Assembly of Biopolymers and Soft Matter

Presentations

• Delay Session Start

  B

  March 18, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM

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• Dielectric Characterization of Moringa Seed-Derived Mo-CBP3 Protein

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Souleymane Diallo

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Souleymane Diallo

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Huat Thart Chiang

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• Nonlinear Electrophoresis of DNA in Moderately Confining Nanofluidic Slits

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Lia Meladze

    • State University of New York at Binghamton

  Authors

  • Lia Meladze

    • State University of New York at Binghamton

  • Stephen Levy

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• Can a MARTINI-like coarse-grained model describe nanoplastic-lipid membrane interactions?

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Publication: 1) Anderson D. S. Duraes, Elaine L. Jiao, and Wenlin Zhang. "Effects of Nanoplastics on Lipid Membranes and Vice Versa: Insights from All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations." J. Phys. Chem. B 2025 129 (13), 3385–3395; DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c08361
  
  2) Caleb Liu, Anderson D. S. Duraes, Elaine L. Jiao, and Wenlin Zhang. "Interfaces and Soft Confinement Promote Crystallization in Polymer Nanodroplets." MRS Advances 9, 1102–1108 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-024-00856-7

  Presenters

  • Anderson D. S. Duraes

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Anderson D. S. Duraes

    • Dartmouth College

  • Caleb Liu

    • Dartmouth College

  • Wenlin Zhang

    • Dartmouth College

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• Linker-mediated binding of multivalent nanoparticles: towards superselective and ultrasensitive biomarker detectio

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: [1] X. Xia, R. Ni, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2024, 132, 118202.

  Presenters

  • Ran Ni

    • Nanyang Technological University

  Authors

  • Ran Ni

    • Nanyang Technological University

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• Regulating Shape of Biopolymer Liquid Crystal Droplets

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Megan Janquart

    • Clemson University

  Authors

  • Megan Janquart

    • Clemson University

  • Kimberly Weirich

    • Clemson University

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• Mechanical modulation of photo-responsive DNA-PEG biosynthetic composites

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Ashlee McGovern

    • University of San Diego

  Authors

  • Ashlee McGovern

    • University of San Diego

  • Shaina Hughes

  • Ian Lillie

    • University of San Diego

  • Lola Fadairo

  • Wynter Paiva

  • Nathan Oldenhuis

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Rae Robertson-Anderson

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• Self-Assembly Dynamics of Chemically Driven Multicomponent Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Moritz Obenauer

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Moritz Obenauer

    • Princeton University

  • William Jacobs

    • Princeton University

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• Simulations of interacting colloids using a Stochastic Kinetic Theory

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Gaurang Shukla

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Authors

  • Gaurang Shukla

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Patrick Underhill

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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• Coarse-Grained Modeling of Fluids and Polymer-Gas Systems Using Differentiable Molecular Dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Krishnendu Mukherjee

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Krishnendu Mukherjee

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Zidan Zhang

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Mohammed G Hashim

  • Ali Hayek

  • Husain H Naji

  • Zainab A Aithan

  • Jihad A Badra

  • Venkat Ganesan

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Charge Regulation in Supramolecular Polymers

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Christopher Balzer

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Christopher Balzer

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Glenn Fredrickson

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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