ESBS 2025
von
Montag, 18. August 2025(09:00)
bis
Freitag, 22. August 2025(18:00)
Montag, 18. August 2025
09:00
Welcome Speech
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Erwin Frey
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
Welcome Speech
Erwin Frey
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
09:00 - 09:40
09:40
Turbulence in plasmas and biological systems
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Frank Jenko
(
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
)
Turbulence in plasmas and biological systems
Frank Jenko
(
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
)
09:40 - 10:20
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
11:00
Genetic interfaces at the frontier of soft expanding colonies
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Jonathan Bauermann
(
Harvard University
)
Genetic interfaces at the frontier of soft expanding colonies
Jonathan Bauermann
(
Harvard University
)
11:00 - 11:40
11:40
Control of Tissue Flows and Embryo Geometry in Avian Gastrulation
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Mattia Serra
(
University of California San Diego
)
Control of Tissue Flows and Embryo Geometry in Avian Gastrulation
Mattia Serra
(
University of California San Diego
)
11:40 - 12:20
12:20
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 14:20
14:20
Exploring critical and bifurcation points across biological contexts: from tuning to function
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Isabella Graf
(
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
)
Exploring critical and bifurcation points across biological contexts: from tuning to function
Isabella Graf
(
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
)
14:20 - 15:00
15:00
Active Antagonism: Reproducing Microorganisms and Fluid Flows
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David Nelson
(
Department of Physics, Harvard University
)
Active Antagonism: Reproducing Microorganisms and Fluid Flows
David Nelson
(
Department of Physics, Harvard University
)
15:00 - 15:40
15:40
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
16:20
Poster Session I
Poster Session I
16:20 - 18:00
Dienstag, 19. August 2025
09:00
Coulomb Universality
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Leo Radzihovsky
(
University of Colorado
)
Coulomb Universality
Leo Radzihovsky
(
University of Colorado
)
09:00 - 09:40
09:40
Evolving molecular complexity towards a primitive replicator
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Christoph Weber
(
University of Augsburg
)
Evolving molecular complexity towards a primitive replicator
Christoph Weber
(
University of Augsburg
)
09:40 - 10:20
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
11:00
Sperm hyperactivation drives a circling-and-wandering migration strategy
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Christina Kurzthaler
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
)
Sperm hyperactivation drives a circling-and-wandering migration strategy
Christina Kurzthaler
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
)
11:00 - 11:40
11:40
Droplets Come to Life
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David Zwicker
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
)
Droplets Come to Life
David Zwicker
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
)
11:40 - 12:20
12:20
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 14:20
14:20
How living tissue can flow while remaining rigid
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Fridtjof Brauns
(
KITP, University of California Santa Barbara
)
How living tissue can flow while remaining rigid
Fridtjof Brauns
(
KITP, University of California Santa Barbara
)
14:20 - 15:00
15:00
Ratcheting in stationary activity landscapes
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Klaus Kroy
(
IPT Uni Leipzig
)
Ratcheting in stationary activity landscapes
Klaus Kroy
(
IPT Uni Leipzig
)
15:00 - 15:40
15:40
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
16:20
Stochastic Population Dynamics of Competing Species in Driven and/or Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems
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Uwe C. Täuber
(
Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech
)
Stochastic Population Dynamics of Competing Species in Driven and/or Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems
Uwe C. Täuber
(
Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech
)
16:20 - 17:00
17:00
Emergence in intelligent matter
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Steffen Rulands
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
Emergence in intelligent matter
Steffen Rulands
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
17:00 - 17:40
Mittwoch, 20. August 2025
09:00
Topological defects in active and living matter
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Cristina Marchetti
(
University of California Santa Barbara
)
Topological defects in active and living matter
Cristina Marchetti
(
University of California Santa Barbara
)
09:00 - 09:40
09:40
Quantifying the metabolic fluxes that govern the microbial ecosystem of the human intestine
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Jonas Cremer
(
Stanford University
)
Quantifying the metabolic fluxes that govern the microbial ecosystem of the human intestine
Jonas Cremer
(
Stanford University
)
09:40 - 10:20
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
11:00
Slow spatial migration can help eradicate cooperative antimicrobial resistance in time-varying environments
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Mauro Mobilia
(
University of Leeds
)
Slow spatial migration can help eradicate cooperative antimicrobial resistance in time-varying environments
Mauro Mobilia
(
University of Leeds
)
11:00 - 11:40
11:40
The which, why and how of early Life – Update on Origin of Life experiments
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Dieter Braun
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
The which, why and how of early Life – Update on Origin of Life experiments
Dieter Braun
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
11:40 - 12:20
12:20
Student Lunch (d-fine)
Student Lunch (d-fine)
12:20 - 14:20
14:20
Chromatin and protein organization in the cell nucleus
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Andriy Goychuk
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
Chromatin and protein organization in the cell nucleus
Andriy Goychuk
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
14:20 - 15:00
15:00
Decoding the neural processing of speech
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Tobias Reichenbach
(
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
)
Decoding the neural processing of speech
Tobias Reichenbach
(
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
)
15:00 - 15:40
15:40
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
16:20
Poster Session II
Poster Session II
16:20 - 18:00
Donnerstag, 21. August 2025
09:00
Nanoscale single-molecule studies of the emergence of global order from local elements
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Cees Dekker
(
Delft University of Technology
)
Nanoscale single-molecule studies of the emergence of global order from local elements
Cees Dekker
(
Delft University of Technology
)
09:00 - 09:40
09:40
Broken Symmetries in Living Matter
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Nikta Fakhri
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
Broken Symmetries in Living Matter
Nikta Fakhri
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
09:40 - 10:20
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
11:00
Structure formation in cytoskeletal and organoid systems
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Andreas Bausch
(
TUM, Center for Functional Protein Assemblies
)
Structure formation in cytoskeletal and organoid systems
Andreas Bausch
(
TUM, Center for Functional Protein Assemblies
)
11:00 - 11:40
11:40
Colloidal swarms that can deliver drugs and climb vertical walls
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Igor Aronson
(
Pennsylvania State University
)
Colloidal swarms that can deliver drugs and climb vertical walls
Igor Aronson
(
Pennsylvania State University
)
11:40 - 12:20
12:20
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 14:20
14:20
Non-equilibrium dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABP) -- a paradigm in soft matter/biological physics
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Thomas Franosch
(
Universität Innsbruck
)
Non-equilibrium dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABP) -- a paradigm in soft matter/biological physics
Thomas Franosch
(
Universität Innsbruck
)
14:20 - 15:00
15:00
The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics
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Rob Phillips
(
California Institute of Technology
)
The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics
Rob Phillips
(
California Institute of Technology
)
15:00 - 15:40
16:00
Treasure Hunt
Treasure Hunt
16:00 - 18:00
Freitag, 22. August 2025
09:00
Integrating Molecular Simulations with Experiments: Challenges and Insights in Modeling Complex Biosystems
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Gianluca Lattanzi
(
University of Trento
)
Integrating Molecular Simulations with Experiments: Challenges and Insights in Modeling Complex Biosystems
Gianluca Lattanzi
(
University of Trento
)
09:00 - 09:40
09:40
Stability of Flocks with Discrete and Continuous Symmetry
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Sunghan Ro
(
Harvard University
)
Stability of Flocks with Discrete and Continuous Symmetry
Sunghan Ro
(
Harvard University
)
09:40 - 10:20
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
11:00
Control versus self-organization in enzymatic systems and beyond
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Ulrich Gerland
(
Technical University of Munich
)
Control versus self-organization in enzymatic systems and beyond
Ulrich Gerland
(
Technical University of Munich
)
11:00 - 11:40
11:40
Non-neural information processing
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Karen Alim
(
Technical University of Munich
)
Non-neural information processing
Karen Alim
(
Technical University of Munich
)
11:40 - 12:20
12:20
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
12:20 - 12:40