Program
DNA20 PROGRAM Ver.3 (as of Sept. 14)
Please see this LINK to find the program in PDF version.
Monday, September 22
| Start Time | Activity | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Open Reception Desk | |
| 10:00 | Tutorial 1 Masami Hagiya/ New generation molecular computing and control | S.Murata |
| 11:00 | Tutorial 2 Kazutoshi Takahashi/ Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of cellular reprogramming | H.Saito |
| 12:00 | Lunch on your own | |
| 13:25 | Opening Remark Hirohide Saito | |
| 13:30 | Plenary Talk 1 Hiroshi Sugiyama/ Single-molecule Observation in the DNA Origami Nanostructures | N.Seeman |
| 14:30 | Ryosuke Iinuma, Yonggang Ke, Ralf Jungmann, Thomas Schlichthaerle ,Johannes Wohrstein and Peng Yin/ Polyhedra Self-Assembled from DNATripods and Characterized with 3D DNA-PAINT | N.Seeman |
| 15:00 | Break 15 min | |
| 15:15 | Ashwin Gopinath and Paul W. K. Rothemund/ Directed self-assembly of covalently-coupled DNA origami nanoarrays | A.E.-Torres |
| 15:45 | Michael Mertig, Elisabeth Schreyer, Matthew Wiens, Anja Henning and Nora Haufe/ Chemical in-situ control over the geometric dimensions of DNA origami | A.E.-Torres |
| 16:15 | Break 15 min | |
| 16:30 | Steven Perrault and William Shih/ Virus-Inspired Membrane Encapsulation of DNA Nanostructures to Achieve In Vivo Stability | A.Kuzuya |
| 17:00 | Cody Geary, Paul Rothemund and Ebbe Sloth Andersen/ A Single-Stranded Architecture for Cotranscriptionally Folded RNA Tiles | A.Kuzuya |
| 17:30 | Poster Session I | |
| 18:30 | Dinner on your own |
Tuesday, September 23
| Start Time | Activity | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Plenary Talk 2 Cris Calude/ The Quest for Quantum Randomness | J. Reif |
| 10:00 | Ho-Lin Chen, David Doty, Dhiraj Holden, Chris Thachuk, Damien Woods and Chun Tao Yang/ Fast algorithmic self-assembly of simple shapes using random agitation | J. Reif |
| 10:30 | Break 30 min | |
| 11:00 | Rachel Cummings, David Doty and David Soloveichik/ Probability 1 computation with chemical reaction networks | S.Seki |
| 11:30 | Fumiya Okubo and Takashi Yokomori/ The Computational Capability of Chemical Reaction Automata | S.Seki |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Plenary Talk 3 Masaki Sano/ From Non-Equilibrium Physics to Active Matter | M.Hagiya |
| 14:30 | Anthony J. Genot, Alexandre Baccouche, Remi Sieskind, Nathanael Aubert, Nicolas Bredeche, Jean-Francois Bartolo, Valerie Taly, Teruo Fujii and Yannick Rondelez/ High resolution landscape of a molecular program | M.Hagiya |
| 15:00 | Break 15 min | |
| 15:15 | Di Liu, Gang Chen, Usman Akhter, Timothy Cronin and Yossi Weizmann/ Creating Complex Molecular Topologies by Configuring DNA Four-Way Junctions | R.Brijder |
| 15:45 | Dominic Scalise and Rebecca Schulman/ Emulating Cellular Automata in Chemical Reaction-Diffusion Networks | R.Brijder |
| 16:15 | Break 15 min | |
| 16:30 | Neil Dalchau, Georg Seelig and Andrew Phillips/ Computational design of reaction-diffusion patterns using DNA-based chemical reaction networks | D.Doty |
| 17:00 | Robert Brijder/ Output Stability and Semilinear Sets in Chemical Reaction Networks and Deciders | D.Doty |
| 17:30 | Poster Session II | |
| 18:30 | Dinner on your own |
Wednesday, September 24
| Start Time | Activity | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Plenary Talk 4 Shawn Douglas/ Nanoscale Construction with DNA | M.Endo |
| 10:00 | Katherine Dunn, Frits Dannenberg, Thomas Ouldridge, Marta Kwiatkowska, Andrew Turberfield and Jonathan Bath/ Guiding the folding pathway of DNA origami | M.Endo |
| 10:30 | Break 30 min | |
| 11:00 | Christophe David, Jonathan Lee Tin Wah and Andre Estevez-Torres/ Folding pathway of DNA nanostructures at the single molecule level | F.Simmel |
| 11:30 | John Schreck, Thomas Ouldridge, Liam Shaw, Flavio Romano, Ard Louis and Jonathan Doye/ Single-stranded DNA hairpins primarily promote duplex melting rather than inhibiting hybridization | F.Simmel |
| 12:00 | Group Photo | |
| Lunch on your own / DNA Steering Comm. Meeting | ||
| 13:30 | Excursion |
Thursday, September 25
| Start Time | Activity | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Plenary Talk 5 Anne Condon/ On folding pathways, recycling, and reversible programming | S.Kobayashi |
| 10:00 | Lulu Qian and Erik Winfree/ Parallel and scalable computation and spatial dynamics with DNA-based chemical reaction networks on a surface | S.Kobayashi |
| 10:30 | Break 30 min | |
| 11:00 | Matthew R. Lakin, Rasmus Petersen, Kathryn E. Gray and Andrew Phillips/ Abstract modelling of tethered DNA circuits | N.Jonoska |
| 11:30 | Richard Muscat, Jonathan Bath, Mireya Mckee, Phillip Milnes, Rachel O’Reilly and Andrew Turberfield/ An Autonomous Molecular Assembler for Programmable Chemical Synthesis | N.Jonoska |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Plenary Talk 6 Rhiju Das/ Nucleic acid design rules from a massive open laboratory | A.Conndon |
| 14:30 | Oscar Ibarra/ On Decidability and Closure Properties of Language Classes with Respect to Bio-Operations | A.Conndon |
| 15:00 | Break 30 min | |
| 15:30 | Cody Geary and Ebbe Sloth Andersen/ Design Principles for Single-Stranded RNA Origami Structures | D. Stefanovic |
| 16:00 | Yan Du, Yu Sherry Jiang, John Milligan, Bingling Li, Sanchita Bhadra, Yuefeng Rose Wu and Andrew Ellington/ A sweet spot for nucleic acid circuits- Coupling isothermal amplification via nucleic acid circuits to glucometers | D. Stefanovic |
| 16:30 | Poster Session III | |
| 17:30 | (move to banquet venue) | |
| 19:00 | Banquet, Award Ceremony and General Assembly |
Friday, September 26 Molecular Robotics Symposium
| Start Time | Activity | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Open Reception Desk | |
| 10:00 | Opening Remark Masami Hagiya | |
| 10:10 | Special Talk 1 Ned Seeman/ Molecular Machines Made from DNA | A.Kuzuya |
| 11:10 | Special Talk 2 Hiroyuki Asanuma/ Light-powered DNA nanomachine carrying azobenzenes as molecular photon-engine | A.Kuzuya |
| 12:10 | Lunch on your own | |
| 13:30 | Panel Discussion | S.Murata |
| 15:30 | Closig Remark Akihiko Konagaya |



