Life-like emergent behavior in complex molecules and ensembles
This global virtual symposium will bring together leading scientists in the field of systems chemistry from US, Europe, Asia and Australia to present interactive talks with moderated discussion sessions and a Twitter-based poster session running throughout the event.
This interdisciplinary symposium will cover diverse aspects of the emerging field of systems chemistry, with sessions on:
- Dynamic Information of Molecular Assemblies
- Origins and Synthesis of Life
- Emergent Behaviors: From Catalysts to Motility
- Active and Adaptive Materials
- Biological Networks
- Systems Chemistry and the Coronavirus Crisis
Check out our Participant Guide for a summary of our Rules of Conduct, Zoom instructions, and Slack instructions.
Date & Time
This is a three-day virtual symposium, running for four hours each day:
Monday, May 18 – Wednesday, May 20, 2020
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. PDT | 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. EDT | 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. GMT | 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. CET
Slack
Keep the conversation going from the webinar and network with other attendees on our dedicated Slack workspace. Can be accessed through browser or desktop/mobile app. Join with this invite link.
You’ll automatically be joined to the #welcome channel. Feel free to introduce yourself! Join channels for the different sessions:
- #dynamic: Dynamic Information of Molecular Assemblies
- #origins: Origins and Synthesis of Life
- #emergent: Emergent Behaviors: From Catalysts to Motility
- #active: Active and Adaptive Materials
- #bionet: Biological Networks
- #covid-19: Systems Chemistry and the Coronavirus Crisis
- #posters: Twitter Poster Session
- #random: random things you want to talk about!
- #questions: open questions you have for the organizers
Registration
Registration is closed. Follow us on Twitter (@syschem20) for event updates.
Keynote Speakers
Ben Feringa | University of Groningen
Academic career spanning more than 35 years
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 together with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage for the work on Molecular Machines
Notable publications & talks:
- Nobel Prize lecture: The Art of Building Small
- Seminal work on which Nobel Prize work was built: Light-driven monodirectional molecular rotor (Nature, 1999)
- Electrically driven directional motion of a four-wheeled molecule on a metal surface (Nature, 2011)
Petra Schwille | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Work has been cited more that 30,000 times
Notable publications:
- Shaping Giant Membrane Vesicles in 3D‐Printed Protein Hydrogel Cages (Small, 2020)
- Reconstitution of self-organizing protein gradients as spatial cues in cell-free systems (eLife, 2014)
- Seminal work on development of fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy: Dual-Color Fluorescence Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy for Multicomponent Diffusional Analysis in Solution (Nature, 1999)
Jenn Heemstra | Emory University
Work ranges from biosensing and bioimages to self-assembly
Committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity and blogs regularly on mental and social issues in academia
Notable publications:
- Peptide nucleic acids harness dual information codes in a single molecule (Chemical Communications, 2020)
- Bilingual Peptide Nucleic Acids: Encoding the Languages of Nucleic Acids and Proteins in a Single Self-Assembling Biopolymer (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019)
- Recent column in Chemical and Engineering News on building resilience in times of uncertainty