Conference Organization

  • Kurt Gothelf

    Program Chair

    Department of Chemistry

    Aarhus University

    kvg@chem.au.dk

  • 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

  • Friedrich Simmel

    General Co-Chair (On-Site Logistics)

    Department of Physics

    Technical University of Munich

    simmel@tum.de

Track Chairs

  • Hao Yan

    DNA Nanostructures: Semantomorphic Science

    ASU Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

    hao.yan@asu.edu

  • Ebbe Andersen

    RNA Nanostructures

    iNANO, Aarhus University, Denmark

    esa@inanop.au.dk

  • Alena Khmelinskaia

    Protein & Viral Nanostructures

    Faculty for Chemistry and Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

    akhmelin@cup.lmu.de

  • Ding Baoquan

    Biomedical Nanotechnology Track

    National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China

    dingbq@nanoctr.cn

  • Philip Tinnefeld

    Nanophotonics & Superresolution

    Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

    Philip.Tinnefeld@lmu.de

  • Carlos Castro

    The Ralph W. Kurtz Chair

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University

    castro.39@osu.edu

  • Elisa Franco

    Chemical and Synthetic Biology

    Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering, UCLA

    efranco@seas.ucla.edu

  • Friedrich Simmel

    DNA Nanosytems: Programmed Function

    Dept of Physics, Technical University Munich

    simmel@tum.de

  • William Shih

    Nucleic Acid Nanostructures in Vivo

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

    William.Shih@wyss.harvard.edu

Communications & Webmasters:

Jacob Majikes: Theiss Research & Research Associate at NIST, jacob.majikes@nist.gov

William Bricker: Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, wbricker@unm.edu

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)