte (Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli")   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:50
Lunch (until 14:15) (Sala Caracciolo)
14:15
Session 3 (until 18:15) (Sala Caracciolo)
14:15 Statistically validated comorbidity networks - Prof. Rosario Nunzio Mantegna (Department of Physics and Chemistry - Emilio Segrè - University of Palermo)   (Sala Caracciolo)
14:45 Maximum Entropy models of populations of cells - Prof. Andrea De Martino (politecnico di torino)   (Sala Caracciolo)
15:15 Dual Stochastic Resonance Enhances Sexual Communication in Stink Bugs Nezara Viridula - Prof. Bernardo Spagnolo (Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica "E. Segrè”, Group of Interdisciplinary Theoretical Physics, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Stochastic Multistable Systems Laboratory, Lobachevsky University, Russia)   (Sala Caracciolo)
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15 OxDNA3: A Coarse-Grained DNA Model with Sequence-Specific Curvature and Elasticity - Dr. Andrea Bonato (University of Strathclyde)   (Sala Caracciolo)
16:35 Characterizing allosteric communication in h-cisPT enzyme through network and transfer entropy analysis - Dr. Carlo Guardiani (Sapienza University of Rome)   (Sala Caracciolo)
16:55 CIRNet: Evaluation of chemical and physical complementarities for a fast neural network-aided identification of protein interfaces - Dr. Greta Grassmann (Sapienza Università di Roma)   (Sala Caracciolo)
17:15 Physical principles of phase-separation action on chromatin looping associated to pathogenic gene activation - Dr. Andrea Fontana (Università di Napoli "Federico II" and INFN Napoli)   (Sala Caracciolo)
17:20 Coarse Grained Simulations of Kinetoplast DNA - Dr. Guglielmo Grillo (University of Trento / TIFPA)   (Sala Caracciolo)
17:25 Theory of polymers in binary solvent solutions - Dr. Davide Marcato (SISSA - Scuola Internazionale di Studi Superiori Avanzati)   (Sala Caracciolo)
12:50
Lunch (until 14:15) (Sala Caracciolo)
20:00
Social Dinner (until 22:00) ()
12:50
Lunch (until 14:15) (Sala Caracciolo)
14:15
Session 6 (until 18:15) (Sala Caracciolo)
14:15 Looking for marker genes in healthy and cancer tissues. - Prof. Michele Caselle (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino)   (Sala Caracciolo)
14:45 he physics of proofreading mechanisms in cellular signal transduction - Prof. Francesco Piazza (Università di Firenze)   (Sala Caracciolo)
15:15 Laws for cellular growth, and models to frame them - Prof. Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Department of Physics "Aldo Pontremoli", University of Milan and Statistical Physics of Cells and Genomes Lab IFOM ETS - The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology)   (Sala Caracciolo)
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15 Inhibitor-induced transitions in pattern formation and their role in morphogenesis robustness - Dr. Silvia Grigolon (Laboratoire Jean Perrin, CNRS & Sorbonne Université)   (Sala Caracciolo)
16:35 Noise Induced Phase Separation - Dr. Matteo Paoluzzi (Sapienza University of Rome)   (Sala Caracciolo)
16:55 From Pairwise to Community-Level Interactions: Insights from Engineered Bacterial Strains - Dr. Tommaso Redaelli (ETH - Zurich)   (Sala Caracciolo)
17:15 From cooperativity in photosynthetic antenna systems to bio-mimetic sunlight pumped lasers - Dr. Alessia Valzelli (Università di Firenze)   (Sala Caracciolo)
17:20 Exact Entropy of Tightly Double Folded Ring Polymers allows for Multi-scale Modeling of Genomes - Dr. Pieter Hendrik Willem van der Hoek (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA))   (Sala Caracciolo)
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