Presenter Shuntaro Amano Shuntaro Amano is a postdoc working with Prof. Thomas Hermans at the University of Strasbourg. He undertook his master study and PhD in the group of Prof. David Leigh FRS at the University of Manchester. There, he worked on synthetic molecular ratchets and their theoretical analyses, achieving world-leading publications in high impact… Continue reading Shuntaro Amano | Synthesis and Analysis of Autonomous Molecular Motors
Presenter Hendrik Dietz, Technical University of Munich Hendrik Dietz is a full professor of physics at the School of Natural Sciences of Technical University of Munich. Dietz research interests are on building ultra-miniaturized molecular devices and machines capable of accomplishing user-defined tasks. In this context, Dietz has made important contributions regarding the complexity, functionality, and… Continue reading Hendrik Dietz | Virus Traps and Other Molecular Machines of the Future
Presenter Stephane Redon Stephane Redon is the former head of the NANO-D research group at the INRIA Grenoble – Rhone-Alpes Research Center, that he started in January 2008 and led until October 2018, when he left to start OneAngstrom, a spin-off of Inria that commercializes the SAMSON open platform for molecular modeling. He graduated from… Continue reading Stephane Redon | Recent Developments in Integrated Molecular Design
Presenter Aleksei Aksimentiev Dr. Aksimentiev has a background in soft matter physics and now deploys computational methods to investigate physical phenomena at the interface of solid-state nanodevices and biological macromolecules. In his graduate work, he applied methods of field theory to predict phase diagrams of polymer mixtures, focusing on the conformational properties of single macromolecules.… Continue reading Aleksei Aksimentiev | DNA Electromotors
Presenter Abhishek Singharoy, Arizona State University Abhishek Singharoy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. His research is at the confluence of statistical mechanics, molecular biology, hybrid modeling and large-scale computer simulations. The unified theme of Singharoy laboratory’s research is to combine rigorous statistical mechanical methodologies with state-of-the-art… Continue reading A. Singharoy | Molecular and Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Rotatory Catalysis in Molecular Motors
Presenter Sander Wezenberg Sander Wezenberg studied Chemistry at the University of Nijmegen where he carried out his Master’s research in the group of Prof. Roeland Nolte. He pursued his PhD studies in the field of supramolecular chemistry and catalysis with Prof. Arjan Kleij at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia. During this period, he… Continue reading Sander Wezenberg | Artificial Molecular Machines Operating in the Lipid Bilayer
Presenter Dick Broer Dick Broer is a polymer chemist specialized in polymer structuring and self-organizing polymer networks. This entails the development of polymers with new functionalities and integrating them into devices to meet industrial and societal challenges in the fields of sustainable energy, water-management, healthcare & personal comfort. The research follows the complete chain of… Continue reading Dick Broer | Liquid Crystal Amplification of Molecular Motor Dynamics to Tangible Dynamics
Presenter Basile Wicky, Baker Lab Basile Wicky is currently a postdoc at the Institute for Protein Design (UW) in the group of David Baker where he works on developing deep learning methods for designing protein assemblies. He received his PhD under the supervision of Jane Clarke (University of Cambridge) where he applied experimental biophysical techniques… Continue reading Basile Wicky | Designing De Novo Interactomes for Biomolecular Computations
Presenter Christian Schafmeister, Temple University His research interests are in the areas of chemical biology and nanoscience. He is the recipient of the Cottrell Scholar Award, the Research Corporation, Research Innovation Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, and the 2005 Feynman Prize for Experimental Nanotechnology… Summary: Spiroligomers are a powerful platform technology… Continue reading C. Schafmeister | Hardware and Software of a Critical Path to Bottom-up Molecular Nanotechnology
Presenter Petr Sulc Petr Šulc’s research focuses on application of computational modeling and statistical physics approaches to complex systems. In particular, his group uses computational models to study problems in biology, and bio-inspired nanotechnology systems. He is mainly interested in nucleic acids modeling (DNA and RNA) using coarse-grained models, which allow for simulations of longer… Continue reading Petr Sulc | Computer Aided Design and Modeling for Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology
