Program
All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). All sessions will be hosted on Zoom.
Check out our Participant Guide for a summary of our Rules of Conduct, Zoom instructions, and Slack instructions.
| 11:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks Meeting Organizers |
| 11:15 a.m. | KEYNOTE: Dynamic molecular systems Ben Feringa, University of Groningen |
| 12:00 p.m. | SESSION 1: Dynamic Information of Molecular Assemblies Chair: Gonen Ashkenasy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| 12:05 p.m. | Designing Phase Separation in Complex Systems Sarah Perry, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 12:30 p.m. | Programmable life-like materials that organize at mesoscopic scale Peter Korevaar, Radboud University Nijmegen |
| 12:55 p.m. | Break |
| 1:10 p.m. | SESSION 2: Origins and Synthesis of Life Chair: David Lynn, Emory University |
| 1:15 p.m. | The systems chemistry of life-like objects Stephen Mann, University of Bristol |
| 1:40 p.m. | In vitro self-replication and multicistronic expression of large synthetic genomes Hannes Mutschler, MPI Biochemistry |
| 2:05 p.m. | SESSION 3: Emergent Behaviors: From Catalysts to Motility Chair: Rebecca Schulman, Johns Hopkins University |
| 2:10 p.m. | Enzyme Motors and Pumps: From Transport to Collective Behavior Ayusman Sen, Penn State University |
| 2:35 p.m. | A touch of nonlinearity and heterogeneity in active matter: from swimmers in fluids to mixtures of colloids Daphne Klotsa, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| 3:00 p.m. | Day 1 Ends |
| 11:00 a.m. | Opening Introduction Sijbren Otto, University of Groningen |
| 11:05 a.m. | KEYNOTE: Patterns and their emergent functions: Design features of life Petra Schwille, MPI Biochemistry |
| 11:50 a.m. | SESSION 4: Active and Adaptive Materials Chair: Sijbren Otto, University of Groningen |
| 11:55 a.m. | Designed Negative Feedback from Catalytic Non-Equilibrium Assemblies Dibyendu Das, IISER Kolkata |
| 12:20 p.m. | Predator-Prey Interactions between Droplets Driven by Nonreciprocal Oil Exchange Lauren Zarzar, Penn State University |
| 12:45 p.m. | Break |
| 1:00 p.m. | SESSION 5: Biological Networks Chair: Rafal Klajn, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 1:05 p.m. | Engineering and understanding supramolecular nanobiomaterials through enzymatic catalysis Helena Azevedo, Queen Mary University of London |
| 1:30 p.m. | Evolutionary rules in an experimental landscape of autocatalytic networks Philippe Nghe, ESPCI Paris |
| 1:55 p.m. | SESSION 6: Systems Chemistry and the Coronavirus Crisis Chair: Rein Ulijn, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 2:00 p.m. | Inhibiting Viral Infection with Backbone-Modified Peptides Sam Gellman, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2:25 p.m. | From protocells to fighting the novel coronavirus Pall Thordarson, UNSW Sydney |
| 2:50 p.m. | Day 2 Ends |
| 11:00 a.m. | Opening Introduction Ankit Jain, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:05 a.m. | KEYNOTE: Bilingual Peptide Nucleic Acids: Encoding the Languages of Nucleic Acids and Proteins in a Single Self-Assembling Biopolymer Jen Heemstra, Emory University |
| 11:50 a.m. | POSTER PRESENTATION WINNERS Chair: Angela Grommet, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 11:55 a.m. | Supramolecular peptide with sequence tunable emission Mona TayaraniNajjaran, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 12:20 p.m. | ATP-Driven Non-Equilibrium DNA systems with Multiple Transient Dynamic Steady States Jie Deng, University of Freiburg |
| 12:45 p.m. | Towards the emergence of modern cells Claudia Bonfio, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| 1:10 p.m. | Break |
| 1:25 p.m. | Uniform Multifunctionalization of Metal-Organic Frameworks Materials Kanchana Samarakoon, Kansas State University |
| 1:50 p.m. | Positive and Negative Chemotaxis of Enzyme-coated Liposomes Ambika Somasundar, Pennsylvania State University |
| 2:15 p.m. | 3D Printing Terpolymer-Stabilised Coacervate Protocells Alex Mason, Eindhoven University of Technology |
| 2:40 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 2:50 p.m. | Event Ends |