3 papers
q-bio.MN2025
Fast decisions with biophysically constrained gene promoter architectures
Tarek Tohme, Massimo Vergassola, Thierry Mora +1
Cells integrate signals and make decisions about their future state in short amounts of time. A lot of theoretical effort has gone into asking how to best design gene regulatory ci…
cond-mat.stat-mech2024
Gambling Carnot Engine
Tarek Tohme, Valentina Bedoya, Costantino di Bello +3
We propose a theoretical model for a colloidal heat engine driven by a feedback protocol that is able to fully convert the net heat absorbed by the hot bath into extracted work. Th…
physics.soc-ph2019
Buildings as Species: Competition and Scaling Rules in Cities
Tarek Tohme, Martin Grant, Sara Najem
We look at buildings' competition over space in cities through the lens of ecology. Adopting the convex hull of the building's footprint perimeter as a definition of species yields…