Conference Organization

  • Hao Yan

    General Co-Chair

    Center Director & Professor, Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics

    Milton D. Glick Distinguished Professor , School of Molecular Sciences.

    Arizona State University

    hao.yan@asu.edu

  • Kurt Gothelf

    Program Chair

    Department of Chemistry

    Aarhus University

    kvg@chem.au.dk

  • Jacob Majikes

    General Co-Chair (On-Site Logistics)

    Research Scientist (Thiess Research)

    Reseach Associate (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

    Jacob.Majikes@nist.gov

Track Chairs

  • Hao Yan

    DNA Nanostructures: Semantomorphic Science

    ASU Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

    hao.yan@asu.edu

  • Friedrich Simmel

    DNA Nanosytems: Programmed Function

    Dept of Physics, Technical University Munich

    simmel@tum.de

  • Jeremiah Gassensmith

    Protein & Viral Nanostructures

    Dept of Chemistry, University of Texas, Dallas

    gassensmith@utdallas.edu

  • Rebecca Schulman

    Principles and Theory of Self-Assembly

    Chemical Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD

    rschulm3@jhu.edu

  • Bjorn Hogberg

    Nucleic Acid Nanostructures in Vivo

    Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    bjorn.hogberg@ki.se

  • Andrew Ellington

    Chemical Tools for DNA Nanotechnology

    Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept, Univ of Texas at Austin

    ellingtonlab@gmail.com

  • Thomas LaBean

    Biomedical Nanotechnology

    Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

    thlabean@ncsu.edu

  • Ralf Jungmann

    Nanophotonics & Superresolution

    Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

    jungmann@biochem.mpg.de

  • Alex Deiters

    Synthetic Biology

    Dept. Chemistry, Univ. of Pittsburgh

    deiters@pitt.edu

  • Andrew Turberfield

    Molecular Machinery

    Dept of Physics, Oxford Univ, Oxford, UK

    a.turberfield@physics.ox.ac.uk

Additional thanks to our Graduate Volunteers:

2024: Ragiv Nagipogu (Duke), Rokas Dargis (Duke), & Daniel Duke (Duke)

2023: Ragiv Nagipogu (Duke), Michael Reed (NC A&T), Kayla Neyra (Case Western), & Grayson York (Duke)