2024 Posters

Measuring the High-Rate Large Deformation Recoil of Elastic Materials — Amelia Acker

Conductive Properties of 3D Printed Phosphate-Functionalized Graphene via Direct-Ink Writing — Danna Aguilar

Dynamics of Concentrated DNA Undergoing Concatenation — Michael Arellano

Rheological Aspects of Apple Cider Vinegar Nematodes — Kayla Baker

Candida albicans transcription factors form putative transcriptional condensates that drive the white-opaque phenotypic switch — Nathaniel Brown

Collagen Assembly in Crowded Microgel Environments to Construct Tunable ECM Scaffolds — Abbygail Caine

Collective motion of nematodes (Turbatrix aceti) inside a flexible boundary — Christina Ceballos

Designing Many Immiscible DNA Liquids — Aria Chaderjian

BARCODE: High Throughput Screening of Soft Materials —Qiaopeng Chen

Regulation of Cytoskeletal Dynamics: Investigating Actin-Microtubule Co-Entanglement and Myosin-Driven Contraction— Anindya Chowdhury

Effect of Changes in Ionic Screening on the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Densely Packed DNA in Viruses — Mounir Fizari

Into the 3rd Dimension: Combining Fourier Image Analysis Techniques with Emerging Microscope Technology to Extract 3D Dynamics — Dylan Gage

Mysterious Ground State Preference in Buckled Colloid — Sharon Gerbode

Membrane fluctuations in migrating mesenchymal cells preclude instantaneous velocity definitions — Guilherme Giardini

Investigation of the Mechanical and Physical Properties of ULC Microgel Paste — Hatte Hamilton

Intercellular Friction and Motility Drive Orientational Order in a Model Cell Monolayer — Austin Hopkins

Phase separation of multivalent particles with non-exponential bond dynamics — Bhan Jandebath

Studying the cytoskeleton landscape by varying cell concentration and activity — Nimisha Krishnan

Role of fiber bending in the macroscopic active contraction of model cytoskeletal networks — Abhinav Kumar

3D Printing of Palm Cellulose Based Fluorescent Aerogels: Towards a Potential Application in Heavy Metal Sensing — Lyzzett Lozano

Out-of-equilibrium Crystallization Dynamics in Light-Driven Self-Assembly — Gargi Mansingh

Measuring colloidal dynamics in periodic light-modulated potentials at various colloid concentrations — Fermin Martinez

Cells Embedded in Cytoskeleton Composites for Living Materials — Katarina Matic

Establishing Enzyme-loaded Eutectogels — Milena Mesfun

Spatiotemporally Coarse-Grained Simulations to Aid Rational Design of Active Cytoskeletal Composites — Jonathan Michel

Elucidating Interfacial Instability of Apolar Active Suspensions — Nima Mirzaeian

A Coarse-Grained Simulation Platform to Study Self-Organization in Soft Materials — Gaurav Mitra

Describing affine and non-affine deformations in shoaling fish — Ishwarya Namburu

Heat transfer through functionalized carbon nanotubes for photothermal therapy of cancer — Delaram Nematollahi

From bioreactor to bulk rheology: Achieving scalable production of highly concentrated circular DNA — Wynter Paiva

Polymerization of Single-Enzyme Nanogels Using Deep Eutectic Solvents — Megan Pierce

Control of Modular Tissue Flows Shaping the Embryo in Avian Gastrulation — Alex Plum

Diffusion of Topologically Active DNA Rings — Dimitra Protopapas

Enhancing recyclability of photo-responsive polymer networks for sustainable plastics manufacturing — Eleanor Quirk

Optical Tweezers Measurements of Viral DNA Packaging in Phage Lambda with Purified Motor Proteins — Brandon Rawson

Harnessing the collective motion of the Nematode, T. aceti , to produce work — Ashley Robinson

Crosslinker Effects on Resin in DLP 3D Printing— Luís Felipe Sandoval

Granular Taylor Couette Flow: A DEM Approach —Jagan Mohan Sanghishetty

Speed Variation Affects Local Density but Not Order in the Vicsek Model — Karen Severson

Controlling Microtubule-based Active Nematic Flows Using Confinements — Shahirin Shahida

Two-dimensional Binary Colloidal Crystals Driven by Short-ranged Depletion Interactions — Sk Tahmid Shahriar

Dielectric permittivity of a lipid bilayer: Theory and simulations — Md Mohtasir Billah Sheraj

Exact Analytical Solution of the Flory-Huggins Model and Extensions to Multicomponent Systems — Pedrode Souza

Characterization of Dynamically Restructuring Soft Materials with High Throughput Techniques — Aditya Sriram

Anomalous Ring-Opening Reaction of Naphthopyrans — Yan Sun

Advanced Computational Methods to Analyze, Organize and Share Active Matter Data — Christopher Tao

Efficiency of Colloid Separation through Diffusiophoresis — Fernando Temprano-Coleto

Effect of Dipole Asymmetry on the Interfacial Behavior of Polar Fluids — Ananya Venkatachalam

Non-invasive actuation of chemical reactions through mechanochemistry and gas vesicle proteins — Yuxing Yao

Controlling Mechanical Response of Commodity Supramolecular Metallopolymers through Tuning Conformation Change — Mingshi Zhang

Phase Separation in Living Matter — Hongbo Zhao