Program

 

---------------------------------------------- September 8th----------------------------------------------

1:30pm-1:45pm               Opening & welcome

1:45pm-2:45pm               Keynote lecture: Nature of the phase transitions in calcareous biomineralization pathways with advanced X-ray Bragg diffraction microscopy approaches at synchrotron sources - Virginie Chamard (ICS, Strasbourg)

 

Hydrogels & Soft Matter

2:45pm-3:05pm               3D printing of soft matter - Jacques Leng (LoF, Pessac)

3:05pm-3:25pm               Enzymatic mineralization of 3D-printed granular hydrogels - Greta Cocchi (EPFL, Lausanne)

3:25pm-3:55pm               Coffee Break provided on site

3:55pm-4:15pm               An on-chip hydrogel visco and osmometer – Antoine Monier (LOF, Pessac)

4:15pm-4:35pm               Functional composites based on hydrogels reinforced by graphene oxide for dye adsorption – Alain Ponton (MSC, Paris)

4:35pm-4:55pm               Supramolecular silver nanoparticle hydrogels with controlled nanoparticle size and order – Korin Ozkaya (LCMCP, Paris)

4:55pm-5:15pm               Why do Gels that become stronger collapse? - Paddy Royall (CNRS / ESPCI, Paris)

 

Career Development

5:15pm-6:15pm               Seminar: Academic Career Development - Nico Sommerdijk (RUMC, Nijmegen)

 

 

----------------------------------------------September 9th----------------------------------------------

Biomineralization & Imaging – in collab. w/ GDR BIOMIM

9:00am-10:00am            Keynote lecture: Visualizing early osteogenesis through correlative light and electron microscopy - Anat Akiva (RUMC, Nijmegen)

10:00am-10:20am           Insights on bone mineral composition - Christophe Drouet (CIRIMAT, Toulouse)

10:20am-10:40am           Investigating the Origins of Blue Coloration in Archaeological Burnt Bone - Giulia Gallo (Collège de France, Paris)

10:40am-11:10am           Coffee Break provided on site

11:10am-11:30am           Calcium carbonate biominerals and their associated organic matrices - Frédéric Marin (CNRS / U. Bourgogne)                                             

11:30am-11:50am           Paleolithic mammoth ivory as window into the past - Ina Reiche (CNRS / Lab BC, Paris)

11:50am-1:30pm             Lunch Break provided on site

1:30pm-2:30pm               Keynote lecture: 3D correlative live and cryogenic imaging of mineralizing biological tissues combining Raman, light and electron microscopy - Nico Sommerdijk (RUMC, Nijmegen) 

2:30pm-2:50pm               Analysis of sensitive materials by monochromated STEM-EELS in cryo-conditions - Marta De Frutos (LPS CNRS, Paris Saclay)

2:50pm-3:10pm               Freezing biomimetic objects to better understand the cryopreservation of living cells - Emma Houllegatte (SIMM, ESPCI, Paris)

3:10pm-3:30pm               Understanding and mimicking cryopreservation of living cells - Pierre Jeudy (SIMM, ESPCI, Paris)

3:30pm-4:00pm               Coffee Break provided on site

 

Complex Materials & Transitions

4:00pm-4:20pm               Foam structural evolution during free and forced drainage analysed by small-angle neutron scattering - Anne Rousseau (SIMM, ESPCI, Paris)

4:20pm-4:40pm               Exploring the heterogeneous structure, dynamics and mechanics in a hydrated collagen (micro)fibril using molecular dynamics simulations - Maxime Vassaux (IPR, Rennes)

4:40pm-5:00pm               Skin formation in evaporating colloidal droplets - Raphael Saiseau (PoF, U. Twente)

5:00pm-5:20pm               Kinetics of confined directional drying of a dispersion of nanoparticles - Hrishikesh Pingulkar (LoF, Pessac)

5:20pm-5:40pm               Controlling the Soft-to-Hard transition in Alkali-Activated Slags via Zinc addition – Alice Gava (SIMM, ESPCI, Paris)

7:30pm-9:30pm: Cocktail on the 24th floor of the Zamanski tower

 

----------------------------------------------September 10th---------------------------------------------- 

Interfaces, Drops & Clays

9:00am-10:00am            Keynote lecture: Understanding the role of water in the mechanics of swelling clays - Laurent Brochard (École des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne)

10:00am-10:20am           Modelling-assisted geometrical optimization of colloidal quantum color convertor based pixels fabricated by dielectrophoretic directed assembly Yannick Hallez (LGC, Toulouse)

10:20am-10:50am           Coffee break provided on site

10:50am-11:10am           Mechanical response of a hydrogel: from small deformations to the dehydration-induced glass transition - Caroline Kopecz-Muller (U. Amsterdam)

11:10am-11:30am          The rheology of silicate glasses is similar in the supercooled liquid and in the glassy states - Etienne Barthel (SIMM, ESPCI, Paris)

11:30am-11:50am          Impacts of drops at low Reynolds number - Loren Jørgensen (SIMM, ESPCI, Paris)

11:50am-12:00pm          Closing Remarks

12:00pm-2:00pm             Lunch provided on site
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