Emerging Measurement Tools for Applied Biophysics and Soft Matter

Presentations

• Soft Biological Matter in the Ocean: Emerging Measurement Tools and Model Systems

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 20, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: Krishnamurthy, D., Chorlay, A., King, N., & Fletcher, D. A.
  Cellular transformers: Surface glycans mediate robust assembly of silica cages in loricate choanoflagellates. (In preparation)

  Presenters

  • Deepak Krishnamurthy

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Deepak Krishnamurthy

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Nanoscale resolved Infrared spectroscopy of Living Cells in Water

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: K. J. Kaltenecker et al., Sci. Rep. 11, 21860 (2021)

  Presenters

  • Tobias Gokus

    • Attocube Systems Inc.

  Authors

  • Tobias Gokus

    • Attocube Systems Inc.

  • Artem Danilov

  • Korbinian Kaltenecker

  • Andreas Huber

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• APDC: An accessible, open-source package for smart automation of single-cell fluorescence microscopy experiments

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Dmitri Svetlov

    • Colorado State University

  Authors

  • Dmitri Svetlov

    • Colorado State University

  • Jack Forman

    • Colorado State University

  • Eric Ron

    • Colorado State University

  • Tatsuya Morisaki

    • Colorado State University

  • Tim Stasevich

    • Colorado State University

  • Brian Munsky

    • Colorado State University

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• Deformation Mapping and Correction of Expansion Micrographs

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Matthew Black

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Matthew Black

    • Princeton University

  • Sabine Petry

    • Princeton University

  • Joshua Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

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• Graphene-based Field-Effect Transistor Biosensors for Photosensory Biomolecular Detection

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Interfacial Photogating of Graphene Field-Effect Transistor for Photosensory Biomolecular Detection
  DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202400716

  Presenters

  • Kalani Ellepola

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Kalani Ellepola

    • Virginia Tech

  • Tharindu Rajapaksha

    • Virginia Tech

  • Nusrat Jahan

    • Virginia Tech

  • Rosalie Dohmen

  • Wouter Hoff

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  • Vinh Nguyen

    • Virginia Tech

  • Emma Cashion

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• Image segmentation methods for automated morphological analysis of organoids

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Daniel Cartwright

    • Ohio University

  Authors

  • Daniel Cartwright

    • Ohio University

  • Mark Hester

  • Gongbo Guo

  • Sai Pusuluri

  • Horacio Castillo

    • Ohio University

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• Application of Low-Frequency, Low-Power Alternating Electric Fields in Cell-Cycle Control for Wearable and Portable Cancer Therapies

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

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

  Presenters

  • Kaiser Niknam

  Authors

  • Kaiser Niknam

  • Jonas Muheki

  • Mini Das

    • University of Houston

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• Magnetoencephalography with High-sensitivity 16-channel Single-module Optically Pumped Magnetometer

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Young Jin Kim

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Young Jin Kim

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Igor Savukov

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Shaun Newman

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• Peptide sequencing with single amino acid resolution using a sub-nanometer diameter pore

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: A. Paul, A. Rayabharam, L. Almonte, et al. " Peptide Sequencing With Single Acid Resolution Using a Sub-Nanometer Diameter Pore." Adv. Funct. Mater. (2025): e15800. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202515800
  A Paul, A Rayabharam, P Murkute, et al. "Decoding Proteoforms with Single Acid Resolution Using a Sub-nanometer Diameter Pore." bioRxiv (2022): 2022.12.22.521660. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.22.521660

  Presenters

  • Apurba Paul

    • University of Notre Dame

  Authors

  • Apurba Paul

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Archith Rayabharam

  • Lisa Almonte-Garcia

  • Eveline Rigo

  • Joshy Joseph

  • Ashutosh Kumar

  • Narayana Aluru

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Gregory Timp

    • University of Notre Dame

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• Optical Recording of Bioelectric Signals using a Microscope Objective

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Burhan Ahmed

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Burhan Ahmed

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Erica Liu

  • Lothar Maisenbacher

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Dana Griffith

  • Kenneth Nakasone

  • Pengwei Sun

  • Yuecheng Zhou

    • Stanford Univ

  • Bianxiao Cui

  • Holger Müller

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• The Stochastic Systems Identification Toolkit (SSIT) to Model, Fit, Predict, and Design Single-Cell Experiments

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: A Popinga, et al, "The Stochastic Systems Identification Toolkit (SSIT) to Model, Fit, Predict, and Design Single-Cell Experiments," in preparation, 2025.

  Presenters

  • Alex Popinga

    • Colorado State University

  Authors

  • Alex Popinga

    • Colorado State University

  • Huy Vo

    • Colorado State University

  • Dmitri Svetlov

    • Colorado State University

  • Brian Munsky

    • Colorado State University

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