Program
The conference will start on October 15, 2017 and will end on October 18, 2017.
SUNDAY, Oct 15, 2017
19.00-23.00 PRE-CONFERENCE MEETING AND DISCUSSION
MONDAY, Oct 16, 2017
9.00-9.15 OPENING
9.15-10.30 SESSION 1 (Chair: Kerstin Blank)
9.15-9.45
Nancy R. Forde (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Single-molecule measurements of collagen’s triple helical stability
9.45-10.15
Dong Soo Hwang (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Strong underwater adhesion when cations meet aromatic π electrons in seawater
10.15-10.30
Guillaume De Bo (University of Manchester, UK)
Regio- and stereochemical effects in force-accelerated retro-diels-alder reactions
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00-13.00 SESSION 2 (Chair: Moumita Das)
11.00-11.30
Hongbin Li (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Mechanical Engineering” of Elastomeric Proteins: Correlating Single Molecule Features with Macroscopic Traits
11.30-12.00
Britta Trappmann (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)
A biomaterials approach to studying cellular mechanotransduction
12.00-12.15
Robert Göstl (Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Germany)
Tailor-making optical probes for stress-sensing in waterborne materials
12.15-12.30
H. Peter Lu (Bowling Green State University, USA)
PicoNewton Manipulating Enzyme Activity and Conformational Dynamics by Single-Molecule AFM-FRET and Magnetic Tweezers-FRET Ultramicroscopy
12.30-12.45
Ana Vila Verde (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)
Mechanical response and entropic softening of alpha-helices under strain
12.45-13.00
Gerogy A Filonenko (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
From static stress sensing to time resolved imaging in polymers using small molecule dynamic phosphors
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 SESSION 3 (Chair: Michael Schlierf)
14.00-14.30
Sinan Keten (Northwestern University, USA)
Bioinspired Impact Tolerant Materials with Nanocellulose with Designer Interfaces
14.30-14.45
Shengchang Tang (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Using covalent adaptable hydrogels for understanding cell-matrix interactions
14.45-15.00
Melis Goktas (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)
Coiled coils as molecular force sensors for the extracellular matrix
15.00-15.15
Michal H Kolář (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
Ribosome as a Force Sensor: Insight from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
15.15-15.30
Arne Gennerich (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
Single-molecule dissection of cytoplasmic dynein force sensing
15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.00-17.30 SESSION 4 (Chair: Sinan Keten)
16.00-16.30
Anna Balazs (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Designing mechano-responsive, adaptive gels with controllable 3D structures
16.30-16.45
Joris Sprakel (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Light from Within: Single-molecule force sensing in complex biomolecular assembly
16.45-17.00
Markus B. Linder (Aalto University, Finland)
Mechanically induced transition of proteins with block architecture to self-amalgamating filament structures
17.00-17.15
Christopher Aronsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Tailoring the rheological properties of supramolecular hydrogels for 3D cell culture by coiled coil polypeptide heterodimerization
17.15-17.30
Dong Woog Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Direct measurements of inter-membrane forces using Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA): Role of membrane protein concentrations and lipid compositions
17.30-18.30 POSTER SESSION 1
18.30-19.30 DINNER
19.30-21.30 POSTER SESSION 1 - continued
TUESDAY, Oct 17, 2017
9.00-10.30 SESSION 5 (Chair: Niels Holten-Andersen)
9.00-9.30
Stephen Craig (Duke University, USA)
Force-activity relationships and mechanisms in covalent polymer mechanochemistry
9.30-10.00
Moumita Das (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Better, stronger, faster: Collective biophysics of cells and tissues emerging from differential physical properties of components and their interplay
10.00-10-15
Wolfgang H. Binder (MLU Halle Wittenberg, Germany)
Self-healing and mechanochemical response in polymers: metal-carbene-complexes coupled to "click"-crosslinking
10.15-10.30
Khalid Salaita (Emory University, USA)
Platelet integrins are anisotropic mechanosensors that harness lateral pN forces to mediate platelet activation
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00-13.00 SESSION 6 (Chair: Hongbin Li)
11.00-11.30
Michael Schlierf (Technical University Dresden, Germany)
Single-molecule mechanics to study ultrafast protein folding
11.30-12.00
Ali Miserez (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Mechano-Sensing and Ultra-Low Adhesion of Mussels on Smart Anti-Fouling Coatings
12.00-12.15
Dario V. Conca (University College London, UK)
Axial force sensing for the study of molecular interactions relevant to virus entry
12.15-12.30
Charles E. Diesendruck (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Addressing Mechanochemistry with Intramolecular Cross-links
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-14.30 POSTER SESSION 2
14.30-15.00 COFFEE BREAK
15.00-16.30 POSTER SESSION 2 - continued
16.30-18.00 SESSION 7 (Chair: Ali Miserez)
16.30-17.00
Frauke Gräter (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany)
How molecules can distribute and sense mechanical forces: insights for enzymes and membranes from simulations
17.00-17.15
Marcos Fernandez-Castano Romera (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
The effect of fiber covalent fixation on supramolecular biomimetic strain-stiffening hydrogels
17.15-17.30
Nico Bruns (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Bio-inspired force-responsive polymersomes
17.30-17.45
Alexander Baer (University of Kassel, Germany)
Velvet worm slime: a mechanoresponsive fiber-forming bioadhesive
17.45-18.00
Tom Golde (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Composite Networks of Actin and Vimentin
18.00-19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
19.00-21.00 SESSION 8 (Chairs: Matt Harrington/Kerstin Blank)
19.00-20.00
Rint Sijbesma (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Molecular Scale Probing of Mechanical Damage in Polymeric Materials
20.00-21.00
Deborah Leckband (University of Illinois, USA)
Intercellular Force Transduction
WEDNESDAY, Oct 18, 2017
9.00-10.30 SESSION 9 (Chair: Frauke Gräter)
9.00-9.30
Carsten Grashoff (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
Extracellular rigidity sensing by talin-isoform specific mechanical linkages
9.30-10.00
Sybrand van der Zwaag (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Intrinsic self-healing in soft and hard materials: getting the kinetics right
10.00-10-15
Meredith N. Silberstein (Cornell University, USA)
Modulating Elastomer Strength and Toughness with Metal Ligand Cross-linking
10.15-10.30
Christian T. Kreis (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany)
Adhesion of Chlamydomonas microalgae to surfaces is switchable by light
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.30 SESSION 10 (Chair: Britta Trappmann)
11.00-11.30
Niels Holten-Andersen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Characterizing supramolecular crosslink dynamics via stress-relaxation mechanics: New insights on transient structural hierarchy in molecular networks
11.30-11.45
Matthew S. Sammon (Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
The Infrared Signature of Mechanically Stressed Polymer Solids
11.45-12.00
Lorena Ruiz (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)
Understanding the interplay between amino acid sequence and water in collagen mimetic peptides
12.00-12.15
Julien E. Gautrot (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Nanoscale mechanics controls stem cell adhesion and expansion at the surface of low viscosity liquids
12.15-12.30
Sandra Kostrowski (JPK Instruments AG, Germany)
Atomic Force Microscopy - A Powerful Force Sensing Tool for Nanomechanical Characterization of Biomaterials
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-15.00 SESSION 11 (Chair: Matt Harrington)
13.30-14.00
Viola Vogel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Mechanobiology of Extracellular Matrix: from cells to organs
14.00-14.15
Jakob T. Bullerjahn (Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Germany)
Non-Markovian bond kinetics and its application in dynamic force spectroscopy
14.15-14.30
Franziska Jehle (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)
Tuning mechanical properties of bio-inspired materials via sequence, hierarchy and metal coordination
14.30-14.45
Tom L. J. van Daal (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Catalytic Mechanoluminscence; New probes as a means to higher sensitivity
14.45-15.00
Ana Bergues (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)
Molecular springs: unravelling the mechanisms for the mechanical response of coiled coil trimers to tensile forces
15.00-15.15
Hauke Clausen-Schaumann (University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany)
Mechanical activation accelerates peptide bond hydrolysis by nine orders of magnitude
15.15-15.30 CLOSING
