ESBS 2025

Aug 18, 2025, 9:00 AM → Aug 22, 2025, 6:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Mon, August 18

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Welcome Speech

Speaker: Erwin Frey (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

9:40 AM → 10:20 AM Turbulence in plasmas and biological systems

Speaker: Frank Jenko (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

10:20 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM Genetic interfaces at the frontier of soft expanding colonies

Speaker: Jonathan Bauermann (Harvard University)

11:40 AM → 12:20 PM Control of Tissue Flows and Embryo Geometry in Avian Gastrulation

Speaker: Mattia Serra (University of California San Diego)

12:20 PM → 2:20 PM Lunch Break

2:20 PM → 3:00 PM Exploring critical and bifurcation points across biological contexts: from tuning to function

Speaker: Isabella Graf (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

3:00 PM → 3:40 PM Active Antagonism: Reproducing Microorganisms and Fluid Flows

Speaker: David Nelson (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

3:40 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 6:00 PM Poster Session I

Tue, August 19

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Coulomb Universality

Speaker: Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado)

9:40 AM → 10:20 AM Evolving molecular complexity towards a primitive replicator

Speaker: Christoph Weber (University of Augsburg)

10:20 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM Sperm hyperactivation drives a circling-and-wandering migration strategy

Speaker: Christina Kurzthaler (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

11:40 AM → 12:20 PM Droplets Come to Life

Speaker: David Zwicker (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

12:20 PM → 2:20 PM Lunch Break

2:20 PM → 3:00 PM How living tissue can flow while remaining rigid

Speaker: Fridtjof Brauns (KITP, University of California Santa Barbara)

3:00 PM → 3:40 PM Ratcheting in stationary activity landscapes

Speaker: Klaus Kroy (IPT Uni Leipzig)

3:40 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 5:00 PM Stochastic Population Dynamics of Competing Species in Driven and/or Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems

Speaker: Uwe C. Täuber (Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech)

5:00 PM → 5:40 PM Emergence in intelligent matter

Speaker: Steffen Rulands (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

Wed, August 20

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Topological defects in active and living matter

Speaker: Cristina Marchetti (University of California Santa Barbara)

9:40 AM → 10:20 AM Quantifying the metabolic fluxes that govern the microbial ecosystem of the human intestine

Speaker: Jonas Cremer (Stanford University)

10:20 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM Slow spatial migration can help eradicate cooperative antimicrobial resistance in time-varying environments

Speaker: Mauro Mobilia (University of Leeds)

11:40 AM → 12:20 PM The which, why and how of early Life – Update on Origin of Life experiments

Speaker: Dieter Braun (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

12:20 PM → 2:20 PM Student Lunch (d-fine)

2:20 PM → 3:00 PM Chromatin and protein organization in the cell nucleus

Speaker: Andriy Goychuk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

3:00 PM → 3:40 PM Decoding the neural processing of speech

Speaker: Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

3:40 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 6:00 PM Poster Session II

Thu, August 21

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Nanoscale single-molecule studies of the emergence of global order from local elements

Speaker: Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology)

9:40 AM → 10:20 AM Broken Symmetries in Living Matter

Speaker: Nikta Fakhri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:20 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM Structure formation in cytoskeletal and organoid systems

Speaker: Andreas Bausch (TUM, Center for Functional Protein Assemblies)

11:40 AM → 12:20 PM Colloidal swarms that can deliver drugs and climb vertical walls

Speaker: Igor Aronson (Pennsylvania State University)

12:20 PM → 2:20 PM Lunch Break

2:20 PM → 3:00 PM Non-equilibrium dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABP) -- a paradigm in soft matter/biological physics

Speaker: Thomas Franosch (Universität Innsbruck)

3:00 PM → 3:40 PM The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics

Speaker: Rob Phillips (California Institute of Technology)

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Treasure Hunt

Fri, August 22

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Integrating Molecular Simulations with Experiments: Challenges and Insights in Modeling Complex Biosystems

Speaker: Gianluca Lattanzi (University of Trento)

9:40 AM → 10:20 AM Stability of Flocks with Discrete and Continuous Symmetry

Speaker: Sunghan Ro (Harvard University)

10:20 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM Control versus self-organization in enzymatic systems and beyond

Speaker: Ulrich Gerland (Technical University of Munich)

11:40 AM → 12:20 PM Non-neural information processing

Speaker: Karen Alim (Technical University of Munich)

12:20 PM → 12:40 PM Closing Remarks