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An introduction to Topology in soft and biological matter

Active Fluidification of Entangled Polymers by Loop Extrusion

Mechanical scission of a knotted polymer

Continuous Crossover from the Dilute to Semidilute Concentration Regime in Spherically Confined Polymers

Towards Optimal Production of Graphene by Electrolysis in Molten Salts Using Machine Learning

Single-Molecule Morphology of Topologically Digested Olympic Networks

Interpenetrated and Bridged Nanocylinders from Self-Assembled Star Block Copolymers

Self-Organized States from Solutions of Active Ring Polymers in Bulk and under Confinement

Targeting the Spike: Repurposing Mithramycin and Dihydroergotamine to Block SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Knot Formation on DNA Pushed Inside Chiral Nanochannels

Geometric Learning of Knot Topology

On the thermal properties of knotted block copolymer rings

Effects of sequence-dependent non-native interactions in equilibrium and kinetic folding properties of knotted proteins

Nonmonotonous Translocation Time of Polymers across Pores

On the elusive saddle–splay and splay–bend elastic constants of nematic liquid crystals

Long-Time Dynamics of Selected Molecular-Motor Components Using a Physics-Based Coarse-Grained Approach

Plat and standard closure of braids in 3-manifolds

Single-Molecule Structure and Topology of Kinetoplast DNA Networks

Topological analysis and the recovery of entanglements in polymer melts

A Double-Walled Tetrahedron with AgI4 Vertices Binds Different Guests in Distinct Sites

Unidirectional Droplet Propulsion onto Gradient Brushes Without External Energy Supply

Concave polymer brushes inwardly grafted in spherical cavities: A Molecular Dynamics study

Last call for STSMs

Solvent quality and solvent polarity in polypeptides

Spontaneous Twisting of Achiral Hard Rod Nematics

Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons

Nonlinear Dynamics of DNA Chain

Structure and topology of RNA in living systems

Entanglement Length Scale Separates Threading from Branching of Unknotted and Non-concatenated Ring Polymers in Melts

Ring-o-rings: a new category of supramolecular structures with topologically tunable properties

Optimal Selection of Parameters for Production of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) by Electrolysis in Molten Salts using Machine Learning

Mathematical Analysis in Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) as possible Mosquito Repellents

First STSMs call – Fifth Grant Period

Computer-aided comprehensive explorations of RNA structural polymorphism through complementary simulation methods

Helical microstructures in molluscan biomineralization are a biological example of close packed helices that may form from a colloidal liquid

Knot Factories with Helical Geometry Enhance Knotting and Induce Handedness to Knots

Dense packings of geodesic hard ellipses on a sphere

Exploring Structural Flexibility and Stability of α-Synuclein by the Landau–Ginzburg–Wilson Approach

Knotting matters: orderly molecular entanglements

Activity Mediated Globule to Coil Transition of a Flexible Polymer in Poor Solvent

Post-doctoral fellowship at University of Venice

Topology, Physics, and Chemistry of Soft Matter (Eutopia IV)

PostDoc Offer on Modelling phase transitions in the nucleus in Phenix Paris

Job openings for young computational physicists and chemists in the startup Sibylla Biotech

2 years postdoc fellowship on “Modelling active polymeric systems”

Rugotaxis: Droplet motion without external energy supply

Measure of overlap between two arbitrary ellipses on a sphere

The SU(2) Lie-Poisson Algebra and its Descendants

Genotoxicity of Three Micro/Nanocelluloses with Different Physicochemical Characteristics in MG-63 and V79 Cells

Eutopia Summer School

Active Topological Glass Confined within a Spherical Cavity

Colourful Patterns in Cellulose-Based Liquid Crystals

Spatial organization of chromosomes leads to heterogeneous chromatin motion and drives the liquid- or gel-like dynamical behavior of chromatin

Assessing the Polymer Coil-Globule State from the Very First Spectral Modes

Computer simulations of melts of ring polymers with non-conserved topology: A dynamic Monte Carlo lattice model

Water Dynamics in Composite Aqueous Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals and a Clay Mineral Studied through Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry

Channels with Helical Modulation Display Stereospecific Sensitivity for Chiral Superstructures

Adsorption of Semiflexible Polymers in Cylindrical Tubes

Protein self-entanglement modulates successful folding to the native state: A multi-scale modeling study

A Topological Selection of Folding Pathways from Native States of Knotted Proteins

Mathematics of Life 2021(MOL2021) Conference

Investigating site-selection mechanisms of retroviral integration in supercoiled DNA braids

Vortex precession and exchange in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Travelling colourful patterns in self-organized cellulose-based liquid crystalline structures

Monte Carlo simulation of a lattice model for the dynamics of randomly branching double-folded ring polymers

Spontaneous dimensional reduction and ground state degeneracy in a simple chain model

Piston Compression of Semiflexible Ring Polymers in Channels

Phase Separation in a Binary Mixture of Semiflexible Polymers Confined in a Repulsive Sphere

Rotation by deformation and time-crystalline dynamics of cyclopropane molecule

Fully funded PhD position on Modelling of polymer systems in the presence of non-trivial topological relations: a combined analytical-numerical approach

Topological Tuning of DNA Mobility in Entangled Solutions of Supercoiled Plasmids

2 years postdoc fellowship on “Inference of protein models”

SARS-CoV-2 Papain-Like Protease Potential Inhibitors—In Silico Quantitative Assessment

Global order parameters for particle distributions on the sphere

Long-range order in quadrupolar systems on spherical surfaces

Ph.D. Offer Université de Paris

Comparing equilibration schemes of high-molecular-weight polymer melts with topological indicators

Controlling the shape and chirality of an eight-crossing molecular knot

Self-shaping liquid crystal droplets by balancing bulk elasticity and interfacial tension

Water Contribution to the Protein Folding and its Relevance in Protein Design and Protein Aggregation

Global@Venice Marie Curie Cofund Program

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has been awarded a Marie

Activity-Induced Collapse and Arrest of Active Polymer Rings

Self-assembling behaviour of chiral calamitic monoacrylates targeted for polymer stabilisation of polar smectic phases in chiral liquid crystals

Eutopia Academy

Postdoc position in Applied Geometry and Topology

Entropic Competition between Supercoiled and Torsionally Relaxed Chromatin Fibers Drives Loop Extrusion through Pseudo-Topologically Bound Cohesin

PhD on Machine Learning for Analysis of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Eutopia-3: Third meeting of the European Topology interdisciplinary Initiative

Phase Separation and Nematic Order in Lyotropic Solutions: Two Types of Polymers with Different Stiffnesses in a Common Solvent

Polymer modelling unveils the roles of heterochromatin and nucleolar organizing regions in shaping 3D genome organization in Arabidopsis thaliana

On topology and knotty entanglement in protein folding

Motion of a Polymer Globule with Vicsek-like Activity: From Super-diffusive to Ballistic Behavior

Dynamical Entanglement and Cooperative Dynamics in Entangled Solutions of Ring and Linear Polymers

Self-assembly of a layered two-dimensional molecularly woven fabric

A molecular endless (7_4) knot

Effects of turn-structure on folding and entanglement in artificial molecular overhand knots

Open questions in functional molecular topology

A review on nonlinear DNA physics

Emergence of active topological glass through directed chain dynamics and nonequilibrium phase segregation

Entropic Unmixing in Nematic Blends of Semiflexible Polymers

Can Soft Models Describe Polymer Knots?

The application of numerical topological invariants in simulations of knotted rings: A comprehensive Monte Carlo approach

Deuteron NMR investigation on orientational order parameter in polymer dispersed liquid crystal elastomers

Can the roles of polar and non-polar moieties be reversed in non-polar solvents?

Particle-like, dyx-coaxial and trix-coaxial Lie algebra structures for a multi-dimensional continuous Toda type system

The influence of arm composition on the self-assembly of low-functionality telechelic star polymers in dilute solutions

Surface Stabilized Topological Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals

First Call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) applications of EUTOPIA’s third Grant Period

Can Polarity-Inverted Surfactants Self-Assemble in Nonpolar Solvents?

Lattice orientation of cholesteric blue phases in contact with surfaces enforcing unidirectional planar anchoring

Periodic Arrays of Chiral Domains Generated from the Self-Assembly of Micropatterned Achiral Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

Control of Light by Topological Solitons in Soft Chiral Birefringent Media

Tying different knots in a molecular strand

Chirality-Enhanced Periodic Self-Focusing of Light in Soft Birefringent Media

Melts of nonconcatenated rings in spherical confinement

Nacre Is a Liquid-Crystal Thermometer of the Oceans

Knotting a molecular strand can invert macroscopic effects of chirality

Physics-based multistep beam propagation in inhomogeneous birefringent media

Effective control of optical purity by chiral HPLC separation for ester-based liquid crystalline materials forming anticlinic smectic phases

Laser-induced formation of “craters” and “hills” in azobenzene-containing polymethacrylate films

Separation of Geometrical and Topological Entanglement in Confined Polymers Driven out of Equilibrium

Active topological glass

Microfluidic control over topological states in channel-confined nematic flows

Chromatin Is Frequently Unknotted at the Megabase Scale

Framization of a Temperley-Lieb algebra of type B

Linear Dimensions of Adsorbed Semiflexible Polymers: What can be learned about their persistence length?

Spotting plants’ microfilament morphologies and nanostructures

Topology of Three-Dimensional Active Nematic Turbulence Confined to Droplets

Design of functional multicomponent liquid crystalline mixtures with nano-scale pitch fulfilling deformed helix ferroelectric mode demands

Point Defects, Topological Chirality, and Singularity Theory in Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Droplets

Topological Constraints in Eukaryotic Genomes and How They Can Be Exploited to Improve Spatial Models of Chromosomes

Searching the Optimal Folding Routes of a Complex Lasso Protein

Applications of X-rays and Neutron Scattering in Biology

A new strategy to microscopic modelling of topological entanglement in polymers based on field theory

Knots, links, anyons and statistical mechanics of entangled polymer rings

Second Call for EUTOPIA Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) applications

Computational methods in the study of self-entangled proteins: a critical appraisal

Non-equilibrium effects of molecular motors on polymers

Hydrophobic confinement modulates thermal stability and assists knotting in the folding of tangled proteins

Eutopia-2: Second meeting of the European Topology interdisciplinary Initiative

Anomalous Slowdown of Polymer Detachment Dynamics on Carbon Nanotubes

Call for EUTOPIA Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) applications

4D Epigenome (3-5 October 2019)

VENUE: Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti S. Marco, 2842, 30124 Venezia

Synergy of topoisomerase and structural-maintenance-of-chromosomes proteins creates a universal pathway to simplify genome topology

PhD positions

The Maxwell Institute Graduate School for Modelling, Analysis & Computation

Postdocs positions

Post-doc position in computational modelling of biomolecules We are announcing

Physical principles of retroviral integration in the human genome

Threading of Unconcatenated Ring Polymers at High Concentrations: Double-Folded vs Time-Equilibrated Structures

Topological Sieving of Rings According to Their Rigidity

EUTOPIA kick-off meeting

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