Biophysical Conference 2019

Session

Not scheduled

Terrace ballroom (Hotel Amfora, Hvar, Croatia)

Contribution list Timetable

11. Generosity, selfishness and exploitation as optimal greedy strategies for resource sharing

Andrea Mazzolini (ICTP, Quantitative Life Science section, Trieste, Italy)

Talk

There is increasing evidence that fairness and generosity are not exclusive human traits.
Indeed, several experiments on chimpanzees, monkeys and other mammals show an inequity-aversion behavior.
Namely, if some valuable resource, e.g. food, is unevenly divided between two individuals, the one who gets a smaller share may reject the reward, and, in some cases, there can even be an attempt of...

13. Learning to flock with reinforcement learning.

Mr Mihir Durve (Department of Physics, University of Trieste)

Talk

In many biological systems the individual agents cluster together in space and exhibit collective behavior [1]. Thousands of starling birds show spectacular collective aerial maneuvers near their home, migratory birds migrate as a flock, school of fish forage together, thousands of insects march and feast on the crop fields etc are few examples[2-4].
Many simulation models are proposed to...

12. The actin nucleator CYK-1/mDia drives chirality of actomyosin flows and facilitates left-right symmetry breaking in early C. elegans embryo’s.

Teije Middelkoop

Talk

The emergence of organismal left-right asymmetry has puzzled developmental biologists for decades. In recent years, actomyosin activity has proven to be instrumental in driving the chirality of various cells, tissues and organisms. While several myosin motors and actin nucleators of the Formin family can rotate helical actin filaments in vitro, little is known about how these activities can...