2024

  • Robustness and fracture resilience of composite biopolymer networks in cells and tissues

    Moumita Das

    Princeton University, Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences Workshop on Fracture Across Fields

  • Rigidity transitions in cells and tissues

    Moumita Das

    University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder Summer School on Self- Organizing Matter: From Inanimate to the Animate

  • Rigidity and resilience in network-like soft materials

    Moumita Das

    Society for Industrial and Applied Math Annual Meeting (Spokane, WA)

  • Biomimetic Strategies for Achieving Rigidity, Resilience, and Robustness in Network-like Materials

    Moumita Das

    UCSF, BBC (Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Complex Biological Systems) Seminar Series

  • Biomimetic Strategies for Achieving Rigidity, Resilience, and Robustness in Network-like Materials: Insights from Biopolymer Networks and Circadian Colloids

    Moumita Das

    University of Colorado, Boulder, Physics Colloquium

  • Biomimetic Strategies for Achieving Rigidity, Resilience, and Robustness in Network-like Materials: Insights from Biopolymer Networks and Circadian Colloids

    Moumita Das

    North Carolina State University, Physics Colloquium

  • Dynamics and rheology of active biomaterials and gels quantified with optical microscopy tools

    Ryan McGorty

    Chemistry Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Colloquium

  • Soft and Active Materials Explored with Rheo-Optical Methods

    Ryan McGorty

    March 2024 @ SDSD Physics Colloquium

  • Dynamics and rheology of active biomaterials and gels quantified with optical microscopy tools

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    March 2024 @ APS March Meeting (Minneapolis, MN)

  • Bio-powered materials: from topologically-active DNA to circadian colloids

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    University of Pennsylvania, Center for Soft and living Matter Kick-off Meeting

  • Emergent micromechanics of active cytoskeleton composites

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    Gordon Research Conference, Cytoskeletal Motors

  • Dynamics of bio-inspired materials: from topologically-active DNA rings to cytoskeleton composites and circadian colloids

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    MIT Soft Materials, Structures and Devices Seminar Series

  • Topological tuning of DNA-based active matter

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    Cal State Long Beach, Physics Department Colloquium

  • Empowering the future MGI workforce to develop, use, and disseminate a high-throughput materials characterization suite

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    Biannual MGI Meeting (Washington, DC)

  • Living biotic-abiotic materials with temporally programmable actuation

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    Biannual MGI Meeting (Washington, DC)

  • The whole is more than the sum of its parts

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    STEM Next: Girls Build Solutions (San Diego, CA)

  • Optical tweezers microrheology integrating differential dynamic microscopy

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    Annual SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference

  • Physics Mama: Using TikTok to promote science literacy and engagement

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    Cottrell Scholars Teaching Science Communication Workshop (Saarbruken, Germany)

  • Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Microtubule Architectures

    Jennifer L Ross

    Cytoskeletal Motors Gordon Research Conference (Portland, ME)

  • Harnessing Cytoskeletal Contraction for Actuation

    Megan Valentine

    January 2024 @ Gordan Research Conference, Multifunctional Materials and Structures

  • Data-driven Framework for the Prediction of PEGDA Hydrogel Mechanics

    Megan Valentine

    February 2024 @ Annual Adhesion Society Meeting (Savannah, GA)

  • New approaches to designing and deploying hydrogels for force sensing and control

    Megan Valentine

    International Soft Matter Conference (Raleigh, NC)

2023

  • Rigidity and Resilience in Network-based Biomaterials: Insights from Cartilage Tissue and Circadian Colloids

    Moumita Das

    November 2023 @ International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Active Matter and Beyond (Bangalore, India)

  • BioInspired Self-Organization To Build the Materials of Tomorrow

    Jennifer L Ross

    September 2023 @ National Cenre for Biological Science, Bangalore Microscopy School (Bangalore, India)

  • Self-Organization of Microtubules from Crosslinker Condensates

    Jennifer L Ross

    September 2023 @ BIRS Workshop on Mechanics of Cells and Polymer Networks: Bridging Theory, Simulation and Experiment (Banff, Canada)

  • From Rigidity to Resilience: How Rigidity Percolation Transitions Shape Collagenous Tissue Function in Health and Disease

    Moumita Das

    September 2023 @ Cambridge University, Isaac Newton Istitute for Mathematical Science

    September 2023 @ BIRS Workshop on Mechanics of Cells and Polymer Networks: Bridging Theory, Simulation and Experiment (Banff, Canada)

  • Circadian materialscape: Timed material self-assembly orchestrated by bacterial clock proteins

    Moumita Das

    July 2023 @ Cambridge University, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science

    July 2023 @ Telluride Science Research Center, Workshop on Self-assembly and organization in non-equilibrium systems

  • Multiscale rheology and dynamics of topologically-active DNA solutions and composites

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    March 2023 @ APS March Meeting

    May 2023 @ University of Edinburgh, Topological Soft Matter Workshop

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  • The whole is more than the sum of its parts

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    March 2023 @ APS March Meeting

    January 2023 @ University of San Diego, Conversations with the Dean

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  • Dynamics of bio-inspired non-equilibrium materials: from cytoskeleton composites and circular DNA to circadian colloids

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    Rice University, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics

  • Emergent micromechanics of active cytoskeleton composites

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    BIRS Workshop on Mechanics of Cells and Polymer Networks: Bridging Theory, Simulation and Experiment (Banff, Canada)

  • Emergent micromechanics of active bio-synthetic composites

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    International Congress on Rheology (Athens, Greece)

  • Soft and Active Materials Explored with Rheo-Optical Methods

    Ryan McGorty

    University of San Diego, Frontiers in Soft Matter and Macromolecular Networks

2022

  • Force sensing and regulation in biological systems – from cells and tissues to bioinspired solutions

    Megan Valentine

    November 2022 @ Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), Racah Institute of Physics

  • Force sensing and regulation – How do cells do it? Can we do it too?

    Megan Valentine

    September 2022 @ Vrije University (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Biophysics Seminar

  • Bio-powered non-equilibrium materials: from cytoskeleton composites to circadian colloids.

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    August 2022 @ Penn State University, Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Materials Systems (LiMC2)

  • Cottrell STAR Award: The whole is more than the sum of its parts

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    July 2022 @ Research Corporation Cottrell Scholars Conference

  • Dynamics of bio-inspired non-equilibrium materials: from cytoskeleton composites and circular DNA to circadian colloids

    Rae Robertson-Anderson

    March 2022 @ UChicago, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics

    May 2022 @ UC San Diego, Physics Colloquium

    October 2022 @ UChicago, Gardel Lab