| ☀️ Day 1 (Monday Aug 25, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
| |
|
| 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) |
| |
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. |
| |
Reachability in Deletion-only Chemical Reaction Networks |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Track B: Maria Galiarnyk🎓, Guillaume Gines and Yannick Rondelez. 🏆🎤 |
| |
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. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
| |
Differentiable Programming of Indexed Chemical Reaction Networks |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Track C: Rajiv Teja Nagipogu and John Reif. |
| |
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) |
| |
Biochemical reactions in nanoconfined and crowded spaces |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Track A: Gwendal Ducloz🎓, Ahmed Shalaby🎓 and Damien Woods. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
| |
Algorithmic hardness of the partition function for nucleic acid strands |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Track C: Ahmed Shalaby and Damien Woods. |
| |
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. 🏆🎤 |
| |
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. 🏆🎤 |
| |
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. |
| |
Exponential magnetic cascades for nonenzymatic detection of viral genome |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Break |
| 17:00-19:00 |
Posters Session #1, Light buffet |
| |
Posters: 9, 17, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 102, 103, 105, 107, 109. |
| |
|
| ☀️ Day 2 (Tuesday Aug 26, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
| |
| 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) |
| |
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. |
| |
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. 🏆🎤 |
| |
Programming multiplexed reconfiguration of DNA origami into molecular numeral system and digital encoding |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Track B: Yifeng Shi and Grigory Tikhomirov. |
| |
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. |
| |
Ultra-fast in situ assembly of programmable DNA nanostructures with living cells |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| |
Lunch Business meeting #1: Steering committee, PC co-chairs and current and next OC chairs have lunch in the SC & OC Meeting Room (AC, DS, DW, EW, FZ, JR, JS, ML, MP, NS, SW) |
| 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) |
| |
Organiser: Nicolas Lobato-Dauzier, Alexandre Baccouche |
| |
Speakers: Nicolas Lobato-Dauzier, Andrew Turberfield, Jonathan Bath, Shelley Wickham, Alexandre Baccouche, Yannick Rondelez, Guillaume Gines, Laura Bourdon, Audrey Cochard, Hajar Ajiyel, Paul Bruand, Nicolas Schabanel |
| 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. |
| |
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. |
| |
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. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
| |
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. |
| |
A Thermodynamically Favoured Molecular Computer: Robust, Fast, Renewable, Scalable |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Track C: David Doty, Mina Latifi and David Soloveichik. |
| |
Analog computation with transcriptional networks |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Break |
| 17:00-19:00 |
Posters Session #2, Light buffet |
| |
Posters: 16, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 101, 104, 106, 108. |
| |
|
| ☀️ Day 3 (Wednesday Aug 27, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
| |
| 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: Prof. Fan Chunhai — 樊春海 (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
| |
DNA-based molecular architecture |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Track A: Hope Amber Johnson and Anne Condon. |
| |
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. 🏆🎤 |
| |
Fuel-driven catalytic molecular templating |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Track A: Zoë Evelyn Mōhalakealoha Derauf🎓 and Chris Thachuk. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
| |
Leakless polymerase-dependent strand displacement systems |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| |
Lunch Business meeting #2: Steering committee has lunch in the SC & OC Meeting Room (AC, DS, DW, EW, JR, ML, NJ, SW). |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Posters Session #3 |
| |
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🎓. 🏆🖋️🎤 |
| |
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. |
| |
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. |
| |
Secondary Structure Design for Cotranscriptional 3D RNA Origami Wireframes |
| 17:30-18:00 |
Track B: Feng Zhou, Jiantao Zhang, Paul Chaikin and Ruojie Sha. |
| |
Precision Self-assembly of 3D DNA Nanomaterials for Scalable Nanomanufacturing |
| |
|
| ☀️ Day 4 (Thursday Aug 28, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
| |
| 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-11:45 |
Morning Session Chair: Luca Cardelli (University of Oxford) |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote talk: Prof. Masahiro Takinoue — 瀧ノ上正浩 (Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science Tokyo) |
| |
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. |
| |
Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Tile-Based Self-Assembly |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Track B: Križan Jurinović🎓, Rakesh Mukherjee, Luke Fehily and Thomas Ouldridge. 🏆🎤 |
| |
Engineering a minimal autonomous DNA replicator |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Track A: Matthew Patitz and Trent Rogers. |
| |
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 |
| |
Lunch Business meeting #3: Program committee has lunch in the SC & OC Meeting Room (FB, LC, AC, HLC, DD, AE, CE, GF, CG, PO, JS, SS, DS, CT, SW, EW, DW). |
| 14:00-18:00 |
Social event (different groups) |
| 19:00-0:00 |
Banquet: Business meeting, Best Student Paper, Talk and Poster awards |
| |
Restaurant « L'embarcadère » [ map | route from the ENS ] |
| |
|
| ☀️ Day 5 (Friday Aug 29, 2025) Amphithéâtre Mérieux, ENS Lyon |
| |
|
| 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:00 |
Workshop Honouring the Career of Andrew Turberfield |
| |
Organisers: Tom Ouldridge, Jonathan Bath, Damien Woods and Nicolas Schabanel |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session 1 speakers: Jon Bath, Jon Doye, Shelley Wickham |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Tea break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Session 2 speakers: Seham Helmi, Erik Benson, Feel free to join |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-16:30 |
Workshop Honouring the Career of Anne Condon |
| |
Organisers: Chris Thachuk, Jordan Lovrod, Damien Woods and Nicolas Schabanel |
| 13:30-14:45 |
Session 1 speakers: Chris Thachuk, Erik Winfree, Maria Klawe |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Coffee break |
| 15:00-16:30 |
Session 2 speakers: Chris Thachuk, Catherine Hurley, Natasha Jonoska, Jordan Lovrod, Lulu Qian, Feel free to join |
| 19:00-... |
Join us for a concluding dinner 🎉 (at your own expenses) |
| |
Restaurant « La commune » [ map | route from the ENS ] |
Loading... 
