BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Vienna BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T001015Z UID:1794220200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261109T113000 DTEND:20261109T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lauren O'Connell\nhosted by Lora Sweeney\nAbstract: Ti tle | Lessons from Poison Frogs on Ecological Tuning of Animal Behavior a nd PhysiologyAbstract |Behavior and physiology are the substrates of natu ral selection. Our overarching goal is to understand how new traits in phy siology and social behavior have evolved from existing genetic and cellula r components using poison frogs as research organisms. First\, we want to understand how organisms evolve ways to evade predation by using natural p roducts that target the nervous system. Animals with a rich diversity of c hemical defenses must also protect their own nervous systems from toxicity . We recently discovered toxin sponge proteins that bind deadly toxins and transport them to specific locations in poison frogs. Such a system is ri pe for reverse engineering drug carriers to better understand how chemical defenses evolve. Second\, we want to understand how new social behaviors evolve through changes in nervous system function using a comparative\, or ganismal approach. We have established poison frog tadpoles as a model sys tem for infant social behavior\, where species have evolved new communicat ion and social behaviors based on their rearing environments. Together\, t hese research avenues are enabling us to understand the design principles of chemical defense and social behaviors. LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Lauren O'Connell: Lessons from Poison Frogs on Ecological Tuning of Animal Behavior and Physiology URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6550 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T001015Z UID:1794825000@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261116T113000 DTEND:20261116T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernandez-Rico\nAbstract: Viv ian Kuperberg |Bias in Prime NumbersThe prime numbers have the curious pr operty that\, while they are precisely determined by their definition\, th ey seem to be rather “random" in their distribution. That is to say\, t hey behave in almost the same way as a randomly chosen sequence of integer s. The key word “almost" is the focus of this talk! We will discuss what it means for the prime numbers to look random and some surprising ways in which they do not\, as well as exploring some open questions in this rese arch area.________________________________________________________________ ________________Carla Fernández-Rico |Designing Structure across Scales i n Soft and Biofabricated MaterialsFrom biological tissues to synthetic mat erials\, properties and function often emerge from structures organized ac ross multiple length scales. Understanding how such organization develops from individual building blocks\, and how to control it\, is a central cha llenge at the interface of soft matter physics\, materials science\, and b iology. In this talk\, I will discuss how colloidal assembly\, phase separ ation\, and biological growth can generate and propagate order across scal es in soft matter. I will first show how particle curvature directs exotic liquid-crystalline phases\, how phase separation creates mechanically rob ust bicontinuous structures\, and how bacterial growth and biomaterial pro duction generate liquid-crystalline order across multiple length scales. T hese ideas motivate our work at ISTA\, where we aim to uncover the physica l principles behind the emergence of structural order\, and use them to de sign new\, adaptive\, and sustainable materials. LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernandez-Rico: Inaugural Lecture | Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernández-Rico URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6389 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T001015Z UID:1796639400@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261207T113000 DTEND:20261207T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Robert\nhosted by Scott Waitukaitis LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Daniel Robert: Institute Colloquium | Daniel Robert URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6551 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T001015Z UID:1797244200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261214T113000 DTEND:20261214T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eva Benkova & Mikhail Lemeshko LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Eva Benkova & Mikhail Lemeshko: SeniorISTA | Eva Benkova & Mikhail Lemeshko URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6736 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T001015Z UID:1800268200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20270118T113000 DTEND:20270118T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lora Sweeney\nhosted by Mario de Bono LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Lora Sweeney: Tenure Talk | Lora Sweeney URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6387 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T001015Z UID:1801477800@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20270201T113000 DTEND:20270201T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Monika Visan & Simone Fatichi LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Monika Visan & Simone Fatichi: Inaugural Lecture | Monika Visan & S imone Fatichi URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6552 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR