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.bio-ph2024
A brief tutorial on information theory
Tarek Tohme, William Bialek
At the 2023 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Biological Physics, several students asked for some background on information theory, and so we added a tutorial to the schedul…