Bio-inspired Soft Matter 2025
from
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 (11:00 AM)
to
Friday, June 6, 2025 (4:00 PM)
Monday, June 2, 2025
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
11:00 AM
Welcome
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: 4305
11:40 AM
Welcome: Introductory Talk
Introductory Talk
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 4305
12:00 PM
Plenary: Omar Saleh - (UC Santa Barbara) - Diverse and entangled DNA droplets
Omar Saleh - (UC Santa Barbara) - Diverse and entangled DNA droplets
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: 4305
12:40 PM
Selected Talk: 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 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: 4305
1:00 PM
Break: Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Plenary: 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
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: 4305
2:40 PM
Selected Talk: 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
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 4305
3:00 PM
Break: Coffee
Coffee
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 4305
3:40 PM
Plenary: 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
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: 4305
4:20 PM
Selected Talk: 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
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: 4305
4:40 PM
Poster Session
4:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 4305
Thursday, June 5, 2025
9:00 AM
Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: 4305
9:40 AM
Plenary: 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
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 4305
10:20 AM
Selected Talk: 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 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 4305
10:40 AM
Plenary: 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 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: 4305
11:20 AM
Break: Coffee
Coffee
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 4305
12:00 PM
Plenary: Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) - Biomolecular Fields
Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) - Biomolecular Fields
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: 4305
12:40 PM
Selected Talk: 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 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: 4305
1:00 PM
Break: Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Plenary: Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh) - Dynamics of Polymers in Active Nematic Flows
Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh) - Dynamics of Polymers in Active Nematic Flows
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: 4305
2:40 PM
Selected Talk: 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
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 4305
3:00 PM
Plenary: 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
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 4305
3:40 PM
Break: Coffee
Coffee
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: 4305
4:20 PM
Plenary: 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
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 4305
7:00 PM
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, June 6, 2025
10:00 AM
Welcome
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4305
10:30 AM
Plenary: 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 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: 4305
11:10 AM
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
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 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 4305
11:30 AM
Break: Coffee
Coffee
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: 4305
11:50 AM
Plenary: 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 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4305
12:30 PM
Break: Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Plenary: Erica Del Grosso - (University of Rome Tor Vergata) - Responsive DNA supramolecular structures
Erica Del Grosso - (University of Rome Tor Vergata) - Responsive DNA supramolecular structures
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: 4305
2:40 PM
Panel Session
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 4305
3:40 PM
Closing
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 4305