Signatures of Life in Non-Living Matter - Focus

Presentations

• Phase-Separated Droplets Swim to Their Dissolution

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 11:30 AM – March 20, 2025, 12:06 PM

  Publication: Jambon-Puillet, et al Nature Communications (2024)

  Presenters

  • Eric R Dufresne

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Eric R Dufresne

    • Cornell University

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 20, 2025, 12:06 PM – March 20, 2025, 12:18 PM

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• Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Cages: Exploring Chiral Recognition and Homochirality

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 12:18 PM – March 20, 2025, 12:30 PM

  Publication: Strong Enantiomeric Preference on the Macroion−Counterion Interaction Induced by Weakly Associated Chiral Counterions
  Side Group of Hydrophobic Amino Acids Controls Chiral Discrimination among Chiral Counterions and Metal−Organic Cages
  Chiral Selectivity between Pd₁₂Ala₂₄ Metal-Organic Cages Containing Endohedral Chiral Ligands and Their Chiral Counterions

  Presenters

  • Bahareh Afsari

    • University of Akron

  Authors

  • Bahareh Afsari

    • University of Akron

  • Ehsan Raee

    • University of Akron

  • Bingqing Liu

    • University of South Florida

  • Kexing Xiao

    • University of Akron

  • Xiaopeng Li

    • Shenzhen University

  • Tianbo Liu

    • University of Akron

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• Oral: Complex dynamics in reaction-phase separation systems

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 12:30 PM – March 20, 2025, 12:42 PM

  Publication: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2023.0117
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03458

  Presenters

  • Dino Osmanovic

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Dino Osmanovic

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Elisa Franco

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Inferring thermodynamic limits on non-equilibrium membrane morphologies

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 12:42 PM – March 20, 2025, 12:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Jordan L Shivers

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Jordan L Shivers

    • University of Chicago

  • Michael Nguyen

    • University of Chicago

  • Aaron R Dinner

    • University of Chicago

  • Petia M. Vlahovska

    • Northwestern University

  • Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

    • University of Chicago

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• Swimming at Low Reynolds Number: How Symmetrically Pulsating Bubbles in Anisotropic Fluids Achieve Directional Motion

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 12:54 PM – March 20, 2025, 1:06 PM

  Publication: Kim, SJ., Kos, Ž., Um, E., and Jeong, J., Symmetrically pulsating bubbles swim in an anisotropic fluid by nematodynamics, Nat. Comm. 15, 1220 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45597-1

  Presenters

  • Joonwoo Jeong

    • Ulsan Natl Inst of Sci & Tech

  Authors

  • Joonwoo Jeong

    • Ulsan Natl Inst of Sci & Tech

  • Sung-Jo Kim

    • Ulsan Natl Inst of Sci & Tech

  • Ziga Kos

    • University of Ljubljana

  • Eujin Um

    • Ulsan Natl Inst of Sci & Tech

  • Junghoon Lee

    • Ulsan Natl Inst of Sci & Tech

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• Stability of a passive viscous droplet in a confined active nematic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 1:06 PM – March 20, 2025, 1:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Tanumoy Dhar

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Tanumoy Dhar

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Michael J Shelley

    • Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation)

  • David Saintillan

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Reconfigurable nematic disclination patterns stabilized by topographically patterned surfaces

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 1:18 PM – March 20, 2025, 1:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Jane Bernadette Denise M Garcia

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Jane Bernadette Denise M Garcia

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Mohamed Amine Gharbi

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Daniel A Beller

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Effect of Prestress on Epistasis in Elastic Network Models of Proteins

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 1:30 PM – March 20, 2025, 1:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Ayanna Matthews

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Ayanna Matthews

    • University of Chicago

  • Samar Alqatari

    • University of Chicago

  • Sidney R Nagel

    • University of Chicago

  • Margaret L Gardel

    • University of Chicago

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• A Novel Enzyme-Based Method for Highly Efficient Self-replication of DNA Origami Dimers

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 1:42 PM – March 20, 2025, 1:54 PM

  Publication: A Novel Enzyme-Based Approach for Highly Efficient Self-replication of DNA origami dimers

  Presenters

  • Lei Zhang

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Lei Zhang

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Roujie Sha

    • New York University

  • Paul Chaikin

    • New York University
    • New York University (NYU)

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• Design paradigms for simple microscopic machines

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 1:54 PM – March 20, 2025, 2:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Melody X Lim

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Melody X Lim

    • Cornell University

  • Zexi Liang

    • Cornell University

  • Itay Griniasty

    • Cornell University

  • Paul L McEuen

    • Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

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• Stiff liquid marbles, soft liquid marbles, many liquid marbles

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 2:06 PM – March 20, 2025, 2:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Shih-Yuan Chen

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Shih-Yuan Chen

    • Northwestern University

  • Michelle M Driscoll

    • Northwestern University

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• Metal metamaterials with electrochemical activation

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 2:18 PM – March 20, 2025, 2:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Jungtaek Kim

    • University of Wisconsin–Madison

  Authors

  • Jungtaek Kim

    • University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • Yash Agrawal

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Zakaria Hsain

    • US Department of Energy

  • James K Guest

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • James H Pikul

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

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