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Europe/Rome During mitosis, microtubules form a spindle, which is responsible for the segregation of chromosomes. In yeast cells, the spindle has a rod-like structure and is made of microtubules emanating from two poles connected by cross-linking proteins. Microtubules self-organize into parallel or antiparallel bundles, depending on whether they grow from the same or two different poles and our goal here is understanding how such structures form. Our model includes thermally driven angular pivoting of microtubules around the poles and elastic forces between them mediated by cross-linking proteins, which can detach to and detach from microtubules, as well as move along them. The solutions of our model imply that the random motion of the microtubules allows them to find their pair, while the short-range interactions caused by the cross-linking proteins align them into bundles. Parallel bundling can occur in the presence of either passive crosslinkers or plus-end directed motors, while the formation of antiparallel bundles requires minus-end directed motors. The model predicts the average bundling time, which is in agreement with our experimental measurements. Additionally, for the case of antiparallel bundle formation, the model predicts that the velocity of the microtubules gliding along each other is the same as the velocity at which the motors move along the microtubules, and this was also confirmed experimentally. In conclusion, the main contributors to the formation of microtubule bundles are angular diffusion of microtubules around the poles allowing them to come into contact and short-range forces caused by cross-linking proteins that align them. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Microtubule pivoting driven by cross-linking proteins leads to spindle assembly

Address: Via Beirut, 2

Room: Central area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building

Speaker(s): Marcel Prelogovic - Department of Physics, Faculty of Science University of Zagreb, Croatia

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) are organizing a joint winter school on quantitative systems biology. This is the 8th school in the series and will be held at ICTS, Bengaluru, India. https://www.icts.res.in/program/qsb2019 QSB2019 is an advanced school aimed at graduate students and postdocs working in quantitative systems biology. The focus this year is on 'morphogenesis'. The main school will be held between December 9-20, 2019 and will be preceded by a pedagogic and intensive ‘Pre-School’ between December 3-6, 2019. The Pre-School will cover the basic concepts in cell and developmental biology and will have short modules on mathematical modelling and physical approaches to biology. The deadline for applications is 1 September 2019. The development of an organism from a single-celled zygote to an embryo involves a tight integration between gene expression, signaling and mechanochemical processes. In recent years, there has been an explosion in studies that attempt to unravel the physical principles behind how organisms self-organize to generate their three-dimensional shape and functional form. Novel microscopy techniques are giving unprecedented views into the processes of development at very high spatiotemporal resolution. This deluge of data necessitates a larger scale systems-level understanding how organisms build themselves. The eighth edition of the ICTP - ICTS winter school on quantitative systems biology is focussed on Morphogenesis and will allow students from different backgrounds to become familiar with exciting developments at the interface of Physics and Developmental Biology. The participants of the school will be exposed to contemporary research areas, covering a large variety of topics, including mechanochemical pattern formation, regeneration and growth regulation, evolutionary-developmental biology. The school will emphasize how major questions in developmental biology such as stem cell differentiation, morphogenesis, tissue patterning, and tissue mechanics, can be asked with the help of quantification and physical theory. INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE Karen Alim Bill Bialek Fernando Cesares Suzanne Eaton Frank Jülicher Mounia Lagha Yasmine Meroz Matteo Rauzi Jochen Rink Tim Saunders Bengaluru - India ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Dec 2019 - 20 Dec 2019

@ Bengaluru - India

Quantitative Life Sciences

ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2019 | (smr 3338)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Stefano Di Talia (Duke U.), Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy (ICTS), Guillaume Salbreux (Francis Crick Inst.), Buzz Baum (UCL), ICTP Scientific Contact: Antonio Celani

Europe/Rome SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) represents a major challenge to public health worldwide. Mobile elements such as plasmids play a crucial role in Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) and AMR spread. Understanding plasmid evolution and mobility is fundamental to unravel the population genetics of plasmid-encoded genes, especially antibiotic genes. The combination of breakthroughs in sequencing and computational approaches has led to a new vision of the eco-evolutionary processes involved in HGT dynamics of pathogens. The School and Workshop will focus on modelling efforts to integrate genomic, experimental and computational results, to build a unified framework to tackle the expansion of plasmid-borne AMR. The Workshop will be preceded by the one-week introductory School on bacterial evolution, population genetics and epidemiology. The School introduces general concepts in those disciplines and focuses on their applications to AMR and plasmids. State-of-the-art methods used in genetic research on plasmids will be covered. Invited Speakers and Lecturers include: Stephanie Bedhomme, CEFE/CNRS, Montpellier Sebastian Bonhoeffer, ETH Zurich Alessandra Carattoli, Sapienza University, Rome Trinad Chakraborty, JLU Gießen Teresa Coque, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, IFOM and University of Milan Alejandro Couce, Imperial College London Luca Ferretti, Big Data Institute, Oxford Jacopo Grilli, ICTP Lars Hansen, University of Copenhagen Michael Lässig, University of Cologne Bruce Levin, Emory University James McInerney, University of Manchester Itzik Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Chiara Poletto, INSERM - Sorbonne University Adam Roberts, LSTM, Liverpool Alvaro San Millan, IRYCIS, Madrid Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn-Institut, Braunschweig Willem Van Schaik, University of Birmingham Arjan de Visser, Wageningen University Rob Willems, UMC Utrecht Applications for the Workshop ONLY can be submitted here Applications for both the School and the Workshop can be submitted here ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Feb 2020 - 6 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

School and Workshop on Plasmids as Vehicles of Antimicrobial Resistance Spread | (smr 3425)

Address: via Grignano, 9 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Fernando de la Cruz (Universidad de Cantabria & Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria), Richard Neher (Biozentrum - University of Basel), Alice Ledda (Imperial College London), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis Imperial College Londonmrc_gida

Support E-Mail: smr3425@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/01/2020** **DEADLINE: 15/01/2020**

Europe/Rome ICTP and SISSA, in collaboration with the partner institutions of the International Master Course in Physics of Complex Systems, organize the Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems from 24 February to 20 March 2020. Many complex systems in physics, biology, engineering and economics are characterized by a large number of interacting degrees of freedom giving rise to a non-trivial collective behavior. The theoretical and computational tools for a quantitative analysis of complex systems are often rooted in modern (statistical, quantum) physics. The Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems gives students the opportunity to get in touch with a selection of topics at the forefront of research during an intensive 4-week program. It consists of 5 courses of 9 lectures each, followed by final written tests. Lecturers and Courses: Mahesh Bandi (OIST, Okinawa, Japan) Fluctuations and Information in Physical Systems Ramakrishna Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India) Synchrony in nonlinear dynamical systems Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA) A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics Alessandro Silva (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Quantum systems out of equilibrium Lenka Zdeborova (CNRS, Paris, France) Statistical Mechanics toolbox for Machine Learning Students and young researchers from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may apply for the College. Candidates are required to solicit recommendation letters to be sent by their supervisors in support of their application. Participants should have an adequate working knowledge of English. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by their home institutions. However, limited funds are available to partially support some participants, who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is limited and candidates should make every effort to secure support for their travel, at least partial. Attendance of lectures and completion of the final written tests are mandatory for those who are granted ICTP funding. There is no registration fee. RULES FOR PARTICIPATION Participants with financial support from the ICTP and Master PCS students are required to attend at least 80% of the courses. Attendance is monitored regularly. Taking the final exam for each course is mandatory for participants with financial support from the ICTP and Master PCS students. Grading system: Each course will be graded on a scale from 0 to 20. Marks higher than 10 correspond to pass. A final grade will be given for the overall Spring College with the following scale: E- Excellent - 5 exams passed A- Very Good - 4 exams passed B- Good - 3 exams passed C- Sufficient - 2 exams passed F- Fail - 1 or no exams passed Certificates of attendance will be awarded only to participants who have attended at least 80% of the courses, with no exception. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 15 NOVEMBER 2019 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Feb 2020 - 20 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 3427)

Address: via Grignano, 9 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Alfredo Braunstein (Politecnico Torino), Andrea Gambassi (SISSA), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): Politecnico di Torinopolito, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studiessissa, Université Franco Italienneufi

Europe/Rome Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) represents a major challenge to public health worldwide. Mobile elements such as plasmids play a crucial role in Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) and AMR spread. Understanding plasmid evolution and mobility is fundamental to unravel the population genetics of plasmid-encoded genes, especially antibiotic genes. The combination of breakthroughs in sequencing and computational approaches has led to a new vision of the eco-evolutionary processes involved in HGT dynamics of pathogens. The School and Workshop will focus on modelling efforts to integrate genomic, experimental and computational results, to build a unified framework to tackle the expansion of plasmid-borne AMR. The Workshop will be preceded by the one-week introductory School on bacterial evolution, population genetics and epidemiology. The School introduces general concepts in those disciplines and focuses on their applications to AMR and plasmids. State-of-the-art methods used in genetic research on plasmids will be covered. Invited Speakers and Lecturers include: Stephanie Bedhomme, CEFE/CNRS, Montpellier Sebastian Bonhoeffer, ETH Zurich Alessandra Carattoli, Sapienza University, Rome Trinad Chakraborty, JLU Gießen Teresa Coque, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, IFOM and University of Milan Alejandro Couce, Imperial College London Luca Ferretti, Big Data Institute, Oxford Jacopo Grilli, ICTP Lars Hansen, University of Copenhagen Michael Lässig, University of Cologne Bruce Levin, Emory University James McInerney, University of Manchester Itzik Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Chiara Poletto, INSERM - Sorbonne University Adam Roberts, LSTM, Liverpool Alvaro San Millan, IRYCIS, Madrid Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn-Institut, Braunschweig Willem Van Schaik, University of Birmingham Arjan de Visser, Wageningen University Rob Willems, UMC Utrecht Applications for the Workshop ONLY can be submitted here Applications for both the School and the Workshop can be submitted here ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Mar 2020 - 6 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Workshop on Plasmids as Vehicles of Antimicrobial Resistance Spread | (smr 3498)

Address: via Grignano, 9 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Cosponsor(s): MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis Imperial College Londonmrc_gida

Support E-Mail: smr3425@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/01/2020** **DEADLINE: 15/01/2020**

Europe/Rome Collective behavior is a distinctive trait of human and animal societies. The School aims at providing a thorough introduction to basic notions and advanced topics in this subject from the viewpoints of physics, biology, computer science and robotics. Provisional list of Speakers: Hugues Chaté, CEA, Paris Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz Marco Dorigo, ULB, Bruxelles Deborah Gordon, Stanford University Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University, New York Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico David Sumpter, University of Uppsala Guy Theraulaz, CRCA, Toulouse Havana - Cuba ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 Mar 2020 - 27 Mar 2020

@ Havana - Cuba

Quantitative Life Sciences

School on Collective Animal Behaviour | (smr 3432)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Roberto Mulet (University of Havana, Cuba), Ernesto Altshuler (University of Havana, Cuba), ICTP Scientific Contact: Antonio Celani

Europe/Rome The aim of the conference is to give young researchers from academia and industry the opportunity to gather and present their results related to high-dimensional statistical problems, as arising in machine learning, inference or statistical physics. The focus is on the analytical and rigorous technics that allow to study i) the information theoretic limits and phase transitions phenomena; ii) the algorithmic limits; and iii) the rough energy landscapes arising in these problems. Typical problems in high-dimensions include the detection and estimation of noisy signals (compressed sensing, PCA and tensor decomposition etc), the analysis of (deep) neural-networks and their learning and generalization dynamics, the detection of communities in large networks, or disordered spin systems. While these problems may seem of different natures, they actually share many similarities in their common phenomenology and the tools used to analyze them. The core of the field is made of a very active, diverse and quickly expanding community of physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, information theorists and engineers, with the common desire to tackle increasingly challenging problems at the forefront of data science. This conference aims at reenforcing the links among this interdisciplinary community, and in particular of its youngest theory-oriented members, and to bring forward the latest development happening in the high-dimensional world. Topics: • High-dimensional probability and statistics • Theoretical machine learning • Theoretical computer science • High-dimensional inference and signal processing • Information theory • Statistical physics of disordered systems Speakers: A. Auffinger, Northwestern University, Usa A. Bandeira, ETHZ, Switzerland (TBC) A. Barra, Salento University, Italy Q. Berthet, Google Paris, France E. Boix, MIT, Usa M. Brennan, MIT, Usa G. Bresler, MIT (Usa) L. Budzynski, ENS Paris, France Y. Deshpande, MIT, Usa A. El-Alaoui, Stanford, Usa M. Gabrié, NYU, Usa S. Goldt, ENS Paris, France A. Jagannath, Waterloo University, Canada M. Lelarge, INRIA, France C. Lucibello, Bocconi University, Italy C. Luneau, EPFL, Switzerland A. Maillard, ENS Paris, France S. Mei, Stanford, Usa E. Mingione, EPFL, Switzerland M. Mondelli, IST, Austria N. Mueller, Frankfurt University, Germany V. Ros, ENS Paris, France M. Saenz, ICTP, Italy Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

20 Apr 2020 - 24 Apr 2020

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Youth in High-dimensions: Machine Learning, High-dimensional Statistics and Inference for the New Generation | (smr 3438)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Florent Krzakala (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Jean Barbier (ICTP), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Support E-Mail: smr3438@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/01/2020**

Europe/Rome Life is a nonequilibrium phenomenon, requiring the constant consumption of energy to circumvent the pernicious effects of fluctuations. Recent advances in experimental techniques and in the theory of nonequilibrium processes offer new opportunities for the study of fluctuations in biological systems. What are the energetic costs of key processes needed to sustain life at the cellular level? What statistical features are unique in biological systems? How can we harvest energy efficiently from living matter? What is the biological relevance of fundamental results such as the fluctuation theorems and the thermodynamic uncertainty relation? This workshop aims at gathering active scientists (experimentalists and theorists) from different domains across physics and biology who have made significant contributions to address fluctuations in living systems. The workshop will provide a unique framework for researchers from developing countries to establish a scientific dialogue with their counterparts from around the world performing cutting-edge research in physics and biology. Students and early career scientists will get a flavour of the possibilities and outstanding questions in biophysics. The aim of the workshop is to discuss existing efforts on understanding nonequilibrium fluctuations using biological and physical methods, but more importantly, to identify future questions in this domain and the collaborations that will help to answer them. Key topics include: Sensory systems, oscillators and memory Active matter Cytoskeleton and membrane dynamics Molecular motors Nonequilibrium thermodynamics CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPENING SOON ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

25 May 2020 - 29 May 2020

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Signatures of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Life | (smr 3446)

Address: via Grignano, 9 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Jordan Horowitz (University of Michigan), Saar Rahav (Technion), Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore), Edgar Roldan (ICTP), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Cosponsor(s): EMBOembo, ICAM-Institute for Complex Adaptive Mattericam

Activity

9 Nov 2020 - 20 Nov 2020

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology: Quantitative Approaches in Ecosystem Ecology | (smr 3486)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Simon Levin (Princeton University), Matteo Marsili (ICTP), Jacopo Grilli (ICTP), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

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School and Workshop on Plasmids as Vehicles of Antimicrobial Resistance Spread | (smr 3425)

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