Poster presentations at IoP Physics of Life 2025, Harrogate

The group recently attended the IoP Physics of Life 2025 conference in sunny Harrogate and had a great time.

A group visit to the Japanese Garden in Valley Gardens, Harrogate. Left to right: Mauro Mobilia, Lluís Hernández-Navarro, Matthew Asker (me!), Shaurya Pratap Singh

There were several interesting talks and discussions, particularly one from Cameron Boggon at ETH Zurich regarding spatial structure in microbial communities and methods of probing its effects experimentally. Cells in the experimental setup he showed could really be set up in well-defined spatial structures on a single-cell level. I also enjoyed particularly exciting talks from Paula García-Galindo regarding the genotype-phenotype map and RNA plasticity emerging from a response to fluctuating environemnts and Nathalie Balaban regarding statistical physics aprroaches to bacteria under strong perturbations, using techniques from random network dynamics to model systems which have been strongly perturbed.

Furthermore, there were two excellent poster sessions, one of which myself and Dr. Lluís Hernández-Navarro were happy to be a part of. In particular, Lluís’ poster titled “Slow spatial migration can help eradicate cooperative antimicrobial resistance in time-varying environments” won a prize for best poster!

Additionally, see my poster below:

The poster I presented at the IoP Physics of Life 2025 conference.