Polymer Physics of Biotechnology and Biopolymers

Presentations

• Multiscale Bio-Interfacing Strategies for Engineered Living Materials

  Invited-In-person · Invited

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

  Publication: 1)Lisa Tang‡, Nathan Soulier‡, Rebecca Wheeler, Jonathan K. Pokorski, James W. Golden, Susan S. Golden*, and Jinhye Bae*, "A responsive living material prepared by diffusion reveals extracellular enzyme activity of cyanobacteria", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 122, e2424405122 (2025)
  2)Jiayu Zhao, Yifeng Ma, Nicole Steinmetz*, and Jinhye Bae*, "Toward plant cyborgs: Hydrogels incorporated onto plant tissues enable programmable shape control", ACS Macro Letters, 11, 961-966 (2022)

  Presenters

  • Jinhye Bae

    • Chung-Ang University; University of California San Diego

  Authors

  • Jinhye Bae

    • Chung-Ang University; University of California San Diego

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• Shear & Extensional Rheology of Xanthan Gum Solutions

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Somayeh Sepahvand

    • University of Illinois Chicago

  Authors

  • Somayeh Sepahvand

    • University of Illinois Chicago

  • Louie Edano

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Nadia Nikolova

    • University of Illinois Chicago

  • Vivek Sharma

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

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• Effect of deionizing collagen in the properties of biocomposites prepared from the reinforcement of a tung oil-based thermosetting resin

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Effect of deionizing collagen in the properties of biocomposites prepared from the reinforcement of a tung oil-based thermosetting resin(planned paper)

  Presenters

  • Wathsala Amadoru Jayawardana

    • Georgia Southern University

  Authors

  • Wathsala Amadoru Jayawardana

    • Georgia Southern University

  • Rafael Quirino

  • Parker Williams

  • Hannah Hartman

  • Christopher Dzorkpata

  • Collin Morris

  • Dominique Kornegay

  • Kody Burrows

  • Amanda White

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• Subway Tile Self-assembly of Computationally Designed Peptides

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Jacob Schwartz

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Jacob Schwartz

    • University of Delaware

  • Dai-Bei Yang

  • Yao Tang

    • University of Delaware

  • Tianren Zhang

    • University of Delaware

  • Jeffery Saven

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Darrin Pochan

    • University of Delaware

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• Response of Two-State Biopolymers to Macromolecular Crowding

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Mahesh Aryal

    • North Dakota State University

  Authors

  • Mahesh Aryal

    • North Dakota State University

  • Alan Denton

    • North Dakota State University

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• The role of repeat motifs in proteins to define self-assembly and network formation

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: 1-M. Vural, H. Zhu, A. Pena-Francesch, H. Jung, B. D. Allen, & M. C. Demirel ACS Nano 2020 14 (6), 6956-6967
  2-M. Vural, T. Mazeed, D. Li, O. Colak, R.F. Hamilton, H. Gao, & M.C. Demirel Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 (31) e2120021119
  3-X. Lei, C. Floyd, L. Casas-Ferrer, T. Chakrabortty, N. Chandrasekharan, A. R. Dinner, S. Coyle, J. Honts, & Saad Bhamla
  bioRxiv 2025.03.03.641304

  Presenters

  • Mert Vural

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Mert Vural

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Xiangting Lei

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • JERRY HONTS

  • Melik Demirel

  • Saad Bhamla

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Integrating simulation and experiment for advanced characterization of multi-domain protein dynamics

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Shayna Hilburg

    • NIST

  Authors

  • Shayna Hilburg

    • NIST

  • Yun Liu

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Christina Bergonzo

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• Direct structure characterization of polyelectrolytes provide new insights on a pathway to protein binding mechanisms

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: [1] Raman Hlushko, Edwin Pozharski, Vivek M. Prabhu and Alexander K. Andrianov, Directly visualizing individual polyorganophosphazenes and their single-chain complexes with proteins, Communications Materials 5, 36 (2024).
  [2] Raman Hlushko, Vivek M. Prabhu and Alexander K. Andrianov, Cyclic Macromolecular Chains Visualized by Cryo-EM and AFM Reveal a Ring Expansion Polymerization Mechanism in a Classical Synthetic Pathway to Polyphosphazenes, ACS Macro Lett., 14, 1476 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Vivek Prabhu

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  Authors

  • Vivek Prabhu

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Raman Hlushko

  • Alexander Andrianov

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• Redox Polymer Networks for Encapsulation of Electroactive Bacteria and Mediated Charge Transport

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Rafael Verduzco

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Rafael Verduzco

    • Rice University

  • Xinyuan Zuo

  • Jaime Guel

  • Caroline Ajo-Franklin

  • Siliang Li

  • Fiona Chen

    • Rice University

  • Ravindra Saxena

  • Harsh Vardhan

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• Engineered Biohybrid Mycelia Materials with Hierarchical Structure Control

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Publication: O. Pear, K. Balch, J. Stanislaw, R.K. Bay, "Engineered Biohybrid Mycelia Materials with Hierarchical Structure Control" [in preparation].

  Presenters

  • Olivia Pear

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  Authors

  • Olivia Pear

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Dylan Moss

  • Kelly Balch

  • Jenna Stanislaw

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Arjun Khakhar

  • Kōnane Bay

    • University of Colorado Boulder

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• Targeted polyelectrolyte complex micelles treat vascular complications in vivo

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Matthew Tirrell

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Matthew Tirrell

    • University of Chicago

  • Yun Fang

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