Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

Seth Fraden Opening Remarks

Bibi Najma Microscopic interactions control a structural transition in active mixtures of microtubules and molecular motors

Anthony Trubiano Optimization of non-equilibrium self-assembly protocols using Markov state models

Saptorshi Ghosh Optimal control of bulk nematics : designing textures and flows

Anahita Zare MRSEC Education, Outreach, & Diversity Update

Olivia Leland Multicellularization in Haloferax Species

Zifei Liu Cholesteric order on a cylinder

Di Liu Introduction and programmed nucleic acid self-assembly

Hannah Yevick Title TBD and  Ben Rogers Title TBD

Aldric Rosario (Kondev/Goode Lab): Universal length variation of filamentous actin structures in cells Amelie Chardac (Duclos Lab): Investigating morphogenesis via chemomechanical couplings Bennett Sessa (Duclos Lab): Active Capillarity in Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Chris Amey (Hagan/BAskaran Lab): Model discovery using SINDy on dry active nematics Hunter Seyforth (Rogers Lab): Mysteries in the structure of binary colloidal crystals assembled from DNA-coated colloids Ian Murphy (Rogers Lab): How to Verify DNA-Enzyme Conjugation with Minimal Loss of Enzymatic Activity John Berezney (Dogic/Fraden Lab): Title TBD Layne Frechette (Hagan/Baskaran Lab): Modeling active fluids as correlated noise Michael Wang (Grason Lab): The enemy of my enemy is my friend: emergent cooperativity in a system of anti-aligning, “non-cooperative” active particles Sarvesh Uplap (Hagan/Baskaran Lab): Design principles for transporting vesicles with enclosed active particles Smriti Pradhan (Hagan/Baskaran Lab): Coarse-grained simulations for HBV self-assembly Yutian He (Powers/Pelcovits Lab): Lid-driven Active Matters Zahra Zarei (Fraden Lab): Characterization of a light activated microtubule-based 2D active nematic 

Gess Kelly Modeling and Simulation of Collective Behavior in Actin-Propelled Beads

Thomas Powers Linear stability of shear flows in active gels

 Mike Norton Programming autonomous active nematics

Thomas Videbæk Strategies for reducing polymorphism in self-limited assemblies of tubules

5 Minute Sound Bites

 Benjamin Strain Emergent behavior in polymerization driven motile beadste

Cierra Presson The impact of cell fusion and cell size on cytoskeletal architecture

Teagan Bate Non-uniform active nematics

 Michael Hagan Title TBD and Guillaume Duclos Title TBD

 Aparna Baskaran Going forward in active matter : a gauntlet thrown down to all of the AIs

 Wei-Shao Wei Hierarchical assembly is more robust than egalitarian assembly in synthetic capsids

Salman Alam Spontaneous flow transition in confined active nematic droplets

Nicholas Hackney Aggregation, dispersion and condensation in frustrated assembly

Zvonimir Dogic Active membranes driven by end-binding molecular motors

Annemarie Winters Calcium Signaling in Epithelial Tissues

Kun-Ta Wu Self-mixing in microtubule-kinesin active fluid from nonuniform to uniform

distribution of activity

Qianfeng Qiu Optically Controlled Recovery and Recycling of Homogeneous 

Organocatalysts Enabled by Photoswitches

Myeonggon Park Do collective behaviours promote wound healing of eplthelial 

tissues?

 Danny Hellstein The Importance Of Trustable Readable Code

Daichi Hayakawa (Rogers Lab): Deterministic triangular tile assemblies via interface design Jeremy Laprade (Duclos Lab): Droplet coarsening in an active fluid Joshua Dickie (Wu Lab): The role of moving boundaries in self-organization of active fluid Kyle Sullivan (Grason Lab): Effects of interparticle bond stretching in geometrically frustrated assemblies Michael Stehnach (Fraden Lab): Making active matter systems run forever with microfluidics Michael Wang (Grason Lab): Harnessing floppy modes in geometrically frustrated assembly Montana Minnis (Hayward Lab): Fabrication and assembly of thin microgel particles with controlled curvature Naren Sundararajan (Hagan/Baskaran Lab): Liquid Liquid Phase Separation enhances assembly of viral capsids Omkar Hegde (Rogers Lab): Self-assembly and phase separation-who wins the competition? Saaransh Singhal (Baskaran/Fai Lab): Interactions of an elastic ring with active nematic fluid Sarah Dennis (Fai Lab): Numerical Methods for Lubrication Problems Wan Luo (Thomas/Pelcovits Lab): Flow states of two-dimensional active gels driven by external shear Yunrui Li (Hong Lab): Machine Learning for Orientation Prediction and its Downstream Tasks Zachary Curtis (Bisson Lab): The Role of the S-layer Lattice in Archaeal Cell Shape Plasticity