This is the official MPP-Caltech Finale Workshop website.
Special thanks to the organizing committee: Erik Winfree, Lulu Qian, Angie Riley, and Lucinda Acosta. Registration is by email to Erik.
Thursday June 27, 2019
Location: Talks in Annenberg 105. Registration, refreshment, and posters in Moore courtyard and walk.
| Time | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Registration | Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Erik Winfree | Welcome and overview |
| SESSION 1 | Chair: Erik Winfree | |
| 9:15 AM | Tural Aksel | Development of a DNA origami platform for cryo-EM studies of small proteins |
| 9:40 AM | Dio Minev | Programmable nucleation of 1D DNA nanostructures with DNA slats |
| 10:05 AM | Nikhil Gopalkrishnan | Molecular rulers |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee break | Catered |
| SESSION 2 | Chair: Niles Pierce | |
| 11:00 AM | Nick Porubsky | Constrained multiobjective design of nucleic acid complexes, test tubes, and reaction pathways |
| 11:25 AM | Mark Fornace | Improved methods for predicting the thermodynamics of nucleic acids |
| 11:50 AM | Stefan Badelt | A general-purpose CRN-to-DSD compiler with formal verification, optimization, and simulation capabilities |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch | On your own |
| SESSION 3 | Chair: Dave Doty | |
| 2:15 PM | Josie Kishi | Molecular robots and lightsabers |
| 2:40 PM | Kevin Cherry | Building a DNA-based neural network that learns to recognize patterns |
| 3:05 PM | Constantine Evans | Pattern recognition through kinetic control of spontaneous nucleation in multifarious self-assembly |
| 3:30 PM | Snack break | Catered |
| SESSION 4 | Chair: Mark Riedel | |
| 4:00 PM | Cody Geary | Modular design of functional RNA origami scaffolds |
| 4:25 PM | Siddharth Jain | A novel signature for cancer classification from healthy DNA |
| 4:50 PM | Lee Organick | Probing the physical limits of reliable DNA data retrieval |
| 5:15 PM | Poster session | |
| Evening | Dinner | On your own |
Friday June 28, 2019
Location: Talks in Annenberg 105. Registration and refreshment in Moore courtyard and walk.
| Time | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Continental breakfast | Catered |
| SESSION 5 | Chair: Lulu Qian | |
| 9:00 AM | Zibo Chen | Alumnus talk: Programmable design of orthogonal protein heterodimers and logic gates |
| 9:25 AM | Mark Riedel | Alumnus talk: DNA storage and computation via nick displacement |
| 9:50 AM | Coffee break | Catered |
| SESSION 6 | Chair: Greg Tikhomirov | |
| 10:15 AM | Dave Doty | Alumnus talk: Crystals that think about how they’re growing |
| 10:40 AM | David Soloveichik | Alumnus talk: Thermodynamic binding networks and the computational power of self-disassembly |
| 11:05 AM | Break | |
| SESSION 7 | Chair: David Soloveichik | |
| 11:30 AM | William Shih | Faculty thesis: Scalable data storage and autonomous molecular recording are related killer apps for molecular programming |
| 12:15 AM | Lunch | On your own |
| SESSION 8 | Chair: William Shih | |
| 2:15 PM | Niles Pierce | Faculty thesis: Molecular programming in a biological context: hard but worth it |
| 3:00 PM | Richard Murray | Faculty thesis: Engineers are going to build a self-reproducing artificial cell entirely from scratch in 20 years |
| 3:45 PM | Snack break | Catered |
| SESSION 9 | Chair: Paul Rothemund | |
| 4:15 PM | Lulu Qian | Faculty thesis: The same molecules will be playing multiple roles in future programmable molecular machines |
| 5:00 PM | Erik Winfree | Faculty thesis: A successful general-purpose molecular programming language won’t look anything at all like conventional programming languages |
| 5:45 PM | Erik Winfree | Conclusion and last words |
| 6:00 PM | Break | |
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | Athenaeum |
Saturday June 29, 2019
Informal hike on Millard Canyon Trail for anyone interested.
Meet in the Moore Building courtyard at 10 AM sharp. Plan your carpool.
