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The third Brandeis MRSEC Winter School took place from Feb. 4 to February 7, 2020, at the Highland Center in Crawford Notch, New Hampshire. There were workshops, training sessions and discussion of research, as well as opportunities to hike and explore the beautiful White Mountains with fellow MRSEC participants.

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Ready to hit the slopes during winter school

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2020 MRSEC Winter School Schedule

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Time	Activity
Morning-3:45pm	Informal science activities
3:45pm-4:00pm	Seth Fraden: Welcome
4:00pm-4:30pm	Zvonimir Dogic: Composite active matter
4:30pm-5:00pm	Christian Sigl (Dietz): Programmable icosahedral shells constructed from DNA origami
5:00pm-5:15pm	Zahra Zarei (Fraden): Defect's dynamic and distribution in 2D active nematic confined in an annulus
5:15pm-5:30pm	Chaitanya Joshi (Hagan/Baskaran): Dynamic mode decomposition of active nematics confined to an annulus
5:30pm-5:40pm	Matthew Peterson (Hagan/Baskaran): Microscopic simulations of confined 3D active nematics
5:40pm-6:00pm	Aparna Baskaran: Ideal gas of active matter
6:00pm-7:00pm	Dinner
7:30pm-7:45pm	Group photo
7:45pm-10:00pm	Poster Session Ali Aghvami (Fraden): Functionalized DNA origami shells for cargo encapsulation Simon Merminod (Rogers): Exploring the relationship between affinity and avidity in multivalent ligand-receptor binding Farri Mohajerani (Hagan): The role of scaffolding peptides in microcompartment assembly Maria Eleni Moustaka (Fraden): Control of a Microfluidic Three-Ring Chemical Oscillator Network Edward Jarvis (Wu): Effective of boundaries on microtubule-based active fluid Yen-Chen Chen (Wu): Spontaneous circulatory flows of microtubule-based active fluid in a water-in-oil droplet Melissa Rinaldin (Rogers/Duclos): Investigating the role of non-equilibrium pathways to liquid-liquid phase separation in vitro Megan Varney (Wu): Characterization of active stress exerted on water-oil interface by microtubule-based active fluid

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Time	Activity
Morning-3:45pm	Informal science activities
3:45pm-4:15pm	Thomas Powers: Axisymmetric membranes with edges under external force
4:15pm-4:45pm	Janna Lowensohn (Rogers): Linked-mediated binding of DNA-coated colloids
4:45pm-5:15pm	Doug Hall (Grason): Self-limiting twisted ribbons: programming geometric frustration via block design
5:15pm-5:25pm	Kun-Ta Wu: Tunable spontaneous circulation of microtubule-based active fluid confined in a compressed water-in-oil droplet using millifluidic devices
5:25pm-5:35pm	Ian Hunter (Fraden): Gait Engineering—Studies of Small Synthetic Neural Networks
5:35pm-5:45pm	Minu Varghese (Baskaran): Re-entrant self-pumping in active fluids
6:00pm-7:00pm	Dinner
7:30pm-10:00pm	Games by the fire at the Highland Center or excursion to local bar

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Time	Activity
Morning-3:45pm	Informal science activities
3:45pm-4:15pm	John Berezney (Fraden/Dogic): Active MTs and actin
4:15pm-4:30pm	Bibi Najma (Duclos): Tuning the direction of bend instability in active systems
4:30pm-4:45pm	Joseph Lopes (Duclos/Goode): Active matter based on actin polymerization
4:45pm-5:15pm	Daichi Hayakawa (Rogers): DNA-origami particles self-assemble into nanotubes
5:15pm-5:25pm	Guillaume Durey (Duclos): Measuring the Stokes drag in an active fluid
5:25pm-5:35pm	Lev Tsidilkovski (Hagan): Multi level modeling of BMC hexamers
5:35pm-5:45pm	Salman Alam (Duclos): Hydrodynamics of the 3D active liquid crystals
6:00pm-7:00pm	Dinner
7:30pm-10:00pm	Poster Session Teagan Bate (Wu): Controlling microtubule-based active fluid with DNA-conjugated kinesin dimers Bibi Najama (Duclos): Tuning the direction of bend instability in active systems Brock Jolicoeur (Wu): Designing a composite thermal insulator John Edison (Hagan): A theoretical approach to predict the binding strengths of small particles on membranes Nesrin Senbil (Fraden): Optical spatio-temporal control of active matter systems in 2-D James Sheehy (Fraden): Controlling chemical oscillators through light Botond Tyukodi (Hagan): Dynamical and equilibrium calculations of self-limited assembly through geometric frustration Mengqi Xu (Ross): Single molecule imaging of enhanced enzyme diffusion Shibani Dalal (Fraden): The Biomaterials Facility at Brandeis