Conference Description
The Systems Chemistry GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
Complex mixtures of molecules can have properties not observed in pure systems. For example, self-replication and adaptive behaviors require the interplay of reaction networks. The interaction of multiple components can also enhance a system's robustness. The Gordon Research Conference on Systems Chemistry is devoted to understanding the unique functions and phenomena that can emerge in complex molecular mixtures and to developing tools to describe, analyze and harness them. The field bridges the challenges of chemistry involving the transformation of molecular and material structure and the information and energy flow that encompasses these transformations and ideas from systems science, complexity, and nonlinear dynamics. The systems chemistry community brings together many fields, including supramolecular chemistry, non-equilibrium chemistry, prebiotic chemistry, synthetic biology, and catalysis, and benefits from tools and ideas from biology, soft condensed matter physics, and control theory. It is now developing design rules for the structure of molecular networks and principles and chemical motifs for chemical systems and identifying and rigorously characterizing behaviors that arise in chemical systems. These advances are making it possible to elucidate precisely how spatial organization and temporal dynamics can emerge. The conference will consider how the driving advancements in this area could help us understand complexity in biological, prebiotic, and abiotic natural systems at the molecular scale and address challenges in chemical synthesis, biotechnology, and sustainability.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by February 17, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Peptide Building Blocks
Discussion Leaders
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Akif Tezcan (University of California, San Diego, United States)
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Rienk Eelkema (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Speakers
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Sijbren Otto (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
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Rein Ulijn (CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, United States)
Building Chemical Reaction Networks
Discussion Leaders
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Annette Taylor (University of Sheffield , United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Max von Delius (Ulm University, Germany)
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Sergey Semenov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Dibyendu Das (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India)
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Taylor Woehl (University of Maryland, United States)
Prebiotic Chemistry
Discussion Leaders
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Wilhelm Huck (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
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Joseph Moran (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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Claudia Bonfio (Institut de science et d'ingénierie supramoléculaires, France)
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Albert Fahrenbach (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Emergent Function from Coacervates and Protocells
Discussion Leaders
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Christine Keating (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Speakers
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Kate Adamala (University of Minnesota, United States)
Nucleic Acid Systems Chemistry
Discussion Leaders
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Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Francesco Ricci (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
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Masahiro Takinoue (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Metal–Ligand Coordination Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Guido Clever (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
Speakers
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Joost Reek (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Shuichi Hiraoka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Jamie Lewis (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Computational Tools for Understanding Reaction Networks
Discussion Leaders
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Dezso Horvath (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Speakers
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Connor Coley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
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Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago, United States)
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Steve Whitelam (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States)
Multiphase Active Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Gonen Ashkenasy (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
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Samuel Sanchez (ICREA/IBEC, Spain)
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Neha Kamat (Northwestern University, United States)
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Lorenzo Di Michele (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Systems Chemistry in Biological Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Robyn Araujo (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Speakers
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Irene Chen (UCLA, United States)
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Evelyn Tang (Rice University, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
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