| ☀️ Day 1 (Monday Aug 25, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
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| 8:20 |
Registration & breakfast |
| 8:50-9:00 |
Opening |
| 9:00-12:00 |
Morning Session Chair: Constantine Evans (Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University) |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote talk: Prof. Olivier Bournez (École Polytechnique, France) |
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Computing with Ordinary Differential Equations |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Coffee break |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Track A: Bin Fu, Timothy Gomez, Ryan Knobel, Austin Luchsinger, Aiden Massie, Marco Rodriguez, Adrian Salinas, Robert Schweller and Tim Wylie. |
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Reachability in Deletion-only Chemical Reaction Networks |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Track B: Maria Galiarnyk🎓, Guillaume Gines and Yannick Rondelez. 🏆🎤 |
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Directed Evolution at Single-Enzyme level using versatile and ultrasensitive Molecular Programs |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Track A: Inhoo Lee🎓, Salvador Buse🎓 and Erik Winfree. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
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Differentiable Programming of Indexed Chemical Reaction Networks |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Track C: Rajiv Teja Nagipogu and John Reif. |
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Neural CRNs: A Natural Implementation of Learning in Chemical Reaction Networks |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-15:15 |
Early Afternoon Session Chair: Cody Geary (Heidelberg University) |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Keynote talk: Prof. Dr. Barbara Saccà (ZMB, University Duisburg-Essen) |
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Biochemical reactions in nanoconfined and crowded spaces |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Track A: Gwendal Ducloz🎓, Ahmed Shalaby🎓 and Damien Woods. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
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Algorithmic hardness of the partition function for nucleic acid strands |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Track C: Ahmed Shalaby and Damien Woods. |
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An efficient algorithm to compute the minimum free energy of interacting nucleic acid strands |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:45 |
Late Afternoon Session Chair: Abeer Eshra (Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University) |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Track B: Ping Song, Zhi Weng🎓, Hongyu Shen and Chunhai Fan. 🏆🎤 |
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Massively Parallel Amplification and Sanitization in DNA Information Storage |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Track B: Mingweon Chon🎓, Hansol Choi, Woojin Kim, Yoonhae Koh, Yeongjae Choi and Sunghoon Kwon. 🏆🎤 |
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Random access by single-nucleotide resolution barcode identification for programmable and scalable DNA data storage |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Track C: Rebecca Sack, Aaron Curdts, Enja Rösch, Florian Wolgast, Thilo Viereck, Meinhard Schilling and Aidin Lak. |
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Exponential magnetic cascades for nonenzymatic detection of viral genome |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Break |
| 17:00-19:00 |
Posters Session #1, Light buffet |
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Posters: 9, 17, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109. |
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| ☀️ Day 2 (Tuesday Aug 26, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
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| 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:00 |
Morning Session Chair: Dave Doty (University of California Davis) |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote talk: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich (Heidelberg University) |
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RNA design: Folds for synthetic cells |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Coffee break |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Track A: Constantine Evans, Angel Cervera Roldan, Trent Rogers and Damien Woods. |
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Tile blockers as a simple motif to control self-assembly: kinetics and thermodynamics |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Track B: Myoungseok Kim🎓, Dongsik Seo, Grigory Tikhomirov and Do-Nyun Kim. 🏆🎤 |
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Programming multiplexed reconfiguration of DNA origami into molecular numeral system and digital encoding |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Track B: Yifeng Shi and Grigory Tikhomirov. |
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Embedding molecular recognition into inorganic nanocrystals with DNA origami wraps |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Track C: Laura Bourdon, Gerrit David Wilkens, Ayako Yamada, Gaëtan Bellot and Damien Baigl. |
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Ultra-fast in situ assembly of programmable DNA nanostructures with living cells |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-15:15 |
Early Afternoon Session Chair: Florent Becker (Université d'Orléans) |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Keynote talk: Tribute to Anthony Genot (CNRS, LIMMS, U. Tokyo) |
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Organiser: Nicolas Lobato-Dauzier |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Track B: Nicolas Lobato-Dauzier, Robin Deteix, Alexandre Baccouche, Shu Okumura, Guillaume Gines, Yannick Rondelez, Soo Hyeon Kim, Teruo Fujii, Nathanael Aubert-Kato, Andre Estevez-Torres, Jean-Christophe Galas and Anthony J. Genot. |
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Pattern formation in tissue-like arrays of droplets with thermosensitive biochemical switches and clocks |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Track C: Josh Petrack and David Doty. |
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Efficient Simulation of Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:45 |
Late Afternoon Session Chair: Giuditta Franco (University of Verona) |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Track A: Hamidreza Akef🎓, Minki Hhan and David Soloveichik. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
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Computing and Bounding Equilibrium Concentrations in Athermic Chemical Systems |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Track B: Abeer Eshra, Tristan Stérin, Janet Adio, Constantine Evans and Damien Woods. |
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A Thermodynamically Favoured Molecular Computer: Robust, Fast, Renewable, Scalable |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Track C: David Doty, Mina Latifi and David Soloveichik. |
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Analog computation with transcriptional networks |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Break |
| 17:00-19:00 |
Posters Session #2, Light buffet |
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Posters: 16, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108. |
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| ☀️ Day 3 (Wednesday Aug 27, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
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| 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:00 |
Morning Session Chair: Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-communications, Tokyo) |
| 9:00-10:00 |
TULIP Award Keynote Talk |
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TBA |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Track A: Hope Amber Johnson and Anne Condon. |
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A coupled reconfiguration mechanism that enables powerful, pseudoknot-robust DNA strand displacement devices with 2-stranded inputs |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Track B: Merry Mitra🎓, Rakesh Mukherjee, Križan Jurinovic and Thomas E Ouldridge. 🏆🎤 |
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Fuel-driven catalytic molecular templating |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Track A: Zoë Evelyn Mōhalakealoha Derauf🎓 and Chris Thachuk. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
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Leakless polymerase-dependent strand displacement systems |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Posters Session #3 |
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Posters: All |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00-18:00 |
Afternoon Session Chair: Shelley Wickham (University of Sidney) |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Track A: Da-Jung Cho, Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas, Shinnosuke Seki and Max Wiedenhöft🎓. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
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Programmable Co‑Transcriptional Splicing: Realizing Regular Languages via Hairpin‑Deletion |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Track B: Cody Geary, Mai Tran, Erik Poppleton and Kerstin Göpfrich. |
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Rational Design of an Edge-to-Edge RNA Connector for Programmable Self-Assembly |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Track A: Pekka Orponen, Shinnosuke Seki and Antti Elonen. |
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Secondary Structure Design for Cotranscriptional 3D RNA Origami Wireframes |
| 17:30-18:00 |
Track B: Feng Zhou, Jiantao Zhang, Paul Chaikin and Ruojie Sha. |
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Precision Self-assembly of 3D DNA Nanomaterials for Scalable Nanomanufacturing |
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| ☀️ Day 4 (Thursday Aug 28, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
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| 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-11:45 |
Morning Session Chair: Luca Cardelli |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote talk: Prof. Masahiro Takinoue — 瀧ノ上正浩 (Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science Tokyo) |
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Dynamical DNA condensate for Molecular Computation |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Coffee break |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Track A: Matthew Patitz, Trent Rogers, Phillip Drake and Florent Becker. |
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Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Tile-Based Self-Assembly |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Track B: Križan Jurinović🎓, Rakesh Mukherjee, Luke Fehily and Thomas Ouldridge. 🏆🎤 |
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Engineering a minimal autonomous DNA replicator |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Track A: Matthew Patitz and Trent Rogers. |
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An axiomatic study of leveraging blockers to self-assemble arbitrary shapes via temperature programming |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Group photo |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-18:00 |
Social event (different groups) |
| 19:00-0:00 |
Banquet: Business meeting, Best Student Paper, Talk and Poster awards |
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Restaurant « L'embarcadère » [ map | route from the ENS ] |
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| ☀️ Day 5 (Friday Aug 29, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
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| 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:00 |
Workshop Honouring the Career of Andrew Turberfield |
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Organisers: Tom Ouldridge, Jonathan Bath, Damien Woods and Nicolas Schabanel |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-16:30 |
Workshop Honouring the Career of Anne Condon |
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Organisers: Chris Thachuk, Damien Woods and Nicolas Schabanel |
