ISM Day 2025
Come celebrate the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology’s annual ISM Day on September 4, 2025 (held on Georgetown’s Main Campus)!
Schedule
The presentations in the morning and the panel discussion in the afternoon will be located in the Social Room, located inside the Healey Family Student Center. Please check back soon for final schedule.
Read more about our speakers & their presentations here!
| Schedule | ISM Day 2025 |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am – 9:10 am | Director’s Welcome: Emanuela Del Gado, Director of the Institute for Soft Matter (ISM), Georgetown University |
| 9:10 am – 9:30 am (Morning Chair: Lucas Cunha, ISM-NIST Fellow) | Dynamic Behavior of Engineered Tumors Under Environmental Perturbations— Maryam Kohram, Departments of Physics and Biology, Princeton University |
| 9:30 am – 9:50 am | Narrowing Uncertainties of Halocarbon Emissions and Their Atmospheric Lifetimes—Megan Lickley, Earth Commons, School of Foreign Service (SFS), Georgetown University |
| 9:50 am – 10:10 am | How Protein Misfolding Creates Materials with Emergent Properties—Priyanka Joshi, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University |
| 10:10 am – 10:40 am | From Misfolding to Materials: Protein Aggregation in Neurodegeneration and Underwater Adhesives—Elizabeth Yates, Department of Chemistry, United States Naval Academy |
| 10:40 am – 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am – 11:20 am (Afternoon Chair: Tadas Penkauskas, NIST) | Extracting Knowledge from Polymeric Data—Debra Audus, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
| 11:20 am – 11:40 am | Uric Acid Crystals in Biogenic Environments—Jennifer Swift, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, ISM |
| 11:40 am – 12:00 pm | Uncovering CNS Myelin Repair Mechanisms with Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq—Jeffrey Huang, Department of Biology, Georgetown University, ISM |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Updates from the Office of Technology Commercialization—Tatiana Litvin-Vechnyak, Vice President, Technology Commercialization, Georgetown University Panel Discussion: Soft Matter for Medical, Atmospheric, and Data Science Maryam Kohram, Departments of Physics and Biology, Princeton University Megan Lickley GU Earth Commons, SFS, Georgetown University Priyanka Joshi, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Elizabeth Yates, Department of Chemistry, United States Naval Academy Debra Audus, NIST Jennifer Swift, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, ISM Jeffrey Huang, Department of Biology, Georgetown University, ISM MODERATOR: Jeffrey Toretsky, ISM, Georgetown University School of Medicine |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Break/Poster Set-up |
| 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Poster Session (3nd floor, Regents Hall) |
| 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Reception/Happy Hour (2nd floor, Regents Hall ) |
Campus Map
The presentations in the morning and the panel discussion in the afternoon will be located in the Social Room, located inside the Healey Family Student Center. The poster session will be held in Regents Hall on the 3rd floor. Please find a campus map here: Campus Map for ISM Day 2025
Visitor Parking
Visitor parking is available in our Southwest Parking Garage. Visitors should use 3611 Canal Road NW as the address when mapping directions using GPS. Please visit Georgetown’s website for detailed driving directions to campus
Visitor Parking Rates:
Daily Parking Rate: $5/hr with a maximum rate of $25/day
Daily Parking (after 3 p.m.): $15
Daily Parking (after 7 p.m.): $10
Students with a GUID after 4:30 p.m. (MON-FRI only): $5