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KITP Program: Biological Learning without a Brain
(Jun 22 - Jul 16, 2026)
Coordinators: Karen Alim, Naama Brenner, Arvind Murugan, and Jen Schwarz

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Time Speaker Title
6/22, 9:00am Arup Chakraborty
MIT
How the humoral immune system learns[Video][CC]
6/23, 9:00am Sam Gershman
Harvard
Reimagining the biology of memory[Video][CC]
6/23, 10:30am Yasmine Meroz
Tel Aviv Univ.
TBA[Embargoed]
6/23, 3:30pm Aneta Koseska
MPINB
Biological computations and learning without attractors[Video][CC]
6/24, 9:00am Michael Elowitz
Caltech
Synthetic circuits for programmable recognition and targeting[Embargoed]
6/24, 10:15am Lulu Qian
Caltech
Learning in DNA neural networks[Video][CC]
6/25, 9:00am Naama Brenner
Technion
Exploratory Learning in Biological Cells[Video][CC]
6/25, 10:30am Andrea Liu
U. Penn
Tunable Matter as a Unifying Paradigm for Biological Function[Slides][Video][CC]
6/25, 3:30pm Erik Winfree
Caltech
Probabilistic inference and learning in energy-based neural networks and equilibrium molecular systems[Video][CC]
6/26, 9:00am . Topical Discussion
6/29, 9:00am Armita Nourmohammad
Washington
Design principles of the adaptive immune response[Video][CC]
6/29, 10:30am Ilya Nemenman
Emory
Learning Without Learning: or To Be (surprised) or Not To Be[Video][CC]
6/29, 12:15pm Karen Alim
TU Munich
Learning with the flow [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
6/30, 9:00am Wallace Marshall
UCSF
Learning without neurons in a single cell[Video][CC]
6/30, 10:30am Aleksandra Walczak
ENS Paris
Tutorial: learning in the the immune system[Video][CC]
6/30, 3:30pm Jeremy Gunawardena
Harvard
Tutorial: Cell learning[Video][CC]
7/01, 9:00am Alison Patteson
Syracuse
Unraveling vimentin's role in cell migration[Video][CC]
7/01, 10:30am Jordi Garcia Ojalvo
UPF
Minimal internal representations in living systems[Video][CC]
7/02, 9:00am Mingming Wu
Cornell
Mechanical adaptation and learning in non-neuronal cells[Video][CC]
7/02, 10:30am Arvind Murugan
U. Chicago
New Talk[Embargoed]
7/06, 9:00am Karen Alim
TU Munich
Learning Matters[Video][CC]
7/06, 10:30am Ilya Nemenman
Emory
Tutorial: AI in Academic Everyday Life[Video][CC]
7/06, 3:30pm Nathalie Balaban
Hebrew Univ.
Tutorial: memory, single cell heterogeneity and consequences for antibiotic response[Video][CC]
7/07, 9:00am Shenshen Wang
UCLA
Immune learning in a physical world[Embargoed]
7/07, 10:30am Gautam Reddy
Princeton
Learning as Distributed Computation[Video][CC]
7/08, 9:00am Douglas Durian
U. Penn
Intelligent electronic metamaterials that learn how to compute[Video][CC]
7/08, 10:30am Thierry Mora
ENS Paris
Diversity in the immune response[Video][CC]
7/08, 3:30pm Yuhai Tu
Flatiron Institute
Physics of Learning: Lessons from Living and Artificial Systems[Video]
7/09, 9:00am Jen Schwarz
Syracuse
Can Sand Learn?[Video][CC]
7/09, 10:30am Suraj Shankar
Michigan
Mechanics of Immune Sensing[Video][CC]
7/10, 9:00am Topical discussion
7/13, 9:15am Francis Corson
ENS Paris
How cells agree on making an embryo[Video][CC]
7/13, 10:45am Elad Schneidman
Weizmann Inst.
Architectural design principles of learning neural circuits[Video]
7/13, 3:30pm Menachem Stern
AMOLF
Tutorial: Contrastive physical learning[Video][CC]
7/14, 9:15am Ahmed El Hady
MPI-AB
Learning to forage[Embargoed]
7/14, 10:45am Mary Lisa Manning
Syracuse
Can physical learning ideas drive hypotheses about mechanisms governing embryonic development?[Video]
7/15, 9:15am Sidhartha Goyal
U. Toronto
Learning in regeneration[Embargoed]
7/15, 10:45am Dmitri Chklovskii
Simons Foundation
Intelligence from Instability: Prediction and Control in Dynamical Worlds[Video]
7/15, 3:30pm Nidhi Pashine
Syracuse
Mechanical memories in soft matter systems[Embargoed]
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