Friday September 16, 2022
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
8:30-9:00 AM: BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Bishop Buddy Sala
9:00-10:20 AM: WELCOME + KEYNOTE I
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
Shapeshifting and shape sculpting in soft matter
Prof. Timothy Atherton — Tufts University
10:20-10:40 AM: REFRESHMENTS + DISCUSSIONS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Bishop Buddy Sala
10:40 AM-12:00 PM: INVITED FACULTY HIGHLIGHT TALKS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
Schools of Fish as Soft Active Materials — Prof Pasha Tabatabai — Seattle University
Mechanics of actin-intermediate filaments composite networks — Prof Bekele Gurmessa — Bucknell University
The tunability and influence of wetting on soft matter interfaces — Prof Meng Shen - California State, Fullerton
Hierarchical Assembly of Spider Silk Proteins — Prof Gregory Holland — San Diego State University
Living Materials: Programming Synthetic Materials with Engineered Living Bacteria — Prof Seunghyun Sim — University of California, Irvine
12:20-1:20 PM: LUNCH + DISCUSSIONS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Patio
1:20-2:25 PM: KEYNOTE II + OPPORTUNITIES
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
Relating structure with molecular recognition function in peptoids
Prof. Amelia Fuller — Santa Clara University
2:25-2:45 PM: REFRESHMENTS + DISCUSSIONS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Bishop Buddy Sala
2:45 AM-3:45 PM: INVITED FACULTY HIGHLIGHT TALKS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
Motor-driven advection competes with crowding in cytoskeleton composites — Prof Janet Sheung — Claremont McKenna College
Lights, Camera, Akt(ion) - Shining the Spotlight on Survival During Cellular Stress — Prof Deepali Bhandari — California State, Long Beach
Power Law Behaviour in Protein Desorption Kinetics — Prof Parag Katira — San Diego State University
Uncovering molecular mechanisms of redox regulation of actin cytoskeleton — Prof Elena Grintsevich — California State, Long Beach