Bio-inspired Soft Matter 2025
from
Wednesday 4 June 2025 (11:00)
to
Friday 6 June 2025 (16:00)
Monday 2 June 2025
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Wednesday 4 June 2025
11:00
11:00 - 11:40
Room: 4305
11:40
Introductory Talk
Introductory Talk
11:40 - 12:00
Room: 4305
12:00
Omar Saleh - (UC Santa Barbara) - Diverse and entangled DNA droplets
Omar Saleh - (UC Santa Barbara) - Diverse and entangled DNA droplets
12:00 - 12:40
Room: 4305
12:40
Kasturi Barkataki (Arizona State University) - Novel topological measures of multi-chain complexity in biopolymers
Kasturi Barkataki (Arizona State University) - Novel topological measures of multi-chain complexity in biopolymers
12:40 - 13:00
Room: 4305
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
Yair Augusto Gutiérrez Fosado (University of Edinburgh) - Topological viscoelasticity: when DNA nanostars and amorphous materials form loopy networks
Yair Augusto Gutiérrez Fosado (University of Edinburgh) - Topological viscoelasticity: when DNA nanostars and amorphous materials form loopy networks
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 4305
14:40
Oliver Henrich (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) - oxDNA3 – Introducing Sequence-Specific Curvature and Elasticity into a Coarse-Grained DNA Model
Oliver Henrich (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) - oxDNA3 – Introducing Sequence-Specific Curvature and Elasticity into a Coarse-Grained DNA Model
14:40 - 15:00
Room: 4305
15:00
Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:40
Room: 4305
15:40
Lorenzo Di Michiele (University of Cambridge) - Genetically encoded designer RNA condensates and organelles
Lorenzo Di Michiele (University of Cambridge) - Genetically encoded designer RNA condensates and organelles
15:40 - 16:20
Room: 4305
16:20
Thomas Williamson (School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh) - Quantifying the Mechanical Properties of Biomolecular Condensates
Thomas Williamson (School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh) - Quantifying the Mechanical Properties of Biomolecular Condensates
16:20 - 16:40
Room: 4305
16:40
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 4305
Thursday 5 June 2025
09:00
09:00 - 09:40
Room: 4305
09:40
Elisha Krieg (Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden) - Assembling a true Olympic Gel from >16,000 combinatorial DNA rings
Elisha Krieg (Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden) - Assembling a true Olympic Gel from >16,000 combinatorial DNA rings
09:40 - 10:20
Room: 4305
10:20
Jordi Faraudo (ICMAB-CSIC) - Engineered hydrogels for cancer immunotherapy: a theoretical/computational perspective
Jordi Faraudo (ICMAB-CSIC) - Engineered hydrogels for cancer immunotherapy: a theoretical/computational perspective
10:20 - 10:40
Room: 4305
10:40
Michael Lang (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden) - Olympic gels: a model system for understanding permanent entanglements
Michael Lang (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden) - Olympic gels: a model system for understanding permanent entanglements
10:40 - 11:20
Room: 4305
11:20
Coffee
Coffee
11:20 - 12:00
Room: 4305
12:00
Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) - Biomolecular Fields
Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) - Biomolecular Fields
12:00 - 12:40
Room: 4305
12:40
Tom Girard (Laboratoire Charles Coulombs (L2C, Université de Montpellier)) - Stress localization in biomimetic prototissues
Tom Girard (Laboratoire Charles Coulombs (L2C, Université de Montpellier)) - Stress localization in biomimetic prototissues
12:40 - 13:00
Room: 4305
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh) - Dynamics of Polymers in Active Nematic Flows
Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh) - Dynamics of Polymers in Active Nematic Flows
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 4305
14:40
Diego Lopez Barreiro (University College London) - Bio-inspired materials based on chimeric structural proteins
Diego Lopez Barreiro (University College London) - Bio-inspired materials based on chimeric structural proteins
14:40 - 15:00
Room: 4305
15:00
Frederik Schaufelberger (KTH Royal institute of Technology) - Metal Chelate Rotaxanes for Biosensing and Therapeutics
Frederik Schaufelberger (KTH Royal institute of Technology) - Metal Chelate Rotaxanes for Biosensing and Therapeutics
15:00 - 15:40
Room: 4305
15:40
Coffee
Coffee
15:40 - 16:20
Room: 4305
16:20
Susana Rocha (KU Leuven) - Seeing is believing: microscopic techniques to uncover cell-matrix interactions in biomimetic hydrogels
Susana Rocha (KU Leuven) - Seeing is believing: microscopic techniques to uncover cell-matrix interactions in biomimetic hydrogels
16:20 - 17:00
Room: 4305
19:00
19:00 - 21:00
Friday 6 June 2025
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 4305
10:30
Maitane Muñoz Basagoiti (ISTA, Austria) - Bottom-up design of artificial machines with programmable matter: Catalysis and Treadmilling
Maitane Muñoz Basagoiti (ISTA, Austria) - Bottom-up design of artificial machines with programmable matter: Catalysis and Treadmilling
10:30 - 11:10
Room: 4305
11:10
Manish S Kushwah (Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence) - Deciphering Dynamin Polymerisation Mechanism and Regulation using Mass Photometry enabled Single-Molecule-Counting and Particle-Tracking
Manish S Kushwah (Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence) - Deciphering Dynamin Polymerisation Mechanism and Regulation using Mass Photometry enabled Single-Molecule-Counting and Particle-Tracking
11:10 - 11:30
Room: 4305
11:30
Coffee
Coffee
11:30 - 11:50
Room: 4305
11:50
Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (University of Birmingham) - Colloidal Advanced Materials: Building Them Like Biology
Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (University of Birmingham) - Colloidal Advanced Materials: Building Them Like Biology
11:50 - 12:30
Room: 4305
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Erica Del Grosso - (University of Rome Tor Vergata) - Responsive DNA supramolecular structures
Erica Del Grosso - (University of Rome Tor Vergata) - Responsive DNA supramolecular structures
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 4305
14:40
14:40 - 15:40
Room: 4305
15:40
15:40 - 16:00
Room: 4305