Other Earth Week 2023 Programming
April 18
NanoBioNYC Launch
April 19
2nd Annual Sensor CAT Symposium
Program
All times listed are Eastern Time (ET). Sessions will be hosted in-person and on Zoom.
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration Begins with coffee (In-person) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome Remarks by Organizing Chairs |
| 9:05 a.m. | Session 1: Healthcare Introduction by Chair Jin Montclare, New York University |
| 9:10 a.m. | Bioinspired Adhesives for Surgical Glue Applications Julie Liu, Purdue University |
| 9:40 a.m. | Competitive adsorption at the air/water interface – Who wins the race between mAbs and surfactants? Raymond Tu, The City College of New York |
| 10:10 a.m. | Unlocking the power of synthetic biology for human and planetary health Hanny Rivera, Ginkgo Bioworks |
| 10:40 a.m. | Computationally guided coiled-coil hydrogel for exosome delivery in diabetic wound healing Dustin Britton, New York University |
| 11:00 a.m. | Panel Discussion Moderated by Chair Jin Montclare |
| 11:40 a.m. | Lunch Break + Poster Session Walkthrough |
| 12:25 p.m. | Session 2: Sustainable and Smart Fashion Introduction by Chair Karen R. Pearson, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Thermochemical Recycling of Waste Cotton at FIT Alliance |
| 12:50 p.m. | Amy Sperber, FIT |
| 1:20 p.m. | Designing with Emerging Materials – A model for project based STEAM education Susanne Goetz, FIT |
| 1:45 p.m. | Biofabrication of Textiles for a Circular Material Economy Theanne Schiros, FIT and Werewool |
| 2:15 p.m. | Panel Discussion: STEAM collaborations, biomimicry, green chemistry leading towards solutions to some of our biggest global challenges Moderated by Chair Karen Pearson |
| 3:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 3:05 p.m. | Poster Session Walkthrough |
| 4:00 p.m. | End of Day 1 |
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration Begins with coffee (In-person) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome Remarks by Organizing Chairs |
| 9:05 a.m. | Session 3: Renewable Energy Introduction by Chair Xi Chen, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 9:10 a.m. | Biomining for the Production of Critical Energy Materials Scott Banta, Columbia University |
| 9:40 a.m. | Evaporation As a Bioinspired Renewable Energy Resource Ozgur Sahin, Columbia University |
| 10:10 a.m. | Microporous Water: Aqueous Fluids with High Gas Solubilities Malia Wenny, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 10:40 a.m. | Lanthanide Binding Tag Peptides for the Foam Fractionation of Rare Earth Elements Luis Ortuno Macias, The City College of New York |
| 10:55 a.m. | Supramolecular Peptide Crystals with Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Pores for Chemo-Mechanical Actuation Vignesh Athiyarath, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:10 a.m. | Panel Discussion Moderated by Chair Xi Chen |
| 11:40 a.m. | Lunch Break + Poster Session Walkthrough |
| 12:25 p.m. | Session 4: Functional Materials and Smart Buildings Introduction by Chair Chris DelRe, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 12:30 p.m. | The Possible of Green ǀ Shifting to Nature-Based Design Ahu Aydogan, The City College of New York |
| 1:00 p.m. | Chaotic Good: The design of high performance materials through the leveraging of diversity and controlled randomness Aaron Hall, Intropic Materials |
| 1:30 p.m. | Formulation and Testing of Ready to Spray Biocement Maneesh K Gupta, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate |
| 2:00 p.m. | Peptide based materials designed and rationalized using computation Dhwanit Dave, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 2:15 p.m. | Understanding the role of multivalent counterions in the interfacial self-assembly of tripeptides when introduced to differing surface chemistries Gershon Starr, The City College of New York |
| 2:20 p.m. | Panel Discussion Moderated by Chair Chris DelRe |
| 3:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 3:05 p.m. | Poster Session Walkthrough |
| 4:00 p.m. | Event Ends |