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Jan Lammerding from Cornell gives this week's Biophysics Colloquium.

Host: Mingming Wu.

Title: Squish and squeeze – nuclear biomechanics in health and disease.

Professor Ulrich Wiesner, Materials Sciences & Engineering, Cornell University. Presentation title: Cocontinuous Cubic Phase Materials: A Voyage from Discovery to Metamaterials and Superconducting Materials. Host: Sol Gruner.

Joshua Chappie. Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University.

Host: Toshi Kawate.

Title: Self-stimulation in three dimensions: a voyeuristic view of dynamin assembly and activation.

Poster available.

Max Metlitski, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, CA. Presentation title: A symmetry-respecting topologically-ordered surface phase of 3d electron topological insulators. Host: Erich Mueller.

Roy Bar-Ziv from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Host: Itai Cohen

Title: Design of an autonomous gene circuit for targeting cancer cells

Jeffrey Teo, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Will present seminar. Host: Eun-Ah Kim.

Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel. Presentation title: Towards artificial cells in 2D. Host: Itai Cohen.

Maissam Barkeshli, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Presentation title: Defects in Topologically Ordered Quantum Matter. Host: Eun-Ah Kim.

Karina Jiménez-García, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Presentation title: Quantum simulation with ultracold neutral atoms. Host: Mukund Vengalattore.