Symposia on the Physics of Biological Function ‘Evolutionary Dynamics and Influenza’ What the 1918 flu taught us about adaptation to self Benjamin Greenbaum, Mount Sinai School of Medicine  Minimal fitness models for evolutionary predictions Marta Łuksza, Mount Sinai School of Medicine  Universality in rapidly adapting populations Richard Neher, University of Basel  Learning influenza infection dynamics …

Symposia on the Physics of Biological Function ‘Seeing Beyond V1’  Neural mechanisms for seeing without V1 Tony Ro, The Graduate Center, CUNY  How the brain signals memories of what we’ve seen Nicole Rust, University of Pennsylvania  How high-order image statistics shape cortical visual processing Jonathan Victor, Weill Cornell School of Medicine  Using goal-driven deep neural …

Symposia on the Physics of Biological Function ‘Exploring Sequence Space’  Sequence diversity in the adaptive immune system Curtis Callan, Princeton University  Deep learning and proteins Lucy Colwell, Cambridge University  Learning protein constitutive motifs from sequence data Remi Monasson, École Normale Supérieure  The evolutionary “design” of proteins Rama Ranganathan, The University of Chicago December 14th @ …