Schedule / Program
MiDNAno Workshop Program
The schedule structure mirrors the original theme: days contain rooms, and rooms contain timed talk slots.
2026-07-27
Monday
| Room | Time | Presentation / Activity |
|---|---|---|
| E100 | 10:30 - 11:00 | Breakfast |
| E100 | 11:00 - 12:00 | Morning Session 1 (moderator Castro) |
| E100 | 11:00 - 11:20 | Carlos Castro (Welcome) |
| E100 | 11:20 - 11:40 | Ayman Hussein (Bundschuh Lab) |
| E100 | 11:40 - 12:00 | Kehao Huang (Castro Lab) - A Rack and Pinion-Inspired DNA-Based Roll-bot |
| E100 | 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch and discussion (pizza in E100) |
| E100 | 13:00 - 14:20 | Afternoon Session 1 (moderator Schmidt) |
| E100 | 13:00 - 13:20 | Soumya Chandrasekhar (Schmidt Lab) |
| E100 | 13:20 - 13:40 | Seongmin Seo (Choi Lab) |
| E100 | 13:40 - 14:00 | Praneetha Sundar Prakash (Taylor/Schmidt Lab) |
| E100 | 14:00 - 14:20 | Nick Vantangoli (Castro Lab) |
| E100 | 14:20 - 14:40 | Break |
| E100 | 14:40 - 16:00 | Afternoon Session 2 (moderator Arya) |
| E100 | 14:40 - 15:00 | Daniel Duke (Arya Lab) |
| E100 | 15:00 - 15:20 | Kalven Bonin (Poirier Lab) |
| E100 | 15:20 - 15:40 | Xindi Sun (Mao Lab) |
| E100 | 15:40 - 16:00 | Wolfgang Pfeifer (Sotomayor Lab) - Probing Mechanosensitive Biomolecules |
| E100 | 16:00 - 16:25 | Break (updated) |
| E100 | 16:25 - 18:05 | Afternoon Session 3 (moderator Mathur) |
| E100 | 16:25 - 16:45 | Kayla Neyra (Mathur Lab) - Rapid release of single-stranded DNA for assembly of custom DNA origami nanostructures |
| E100 | 16:45 - 17:05 | Shubhankar Kundu (Liu Lab) |
| E100 | 17:05 - 17:25 | Sarvinaz Hajiyeva (Schmidt Lab) |
| E100 | 17:25 - 17:45 | Nanditha Gayathri Srinivasan (Winter Lab) |
| E100 | 17:45 - 18:05 | Discussion and wrap up |
| E100 | 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner and hangout at Landgrant Brewing Co. - https://maps.app.goo.gl/TXbUTUXSJxYXkhDS6 - Large open patio with a few food trucks. |
2026-07-28
Tuesday
| Room | Time | Presentation / Activity |
|---|---|---|
| E100 | 08:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast |
| E100 | 09:00 - 10:20 | Morning Session 1 (moderator Taylor) |
| E100 | 09:00 - 09:20 | Lainie Beauchemin (Taylor Lab) - Engineering Programmable, Enzyme-resistant Condensates with DNA and γPNA |
| E100 | 09:20 - 09:40 | Emma Meyer (Schmidt Lab) |
| E100 | 09:40 - 10:00 | Yin Wei (Castro Lab) |
| E100 | 10:00 - 10:20 | Anusha (Mao Lab) - Alphafold 3 guided design of DNA motifs to assemble into a triangle |
| E100 | 10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
| E100 | 10:40 - 12:00 | Morning Session 2 (moderator Pfeifer) |
| E100 | 10:40 - 11:00 | AJ Vetturini (Taylor Lab) - Automated design of stiffness-tunable DNA origami hollowframes for self-assembling metamaterials |
| E100 | 11:00 - 11:20 | Zachary Zhao, Max Ma (Castro Lab) |
| E100 | 11:20 - 11:40 | Rokas Dargis (Arya Lab) |
| E100 | 11:40 - 12:00 | Teng Teng (Castro Lab) |
| E100 | 12:00 - 13:20 | Lunch - walk to High Street, grab food, can bring back to Scott Lab |
| E100 | 13:20 - 14:40 | Afternoon Session 1 (moderator Poirier) |
| E100 | 13:20 - 13:40 | Anirudh Madhvacharyula (Choi Lab) |
| E100 | 13:40 - 14:00 | Heather Everson (Mathur Lab) |
| E100 | 14:00 - 14:20 | Naseem Siraj (Mao Lab) |
| E100 | 14:20 - 14:40 | Manisha (Schmidt Lab) |
| E100 | 14:30 - 15:00 | Break |
| E100 | 15:00 - 15:40 | Invited speaker - Prof. Alex Marras, UT Austin |
| E100 | 15:40 - 16:00 | Break |
| E100 | 16:00 - 17:00 | Open discussion - future plans for miDNAno |
| E100 | 17:00 - 17:05 | End miDNAno workshop |
| E100 | 19:00 - 21:00 | Optional outing to Columbus Clippers game - tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/05006374AB7F9913?tfl= - stadium: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aAtR2aaqVuzFuGub6 - recommended Lawn tickets, game starts at 7:05 pm |