Day 1 - Friday 18 September, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session I: Fundamentals - Biophysics and Biochemistry I
8:45 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS 
9:00 a.m. Keynote Talk
Emergent properties of biomolecular condensates determine biochemical activities
Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
9:40 a.m. Keynote Talk (Virutal)
Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins
Rohit Pappu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
10:20 a.m. Invited Talk
Electrochemistry of biomolecular condensates
Yifan Dai, Washington University in St. Louis, USA 
10:50 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:10 a.m. Invited Talk
Phase-APEX2 reveals a conserved grammar dually safeguard stress granule homeostasis
Pilong Li, Tsinghua University, China
11:40 a.m. Invited Talk
Beyond Mean-Field: Membrane Confinement, Electrostatics, and Gradient-Driven Dynamics of Biomolecular Condensates
Miho Yanagisawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
12:10 p.m. Short Talk
How Cells Keep the Nuclear Pore Barrier Liquid
Miao Yu, Wuhan University, China
12:25 p.m. Short Talk
Tissue-Scale Gradients of Macromolecular Crowding Controls LLPS with Cell Specificity
Qiyu Liang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
12:40 p.m. LUNCH
Session II: Fundamentals - Biophysics and Biochemistry II
2:10 p.m. Keynote Talk
Physics of cellular emulsions
Frank Jülicher, Max Planck Institut, Germany
2:50 p.m. Keynote Talk
Circular RNA aptamers act as superb sub-stoichiometric chaperones to prevent cytosolic TDP-43 condensation
Ling-Ling Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
3:30 p.m. Short Talk
Chloroplast Sunscreening by Protein Condensates Confers High Light Tolerance
Ning Shao,  Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
3:45 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Collective Solvent Dynamics as a Regulator of Biomolecular Condensate Function
Ellen Adams, TU Dresden, Germany
4:35 p.m. Invited Talk
Understanding Biological Condensates from the Perspective of Physical Microenvironments
Xin Zhang, Westlake University, China
5:05 p.m. Panel Discussion
Acad. Chunying Chen & Acad. Maili Liu & Jianfeng Liu & David Weitz & Editors
5:50 p.m. End of day

Day 2 - Saturday 19 September, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session III: Physiology and Pathology I
9:00 a.m. Keynote Talk
Kinetic Solubility as a Framework for Control of Multivalence in Living Cells
Simon Alberti, TU Dresden, Germany
9:40 a.m. Keynote Talk
Cellular Interaction Landscapes: Sequence Determinants for Aggregation within Protein Condensates
Monika Fuxreiter, University of Padua, Italy
10:20 a.m. Keynote Talk
Protein aggregation in biomolecular condensates
Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge, UK
11:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:30 a.m. Invited Talk
Biomolecular condensates control and are defined by RNA-RNA interactions that arise in viral replication
Christine Roden, Université de Montréal, Canada
12:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Structure-based design of an α-synuclein PET tracer for clinical diagnosis of Parkinson’s diseases
Cong Liu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
12:30 p.m. Short Talk
Nian Liu, Tsinghua University, China 
12:50 p.m. LUNCH & LEAR: MEET THE EDITORS
Session IV: Physiology and Pathology II
2:20 p.m. Keynote Talk
Ordered and disordered interactions in biological condensates: free energies and emergent properties resulted from coordinated actions
Mingjie Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
3:00 p.m. Keynote Talk
Dynamic Ca²⁺ signals drive liquid–liquid phase separation of the FIP200 autophagosome initiation complex
Hong Zhang, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
3:40 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Condensate remodeling orchestrates RNA trafficking and translation in neuronal development
Wenyu Wen, Fudan University, China
4:30 p.m. Invited Talk
Condensate Biology at the Synapse: the Emerging Role of RNA
Dragomir Milovanovic, Institut für Biochemie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
5:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Defining the role of phase separation in dynamic cellular processes
Yi Lin, Tsinghua University, China
5:30 p.m. Short Talk
Robust Coacervates protect biomolecules in extreme conditions
Lingxiang Jiang, South China University of Technology, China 
5:45 p.m. POSTER SESSION

Day 3 - Sunday 20 September, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session V: Applied and Engineered Condensates I
9:00 a.m. Keynote Talk
Biomolecular Condensates of Synthetic Intrinsically Disordered Proteins 
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University, USA
9:40 a.m. Invited Talk
From Molecular Interactions to Functional Engineering of Bimolecular Condensates
Anderson Shum, The University of Hong Kong, China
10:20 a.m. Invited Talk
Engineered coacervates as emerging liquid biomaterials
Liming Bian, South China University of Technology, China
10:50 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:10 a.m. Invited Talk
Engineering Bio-mimetic Peptide Coacervates Using Dopa-based Chemistry
Jing Yu, Tsinghua University, China
11:40 a.m. Invited Talk
Engineered membraneless organelles: From De Novo Compartments to Programmable Inter-Organelle Crosstalk
Xiaoxia Xia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
12:10 p.m. LUNCH
Session VI: Applied and Engineered Condensates II
2:00 p.m. Keynote Talk
Molecular Grammar Tunes Local Nucleic Acid Hybridization in Biomolecular Condensates 
Evan Spruijt, Radboud University, The Netherlands
2:40 p.m. Keynote Talk
Biomolecular Condensates for Controlled Drug Delivery
Zhen Gu, Zhejiang University, China
3:20 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
3:40 p.m. Invited Talk
Navigating condensate micropolarity to enhance small-molecule drug targeting
Tingting Li, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, China
4:10 p.m. Invited Talk
Pushing structural complexity in protocells toward emergent functionality
Yan Qiao, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
4:40 p.m. Short Talk
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4:45 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS

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