CTBP Colloquia

CTBP is proud to host a number of exciting talks throughout the year presented by some of the top researchers and scientists who are at the forefront of biological physics research.


How do ion channels sense voltage?

Ehud Isacoff, Department of Neurobiology, University of California - Berkeley

Dynamics and resilience of blood flow in cortical microvessels

David Kleinfeld, Department of Physics, UCSD

Learning Synchrony: Oscillations and Spike-Time Dependent Plasticity

G. Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Manifolds of the Brain: Exploring the nature and function of neuronal multistability

Haim Sompolinsky, Hebrew University

Learning from Bacteria about Self-Organization

Eshel Ben-Jacob, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv Universitiy

Modeling Viruses

Alan S. Perelson, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Calcium and Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling: Measurements of local ionic microenvironments
Donald M. Bers, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Physiology, Loyola University

Gamma Rhythms of the Nervous System: Themes and Variations

Nancy Kopell, Department of Mathematics and Center for BioDynamics, Boston University

Biomolecules: From aperiodic crystals to wiggling and jiggling entities
Hans Frauenfelder, PhD. Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Computing with a Dynamical Neural System
John Hopfield, PhD., Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University