Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
From Self-Assembly to Life Through Modelling and Experiment
Discussion Leader: David Lynn (Emory University, United States)
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm
Rafal Klajn (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Self-Assembly of Nanosized Colloids into New Nanostructured Materials"
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy (The Scripps Research Institute, United States)
"Systems Chemistry in Developing an Understanding of the Chemical Origins of Life"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Origins and Synthesis of Life
Discussion Leader: Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy (The Scripps Research Institute, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
David Lynn (Emory University, United States)
"Systems Chemistry of Biomolecular Condensates"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Gonen Ashkenasy (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
"Signaling Motifs in Synthetic Systems: Data Analysis of Replication Networks Out-of-Equilibrium"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Eörs Szathmáry (Center for Ecological Research, Tax identification number: 15300540-2-43, Hungary)
"Organization, Capacity and Evolution of Inheritance in Systems Chemistry"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Oliver Trapp (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)
"Emergence of an Evolutiony System: Self-Mutation of an Organocatalyst"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Tommaso Fraccia (ESPCI Paris, France)
"Oligonucleotide Ligation and Compartment-Content Coupling in Potentially Evolvable Coacervates"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Kavita Matange (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Memory in Chemical Systems"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Meilin Huang (Saint Xavier University, United States)
"Selective Pressure-Induced Change in Network Structure Accelerates the Emergence of Autocatalytic Networks"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Sarah Perry (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Fueled Reaction Networks and Metabolic Materials
Discussion Leader: Sergey Semenov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University, United States)
"Chimera and Chimera-Like States in Populations of Coupled Chemical Oscillators"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Agota Toth (University of Szeged, Hungary)
"Dynamic Self-Assembly of Paramagnetic Hydrogel Beads"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Massimo Baroncini (University of Bologna and CNR-ISOF, Italy)
"Reaction Networks in Dynamic Mechanically Interlocked Molecules"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Andres de la Escosura (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Programming Self-Assembly and Replication Networks with Minimal Nucleobase Sequences"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Navigating Shallow Energy Landscapes in Supramolecular Systems
Discussion Leader: Christopher Hartley (Miami University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Tell Tuttle (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
"Machine Learning in Complex Systems Design: What Have We Done and Where Can We Go?"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Rienk Eelkema (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"New Chemical Reaction Networks for Integration in Polymer Materials"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Marle Vleugels (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Dynamic Supramolecular Polymers as a Multivalent Platform for Biomedical Applications"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Sagar Bhattacharya (Syracuse University, United States)
"NMR-Guided Directed Evolution"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Sarah Perry (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
"Coacervate-Driven Compartmentalization"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Jean-Hubert Olivier (University of Miami, United States)
"Expanding the Toolbox to Modulate the Functions of Non-covalent Assemblies"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Richard Booth (Penn State, United States)
"Molecular Organization and Reactivity in Multiphase Coacervates"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Emergent Catalysis, Machines and Motility
Discussion Leader: Ivan Korendovych (Syracuse University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Nathalie Katsonis (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"Chemical Systems in Motion"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Peter Korevaar (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
"Directing Motility and Signal Transfer in Self-Organization"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Steve Granick (IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, South Korea)
"The Boosted Diffusion Problem and Chemical Reality"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Meagan Beatty (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"Self-Synthesizing Catalytic Foldamers from a Dynamic Combinatorial Library"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Dino Osmanovic (UCLA, United States)
"Tuning Droplet Behavior and Dynamics through Chemical Reactions"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Active and Adaptive Materials Through Molecular Self-Assembly
Discussion Leader: Rienk Eelkema (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Job Boekhoven (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
"Kinetically Controlled Behavior in Chemically Fueled, Active Droplets"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Andreas Walther (University of Mainz, Germany)
"Designing Reaction Networks and Connecting Them"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Sarah Gleeson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States)
"Transient Structuring of Liquids using Dissipative Interfacial Assemblies"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Virginie Viseur (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
"Towards Replication-Enabled Nanoparticles"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Ronit Freeman (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, United States)
"Lessons from Nature: Rules for Designing Hierarchical Materials with Reconfigurable Properties"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Ja-Hyoung Ryu (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
"Intracellular Polymerization and Self-Assembly to Control Cellular Fate"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Chamoni Rashmika Rajawasam Wellala Hettig (Department of chemistry and Bio Chemistry, Miami University, United States)
"Chemically Fueled Dissipative Assembly of Carboxylic-Acid-Functionalized Networks"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Vageesha Liyana Gunawardana (The Ohio State University, United States)
"Fuel-Driven Assembly of a Large Organic Cage"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Active and Adaptive Materials Based on Nanoparticles or Colloids
Discussion Leader: Rafal Klajn (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm
Robert Macfarlane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Structural Hierarchy in Macroscopic Systems of Nanoscale Assemblies"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Alfredo Alexander-Katz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Random Copolymers: Somewhere Between Plastics and Proteins"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Christopher Hartley (Miami University, United States)
"Transient Assembly by Carbodiimide-Driven Anhydride Formation"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Ilja Voets (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Ice-Binding through the Looking Glass: From Single Molecule Nanoscopy to Designer Antifreezes for the Built Environment and Regenerative Medicine"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Systems Chemistry in Flow
Discussion Leader: Peter Korevaar (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Wilhelm Huck (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
"Reservoir Computing using Chemical Reaction Networks: the Formose Reaction is a Molecular Computer"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Roy Bar-Ziv (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Toward Autonomous “Artificial Cells” on a Chip"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Arpita Paikar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Wave Formation From Non-equilibrium Organic Reaction Networks"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Emanuele Penocchio (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
"Chemical Engines as Bipartite Reaction Networks: a Thermodynamic Perspective"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Claudia Bonfio (Institut de science et d'ingénierie supramoléculaires, France)
"De Novo Formation of Self-Assembling Amphiphiles through Recycling and Cooperation"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Stephen Fletcher (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"An Autonomously Oscillating Supramolecular Self-Replicator"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Philipp Honegger (Harvard Medical School, United States)
"The Self-reproductive Property of Autoinduction"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Jacopo Movilli (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
"Local Chemical Feedbacks enable Artificial Intelligence"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Biological Systems Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Andres de la Escosura (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Henry Hess (Columbia University, United States)
"Nanoscale Organization of Enzymatic Cascade Reactions"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Steven Benner (Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), United States)
"Synthesizing Alien Genetic Molecules"
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm
Prabodhika Mallikaratchy (Lehman College, City University of New York, United States)
"Ligand-Guided Selection (LIGS): A SELEX Variant to Develop Aptamers Against Cell-surface Markers"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure