KITP Conference: Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment

KITP Conference: Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment
(Jun 16-18, 2025)
Coordinators: Jerelle Joseph, Frank Jülicher, Stephanie Weber, and David Zwicker


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Monday, Jun 16, 2025
	Session Chair: Trevor Grand Pre (Princeton)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP)	Welcome[Video]
9:00am	D. Allan Drummond (U. Chicago)	Biology and physics of stress-induced mRNP condensation[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am	Allie Obermeyer (Columbia)	Metabolic Activity to Animate Coacervate Materials[Video][CC]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Simon Alberti (TU Dresden)	Biomolecular condensates in stress responses and disease[Video][CC]
11:45am	Sam Safran (Weizmann Inst.)	Mesoscale properties of protein clusters determine the nature of liquid-liquid phase separation[Video][CC]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session Chair: Krishna Shrinivas (Northwestern)
2:00pm	Tanja Mittag (St. Jude)	Emergent properties of condensates and their effects on protein function and disease processes[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
	POSTER SESSION
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025
	Session Chair: Antonia Statt (UIUC)
9:00am	Ben Schuler (Zurich)	Probing the dynamics of biomolecular complex coacervates from molecular to mesoscopic scales[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am	Keren Lasker (Scripps Institute)	Linking Structure and Function in the Pop Condensate[Video][CC]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Frank Julicher (MPI-PKS)	Active processes in condensates and droplets[Video][CC]
11:30am	William Jacobs (Princeton)	An information bottleneck perspective on IDP interaction specificity[Video][CC]
12:00pm	Steph Weber (McGill U)	Active transcription controls the kinetics of nucleolar assembly in early C. elegans embryos[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session Chair: Guido Kusters (MPI-DS)
2:00pm	Sebastian Aland (HTW Dresden)	Biomolecular condensates wetting membranes - dynamic insights from numerical simulations[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm	Leonor Saiz (UC Davis)	Disassembly of Hardened Condensates: Hsp70-Mediated Unbundling of α-Synuclein Fibrils[Embargoed]
3:00pm	Jeremy Schmit (Kansas St.)	Structure/function and emergent concepts at the condensate scale[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Dani Cai (Johns Hopkins)	Uncovering the Interactome of Membrane-less Organelles[Video][CC]
4:30pm	Kurt Kremer (MPI-P)	Intrinsic stiffness and Theta solvent regime of model amino acid chains: Implications for liquid liquid phase separation[Slides][Video][CC]
5:00pm	Chris Weber (U Augsburg)	Theory of surface phase separation of membrane-binding proteins[Video][CC]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
7:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025
	Session Chair: Dilimulati Aierken (Princeton)
9:00am	Tuomas Knowles (Cambridge)	Role of condensates in protein aggregation[Video][CC]
9:45am	Agnes Toth Petroczy (MPI-CBG)	Biomolecular condensates across the Tree of life[Video][CC]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Lindsay Case (MIT)	Understanding the role of membranes in regulating condensates[Video][CC]
11:30am	Hue Sun Chan (U Toronto)	Field-theoretic approaches to physical principles in sequence-dependent phase separation of disordered heteropolymers[Slides][Video][CC]
12:00pm	Jerelle Joseph (Princeton)	Prediction of small-molecule partitioning into biomolecular condensates from simulation[Video][CC]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session Chair: Kathrin Laxhuber (MPI-PKS)
2:00pm	Ned Wingreen (Princeton)	If you're not in, you're out: conformational entropy of intrinsically disordered proteins bars intruders from biomolecular condensates[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm	Huaiying Zhang (Carnegie)	Nuclear condensate formation and function[Video][CC]
2:45pm	David Zwicker (MPI-DS)	Continuum models for elastic phenomena inside and outside condensates[Video][CC]
3:40pm	Afternoon Break & DISCUSSION TIME
5:30pm	CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE WEDNESDAY to sign up.)

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Monday, Jun 16, 2025

Session Chair: Trevor Grand Pre (Princeton)

Session Chair: Krishna Shrinivas (Northwestern)

Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025

Session Chair: Antonia Statt (UIUC)

Session Chair: Guido Kusters (MPI-DS)

Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025

Session Chair: Dilimulati Aierken (Princeton)

Session Chair: Kathrin Laxhuber (MPI-PKS)