Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Keynote Session: Bioinspired and Biodegradable Materials
Discussion Leader: Carolyn Barnes (MIT, United States)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Lesley Chow (Lehigh University, United States)
"Designing Biodegradable Peptide-Polymer Conjugates"
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Biomedical Materials, Colloids, and Macromolecules to Improve Health Worldwide
Discussion Leaders: Friedrich Stricker (Harvard University, United States) and Alessandro Ajó (Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Italy)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Dharani Theja Abeysinghe (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
"Developing Coral-Inspired Artificial Host Cells for Living Algal Symbionts"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm
Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm
Johann Fritzen (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
"Protonuclei: Controlling Phase Separation of Neurodegenerative Proteins"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm
Julie Laurent (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Directed Evolution to Increase Bacterial Cellulose Production"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Rita Sobreiro-Almeida (CICECO - University of Aveiro, Portugal)
"Blood Components as Basis to Engineer Highly Bioactive and Customized Implantable Biomaterials with Programmable Achitectures"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm
Shoshana Williams (Stanford University, United States)
"Development of Polymeric Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics to Overcome Antimicrobial Resistance"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Mara Fattah (Northwestern University, United States)
"Protein-Like Polymers for Blocking Intracellular Protein-Protein Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Bioinspired Self-Assembly
Discussion Leaders: Jason Liu (Princeton University, United States) and Hamideh Rezvani Alanagh (McGill University, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Chuanbao Zheng (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
"Modular Proteins Assembling into Antifouling Coatings"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Georgii Bogdanov (University of California Irvine, United States)
"Cephalopod-Inspired Optical Living Systems with Tunable Properties"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Quentin Perrin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"In Vitro Spinning of Spider Silk Using a Living Organ"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Simona Fine (Northwestern University, United States)
"Unraveling the Cholesteric Self-Assembly of Cellulose"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Guido Merino (McGill University, Canada)
"Hierarchically Structured Protein Fibers From Recombinant Tobacco Mosaic Virus Self-Assembling Capsids"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Jessica Erlenbusch (JGU Mainz, Germany)
"Multicomponent Supramolecular Polymers for the Design of Fully Synthetic Biomaterials"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel on Empowering Paths: Navigating Career and Wellness with Confidence
Discussion Leader: Alexander Prossnitz (Stanford University, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Panel on Empowering Paths: Navigating Career and Wellness with Confidence
Andrea Belluati (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Zarah Walsh-Korb (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Carlos Redondo (i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal)
Lesley Chow (Lehigh University, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes