Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

25 Minute Talks

3:30pm 

Aparna Baskaran Opening remarks and welcome

3:55pm 

Remi Boros Onset of microphase separation in polar active matter 

4:20pm 

Chris Amey Applying data-driven techniques to light activated nematics 

4:55pm 

Rupam Saha Utilizing gel electrophoresis to probe the equilibrium constant and kinetics of DNA origami block-block reactions

 5:20 pm

Naren Sundararajan Liquid-Liquid Phase separation enhances viral capsid assembly

 5 Minute Sound Bites 

5:55 pm  

Anahita Zare EOD Update

Guillaume Duclos How to assemble active liquids, gels, and solids from microtubules and molecular motors

6:05 pm

Ben Rogers Active self-assembly

6:10 pm

Sarah Dennis Numerical simulation of low Reynolds number flow in a corner

6:15 pm

Yu-Chuan Cheng Spatio-temporal control of optically responsive compressible isotropic active fluids  

Dinner, Dining Room

Group Photo, Event Barn

Poster Session, Event Barn

Annemarie Winters (Duclos/Yevick): Anisotropic calcium propagation in aligned tissues

Ben Strain (Duclos): Understanding emergent behaviors in a polymerization-driven active material

Bennett Sessa (Duclos): Pattern formation in active droplets

Hunter Seyforth (Rogers): The unexpected role of non-specific attraction in the crystallization of DNA-coated colloids

Ian Murphy (Rogers): Does the diffusion of DNA origami-enzyme conjugates change during catalysis?

Jeremy Laprade (Duclos): Droplet coarsening in an active biomimetic fluid

Quang Tran (Fraden): Controlling dynamical states of 3D cytoskeletal active composites

Thomas Videbaek (Rogers): Relating mechanics of DNA origami nanoparticles to self-limited assembly distributions

Wei-Shao Wei (Fraden): Versatile subunit design for self-assembled structures

Zachary Curtis (Bisson): Halofilins as Emerging Bactofilin Families of Archaeal Cell Shape Plasticity Orchestrators

25 Minute Talks

3:30pm 

 Amelie Chardac Coupling 3D reaction-diffusion and active matter to create new 

morphological materials

3:55pm 

Katsu Nishiyama Closed-loop control of two-dimensional active nematics

4:20pm 

Kyle Sullivan Self-limiting stacks of curvature frustrated colloidal plates: Intra vs 

inter-particle deformation

4:55pm 

Daichi Hayakawa Programmable self-assembly of 2D supracrystals using DNA origami 

particles

 5 Minute Sound Bites 

 5:20 pm 

Seth Fraden What's past is prologue

 5:25 pm 

Hannah Yevick Investigating meter-scale mechanical patterns in a giant placental cell

 5:30 pm  

 Greg Grason Blessing and curse of maximal symmetry for programable self-closing assembly

 5:35 pm 

Madhurima Roy Self-assembly of the schwarz p-surface using programmable DNA origami subunits

5:40 pm  

John Berezney Formation and deformation of actin networks in active flow

 5:45 pm  

Adrielle Cusi Optically trapping actin-propelled beads

 6:00pm – 7:00pm

7:00pm – 8:00 pm: 

25 Minute Talks

3:30pm 

3:55pm 

4:20pm 

Pragya Arora Unveiling dynamics of programmable DNA nanostructures in engineered 

lipid membranes 

4:55pm 

 Fernando Caballero Active passive mixtures: active interfaces and self-assembly

5 Minute Sound Bites 

 5:20 pm 

 Kun-Ta Wu From chaos to order: Boundary-driven flow transitions in 

microtubule-kinesin active fluid

 5:25 pm 

 Mike Norton Feedback in endogenously and exogenously-controlled active nematics

 5:30 pm  

 Yunrui Li A machine learning approach to robustly determine director fields and 

analyze defects in active nematics

 5:35 pm 

 Smriti Pradhan Coarse-grained simulations for HBV assembly

5:40 pm  

 Nicholas Hackney Soft mechanism of frustration escape

5:45 pm  

 Mason Miguel How does fusion affect cell organization in tissue

 6:00pm – 7:00pm

 Dinner, Event Barn Loft

 7:30pm – 9:45pm

 Poster Session, Event Barn

Chitrak Bhowmik (Baskaran/Hagan): How does liquid-liquid phase separation affect viral capsid assembly

Federico Cao (Powers): A model of the dynamics of hanging colloidal membranes

Joshua Dickie (Wu): Reversal of active rivers: Exploring the effects of external shear in active fluid

Manodeep Mondal (Rogers): Temperature-sensetive assembly of two-dimensional ionic crystal using polymer-grafted colloids 

Michael Stehnach (Fraden): Microfabrication and Microfluidic Techniques utilized in the Brandeis MRSEC

Michael Wang (Grason): Self-limitation and mechanics of frustrated, dilational metamaterials

Myeonggon Park (Rogers): Characterizing nucleation and crystallization mechanism of DNA origami octahedra

Opeoluwa Balogun (Wu): Navigating through obstacles: Exploring active fluid in racetrack channels with obstruction

Pranay Sampat (Powers/Pelcovits): Spontaneous rotation of a passive disk in an active fluid

Simon Liu (Rogers): Controlling the geometry and kinetics of tubule self-assembly using seeded growth