Biomolecular Condensates I: Spatiotemporal Organization and Active Processes

Presentations

• Non-equilibrium regulation of condensate patterning

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: Active RNA synthesis patterns nuclear condensates, under revision at Cell Systems; https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.12.614958v1

  Presenters

  • Arup Chakraborty

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Arup Chakraborty

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Salman Banani

  • Andriy Goychuk

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Pradeep Natarajan

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Ming Zheng

  • Haoran Wang

  • Giuseppe Dall'Agnese

  • Jonathan Henninger

  • Mehran Kardar

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Richard Young

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• Controlled targeting of chromatin-associated biomolecular condensates via co-condensation and multivalency

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Yury Polyachenko

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Yury Polyachenko

    • Princeton University

  • Hans-Frederick Watanabe

  • Alexey Korolev

  • William Jacobs

    • Princeton University

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• Phase-separated condensates direct selective targeting of xenogeneic silencers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Irina Artsimovitch

    • The Ohio State University

  Authors

  • Bing Wang

  • Ritika Gupta

  • Nathan Blaine

  • Kayla Felner

  • David Dunlap

  • Laura Finzi

  • Irina Artsimovitch

    • The Ohio State University

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• Discriminating Molecular Mixtures with Phase Separation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Mason Rouches

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Mason Rouches

    • University of Chicago

  • Dongyang Li

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Michael Elowitz

    • Caltech

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

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• Active self-organization and maturation of mechanosensitive bio-molecular condensates

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Waleed Mirza

    • European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (EMBL)

  Authors

  • Waleed Mirza

    • European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (EMBL)

  • Alejandro Torres-Sánchez

    • Univ Politecnica de Catalunya

  • Maria Bernabeu

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• Liquid-liquid phase separation of vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein and its role in stress fiber and focal adhesion dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Caishan Yan

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Caishan Yan

    • University of Chicago

  • Margaret Gardel

    • University of Chicago

  • Yvonne Beckham

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• Gravitationally induced oscillations of active droplets

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Publication: Reference for experimental part of the work : Sastre, J., Thatte, A., Bergmann, A.M. et al. Size control and oscillations of active droplets in synthetic cells. Nat Commun 16, 2003 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57240-8
  
  Planned theory paper "Gravitationally induced oscillations of active droplets"

  Presenters

  • Advait Thatte

    • Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg

  Authors

  • Advait Thatte

    • Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg

  • Judit Sastre

  • Job Boekhoven

  • Christoph Weber

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• Cellular uptake of polymer gels by membrane wrapping

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: 1. S. Dasgupta, T. Auth, G. Gompper, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 2017, 29, 373003.
  2. X. Liu et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 2023, 120, e2217534120.
  3. T. Debnath, J. Midya, T. Auth, G. Gompper, ACS Macro Lett., 2025, 14, 1412.

  Presenters

  • Tanwi Debnath

    • Forschungszentrum Juelich

  Authors

  • Tanwi Debnath

    • Forschungszentrum Juelich

  • Jiarul Midya

  • Thorsten Auth

  • Gerhard Gompper

    • Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute

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• Roland Knorr

  Invited-In-person · Invited · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Roland Knorr

  Authors

  • Roland Knorr

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• Life-like condensate networks formed by liquid crystal filaments

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Publication: Yuma Morimitsu*, Christopher A. Browne*, Zhe Liu, Paul G. Severino, Manesh Gopinadhan, Eric B. Sirota, Ozcan Altintas, Kazem V. Edmond, and Chinedum O. Osuji. Spontaneous assembly of condensate networks during the demixing of structured fluids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (39), 2024.
  
  Christopher A. Browne*, Yuma Morimitsu*, Na Kyung Kim, Manesh Gopinadhan, Eric B. Sirota, Ozcan Altintas, Kazem V. Edmond, Paul A. Heiney, and Chinedum O. Osuji. Structural complexity driven by liquid-liquid crystal phase separation of smectics. Soft Matter, 21, p6751 – 6761, 2025.
  
  Christopher A. Browne, Paul G. Severino, Yvonne Zagzag, Aaron C. Boyd, Arjun G. Yodh, Chinedum O. Osuji. Arrested coalescence drives helical coiling of filamentous smectic condensates. In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Christopher Browne

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Christopher Browne

    • University of Michigan

  • Paul Severino

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Yvonne Zagzag

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Aaron Boyd

  • Arjun Yodh

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Chinedum Osuji

    • University of Pennsylvania

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