Program
All times listed are Eastern Time (ET). Sessions will be hosted in-person and on Zoom.
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration with coffee |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome Remarks by Organizing Chairs |
| 9:05 a.m. | SESSION 1: Bioinspired Advanced Materials and Systems Chair: Rein Ulijn, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 9:10 a.m. | Biologically fabricated materials from engineered microbes Neel Joshi, Northeastern University |
| 9:40 a.m. | Potato/Potahto; Tomato/Tomahto: Inspiration for the Design of Barrier Materials Ruth Stark, City College of New York |
| 10:10 a.m. | Norma Alcantar, University of South Florida |
| 10:40 a.m. | The Rise and Promise of Artificial Molecular Machines in Polymer Chemistry and Materials Science Yunyan Qiu, Northwestern University |
| 10:50 a.m. | Design and Production of Customizable and Highly Aligned Fibrillar Collagen Scaffolds Cassandra Martin, Northeastern University |
| 11:00 a.m. | Plasmon Coupling In N-Substituted Diketopyrrolopyrrole-thiol Monolayers Self-assembled On Ag Surfaces Serah Essang, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:10 a.m. | BIG Picture Talk Andrew Reinmann, Environmental Science Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:20 a.m. | Panel Discussion Switch in Paradigm: Working with Biology, Not Against It! |
| 11:40 a.m. | Lunch Break |
| 12:25 p.m. | SESSION 2: Bioderived and Biodegradable Materials Chair: Mande Holford, Hunter College |
| 12:30 p.m. | From edibles to wearables: applications of bioinspired materials for sustainable living Leila Deravi, Northeastern University |
| 1:00 p.m. | Reading and Writing the Genetic Code of Marine Life to Treat Human Disease Bradley S. Moore, University of California San Diego |
| 1:30 p.m. | Supramolecular nanofiber design for water remediation Julia Ortony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:00 p.m. | A paradigm shift: Multifunctional Energy storing smart composite systems, innovation through nanotechnology and material sciences Atif Javaid, University of Michigan |
| 2:10 p.m. | Harnessing plant-based nanotechnology for enhancing live in sub-Sahara Africa: current trends and opportunities Philippe Belle Ebanda Kedi, University of Douala |
| 2:20 p.m. | O-Glycosylation enhances the conformational landscape of self-assembling peptides Dhwanit Dave, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 2:30 p.m. | BIG Picture Talk Dianne Greenfield, Environmental Science Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 2:40 p.m. | Panel Discussion Riding the Wave from Beach to Bench: Inspirations from the Sea |
| 3:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks by Organizing Chairs |
| 3:05 p.m. | Dinner Reception at ASRC Cafe |
| 5:00 p.m. | End of Day 1 |
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration with coffee |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome Remarks by Organizing Chairs |
| 9:05 a.m. | SESSION 3: Bio-manufacture, Biodesign, and Biocatalysis Chair: George John, City College of New York |
| 9:10 a.m. | Breaking Away from Nature’s Boundaries Using Plug-and-Play Protein Modularity Jonathan Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 9:40 a.m. | Biomolecular Systems Engineering: Designing, Building, and Testing Intelligent Chassis Cells Corey J Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:10 a.m. | Nick Kotov, University of Michigan |
| 10:40 a.m. | Characterizing the anti-cancer activity of New Terebrid Snail Venom Peptides Favour Achimba, Hunter College |
| 10:50 a.m. | Soil and sludge exposures induce measurable morphology and stable isotopic changes in plastics Schidza Cime, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:00 a.m. | Transition State Optimization of Biochemical Systems for the Acceleration of Biomaterial Discovery Ryan Kwok, Hunter College |
| 11:10 a.m. | BIG Picture Talk Peter Groffman, Environmental Science Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:20 a.m. | Panel Discussion Circular Bio-Economy, a Not-So-Distant Future |
| 11:40 a.m. | Lunch Break |
| 12:25 p.m. | SESSION 4: Bioremediation, Upcycling and Energy Harvesting Chair: Jin Montclare, New York University |
| 12:30 p.m. | Taraka Dale, Los Alamos National Labs |
| 1:00 p.m. | Water-responsive Materials for Evaporation Energy Harnessing Xi Chen, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 1:30 p.m. | Conversion of synthetic plastics to new building blocks for recyclable-by-design polymers Gregg Beckham, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| 2:00 p.m. | Protein-based materials for advances in sustainability Chris Delre, Harvard University |
| 2:30 p.m. | BIG Picture Talk Brian Giebel, Environmental Science Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 2:40 p.m. | Panel Discussion Forethoughts On Organic vs Bio Contaminants |
| 3:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks by Organizing Chairs |
| 3:05 p.m. | Event Ends |