Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Molecular Understanding of Crystallization and Assembly
Discussion Leader: Yulia Pimonova (The University of Utah, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Zakaria Al Balushi (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Keynote Address"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Crystallization Fundamentals and Application
Discussion Leader: Rachael Skye (Cornell University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Ayumi Koishi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States)
"Molecular Pathways for Mn Partitioning into Growing Calcite: A Multimodal in Situ Approach"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Tali Lemcoff (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
"Brilliant Whiteness in Shrimp from Ultra-Thin Layers of Birefringent Liquid Crystalline Nanospheres of Isoxanthopterin"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Hongjin Du (Cornell University, United States)
"Simulating Pressure-Driven Solid–Solid Phase Transformations Across Crystal Structure Types"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Dipayan Chakraborty (University of Houston, United States)
"Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cholesterol Crystallization in Biomimetic Systems"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Debojit Paul (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"In vitro Mineralization of Calcium Carbonate within Dense Polymer Phases"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Sjoerd van Dongen (AMOLF, The Netherlands)
"Chiral Amplification through Asymmetric Crystal Growth and Dissolution"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Advanced techniques for the crystallization and assembly
Discussion Leader: Nick Sokov (Universität Konstanz, Germany)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Jingshan Du (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
"Nanoscale Defects and Melting Behaviors of Ice Revealed at Atomic Resolution"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Jessica Geppert (University of Konstanz, Germany)
"Strategies for the Synthesis of Colloidal Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures with Defined Anisotropy and Dimensions"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Konrad Hedderick (Cornell University, United States)
"Towards Understanding How the Molecular-scale Structure of Block Copolymer Thin Film – Water Interfacial Regions Affects Local Nucleation and Assembly"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Biao Jin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
"Directing Calcium Carbonate Crystallization with De Novo Proteins"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Jiahui Li (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States)
"Engineering Self-assembly of Nanoparticles into Chiral Superlattices Using Liquid-Phase TEM"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Shunzhi Wang (University of Washington, United States)
"Accurate Computational Design of 3D Protein Crystals"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
nucleation and crystallization dynamics
Discussion Leader: Sakshi Yadav Schmid (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Charlotte Zhao (University of Michigan, United States)
"Anatomy of a Complex Crystallization Pathway"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm
Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm
Maya Martirossyan (Cornell University, United States)
"Emergent Order During Crystallization of Complex Structures Tracked via an Unsupervised Machine-Learning-Based Order Parameter"
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm
Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Zhao Fan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States)
"Microscopic Mechanisms of Pressure-Induced Amorphous-Amorphous Transitions and Crystallization in Silicon"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
