Scientific program

 talks - 40 minutes: 30 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion
 talks - 25 minutes: 20 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion
 talks' abstracts
 poster blizz: 2 minutes with 1 slide
  
 Sunday, 4th May
18:30 - 19:30Registration (guest house no. 4)
19:00 - 21:00Welcome reception (providing food and beverages)
  
 Monday, 5th May
 Opening session (chair: Michael Mertig)
10:30 - 10:45Jan-Michael Rost (Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems): Opening the workshop
10:45 - 10:55Michael Mertig (Technische Universität Dresden & Kurt-Schwabe-Institut Meinsberg): Opening remarks of the scientific coordinators
10:55 - 11:45Hao Yan (Arizona State University)
 Designer DNA architectures for programmable self-assembly
11:45 - 12:25Mark Bathe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 Computational design of functional nucleic acid nanoassemblies
12:25 - 13:45lunch break
 New structures and methods (chair: Chengde Mao)
13:45 - 14:25Peng Yin (Harvard University)
 Molecular programming with DNA/RNA
14:25 - 15:05Friedrich Simmel (Technische Universität München)
 Dynamic processes on DNA-based supports
15:05 - 15:45Ulrich Rant (Dynamic Biosensors GmbH)
 Electro-switchable DNA nanolevers for biosensing applications
15:45 - 16:20coffee break
  Integration in membranes and cells (chair: Friedrich Simmel)
16:20 - 17:00Chenxiang Lin (Yale University)
 Membrane assembly and remodeling guided by DNA-nanotemplates
17:00 - 17:40Yamuna Krishnan (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)
 Molecular DNA devices in living systems
17:40 - 18:05Ulrich Keyser (University of Cambridge)
 Lipid-bilayer-spanning DNA nanopores with a bifunctional porphyrin anchor
18:05 - 18:30Veikko Linko (Aalto University)
 Virus encapsulated DNA origami nanostructures for cellular delivery
18:30 - 19:30supper
19:30 - 20:30poster session
  
 Tuesday, 6th May
 Nanophotonics (chair: Hao Yan)
09:00 - 09:40Sébastien Bidault (Institut Langevin)
 DNA templated optical antennas for surface-enhanced spectroscopy and biochemical sensing
09:40 - 10:20Tim Liedl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
 Nanophotonics with DNA origami
10:20 - 10:50coffee break
10:50 - 11:30Philip Tinnefeld (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
 DNA origami meets single molecules and superresolution
11:30 - 11:55Anton Kuzyk (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
 Reconfigurable 3D plasmonic metamolecules in the visible wavelength range
11:55 - 12:20Guillermo Acuna (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
 DNA origami for nanophotonics: Enhancing the intensity, photostability, and energy transfer of organic fluorophores with metallic nanoparticles
12:20 - 14:00lunch break
 Engineered structures & Poster blitz session I (chair: Philip Tinnefeld)
14:00 - 14:40Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology)
 Nanopores and nanostructures for biophysics experiment from single DNA molecules to bacteria
14:40 - 15:20Andrew Ellington (The University of Texas at Austin)
 DNA nanotechnology as an operating system
15:20 - 15:45Poster blitz session I (2 minutes presentations of posters with odd numbers)
15:45 - 16:30coffee break
 dnatec14 colloquium (chair: Stefan Kirchner, mpipks)
16:30 - 17:30Hiroshi Sugiyama (Kyoto University)
 Single-molecule observation in the DNA origami nanostructures
17:30 - 17:50break
 Poster blizz session II (chair: Chenxiang Lin)
17:50 - 18:10Poster blitz session II (2 minutes presentations of posters with even numbers)
18:10 - 19:30supper
19:30 - 20:30poster session
  
 Wednesday, 7th May
 Functional materials (chair: Ned Seeman)
09:00 - 09:40Itamar Willner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
 DNA-based functional materials
09:40 - 10:20Kurt V. Gothelf (Aarhus University)
 Wiring DNA origami with conjugated polymers
10:20 - 10:50coffee break
10:50 - 11:30Ashwin Gopinath (CALTECH)
 Directed self-assembly of covalently-coupled DNA origami nanoarrays
11:30 - 12:10Chengde Mao (Purdue University)
 Self-assembly of DNA nanocages
12:10 - 12:35Vivek Vijay Thacker (University of Cambridge)
 DNA origami based assembly of gold nanoparticle dimers for SERS detection
12:35 - 14:00lunch break
 Complex assembly (chair: Mark Bathe)
14:00 - 14:40Ned Seeman (New York University)
 DNA: Not merely the secret of life
14:40 - 15:20Dan Luo (Cornell University)
 to be announced
15:20 - 16:00coffee break
16:00 - 16:40Yonggang Ke (Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University)
 Complex DNA-brick crystals with prescribed depth
16:40 - 17:20 Hendrik Dietz (Technische Universität München)
 Exploring biomolecular folding with DNA
17:20 - 17:45Francesco Ricci (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
 Thermodynamics basis for engineering high-affinity, high-specific binding-induced DNA clamp nanoswitches
17:45 - 19:00supper and posters
 Evening lecture (chair: Clemens Richert)
19:00 - 20:00Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden)
 The idea behind cfaed
  
 Thursday, 8th May
 Inspiration I (chair: Clemens Richert)
09:00 - 09:40Bogdan Dragnea (Indiana University)
 Role of nucleic acid in the mechanochemistry of viral protein cages
09:40 - 10:20Frank Jülicher (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
 Phase separation of cell cytoplasm
10:20 - 11:00Timothy Lu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 Engineering living functional materials
11:00 - 11:30coffee break
  Inspiration II (chair: Michael Mertig)
11:30 - 12:10Christof Niemeyer (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
 Protein-modification of DNA structures
12:10 - 12:50 Christina Wege (Universität Stuttgart)
 RNA-directed self-assembly of nanotubular nucleoprotein architectures: Plant virus-derived biohybrids for novel materials and devices
12:50 - 13:15Frank Cichos (Universität Leipzig)
 Switchable artificial microswimmers with DNA structures
13:15 - 14:30lunch break
14:30meeting at the institute's reception for the tour through the ateliers & galleries of Dresden's contemporary artists
15:00meeting at the institute's reception for the tour through the old city centre including an organ play in the Hofkirche
19:00start conference dinner
  
 Friday, 9th May
 DNA machinery (chair: Yamuna Krishnan)
09:00 - 09:40Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford)
 Molecular machinery from DNA: Synthetic biology from the bottom up
09:40 - 10:20Yannick Rondelez (The University of Tokyo)
 Parameter landscapes for dynamical reaction networks programs
10:20 - 10:50coffee break
10:50 - 11:30Clemens Richert (Universität Stuttgart)
 DNA-based storage motifs: Batteries for molecular machines?
11:30 - 13:00lunch break
 DNA mechanics & chemistry (chair: Andrew Turberfield)
13:00 - 13:40Ralf Seidel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
 Molecular mechanics of and with DNA origami nanostructures
13:40 - 14:20Thorsten Schmidt (Technische Universität Dresden)
 A polyamide based glue for double-stranded DNA and enzymatically produced oligonucleotides for structural DNA nanotechnology
 Closing session (chair: Michael Mertig)
14:20 - 15:00Sébastien Bidault, Chenxiang Lin & Itamar Willner: Conference wrap up
15:00 - 15:10Michael Mertig: Closing remarks
  

 

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