Soft and Living Matter in Complex Environments III

Presentations

• Diffusiophoretic Transport of Colloids in Complex Environments: from soil to the oceans

  Invited-In-person · Invited

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

  Publication: - Alipour, M., Li, Y., Liu, H., and Pahlavan, A. Diffusiophoretic transport of colloids in porous media. arXiv:2411.14712 (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14712
  - Li, Y., Alipour, M., and Pahlavan, A. Solute dispersion enhances the phoretic removal of colloids in porous media. (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24938

  Presenters

  • Mobin Alipour

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Mobin Alipour

    • Yale University

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• Biogenic bubbles enable long-range microbial dispersal

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Sujit Datta

    • California Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Babak Vajdi Hokmabad

    • Princeton University

  • Thomas Appleford

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Hao Nghi Luu

    • MIT

  • Meera Ramaswamy

    • University of Minnesota

  • Maziyar Jalaal

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Sujit Datta

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Shear and Confinement Control Bacterial Accumulation in Narrow Ducts

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Andy Garcia-Gordillo

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  Authors

  • Andy Garcia-Gordillo

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Ameya Gajanan Prabhune

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Nuris Figueroa-Morales

    • University of Colorado Boulder

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• Multimodal sperm motility and surface navigation across diverse flow regimes

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Liu, M.; Tao, A.; Zhang, R.; & Yuan, J. "Multimodal sperm motility and surface navigation across diverse flow regimes." (Manuscript prepared for submission to a peer-reviewed journal).

  Presenters

  • Mengna Liu

    • USTC

  Authors

  • Mengna Liu

    • USTC

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• Tunable Double Yielding in Bacterial Biofilms

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Laura Porath

    • ESPCI Paris

  Authors

  • Laura Porath

    • ESPCI Paris

  • Samuel Charlton

  • Jan Vermant

    • ETH Zurich

  • Eleonora Secchi

    • ETH Zurich

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• Controlling the formation of bacterial biofilms using solute gradients

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Ali Nikkhah

    • University at Buffalo

  Authors

  • Ali Nikkhah

    • University at Buffalo

  • Sangwoo Shin

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

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• Liquefying the granular material: how limbless sand dollars achieve self-reorienting feat  

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Qinglin Wu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Qinglin Wu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Yuwei Wu

  • Zexiang Huang

  • Yufei Xiao

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jianing Wu

  • Saad Bhamla

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• How Do Biofilms Evolve to Endure Metal-rich Environments?

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Jenna Stanislaw

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Jenna Stanislaw

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Kōnane Bay

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Cresten Mansfeldt

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• 3D confinement physically regulates cell cycle progression in budding yeast

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.665081v1.abstract

  Presenters

  • Tapomoy Bhattacharjee

    • National Centre For Biological Sciences (TIFR)

  Authors

  • Tapomoy Bhattacharjee

    • National Centre For Biological Sciences (TIFR)

  • M Sreepadmanabh

  • Mridul Gautam

  • Nikita Bagade

  • Sunil Laxman

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• De Novo Emergence of Minimal Protocellular Compartments

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

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

  Presenters

  • Nayan Chakraborty

    • National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR

  Authors

  • Nayan Chakraborty

    • National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR

  • Shashi Thutupalli

    • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)

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• Patterns in tight spaces: The role of confinement in driven matter.

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Pamud Akalanka Bethmage

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Pamud Akalanka Bethmage

    • Northwestern University

  • Ryker Fish

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Brennan Sprinkle

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Michelle Driscoll

    • Northwestern University

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• Polymer in a bath of chemical reaction

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Qi Pan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Qi Pan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Steve Granick

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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