| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Bioinspired Adhesion |
| Discussion Leader: Shawn Lavoie (University of Alberta, Canada) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Ali Dhinojwala (The University of Akron, USA)
"Wet Traction and Adhesion: Lessons from Nature" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mechanical Adhesion, Surface Tension, and Friction |
| Discussion Leaders: Chelsea Davis (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Adrian Defante (University of Akron, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Yijie Jiang (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"A Novel Approach for Characterizing the Strength and Range of Adhesion at the Nanoscale Using Atomic Force Microscopy" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Elsa Bayart (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Friction Is Fracture: Slippery Surfaces and Frustrated Cracks" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Tristan Sharp (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Friction During Quasi-Static Sliding of Crystalline Asperities" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Katharine Jensen (Yale University, USA)
"Surface Tension and the Adhesion of Soft Materials" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Soft Materials, Single Molecule Adhesion, and Biomaterials |
| Discussion Leaders: Pankaj Singh (Cornell University, USA) and Emmanouela Filippidi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Tianshu Liu (Cornell University, USA)
"Effect of Surface Tension on a Pressurized Crack in a Soft Elastic Solid" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Dong Woog Lee (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Real-Time Measurements of Lipid Domain Rearrangements, Membrane Thickness, and Intermembrane Forces During the Membrane Hemifusion" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Claire Robertson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Cell Motility in a Basement Membrane Gel Concentrates ECM Around Breast Epithelial Cells, a Feature Lost in Malignant Cells" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Emmanouela Filippidi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Mussels: An Inspiration for Underwater Glue, the Microscopic Structure of Adhesive Plaque" |
| 10:50 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 | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Career Panel |
| Discussion Leader: Juan Escobar (Physics Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Discussing the Next Steps and Challenges" |
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- Rita El-Khouri (L'Oreal USA, USA)
- Robert Style (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
- Aranzazu Del Campo (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)
- Ali Dhinojwala (The University of Akron, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
