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Welcome to the virtual home of the Iyer-Biswas laboratory, located in the
Department of Physics, Purdue University. To learn more about the PI, please visit the Group page.

Discovering physical principles that govern stochastic single-cell behavior, and transcend the details of specific biological systems, is the primary focus of our research. In recent works (using
experiments and theory), we have found the scaling laws governing the stochastic growth and division of individual cells under steady-state growth conditions. To continue to explore what we do, please visit our Research page.

Interested in joining our group? Please
contact me for postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate research opportunities.


Selected awards and honors



Selected invited presentations

  • Laws of Life, Time and Chance, SFI Community Lecture at the Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe.
  • Emergent Simplicities in the Living Histories of Individual Cells, Harvard Medical School SysBio Theory Seminar.
  • Emergent Song: The Polyphonies of Living Timekeepers, 2023 APS March Meeting Symposium Session.
  • UChicago Biophysical Dynamics seminar.
  • UMich Biophysics seminar.
  • 3rd Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics.
  • 2nd Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics.
  • PNNL Data Analytics Summit.
  • Keynote Talk, CauloCon 3.0.
  • World Microbe Forum, invited session on Quantitative Approaches in Microbial Evolution and Ecology.
  • 2nd Annual Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics (WOST II), SFI.
  • Physics colloquium, CCNY.
  • Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminar, Rockefeller University.
  • Biophysics seminar, Augusta University.
  • Physics colloquium, Harvey Mudd.
  • APS March Meeting Symposium Session on “Living timekeepers”.
  • SMatCH seminar, Princeton CBE.
  • Center for Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar, UT Austin.
  • Dual Mystery Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
  • Cell Biology seminar, NIH/NCI CCR.
  • KITP workshop on Energetics of cellular dynamics.
  • Aspen Winter Conference on Cell growth control.
  • JSMF-SFI Workshop on Aging in single cells.
  • Physics colloquium, UC Merced.
  • Biomedical Engineering Seminar, Purdue.
  • Aspen Workshop on Information Processing in Single Cells, Aspen Center for Physics.
  • 1st Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics.
  • Santa Fe Institute Colloquium, Santa Fe.
  • Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology at Ventura.
  • Laufer Center seminar, Stony Brook University.
  • Biophysics seminar, Arizona State University.
  • LASSP and AEP seminar, Cornell University.
  • Condensed Matter seminar, UMass Amherst.
  • Theory seminar, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School.
  • Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Seminar, Northwestern University.
  • Physics colloquium, Emory University.
  • Center for the Physics of Living Systems seminar, MIT.
  • Biosciences colloquium, Purdue University.
  • Theory in Biology meeting of the Simons Foundation, Boston University.
  • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara.
  • Center for Theoretical Biological Physics seminar, Rice University.
  • Physics colloquium, IUPUI.
  • Biophysics seminar, Georgia Tech.
  • Physics colloquium, Virginia Tech.
  • Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics seminar, Virginia Tech.
  • Physics colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • Santa Fe Institute seminar.
  • Purdue Physical Chemistry seminar.
  • Telluride Workshop on The Complexity of Dynamics and Kinetics from Single Molecules to Cells.
  • Biophysics seminar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
  • NSF-QCB Workshop on Cells as Dynamical Systems, San Francisco.
  • APS March Meeting, New Orleans.
  • Genetics seminar, Washington University in St. Louis.
  • Santa Fe Institute complexity seminar.
  • MidQBio Symposium, UIUC.
  • Telluride Workshop on Single Molecules: Theory Meets Experiment.
  • Telluride Workshop on Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics.
  • Physics colloquium, Purdue University.
  • Center for Soft Matter Research colloquium, New York University.
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology seminar, Virginia Tech.
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology colloquium.
  • Statistical Physics seminar, University of Maryland.
  • IEEE-EMBS Conference, Chicago.
  • Physics of Living Cells seminar, UIUC.