49th New England Workshop on Complex Fluids

Friday, December 2, 2011
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Harvard University
8:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Invited Speakers:

Schedule:

8:15–8:55 a.m. Breakfast and Registration, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
Morning Presentations, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G115
9:00–9:30 a.m. Ethan Garner, Harvard University
"Watching the motions of the cell wall synthesis machinery and underlying cytoskeleton in B. subtilis with high precision particle tracking"
9:30–10:00 a.m. Chinedum Osuji, Yale University
"Magnetic fields and soft matter - directing self-assembly of block copolymer, nanowire, and surfactant mesophases"
10:00–11:00 p.m. Sound Bites Session I

Wynter Duncanson, Harvard University
"Squishy bubbles"

Amitesh Saha, University of Rhode Island
"Carbon black as emulsion stabilizers"

Gilad Kaufman, Yale University
"Fabrication of fluid-filled microcapsules by electrospray"

Raphael Sarfati, Yale University
"Attractive forces between charged colloidal particles in an external electric field"

Timothy Atherton, Tufts University
"Multistable alignment of nematic liquid crystals on patterned surfaces"

Jerome Fung, Harvard University
"Minimizing radiation pressure in digital holographic microscopy"

Rebecca Perry, Harvard University
"Wiggling colloidal clusters"

Rangarajan Radhakrishnan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Flow induced structures in dilute polymer solutions"

Zhen Shao, Yale University
"Suspension rheology of polymer particles with thermosensitive deformability"

James Adler, Tufts University
"Adaptive finite element methods for complex fluids"

Madhavi Krishnan, ETH Zurich
"Measuring size and charge of single objects in fluids: a nanoscale Millikan oil drop experiment"

Marco Dressler, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Flow modeling in complex fluids"

Seila Selimovic, Harvard Medical School
"Polyester-based microfluidic devices for cell culture"

Joseph Hardcastle, Boston University
"Motion of helicobacter pylori in viscoelastic gels"
11:00–12:30 p.m. Lunch, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 119
Afternoon Presentations, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G115
12:30–1:00 p.m. Debra T. Auguste, Harvard University
"2 > 1: Cooperative assembly in drug delivery"
1:00–1:30 p.m. Tal Raz, GnuBio
"Fully integrated target enrichment, DNA sequencing, and variant calling with emulsion microfluidics"
1:30–2:00 p.m. Coffee, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
2:00–3:30 p.m. Sound Bites Session II

Greg Huber, University of Connecticut
"A new type of membrane junction of interesting topology"

William Uspal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Soft, hydrodynamically coupled particles in a Hele-Shaw channel"

Sorell Massenberg, Harvard University
"Understanding filtration using pore clogging"

Naveen Sinha, Harvard University
"Development of sub-millimeter size towers in Bacillus subtilis biofilms"

Nicholas Schade, Harvard University
"Toward negative refraction via colloidal self-assembly"

Sofia Magkiriadou, Harvard University
"Disordered photonic materials: the quest for red color"

Jan-Michael Carrillo, University of Connecticut
"Effect of electrostatic interactions on lubrication in polymeric bottle-brush layers"

Tina Lin, Harvard University
"Dynamics of charged particles in nonpolar solvent in response to an electric field"

Rostislav Boltyanskiy, Yale University
"Mechanical properties of the lyme disease bacterium, B. burgdorferi"

Louise Jawerth, Harvard University
"A direct observation of the mechanism underlying strain stiffening in biopolymer networks"

Laura Adams, Harvard University
"Cerberus emulsions"

Anna Wang, Harvard University
"Studying particle-interface dynamics with digital holographic microscopy""

Jesse Collins, Harvard University
"Design rules for DNA-colloid clusters"

Sebastian Seiffert, FU Berlin
"Structure and dynamics in sensitive polymer networks"

Parvathalu Kalakonda, Worcester Polytecnic Institute
"Macroscopic ordering of CNT in a liquid crystalline polymer nano-composite by shearing"

Connie Chang, Harvard University
"Biofilm formation in microscopic double emulsion droplets"

Mira Guo, Harvard University
"High-throughput single-cell PCR using microfluidic emulsions"

Lian Leng, University of Toronto
"Mosaic hydrogels: Dynamic tesselation and coding of soft materials"

Shang-You Tee, Harvard University
"Single molecule resolution traction force in live cells"

Nick Carroll, Harvard University
"Microparticles with bimodal nanoporosity derived by microemulsion templating"

Esther Amstad, Harvard University
"Pickering emulsions stabilized with core-shell nanoparticles"

Allen Ehrlicher, Harvard University
"Molecular mechanotransduction: How forces trigger cytoskeleton dynamics"

Ye Xu, Yale University
"The effect of surface topography on interface stresses during peeling"

Aaron Mertz, Yale University
"Scaling of traction stresses with size of cohesive cell colonies"

Joseph McDermott, Harvard University
"Electrostatic and steric stabilization of carbon black dispersions in nonpolar media"

Johannes Taktikos, Harvard University
"A model for chemotactic signaling of microorganisms"
3:30–4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
4:00 p.m. Condensed Matter Seminar, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G115
Stephen Quake, Stanford University
"Precision Measurement in Biology"