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Research talks are formal and typically focus on data. Theory Lunch offers an opportunity to discuss concepts in biology over an informal lunchtime chalk talk. Theory Lunch is an opportunity to learn how people think in disparate fields, get to know local colleagues, and potentially uncover resonances with your own research.

Theory Lunch chalk talk

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Upcoming Speakers

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
October 30, 2026 Dr. Sarah Kostinski NYU First passage statistics in biophysics
November 20, 2026 Dr. Jacob Zavatone-Veth Rockefeller University To be announced

Past Speakers

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
June 12, 2026 Dr. Merav Stern Rockefeller Physics Fellow Dynamical Mean-Field Theory: A Framework for Linking Structure and Dynamics in Biological Networks
May 15, 2026 Dr. Jialong Jiang Rockefeller Physics Fellow Inferring Gene Interactions from Correlation Data with Perturbations
April 3, 2026 Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein Tufts Traveling from the Old Biology to the New
March 27, 2026 Dr. Tobias Janowitz CSHL Dynamic Systems Theory of Cancer Cachexia
January 23, 2026 Dr. Jerelle Joseph Princeton Modeling Biomolecular Condensates
November 14, 2025 Dr. Jeremy Owen Princeton Chromatin as a Three-Dimensional Memory Machine
October 24, 2025 Dr. Akshit Goyal ICTS Bangalore Finding Signatures of Life Guided by Ecological Principles
September 26, 2025 Dr. Phil Kidd Flatiron Robust Feedback Control Implemented by a Single C. elegans Neuron