Dissipative Processes in Molecular Systems

June 17 - 21, 2024

Padova, Italy

SCHEDULE

Monday, June 17 - Room A Nasini (Department of Chemical Sciences)

8:00 - 8:45 - Registration

8:45 - 9:00 - Welcome and introductory remarks

9:00 - 10:00 - Cristian Micheletti: Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of DNA and RNA nanopore unzipping

10:00 - 10:45 - Erica Del Grosso: Dissipative control over DNA-based systems

10:45 - 11:15 - Coffee Break 

11:15 - 12:15 - Pablo Sartori: Evolutionary conservation, elasticity, and dynamics of protein structures

12:15 - 12:30 - Enrico Carlon: Modeling DNA loop extrusion by SMC proteins

12:30 - 12:45 - Stephen D. P. Fielden: Controlled fusion of polymer nanoparticles

12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 - Thomas Ouldridge: Molecular templating: A necessarily far-from-equilibrium process that is optimised by pseudo-equilibrium systems with negligible dissipation

15:30 - 16:00 -  Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 - Felix Ritort: Variance sum rule for entropy production

17:00 - 18:00 - Giorgio Volpe: Unveiling anomalous dynamics of dissipative systems

Tuesday, June 18 - Room A Nasini (Department of Chemical Sciences)

9:00 - 10:00 -  Massimiliano Esposito: Energy transduction in chemical reaction networks: From single molecules to ecosystems

10:00 - 10:45 - Hyun-Myung Chun: Thermodynamic constraints on kinetic perturbations in chemical reaction networks and driven diffusions

10:45 - 11:15 - Coffee Break 

11:15 - 12:15 - Diego Frezzato & Leonard J. Prins: Experimental and theoretical exploration of non-equilibrium chemical systems at different length scales

12:15 - 12:30 - Marco Frasconi: Electrically powered dissipative hydrogel networks

12:30 - 12:45 - Jonathon E. Beves: Switchable catalysis within molecular cages

12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 - Marco Baiesi: Kinetic bounds for nonequilibrium systems

15:30 - 16:00 -  Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 - Philippe Nghe: Autocatalysis from reactions to emergent fitness

17:00 - 17:15 - Armand Despons: Structural and thermodynamic constraints in autocatalytic networks

17:15 - 17:30 - Ohad Shpielberg: Emerging universality classes in thermally-assisted activation of interacting systems

17:30 - 17:45 - Antonio Stocco: Active Janus particles interacting with giant lipid vesicles

17:45 - 18:00 - Étienne Fodor: Active matter under control: Insights from response theory

Wednesday, June 19 - Room Rostagni (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

9:00 - 10:00 - Roberto Cerbino: Using cellular phase transitions to understand cancer

10:00 - 10:45 - Susanne Liese: Chemically active wetting

10:45 - 11:15 - Coffee Break 

11:15 - 12:15 - David A. Sivak: Information arbitrage in bipartite molecular machines

12:15 - 12:30 - Jason R. Green: Thermodynamic speed limits for dissipative materials

12:30 - 12:45 - Daniel Maria Busiello: Tuning transduction from hidden observables to optimize information harvesting

Thursday, June 20 - Room Rostagni (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

9:00 - 10:00 - David Leigh: TBA

10:00 - 10:45 - Stefano Corra: Light-fueled supramolecular pumps

10:45 - 11:15 - Coffee Break 

11:15 - 12:15 - Todd Gingrich: Simulating reactions and diffusion: Lessons from toy models

12:15 - 12:30 - Emanuele Penocchio: Probing the role of power stokes in molecular motors with nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

12:30 - 12:45 - Yoshiyuki Kageyama: Submillimeter‐scall molecular‐based robots with self‐sustaining behavior

12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 -  Frank Cichos: Fluidic and molecular control with light induced temperature gradients

15:30 - 16:00 -  Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00 - Poster Session [@ backyard of the Department of Chemical Sciences]

Friday, June 21 - Room Rostagni (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

9:00 - 10:00 - Yael Roichman: Thermodynamic significance of effective temperature in driven and active systems: Experimental investigation

10:00 - 10:45 - Sarah A. M. Loos: Stochastic thermodynamics of single particles in correlated media

10:45 - 11:15 - Coffee Break 

11:15 - 12:15 - Simone Pigolotti: Dynamics of genome replication

12:15 - 12:30 - Tommaso Cossetto: Thermodynamic constraints on unicellular growth

12:30 - 12:45 - Paul Raux: Non-equilibrium conductance matrix for complex bio-chemical reaction networks

12:45 - 13:00 - Closing Remarks