2025 Posters

Structural Insights into the GGX Domain of Spider Silk MaSp1Using Solution NMR and Molecular Modeling — Alexia de Loera-Lee

Coarse-Grained Modeling of State-Dependent Arp2/3-Mediated Actin Branching Dynamics — Ananya Venkatachalam

Mechanical modulation of photo-responsive DNA-PEG bio-synthetic composites — Ashlee McGovern

Harnessing the collective motion of the Nematode, T. aceti to generate on demand rotational fluid flows — Ashley Robinson

Data Mining Active Matter — Ayan Das, Eric Feng

Biogenic bubbles enable long-range microbial dispersal — Babak Vajdi Hokmabad

Measurement intensification for antibody formulations: combined measurement of protein-protein interactions, protein size, aggregation, and viscosity using differential dynamic microscopy — Caidric Gupit

Investigating the collective motion of vinegar eels (Turbatrix aceti) inside a flexible boundary — Christina Ceballos

Unraveling the Dynamics of Polymer Scission in Porous Media — Craig Singiser

Structural Biology of Aciniform Spider Silk Guides Biomimetics for a New Class of Biomaterials — Davit Alimbarashvili

DDM in LFM for Quantifying Dynamics in 3D — Dylan Gage, Gabriel Ambrose

Hierarchical and Dynamic ECM-mimetic Scaffolds via Collagen-Integrated Microgel Pastes — Elif Narbay

Characterizing Transport in Complex Systems — Elijah Avery

Light-Directed Collagen Self-Assembly for Engineering Spatially Structured Hydrogels — Erica Jingtong Zhao

Applications of Non-Uniform Light Fields in Soft Matter: Colloidal Dynamics in Periodic Potentials and Adhesion Force Measurements on Foams — Erick Sarmiento-Gomez

Understanding the relationship between oscillation frequency and viscous materials — Evan Negrete

Modification of Starch Granules for Engineered Starch Hydrogels — Ian Lillie

Use of Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Solid-State NMR to Determine Beta-Sheet Crystallization of Native B. mori. Silkworm Fibroin Films Assembled on Various Surfaces — John Malki

To Gel or not to Gel: Predicting Hexapeptide Gelation through Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics — Junjian (James) Zhu

Milk Fracking — Justyn Friedler

Rigidity governs entrainment of bacterial cells in biopolymer scaffolds — Katarina Matic

Self-Assembling Electroactive Photoconductive Biomimetic Matrices for In-Vitro Cardiac Tissue Models — Madeleine Marston

Nematode activity affects the rheology and pattern emergence in vinegar eel suspensions — Makayla Baker

Confocal Microscopy Studies of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Microgel-Collagen Composites — Marion Harper

Stretch, Yield, Flow: Tuning Elasticity to Unlock Complex Flow Behavior — Mohamed Abdelgawad

Correlating Peptide Amphiphile’s Fluorescence with Inter-Residue Interactions via Molecular Simulations — Natchayaporn Sindhurattavej

Developing Mechanically Tunable ECM-Mimicking Composites using Alginate — Neeraja Gajendran

Spatial Transitions of Fish in a 2-State System — Nikolai Toledo

Design of Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscope with Optical Tweezer to Relate Cytoskeleton Structure and Elasticity — Otis Fischer

Sequential binding-unbinding based specific interactions highlight exchange dynamics and size distribution of condensates — Parag Katira

Development of deformable PEGDA microspheres to probe the mechanics of the active material systems — Qiaopeng Chen

Investigating the Dynamics of Quasi-2D Paramagnetic Colloids Under Varying Magnetic Fields — Raul Profeta III

Mechanical Interactions and Growth Dynamics of Bacterial Colonies in Constraint Environments — Samaneh Rahbar

Upcycling Textile Waste into Functional Carbon Fillers for Elastomer Composites — Younghoon Kwon

Flow-driven Translocation of Macromolecules Across the Slit Diaphragm in the Kidney Glomerulus — Liselotte Ryan

Fluctuations and freezing of biofilm topographies — Pablo Bravo

Time-resolved differential dynamic microscopy reveals shear-induced dynamics in cytoskeleton composites — Aysan Razzaghi

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

Feature-Based Prediction of Intensity Distribution Metrics in Active Matter Videos — Eric Feng

Flow-driven translocation of macromolecules across the slit diaphragm in the kidney glomerulus — Haiqin Wang

Active transport in complex environments — Tanumoy Dhar

Reinforcing Hydrogels with Native and Chemically Modified Starch Granules — Shirlaine Juliano

Investigating the Reversibility of Blebbistatin Photoinactivation to Better Pattern Actomyosin Contraction — Helen Sweeney

Actin Network Density Regulates Embedded Cell Mobility for Engineered Living Materials — Teodora Matic

Thermodynamically consistent rate-type constitutive relations for modelling shear banding in complex fluids — Krishna Kaushik Yanamundra

A Thermodynamically Consistent Framework for Additive Manufacturing of Polymers: From Theory to Application — Sreejith Prabhakaran Pillai