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MIT PLS Morphogenesis and Multicellularity Journal Club Schedule
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Date:Discussion Leader:Readings:Links:
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July 31HyunChoose your own adventure! Each person will bring a paper they have found useful, present on it for ~ 5 minutes, and the group will discuss
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July 24HyunCrooks, G.E.. Measuring Thermodynamic Length. PRL 99, 100602 (2007)
Kim, E.-j. Information Geometry, Fluctuations, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, and Geodesics in Complex Systems. Entropy 2021, 23, 1393		Crooks2007Kim2021
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July 17Lisa and EliseSanthosh, S., Zhu, C., Fencil, B. & Serra, M. Coherent Structures in Active Flows on Dynamic Surfaces. 2025.05.23.655805Santhosh2025Peacock2013
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July 10HyunHorowitz, J. M. & Esposito, M. (2014). Thermodynamics with Continuous Information Flow. PRX, 4(3), 031015.
Parrondo, J. M. R., Horowitz, J. M., & Sagawa, T. (2015). Thermodynamics of Information. Nature Physics, 11, 131–139.		Horowitz2014Parrondo2015
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July 3HyunChapter: "Efficient Representation" from Biophysics: Searching for Principles by William Bialek (Princeton University Press, 2012)Bialek2012
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April 22Tom"Multi-scale organization in communicating active matter"- Ziepke et al., 2022
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April 14EliseContinuation of physical learning discussion
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April 7 2025Elise"Physical networks become what they learn" and "Learning Without Neurons
in Physical Systems"		- Stern et al., 2024
- Stern and Murugan, 2023
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March 10 2025LisaDavies, J., Levin, M. Synthetic morphology with agential materials. Nat Rev Bioeng 1, 46–59 (2023)Davies and Levin (2023)
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February 24 2025WillGauthier, M. & Degnan, B. M. Partitioning of genetically distinct cell populations in chimeric juveniles of the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 32, 1270–1280 (2008).-Gauthier and Degnan, 2008
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March 3 2025JohnFrank, M. H. & Chitwood, D. H. Plant chimeras: The good, the bad, and the ‘Bizzaria’. Developmental Biology 419, 41–53 (2016).-Frank and Chitwood, 2016
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February 3 2025TomDubuis et al, "Positional Information, in bits"; and their follow-up review article Tkacik & Gregor "The many bits of positional information"- Dubuis et al, 2013- Tkacik & Gregor, 2021
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January 27 2025CANCELLED
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January 24 2025WillCollinet, C. & Lecuit, T. Programmed and self-organized flow of information during morphogenesis. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 22, 245–265 (2021).-Collinet and Lecuit, 2021
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January 22, 2025WillHarris, A. K. Cell Motility and the Problem of Anatomical Homeostasis. Journal of Cell Science 1987, 121–140 (1987).-Harris, 1987
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January 13, 2025Will- Chapter 1: An expanded view of social evolution from Bourke, Andrew FG. Principles of social evolution. Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Rose, C. J. & Hammerschmidt, K. What Do We Mean by Multicellularity? The Evolutionary Transitions Framework Provides Answers. Front. Ecol. Evol. 9, (2021).		- Rose and Hammerschmidt
-Bourke Chapter 1
-Bourke References
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