Polyelectrolyte Complexes and Biomolecular Condensates II

Presentations

• Investigating Phase Boundaries of Crowded Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Arthur Odenheimer

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Arthur Odenheimer

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Atanu Baksi

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Vihar Trada

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Justin Caram

    • UCLA

  • Jonathan Whitmer

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Samanvaya Srivastava

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Biomolecules for non-biological things: Peptide ‘Bundlemer’ design for model polyelectrolyte nanoparticle creation and hierarchical solution assembly

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Darrin Pochan

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Darrin Pochan

    • University of Delaware

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• Biophysics of Disordered Protein/RNA Condensates

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Ashok Deniz

    • The Scripps Research Institute

  Authors

  • Ashok Deniz

    • The Scripps Research Institute

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• Coacervate-based bioreactors for enzyme cascades

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Aoon Rizvi

    • University of California Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Aoon Rizvi

    • University of California Los Angeles

  • Varun Maheshwari

  • Vihar Trada

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Samanvaya Srivastava

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Ion Selective Membrane Enabled by Specific Ion Interactions in Cationic Polyelectrolyte Coacervates

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: [1] Aubrecht, F. J.; Orme, K.; Saul, A.; Cai, H.; Ranathunge, T. A.; Silberstein, M. N.; McDonald, B. R. Ion-Specific Interactions Engender Dynamic and Tailorable Properties in Biomimetic Cationic Polyelectrolytes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 63 (41), e202408673. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202408673.

  Presenters

  • Jowon Shin

    • Sogang University

  Authors

  • Jowon Shin

    • Sogang University

  • Hyeong Jun Kim

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• Correlating Mobile Ion Radius with Ion Transport Activation Energy in Single-Ion Conducting Polymers

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Publication: Singh, H.; Popov, I.; Lehmann, M. L.; Rahman, M. A.; Schweizer, K. S.; Kumar, R.; Saito, T.; Sokolov, A. P.; Gainaru, C. P. Revisiting the Role of Mobile Ion Size for the Activation Barrier of Charge Transport in Single Ion Conducting Polymers. ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2025, 7 (15), 9661-9668.

  Presenters

  • Harmandeep Singh

    • University of Tennessee

  Authors

  • Harmandeep Singh

    • University of Tennessee

  • Catalin Gainaru

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Ivan Popov

    • University of Tennessee

  • Michelle Lehmann

  • Anisur Rahman

  • Kenneth Schweizer

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Rajeev Kumar

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Tomonori Saito

  • Alexei Sokolov

    • University of Tennessee

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• Quantitative Analysis of Enzyme Partitioning and Interfacial Stabilization in Polyelectrolyte Coacervates

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Vihar Trada

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Vihar Trada

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Caitlyn Fick

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Varun Maheshwari

  • Aoon Rizvi

    • University of California Los Angeles

  • Samanvaya Srivastava

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Enzymatic Degradation of Precipitates and the Processing of Coacervate Droplets of Cellulose-Derived Materials to Study Phase Transitions

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Whitney Blocher McTigue

    • Lehigh University

  Authors

  • Whitney Blocher McTigue

    • Lehigh University

  • Chaeyoung Lim

  • Ana Stopanovski Becker

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• Complex Formation of Biopolymers through Electrochemical Process

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Publication: -

  Presenters

  • Santanu Kundu

    • Mississippi State

  Authors

  • Somanath Pallapolu

  • Mohammad Moinul Hossain

  • Logan T. Kearney

  • Amit Naskar

  • Santanu Kundu

    • Mississippi State

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• Starch Granules as Programmable Nucleation Sites for DNA Nanostar Self-Assembly

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Ian Lillie

    • University of San Diego

  Authors

  • Ian Lillie

    • University of San Diego

  • Ashlee McGovern

    • University of San Diego

  • Peter Iovine

  • Rae Robertson-Anderson

    • University of San Diego

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• Identifying liquid-liquid phase boundaries in multicomponent mixtures forming coacervates

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Lynn Walker

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Lynn Walker

    • University of Minnesota

  • Olivia Haider

  • Jamie Schuberth

    • University of Minnesota

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• Effect of charged lipid composition in vesicle membrane on the polyelectrolyte – lipid membrane interactions

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Publication: Langmuir 2023, 39, 32, 11231–11237

  Presenters

  • Bharat Kumar

    • Central University of Karnataka

  Authors

  • Bharat Kumar

    • Central University of Karnataka

  • Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi

  • Nithya M

  • Olivia Vincent

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• RNA-Polycation complex: too strong a binding

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Aman Agrawal

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Aman Agrawal

    • University of Chicago

  • Matthew Tirrell

    • University of Chicago

  • Jack Szostak

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