(Session chairs: 9:30-12pm – David Doty, 2-5pm – Damien Woods)
8am | Check-in opens |
8:30-9am | Breakfast |
9–9:30am | Main conference welcome and introduction |
9:30–10:30am | KEYNOTE TALK: Models of self-assembling systems: varying levels of abstraction and objectives Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA) |
10:30–11am | Break |
11–11:30am | Covered DNA core tiles for robust tuning of spurious nucleation Trent Rogers, Constantine Evans and Damien Woods |
11:30am–12pm | SAT-assembly: Designing minimum complexity building blocks to assemble arbitrary shapes Joakim Bohlin, Ard Louis, Andrew Turberfield and Petr Sulc |
12–2pm | Lunch (on your own) |
2–2:30pm | On Turedo Hierarchies and Intrinsic Universality Samuel Nalin and Guillaume Theyssier (eligible for best student presentation award) |
2:30–3pm | Computing Real Numbers with Large-Population Protocols Having a Continuum of Equilibria Xiang Huang and Rachel Huls |
3–3:30pm | Break |
3:30–3:45pm | Fridge Compiler: automated synthesis of molecular circuits Lancelot Wathieu, Gus Smith, Luis Ceze and Chris Thachuk |
3:45–4pm | Single-pass transmembrane double-stranded DNA with functional toeholds for non-destructive intra- and extravesicular nucleic acid target recognition Gde Bimananda Mahardika Wisna, Nirbhik Acharya, Tarushyam Mukherjee, Ranjan Sasmal, Hao Yan and Rizal Hariadi |
4–4:30pm | Fast and robust strand displacement cascades via systematic design strategies Tiernan Kennedy, Cadence Pearce and Chris Thachuk (eligible for best student presentation award) |
4:30–5pm | A cooperative DNA catalyst Dallas Taylor, Samuel Davidson and Lulu Qian (eligible for best student presentation award) |
5:30–7:30pm | Poster session 1 (Student Union Building, SUB) |
(Session chairs: 9-12pm – Chris Thachuk, 2-5:30pm – David Soloveichik)
8:30-9am | Breakfast |
9–10am | KEYNOTE TALK: Dynamic control of biomolecular phase separation Elisa Franco (University of California Los Angeles, USA) |
10–10:30am | Exploring Material Design Space with a Deep-Learning Guided Genetic Algorithm Kuan-Lin Chen and Rebecca Schulman (eligible for best student presentation award) |
10:30–11am | Break |
11–11:30am | Protecting heterochiral DNA nanostructures against exonuclease-mediated degradation Tracy Mallette and Matthew R. Lakin (eligible for best student presentation award) |
11:30–12pm | DNA strand-displacement temporal logic circuits Anna Lapteva, Namita Sarraf and Lulu Qian (eligible for best student presentation award) |
12–2pm | Lunch (on your own) |
2–2:15pm | Scaling up reusable DNA circuits using heat as a universal energy source Tianqi Song and Lulu Qian |
2:15–2:30pm | Highly Parallel Synthesis, Computation, and Readout of DNA Logic Gates using High-Throughput Synthesis and Sequencing Chandler Petersen, Samantha Borje, Gourab Chatterjee, Yuan-Jyue Chen and Georg Seelig |
2:30–3:30pm | KEYNOTE TALK: Hourglass emergence + collective computation in nature Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute, USA) |
3:30–4pm | Break |
4–4:30pm | Growth dynamics: Precisely controlled self-assembly order of DNA tile nanostructures Constantine Evans, David Doty and Damien Woods |
4:30–5pm | Universal Shape Replication Via Self-Assembly With Signal-Passing Tiles Andrew Alseth, Matthew Patitz and Daniel Hader |
5–5:30pm | Algorithmic DNA origami: Scaffolded DNA computation in one and two dimensions Tristan Stérin, Abeer Eshra and Damien Woods (eligible for best student presentation award) |
5:30–7:30pm | Poster session 2 (Student Union Building, SUB) |
(Session chairs: 9-11am – Lulu Qian, 11:30am-1pm – Satoshi Murata)
8:30-9am | Breakfast |
9–10am | KEYNOTE TALK: Strand exchange reactions for analysis and computation Andrew Ellington (University of Texas at Austin, USA) |
10–10:30am | Toehold-Mediated Strand Displacement in Random Sequence Pools Thomas Mayer, Lukas Oesinghaus and Friedrich C. Simmel (eligible for best student presentation award) |
10:30–11am | Parallel molecular computation on digital data stored in DNA Boya Wang, Siyuan S Wang, Cameron Chalk, Andrew D Ellington and David Soloveichik |
11–11:30am | Break |
11:30am–12pm | Rule-of-thumb-free geometry-driven design of arbitrary complex curved DNA origami with ENSnano Nicolas Levy, Allan Mills, Gaétan Bellot and Nicolas Schabanel (eligible for best student presentation award) |
12–12:30pm | A Coupled Reconfiguration Mechanism for Single-Stranded DNA Strand Displacement Systems Hope Amber Johnson and Anne Condon |
12:30–1pm | Supervised learning in DNA-based winner-take-all neural networks Kevin Cherry and Lulu Qian (eligible for best student presentation award) |
1–1:30pm | Conference group photograph |
1:30–6pm | Excursion to Old Town Albuquerque |
6–10pm | Conference dinner at Explora |
(Session chairs: 9am-12:30pm – Matthew Lakin, 2-4:30pm – Ho-Lin Chen)
8:30-9am | Breakfast |
9–10:30am | TULIP AWARD KEYNOTE TALK: Computational Design of Nucleic Acid Circuits Andrew Phillips |
10:30–11am | Break |
11–11:30am | Metal-Mediated Molecular Programming in DNA Simon Vecchioni, Brandon Lu, Yoel Ohayon, Karol Woloszyn, Chengde Mao, James Canary, Nadrian Seeman and Ruojie Sha |
11:30am–12:30pm | SPECIAL PANEL: A Tribute to Ned Seeman |
12:30–2pm | Lunch (on your own) |
2–2:30pm | The Structural Power of Reconfigurable Circuits in the Amoebot Model Andreas Padalkin, Christian Scheideler and Daniel Warner |
2:30–3pm | Fault-Tolerant Shape Formation in the Amoebot Model Daniel Warner, Christian Scheideler and Irina Kostitsyna |
3–3:30pm | Break |
3:30–4pm | Modelling and optimisation of a DNA stack nano-device using probabilistic model checking Bowen Li, Neil Mackenzie, Ben Shirt-Ediss, Natalio Krasnogor and Paolo Zuliani |
4–4:30pm | NUPACK: Molecular Programming in the Cloud Mark E. Fornace, Jining Huang, Cody T. Newman, Nicholas J. Porubsky, Marshall B. Pierce and Niles A. Pierce |
4:30–4:45pm | Main conference closing |
9:15–9:30am | Workshop welcome and introduction |
9:30–10:00am | The Tall, Thin Molecular Programmer Erik Winfree |
10:00–10:30am | Automated Leak Analysis of Nucleic Acid Circuits Andrew Phillips |
10:30–11am | Break |
11am–1pm | NUPACK tutorial: analysis and design of nucleic acid systems with the all-new NUPACK cloud web app Mark E. Fornace, Jining Huang, Cody T. Newman, and Niles A. Pierce |
1–2:30pm | Lunch (on your own) |
2:30–3pm | A roadmap for the future development of ENSnano Nicolas Levy |
3–3:30pm | The oxDNA ecosystem Petr Sulc |
3:30–4:30pm | Open format panel / discussion |
4:30–4:45pm | Workshop closing |