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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Keara Lane, NU Molecular Biosciences "Single-cell decision making during bacterial infection"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Keara Lane - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
Title:
Single-cell decision making during bacterial infection: lessons from innate immunity
Abstract:
Bacterial infections are dynamic and heterogeneous, yet we have primarily relied on population-level snapshots to understand them. For this seminar, I will primarily talk about my postdoctoral research which focused on understanding the role of cell-to-cell variation in innate immune signaling dynamics during bacterial infection. First, I will discuss work linking NF-κB dynamics to single-cell gene expression patterns and second, how signaling dynamics are used by macrophages to transmit information about the threat associated with a given bacterial stimulus. I will wrap up with an outline of the current focus of the Lane lab, namely cell-cell communication dynamics during host-pathogen interaction.
Speaker Bio:
Keara Lane is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern. Keara completed her PhD with Tyler Jacks at MIT followed by postdoctoral research in systems biology with Markus Covert at Stanford. Her lab explores the time dimension, or dynamics, of bacterial infection in individual cells. The Lane lab takes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating live-cell microscopy with global single-cell profiling technologies to make quantitative, dynamic, single-cell measurements during bacterial infection. The goal of the lab is to determine how decisions made in individual host and bacterial cells influence infection outcome, with a view to identifying novel strategies to engineer cellular behavior to control infection outcome.
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Time
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Fall 2026 Classes Begin
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Fall 2026 Classes Begin
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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NICO Reading Group - Fall 2026 First Meeting
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
6:00 PM
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Chambers Hall
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The NICO Reading Group meets for the first this fall on Wednesday, September 23, 2026. Please contact Jaeseon Ha if you are interested in joining our group.
About:
The NICO Reading Group brings together people across disciplines to read and discuss important ideas in modern AI. We focus on topics such as AI agents, tuning, harnesses, evaluation, AI for scientific discovery, and applications of AI across different fields. The goal is to understand important ideas in AI more deeply by learning and thinking across disciplines.
Leadership:
Jaeseon Ha, a Kellogg MBA + AI student, will lead the reading group during the Fall 2026 term. Please contact Jaeseon with any questions or reach out to us at nico@northwestern.edu.
Meeting Times:
Date: Biweekly on Wednesday evening, starting on September 23, 2026
Time: 6-7pm
Location: NICO main office, Chambers Hall,
600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208
Time
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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WED@NICO Seminar Series returns on September 30, 2026
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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The Wednesdays@NICO seminar series returns September 30, 2026, running through November 11, 2026, with the following speakers.
9/30/2026 - Luis Amaral, Northwestern University
10/7/2026 - Kristina Lerman, Indiana University
10/14/2026 - Tim Tangherlini, University of California, Berkeley
10/21/2026 - Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Northeastern University London
10/28/2026 - Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna
11/4/2026 - Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
11/11/2026 - Mayank Agrawal, Proof of Human
We will share detailed speaker information, talk titles and abstracts, in the coming weeks.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option TBA
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, networks, and artificial intelligence. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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