Room: 4305

Introductory Talk Room: 4305

Omar Saleh - (UC Santa Barbara) - Diverse and entangled DNA droplets Room: 4305

Kasturi Barkataki (Arizona State University) - Novel topological measures of multi-chain complexity in biopolymers Room: 4305

Lunch

Yair Augusto Gutiérrez Fosado (University of Edinburgh) - Topological viscoelasticity: when DNA nanostars and amorphous materials form loopy networks Room: 4305

Oliver Henrich (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) - oxDNA3 – Introducing Sequence-Specific Curvature and Elasticity into a Coarse-Grained DNA Model Room: 4305

Coffee Room: 4305

Lorenzo Di Michiele (University of Cambridge) - Genetically encoded designer RNA condensates and organelles Room: 4305

Thomas Williamson (School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh) - Quantifying the Mechanical Properties of Biomolecular Condensates Room: 4305

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Elisha Krieg (Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden) - Assembling a true Olympic Gel from >16,000 combinatorial DNA rings Room: 4305

Jordi Faraudo (ICMAB-CSIC) - Engineered hydrogels for cancer immunotherapy: a theoretical/computational perspective Room: 4305

Michael Lang (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden) - Olympic gels: a model system for understanding permanent entanglements Room: 4305

Coffee Room: 4305

Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) - Biomolecular Fields Room: 4305

Tom Girard (Laboratoire Charles Coulombs (L2C, Université de Montpellier)) - Stress localization in biomimetic prototissues Room: 4305

Lunch

Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh) - Dynamics of Polymers in Active Nematic Flows Room: 4305

Diego Lopez Barreiro (University College London) - Bio-inspired materials based on chimeric structural proteins Room: 4305

Frederik Schaufelberger (KTH Royal institute of Technology) - Metal Chelate Rotaxanes for Biosensing and Therapeutics Room: 4305

Coffee Room: 4305

Susana Rocha (KU Leuven) - Seeing is believing: microscopic techniques to uncover cell-matrix interactions in biomimetic hydrogels Room: 4305

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Maitane Muñoz Basagoiti (ISTA, Austria) - Bottom-up design of artificial machines with programmable matter: Catalysis and Treadmilling Room: 4305

Manish S Kushwah (Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence) - Deciphering Dynamin Polymerisation Mechanism and Regulation using Mass Photometry enabled Single-Molecule-Counting and Particle-Tracking Room: 4305

Coffee Room: 4305

Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (University of Birmingham) - Colloidal Advanced Materials: Building Them Like Biology Room: 4305

Lunch

Erica Del Grosso - (University of Rome Tor Vergata) - Responsive DNA supramolecular structures Room: 4305

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Room: 4305