Macromolecular Organization in Cells

Presentations

• Phase separated VASP droplets modulate actin filament assembly and dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Seongsoo Kim

    • The University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Seongsoo Kim

    • The University of Chicago

  • Kaitlin Landy

  • Della Waldman

  • David Kovar

  • Margaret Gardel

    • University of Chicago

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• Identifying molecular factors of polymorphic bacterial microcompartment assembly through coarse-grained simulations

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Emiel Kram

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Emiel Kram

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Alexander Pak

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• Bringing whole-cell models to life: Development of physics-based AI for accelerated modeling

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Roseanna Zia

    • University of Missouri

  Authors

  • Roseanna Zia

    • University of Missouri

  • Vishal Sankar Sivasankar

    • University of Missouri

  • Harnoor Singh Sachar

    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  • J. Galen Wang

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Multi-omics-based sequence-structure-function prediction

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.1103/l2dp-kw2t
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.5c01661
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21336

  Presenters

  • Margaret Cheung

    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

  Authors

  • Margaret Cheung

    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

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• Decision making through self-assembly on membranes

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17290

  Presenters

  • Margaret Johnson

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Margaret Johnson

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Samuel Foley

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Molecular sorting on a fluctuating membrane

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Publication: "Molecular sorting on a fluctuating membrane"
  Damiano Andreghetti, Luca Dall'Asta, Andrea Gamba, Igor Kolokolov, Vladimir Lebedev
  SciPost Phys. 18, 099 (2025) · published 18 March 2025
  10.21468/SciPostPhys.18.3.099

  Presenters

  • Damiano Andreghetti

    • Polytechnic University of Turin

  Authors

  • Damiano Andreghetti

    • Polytechnic University of Turin

  • Luca Dall'Asta

  • Andrea Gamba

  • Igor Kolokolov

  • Vladimir Lebedev

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• Inferring the Hierarchical Order in Macromolecular Spatial Organization Across Cell Phenotypes from Proteome Datasets Using a Grand Canonical Framework

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Jiayi Wang

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Jiayi Wang

    • University of Washington

  • Jules Nde

  • Andrei Gasic

    • Rice University

  • Jacob Haseley

  • Margaret Cheung

    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

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• Physically resolved Whole-Cell Colloidal Modeling of Escherichia coli Reveals Growth-Dependent Nucleoid Organization

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Vishal Sankar Sivasankar

    • University of Missouri

  Authors

  • Vishal Sankar Sivasankar

    • University of Missouri

  • Gesse Roure

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Roseanna Zia

    • University of Missouri

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• Simulating large-scale dynamics in biomolecular assemblies

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Paul Whitford

    • Northeastern University

  Authors

  • Paul Whitford

    • Northeastern University

  • George Wanes

    • Northeastern University

  • Udayan Mohanty

  • Raven Gallenstein

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• Identifying Strain-Driven Mechanisms of Surface Layer Disassembly Through Multiscale Modeling

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Adam Cecil

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Adam Cecil

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Alexander Pak

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• Sloppy and stiff directions in parameter space and the fidelity of meiotic exit in budding yeast

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Viridiana Abigail Marquez Davila

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  Authors

  • Viridiana Abigail Marquez Davila

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  • Sima Setayeshgar

  • Soni Lacefield

  • Pallavi Gadgil

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• Flow-Driven Deformation and Transitions of Healthy and Diseased Red Blood Cells

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • RAJ GAURAV

    • Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  Authors

  • RAJ GAURAV

    • Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  • Sainath Hareendranath

  • Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

  • Sarith P Sathian

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