| 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: Active Matter: When Physics Meets Biology |
| Discussion Leader: Carl Goodrich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Wilson Poon (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
"Bacteria as Active Colloids" |
| 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 | Collective Behavior in Soft Matter |
| Discussion Leaders: Anindita Basu (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA) and Nicolas Bruot (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Maxime Deforet (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
"Emergence of Collective Behavior in Populations of Pathogenic Bacteria" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Saeedeh Aliaskarisohi (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
"Pattern Formation in Fossil and Modern Microbial Mats via Shear-Induced Instabilities" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Stephen Decamp (Brandeis University, USA)
"Defect Orientation Order and Flow Dynamics in 2D Active Nematic Liquid Crystals" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | David Gagnon (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Undulatory Swimming in Shear-Thinning Fluids: Experiments with Caenorhabditis elegans" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Self-Organization in Time and Space |
| Discussion Leader: Wei Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Campus, China) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Peter Foster (Harvard University, USA)
"Active Contraction of Microtubule Networks" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Jie Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
"Active Colloidal Polymer" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Daniel Sussman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Algorithmic Lattice Kirigami: A Route to Self-Assembling Pluripotent Materials" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Andela Saric (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Crucial Role of Non-Specific Interactions in Amyloid Nucleation" |
| 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: Jing Yan (Princeton University, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Working as a Scientist: Where and How?" |
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- Lisa Manning (Syracuse University, USA)
- Wilson Poon (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
- Charles Reichhardt (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
- Stefano Sacanna (New York University, USA)
- Christopher Harrison (Schlumberger, USA)
- Katherine Wright (Physical Review Letters, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
