Saturday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
The Design and Synthesis of Supramolecular Systems
Discussion Leader: Angela Grommet (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
3:15 pm - 3:25 pm
Oliver Hayes (Northwestern University, USA)
"Protein-Based Materials Engineering with DNA"
3:25 pm - 3:30 pm
Discussion
3:30 pm - 3:40 pm
Christopher DelRe (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Development of Functional Enzyme-Based Materials Using Random Heteropolymers"
3:40 pm - 3:45 pm
Discussion
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Jacob Whittaker (The University of Queensland, Australia)
"Design and Synthesis of an Anionic M4L6 Tetrahedron for the Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Frameworks"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Functional Interfaces and Materials
Discussion Leaders: Angela Stelson (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Guido Panzarasa (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm
Alexis Belessiotis-Richards (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Membrane Curvature as a Hotspot for Local Bio-Assembly"
5:40 pm - 5:45 pm
Discussion
5:45 pm - 5:55 pm
Joanna Czescik (University of Padova, Italy)
"Oligopeptide-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Phosphodiester Cleavage"
5:55 pm - 6:00 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm
Daniela Kroiss (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
"Unbiased Discovery of Active Peptide-Nucleotide Complexes"
6:10 pm - 6:15 pm
Discussion
6:15 pm - 6:25 pm
Shun Suginome (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Nanographene-Based Flexible MOFs"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Michael Potter (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"An Antibacterial Nanoreactor: Using Compartmentalized Enzymes to Turn Glucose into Hypochlorite"
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm
Emeline Rideau (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)
"Self-Assembly of Biodegradable Amphiphilic Block Copolymers into Microscopic Vesicles as Artificial Cell Prototypes"
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Lu Su (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Elucidating the Glycocalyx-Mimicking Supramolecular (Co)Polymers in Water"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:25 pm
Mathijs Mabesoone (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Insight into Solvent Interactions in Supramolecular Polymers Enables Complete Control over Thermal Stability Profiles"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Keynote Session: Balancing Professional and Personal Responsibilities / Responsive Materials and Processes
Discussion Leaders: Jeffrey Ting (University of Chicago, USA) and Irina Lokteva (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) / Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), Germany)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Mindy Levine (University of Rhode Island, USA)
"Balancing Professional and Personal Responsibilities for Academic Satisfaction"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Ho Fung Cheng (Northwestern University, USA)
"Allosteric Redox Regulation over Metal Coordination and Catalysis"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Anamarija Knezevic (MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, The Netherlands)
"Interfacing Strategies Towards Harnessing Mechanical Forces Produced by Artificial Polymerization and Depolymerization Motors"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Katherine Elbert (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"From Switchable Wettability to Substitutional Doping: The Design and Applications of Dendrimers for Directing Nanocrystal Assembly"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Minghui Han (Beijing Forestry University, China)
"Changes in Self-Assembly Behavior of Xyloglucan with Different Galactose Removal Ratios"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Elisabeth Weyandt (Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe), The Netherlands)
"Structural Insights and Chain Length Modulation of Photoresponsive Supramolecular (Co)Polymers"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am
Hadi Fares (The Pennsylvania State University / NASA Postdoctoral Program, USA)
"Effects of Salt and Water Content in the Environments of Complex Coacervates"
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
Driving Forces and Energetics of Supramolecular Assembly / Keynote Session: Directed Self-Assembly at the Mesoscale
Discussion Leader: Liang Zhang (East China Normal University, China / University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Diana Silva Brenes (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico)
"Incorporating Kinetic Control over Thermodynamically Driven Self-Assembled Colloidal Particles"
1:40 pm - 1:45 pm
Discussion
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm
Sarah Klass (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"From Disorder to Order: Self-Assembling Micelles Based on an Intrinsically Disordered Protein Domain"
1:55 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm
Alfredo Alexander-Katz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Directed Self-Assembly at the Mesoscale"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes