The HKUST video channel has publish the talks from the amazing workshop on symplifying biology from the perspective of physics, held at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 香港科技大學 , that Janneke and Juan attended on December 2014. Here a selection of 4 talks:

1.-Opening by Bob on spherical cows and arrogant bulls.

2.-Talk by Juan on bacterial waves and metabolic fields.

3.-Talk by Shashi on active matter and coupled oscillators.

4.-Bob’s Talk about field theory in biology.

Janneke and 纪皇 (Juan) are back from the 2016 Shenzhen Assembly in 深圳, 中国 where the amazing 中国人 treated us very nicely and made us feel at home. We learned a lot about DIY sensors and most importantly how to remember to evolve exponential responsibility in the face of an exponential growth of many technologies such as cheap prototyping, open source electronics, DIY biology and learning and teaching open science in hacker spaces. Shenzhen is an amazing city to accelerate learning and teaching with open technologies. In particular we have made many new friends in the maker movement who share our interests in open science and open education such as Seeed studio and Open FIESTA.

Million thanks to co-organizers Sage Bionetworks, CRI-Paris, Institut Pasteur and 清华大学 for putting together such an intellectual and emotional treat!

For geographical balance in the Keymer lab, we are happy to host Ivan, coming from France for a 6-month internship to work on theoretical biology and maybe get his hands dirty on the lab´s bench.

Alfredo is joining the lab continuing his efforts to help us understand the spatial ecology of neuronal assemblages.

All the way from Baltimore, Miles made it to the south cone to start his PhD in Ecology @ PUC and to work with us learning and teaching theoretical ecology.

From January 1st 2016, Janneke is back with the Keymer Lab, this time as Lab Manager to help us keep calm.

Congratulations to Fabai who defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Spatial organization in nano-sculptured bacteria, a tale of shape, scale, patterns, and genomes on October  27, 2015

Phys.org published a note about our artice on bacteria invading together an antibiotic landscapes without having develop yet antibiotic resistence. check it out here.

antibiotic landscapes

Congratulations to Fabai et al. for the cover of Nature Nanotechnology this week. Also, to make the world come full circle, our article was commented by Juan’s old office mate KC Huang.

NanotechnologyWeb.org threw this piece on Fabai’s and Bas’s amazing work on sculpting bacterial cells published in Nature Nanotechnology this week.