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
Peptide Building Blocks
Discussion Leader: Akif Tezcan (University of California, San Diego, United States)
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sijbren Otto (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"Mechanisms of Emergence en Route to De-Novo Life"
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm
Rein Ulijn (CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, United States)
"Peptide-Based Supramolecular Systems Chemistry"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Building Chemical Reaction Networks
Discussion Leader: Rienk Eelkema (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Max von Delius (Ulm University, Germany)
"Driving Organophosphates Out of Equilibrium"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Sergey Semenov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Oscillators, Waves, and Patterns by Molecular Design"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Dibyendu Das (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India)
"Feedback Driven Autonomous Self-Assemblies"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Taylor Woehl (University of Maryland, United States)
"Transient Colloidal Crystals Fueled by Electrochemical Reaction Products"
12:15 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
Prebiotic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Wilhelm Huck (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm
Joseph Moran (University of Ottawa, Canada)
"Nanogeoelectrochemical Protometabolism"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm
Albert Fahrenbach (University of New South Wales, Australia)
"Embracing Complexity in Prebiotic Chemistry"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Emergent Function From Coacervates and Protocells
Discussion Leader: Christine Keating (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Christoph Weber (University of Augsburg, Germany)
"Chemically Active Emulsions: Size control, Liquid shells, and Droplet Division"
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Kate Adamala (University of Minnesota, United States)
"Synthetic Minimal Cells: Chemistry Pretending To Be Biology"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Dora Tang (MPI-CBG, Germany)
"Coacervate Droplets Regulate Enzyme Activity"
12:15 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
Nucleic Acid Systems Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Francesco Ricci (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
"Harnessing Complexity with DNA Nanotechnology: Timing Reactions, Sensing Markers and Moving Objects"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Masahiro Takinoue (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Sequence-Dependent Control of Nonequilibrium Dynamics on Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Droplets of Nucleic Acids"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
Elisa Franco (UCLA, United States)
"Programmable Dynamic Control of Nucleic Acid Condensates"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Metal–Ligand Coordination Systems
Discussion Leader: Guido Clever (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany)
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Joost Reek (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Systems Chemistry in Formation of Coordination Cages and Their Use in Catalysis"
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Shuichi Hiraoka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Kinetically Controlled Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Cages in Reversible Reaction Networks"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Jamie Lewis (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
"Directing Isomerism in Low-Symmetry Metal-Organic Cages"
12:15 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
Computational Tools for Understanding Reaction Networks
Discussion Leader: Dezso Horvath (University of Szeged, Hungary)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Connor Coley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Constructing and Learning from Networks of Organic Reactions"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago, United States)
"Robust Replication of Collectively Coded Information"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
Steve Whitelam (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States)
"Training Neural Networks to Control Molecular Systems"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
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
Multiphase Active Systems
Discussion Leader: Gonen Ashkenasy (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Samuel Sanchez (ICREA/IBEC, Spain)
"Swarms of Enzyme-Powered Nanobots and Their Biomedical Applications"
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Neha Kamat (Northwestern University, United States)
"Harnessing Lipid Phase Segregation to Design Membrane Functions"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Lorenzo Di Michele (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Synthetic Cells from Smart Nucleic-Acid Condensates"
12:15 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
Systems Chemistry in Biological Systems
Discussion Leader: Robyn Araujo (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:20 pm
Irene Chen (UCLA, United States)
"Keeping It Together: Biomolecular Function in Nanosize Carriers"
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:10 pm
Evelyn Tang (Rice University, United States)
"A Topological Mechanism for Robust and Targeted Function in Molecular Biochemistry"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure