{"title": "Dr Johannes Keegstra: Biophysics of aquatic microbes: randomness, energetics, and sticky polysaccharides", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology/microbiology"], "description": "A free, open-to-all seminar at Imperial College London on the biophysics of aquatic microbes. Speaker Dr Johannes Keegstra explores how bacteria search for dilute nutrient hotspots, why motility is their most expensive trait, and how sticky polysaccharides from algae guide them. 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Speaker Dr Federica Mangione of King's College London will discuss her research on mechanosensation — how touch, pressure and vibration become electrical signals — presenting recent findings that support a new, multicellular model of mechanosensation at the body surface, based on her work establishing the Drosophila epidermis as a system for studying this sense.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/co-opting-cells-for-mechanosensation-39310/", "official_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/co-opting-cells-for-mechanosensation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c4dc8a9ee1420e12126238a8dcc7aee3518f869ba0f305e73a239f9729d1aec8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Biomathematics Seminar – David Rand (Warwick) – Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology"], "description": "A seminar in the Biomathematics Seminar series at Imperial College London, open to all and free with first-come-first-served entry. 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