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 Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Bio-Inspired Responsive Materials
Discussion Leader: Esther Amstad (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
Samuel Stupp (Northwestern University, United States)
"Four-Dimensional Supramolecular Programming of Materials for Growth and Motion"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
Natalie Artzi (Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Tissue and Cell-Responsive Materials for Therapy"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bio-Inspired Self-Assembly
Discussion Leader: Ying Yang (University of Nevada, Reno, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Ali Miserez (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Regulating the Material Properties of Peptide Coacervates for Programmable Intracellular Delivery of Macromolecular Therapeutics"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Charles Sing (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
"Controlling Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Assembly with Polyelectrolyte Charge Sequence"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Anja Palmans (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Antilles)
"Folding Single Polymer Chains into Functional Single Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Alfredo Alexander-Katz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Bioinspired Single Chain Self-Assembly"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Group Photo / Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 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: Symone Alexander (Auburn University, United States)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bio-Inspired Therapeutic Materials
Discussion Leader: Inge Herrmann (Balgrist/UZH, ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Switzerland)
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
Francesco Stellacci (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Supramolecular Broadspectrum Antivirals"
6:25 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Anna Blakney (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Optimization of Lipid Nanoparticle Immunogenicity for Vaccine or Therapeutic Indications"
7:05 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:45 pm
Dan Peer (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
"The Liver Exodus: Delivery of RNA for Vaccines, Therapeutics and Genome Editing"
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Complex Materials and Systems
Discussion Leader: Arthi Jayaraman (University of Delaware, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Michael Mayer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
"Power Sources Inspired by Electric Fish"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Stuart Rowan (University of Chicago, United States)
"Exploring Routes to Pluripotent Plastics"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Giovanni Traverso (MIT, United States)
"Materials and Devices for Extreme Environments"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Thomas Speck (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)
"Plant-Inspired Materials Systems for Soft Robotics, Medical Technologyand Architecture"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Protein-Based Biomaterials
Discussion Leader: Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
Leila Deravi (Northeastern University, United States)
"From Edibles to Topicals: Leveraging the Biochemical Origins of Natural Colorants to Design Safer and More Sustainable Products"
6:25 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Joerg Lahann (University of Michigan, United States)
"Protein Nanoparticles for Non-Viral Gene Therapies"
7:05 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:45 pm
Allie Obermeyer (Columbia University, United States)
"Building Membraneless Organelles in Bacteria From the Ground Up"
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bio-Inspired Therapeutic Materials and Systems
Discussion Leader: Patricia Dankers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Neil King (University of Washington, United States)
"Computational Design of Self-Assembling Protein Nanomaterials and Vaccines"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Liangfang Zhang (University of California San Diego, United States)
"Cell-Mimicking Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Detoxification"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Shana Kelley (Northwestern University, United States)
"Dynamic Control of Biocomplexation for Continuous Sensing"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Jerry Yang (University of California, San Diego, United States)
"Controlling Actin Dynamics in Cells"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Complex Materials and Systems
Discussion Leader: Symone Alexander (Auburn University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
LaShanda Korley (University of Delaware, United States)
"Engineering Hierarchy in Bio-Inspired Polymeric Systems"
6:25 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Carsten Werner (Leibniz IPF & TU Dresden, Germany)
"Cholesterol Reorientation to Make Surfaces Non-Stick"
7:05 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:45 pm
Matthew Harrington (McGill University, Canada)
"Biological Fabrication of Hierarchical Materials From Fluid Condensates"
7:45 pm - 8:00 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
Tissue-Engineering and Living Materials
Discussion Leader: Lesley Chow (Lehigh University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Marcy Zenobi-Wong (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Architected! How Structured Hydrogels Instruct Assembly of Engineered Tissues"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Sandra Camarero-Espinosa (POLYMAT, Spain)
"Form Follow Function vs Function Follows Form: A Shift in Tissue Regeneration"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Jon Pokorski (UCSD, United States)
"Engineered Living Materials for Environmental Remediation"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Andreas Walther (University of Mainz, Germany)
"Hydrogels with Embedded Information Processing"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bio-Inspired Self-Assembled Systems
Discussion Leader: Rachel Letteri (University of Virginia, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
Nico Bruns (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
"Polymersome-Based Artificial Cells by Biocatalytic Radical Polymerizations"
6:25 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Laura Hartmann (University Freiburg, Germany)
"Glycan Mimetics for Cell Glycocalyx Models and Engineering: A Polymer Chemistry Approach"
7:05 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:45 pm
Job Boekhoven (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
"Chemically Fueled, Active Droplets: Size Control, Oscillations, and New Dissipative Morphologies"
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure