Program

4th ERC Grantees Conference Program

Tuesday, November 27
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-19:30	Tuesday, 27.11
09:00-09:20	Registration & coffee
09:20-09:30	Opening Remarks
09:30-10:00	Stefan Hecht, Humboldt University of Berlin Driving the assembly and disassembly of molecular building blocks with light
10:00-10:30	Oren A. Scherman, University of Cambridge Functional materials: Exploiting dynamic self-assembly at interfaces
10:30-11:00	Alberto Credi, University of Bologna Stimuli-responsive molecular devices and machines
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:00	Luisa De Cola, University of Strasbourg Self-assembling of luminescent complexes: from understanding to artificial virus
12:00-12:30	Ron Naaman, Weizmann Institute of Science Electron spin and molecular chirality - From spintronics to enantioseparation
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:00	Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford Moving polymers through pores
14:00-14:30	Nathalie Katsonis, University of Twente How molecular chemistry turns into motion
14:30-15:00	Arri Priimägi, Tampere University of Technology Light-driven soft robots: towards programmability and autonomous decision making
15:00-16:30	Coffee break + poster session
16:30-17:00	Javier Montenegro, University of Santiago de Campostela Supramolecular Peptide Chemistry to Study Cytosolic Delivery and Simple Cytoskeleton Mimics
17:00-17:30	David Margulies, Weizmann Institute of Science Molecules that Generate ’Fingerprints’: A New Class of Fluorescent Probes for Medical Diagnosis and Chemical Biology
17:30-19:30	Cocktails & Dinner

Wednesday, November 28
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:45-17:45	Wednesday, 28.11
08:45-09:15	Registration & coffee
09:15-09:45	Jonathan Nitschke, University of Cambridge Functional systems through subcomponent self-assembly
09:45-10:15	Amnon Bar-Shir, Weizmann Institute of Science From host-guest binding dynamics to multicolour MRI
10:15-10:45	Steve Goldup, University of Southampton Mechanically chiral interlocked molecules: synthesis and applications
10:45-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-11:30	Nadja Simeth, University of Regensburg Contributed talk 1: Tuning the thermal isomerization of phenylazoindole photoswitches
11:30-11:45	Duy Thao Nguyen, University of Münster Contributed talk 2: Microcontact Printed Patterns of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on Gold Substrates
11:45-12:00	Silvia Marchesan, University of Trieste Contributed talk 3: Peptide Assembly into Water Channels: Entry to Wonderland through the Mirror
12:00-12:15	Frank Biedermann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Contributed talk 4: Out-of-Equilibrium Sensing with Unselective High-Affinity Receptors
12:15-12:30	Ghislaine Vantomme, Eindhoven University of Technology Contributed talk 5: Photo-actuated Communicating Devices
12:30-12:45	Indrajit Maity, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Contributed talk 6: Signal Transduction and Chemical Memory Emerging in a Synthetic Bistable Network
12:45-13:45	Lunch
13:45-14:15	Rienk Eelkema, Delft University of Technology New Opportunities for Catalysis in Soft Materials
14:15-14:45	Leonard Prins, University of Padova Energy-Dissipation in Chemical-Fuel Driven Self-Assembly
14:45-15:15	Sijbren Otto, University of Groningen Can We Synthesize Life in the Lab? How Chemistry May Become Biology
15:15-15:30	Group Photo
15:30-16:45	Coffee break + poster session
16:45-17:15	Jan van Hest, Eindhoven University of Technology Artificial cells and organelles: Smart compartments with life-like features
17:15-17:45	Friedrich Simmel, Technical University of Munich Compartmentalizing cell-free gene expression in various ways

Thursday, November 29
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:45-20:30	Thursday, 29.11
08:45-09:15	Registration & coffee
09:15-09:45	Ian Manners, University of Bristol Functional Nanoscale and Hierarchical Materials by ”Living” Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly
09:45-10:15	Nicolas Giuseppone, Institut Charles Sadron Triarylamine-based Supramolecular Polymers: Structures, Dynamics, Functions
10:15-10:45	Thomas Hermans, University of Strasbourg Supramolecular oscillations, traveling fronts, and patterns
10:45-12:00	Coffee break & poster session
12:15-13:15	Lunch
13:00-13:30	Tom de Greef, Eindhoven University of Technology Programmable DNA-based Communication in Populations of Artificial Cells
13:30-14:00	Itamar Willner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Constitutional Dynamic Networks: From Basic Principles to Applications
14:00-14:30	Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford Programming dynamic DNA nanosystems
14:30-15:00	Coffee break
15:00-15:30	Daniela Wilson, Radboud University Nijmegen Autonomous Supramolecular Systems with Controlled Motion and Directionality
15:30-16:00	Michael Meijler, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Deciphering Chemical Communication between Species in the Human Body with use of Molecular Probes
16:00-16:30	Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh Repurposing protein nanopores: from single-molecule sensors to molecular machines
16:30-16:45	Closing remarks
17:30-20:00	Dinner (Buses to Tel Aviv)