Tuesday, May 9
9:00
Welcome and Introduction
9:20
Insect structural coloration: from nanostructures to animal behavior
Rhainer Guillermo Ferreira / Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Brazil
10:00
Iridescence from biological gratings in snakes and transparent fish
Qibin Zhao / Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
Butterfly wings with structural colors: from DNA to photocatalysis
Gábor Piszter / Center for Energy Research, Hungary
11:50
Biological hairs across scales
Guillermo Amador / Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Performance of living biological adhesive systems in hot and humid conditions
Alyssa Stark / Villanova University, USA
14:40
The nanostructures underlining structural white in the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Diptera, Tephritidae)
Manuela Rebora / University of Perugia, Italy
15:20
Poster Introduction
Short introduction of all posters
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Superhydrophobicity in plants: evolution, structures, functions, and biomimetic applications
Wilhelm Barthlott / Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, Germany
17:10
Self-healing superhydrophobic materials by remaking surface chemical makeup and microstructures
Atsushi Hozumi / AIST Chubu, Japan
17:50
How the gecko walks on almost any surface: Lessons from multi-scale molecular simulation
Florian Müller-Plathe / Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
18:30
End of talks and break
18:45
POSTER SESSION
19:30
End of poster session and dinner