Bio-inspired Soft Matter 2025

4 Jun 2025, 11:00 → 6 Jun 2025, 16:00 Europe/London

4305 (Higgs Centre for Theoretical PhysicsJames Clerk Maxwell Building)

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Wednesday 4 June

11:00 → 11:40 Welcome

11:40 → 12:00 Welcome: Introductory Talk

12:00 → 12:40 Plenary: Omar Saleh - (UC Santa Barbara) - Diverse and entangled DNA droplets

12:40 → 13:00 Selected Talk: Kasturi Barkataki (Arizona State University) - Novel topological measures of multi-chain complexity in biopolymers

13:00 → 14:00 Break: Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Plenary: Yair Augusto Gutiérrez Fosado (University of Edinburgh) - Topological viscoelasticity: when DNA nanostars and amorphous materials form loopy networks

14:40 → 15:00 Selected Talk: Oliver Henrich (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) - oxDNA3 – Introducing Sequence-Specific Curvature and Elasticity into a Coarse-Grained DNA Model

15:00 → 15:40 Break: Coffee

15:40 → 16:20 Plenary: Lorenzo Di Michiele (University of Cambridge) - Genetically encoded designer RNA condensates and organelles

16:20 → 16:40 Selected Talk: Thomas Williamson (School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh) - Quantifying the Mechanical Properties of Biomolecular Condensates

16:40 → 18:00 Poster Session

Thursday 5 June

09:00 → 09:40 Welcome

09:40 → 10:20 Plenary: Elisha Krieg (Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden) - Assembling a true Olympic Gel from >16,000 combinatorial DNA rings

10:20 → 10:40 Selected Talk: Jordi Faraudo (ICMAB-CSIC) - Engineered hydrogels for cancer immunotherapy: a theoretical/computational perspective

10:40 → 11:20 Plenary: Michael Lang (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden) - Olympic gels: a model system for understanding permanent entanglements

11:20 → 12:00 Break: Coffee

12:00 → 12:40 Plenary: Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) - Biomolecular Fields

12:40 → 13:00 Selected Talk: Tom Girard (Laboratoire Charles Coulombs (L2C, Université de Montpellier)) - Stress localization in biomimetic prototissues

13:00 → 14:00 Break: Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Plenary: Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh) - Dynamics of Polymers in Active Nematic Flows

14:40 → 15:00 Selected Talk: Diego Lopez Barreiro (University College London) - Bio-inspired materials based on chimeric structural proteins

15:00 → 15:40 Plenary: Frederik Schaufelberger (KTH Royal institute of Technology) - Metal Chelate Rotaxanes for Biosensing and Therapeutics

15:40 → 16:20 Break: Coffee

16:20 → 17:00 Plenary: Susana Rocha (KU Leuven) - Seeing is believing: microscopic techniques to uncover cell-matrix interactions in biomimetic hydrogels

19:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 6 June

10:00 → 10:30 Welcome

10:30 → 11:10 Plenary: Maitane Muñoz Basagoiti (ISTA, Austria) - Bottom-up design of artificial machines with programmable matter: Catalysis and Treadmilling

11:10 → 11:30 Selected Talk: Manish S Kushwah (Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence) - Deciphering Dynamin Polymerisation Mechanism and Regulation using Mass Photometry enabled Single-Molecule-Counting and Particle-Tracking

11:30 → 11:50 Break: Coffee

11:50 → 12:30 Plenary: Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (University of Birmingham) - Colloidal Advanced Materials: Building Them Like Biology

12:30 → 14:00 Break: Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Plenary: Erica Del Grosso - (University of Rome Tor Vergata) - Responsive DNA supramolecular structures

14:40 → 15:40 Panel Session

15:40 → 16:00 Closing