INVITED TALKS/WORKSHOPS/COLLOQUIA
Cilia, flagella, and centrosomes – French cilia network, Oct 2025
Lecture course on computational systems biology, Oct 2025
Oxford-Japan symposium on cell behaviours in complex environments, Sept 2025
UK Mathematical Biology conference, Birmingham, Sept 2025
International Society of Protistologists’ (ISOP)- symposium, June 2025
Shaping microbial life in a changing environment – EPFL, July 2025Active Matter: the synergy between maths and physics, Institut Henri Poincaré, June 2025
Physics of Biological Systems, Higgs Centre, University of Edinburgh, May 2025
Heraus meeting on biophysics of motile cilia , Bad Honneff, Mar 2025
2nd Physics of Life conference, Harrogate, Mar 2025
Germany Physical Society meeting, Regensburg, Mar 2025
Gordon Research conference on directed cell motility, Lucca, Jan 2025
Ernst Strungmann forum, Dec 2024
London Mathematical Biology conference, Sept 2024
Boulder Summer school – self-organising matter , July 2024
Michael SARS symposium , Bergen, May 2024EuroMech colloquium Nonlinear dynamics at low Reynolds number , Imperial, May 2024
Chemotaxis conference : from basic physics to biology, Max Planck PKS, May 2024
Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Apr 2024
Physics of Biology seminar, University of Geneva, Mar 2024
Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Mar 2024
Physics of Life seminar, Imperial College, Feb 2024
Isaac Newton Institute, New Statistical Physics of Active Matter, Dec 2023
Physics Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec 2023
Department of Physics seminar, University of Amsterdam, Nov 2023
Microbiology seminar, University of Warwick, Oct 2023
Physics of Living Matter 17, Sept 2023
EMBO-EMBL Symposium , Theory and concepts in biology, July 2023
EMBO-EMBL Symposium , Life at the periphery: mechanobiology of the cell surface, June 2023
UCSD qBio seminar (virtual), May 2023
Seminar, MPI-PKS, Dresden, May 2023
Mathematical Biology Seminar, University of Bath, Mar 2023
Cilia, Mucus, and Mucociliary interactions, Gordon Conference , Feb 2023
Motility and mechanics, University of Bristol, Dec 2022
Cell biology seminar, University of Leeds, Nov 2022
Phymot workshop, Paris, Nov 2022
Conference on ethological dynamics in a diorama environment, Kyoto, Oct 2022
Workshop on microbial communities, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Oct 2022
Fluid Dynamics seminar, Imperial College London, July 2022
Symposium on single and collective cell Motility, College de France, June 2022, [recording ]
Numbers & Nature , MIT Feigenbaum Symposium, June 2022, [recording ]6th Microscale Ocean biophysics meeting 6.0 , May 2022
B-CUBE hour, TU Dresden, May 2022
NorthWest Seminar series in Mathematical Biology, University of Liverpool, Apr 2022
DAMTP Friday Fluids Seminar , Mar 2022
Motility in microbes , molecules and matter (IoP conference), Dec 2021Physics seminar, Fudan University, Dec 2021
Guest lecturer, MSCA-ITA ActiveMatter , Sept 2021, virtual
Mechanics in physiological systems, 4D cellular physiology workshop, Janelia, June 2021, [recording ]
Symposium, SMB 2021 Annual Meeting, June 2021, virtual
Mathematical biology seminar, Melbourne University, May 2021, virtual
Colloquium, Macquarie university, May 2021, virtual
SynthSys seminar, University of Edinburgh, Apr 2021, virtual
Dynamic Cell IV (Biochemical Society/BSCB): Award Lecture , virtual, Mar 2021
University of Western Ontario, Departmental seminar, virtual, Mar 2021
Forschungszentrum Jülich, theoretical physics of living matter seminar, virtual, 28 Jan 2021
Hong Kong University, Departmental seminar, virtual, 14 Dec 2020
APS DFD, Virtual 22-24 Nov 2020, [conference ][abstract ]
Cell Biology Journal Club, University of Denver, virtual seminar, Oct 2020
MIT Physical Maths seminar, virtual seminar , Oct 2020
Bioactive fluids seminar series, Virtual Meeting, Sept 2020
Choanoflagellates and friends, Virtual Meeting , May 2020
BSCB Cilia Meeting, e-Symposia series 1, Apr 2020
Marine Biological Association seminar, 15 Jan 2020
CPLC Colloquium, University of Illinois, 10 Jan, 2020
SICB 2020, 3-7 Jan 2020, [conference ] [abstract ]
MPI-CBG, Dresden, 22 Nov 2019
Fluids & Materials seminar, University of Bristol, 14 Nov 2019
3rd UKFN Biofluids meeting, University of Warwick, 12-13 Sept 2019
Microswimmers Seminar, TU Dresden, 22 May 2019
2nd International ICMM Workshop on Mathematical Modelling, University of Loughborough
Interdisciplinary Challenges in Non-Equilibrium Physics, Higgs Centre, Edinburgh, 10-13 Apr 2019
Co-organiser, Unity and diversity of ciliary systems in locomotion and transport, Kavli Royal Society Centre, Chicheley Hall, 18-19 Mar 2019, [meeting website ] [special issue ]
APS March Meeting, Boston, 3-8 May 2019, [conference][abstract ]
Physics seminar, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 28 Dec 2018
Frontiers in Cytoskeleton seminar, Tsinghua University, China, 26 Dec 2018
GAFD Seminar, University of Exeter, 10 Dec 2018
Biophysics Seminar, University of Massachusettes Medical School, 1 Aug 2018
Physics Seminar, Brown University, 30-July 2018
1st Symposium of the GW4 community: “Microfluidics and modelling for investigating cellular heterogeneity”, 7-8 June 2018, [conference]
Mathematical biology and ecology, University of Oxford, 11 May 2018
Stanford university, 12-Mar 2018
Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, 2 Mar 2018
Princeton University, 1 Mar 2018
Condensed Soft Matter Research, New York University, 28 Feb 2018
MPI-DS, Göttingen, 16 Feb 2018
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 19 Feb 2018
KNAW biophysics seminar, Amsterdam, 30 Jan 2018
LadHyX-École polytechnique, Paris, 7 Dec 2017
IMPACT & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Corals research in the news (also featured in this YouTube video , and National Geographic – in Hungarian).
Kirsty was Selected to attend World Laureates Forum Shanghai (2021, 2023). (Related press )
Interviewed for Quanta Magazine about Trichoplax cilia
Chlamy paper in the university news .
Recent articles in ScienceNews and in Science et Avenir featured our work on protist gaits.
Lab awarded ERC Starting Grant featured in the university news .
Acted as external consultant for piece in SPIE on swimming microrobots , 1 Oct 2019
LSI Open Night, 20 June 2019 [see #LSIOpenNight]
An article in PLUS-magazine about our work: “synchronized swimming”, 22 Mar 2019
Pint of Science, “Mini-me! Flies, yeast, algae and you. “, 15 May 2018
IMA seminar (Scottish Branch), University of Glasgow, 2 Nov 2017Cambridge Science Festival/DAMTP Open Day (2013, 2015, 2017), in collaboration with François Peaudecerf (see photo on the right).
Article in Magdalene Matters (Issue 41, May 2015): heart of the flagellum beat
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