ESBS 2025
18.08.2025, 09:00
→
22.08.2025, 18:00
Europe/Berlin
Mo., 18. August
Mo., 18. Aug.
Di., 19. Aug.
Mi., 20. Aug.
Do., 21. Aug.
Fr., 22. Aug.
1
Welcome Speech
Sprecher
:
Erwin Frey
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
2
Turbulence in plasmas and biological systems
Sprecher
:
Frank Jenko
(
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
)
3
Coffee Break
4
Genetic interfaces at the frontier of soft expanding colonies
Sprecher
:
Jonathan Bauermann
(
Harvard University
)
5
Control of Tissue Flows and Embryo Geometry in Avian Gastrulation
Sprecher
:
Mattia Serra
(
University of California San Diego
)
6
Lunch Break
7
Exploring critical and bifurcation points across biological contexts: from tuning to function
Sprecher
:
Isabella Graf
(
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
)
8
Active Antagonism: Reproducing Microorganisms and Fluid Flows
Sprecher
:
David Nelson
(
Department of Physics, Harvard University
)
9
Coffee Break
10
Poster Session I
Di., 19. August
Mo., 18. Aug.
Di., 19. Aug.
Mi., 20. Aug.
Do., 21. Aug.
Fr., 22. Aug.
11
Coulomb Universality
Sprecher
:
Leo Radzihovsky
(
University of Colorado
)
12
Evolving molecular complexity towards a primitive replicator
Sprecher
:
Christoph Weber
(
University of Augsburg
)
13
Coffee Break
14
Sperm hyperactivation drives a circling-and-wandering migration strategy
Sprecher
:
Christina Kurzthaler
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
)
15
Droplets Come to Life
Sprecher
:
David Zwicker
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
)
16
Lunch Break
17
How living tissue can flow while remaining rigid
Sprecher
:
Fridtjof Brauns
(
KITP, University of California Santa Barbara
)
18
Ratcheting in stationary activity landscapes
Sprecher
:
Klaus Kroy
(
IPT Uni Leipzig
)
19
Coffee Break
20
Stochastic Population Dynamics of Competing Species in Driven and/or Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems
Sprecher
:
Uwe C. Täuber
(
Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech
)
21
Emergence in intelligent matter
Sprecher
:
Steffen Rulands
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
Mi., 20. August
Mo., 18. Aug.
Di., 19. Aug.
Mi., 20. Aug.
Do., 21. Aug.
Fr., 22. Aug.
22
Topological defects in active and living matter
Sprecher
:
Cristina Marchetti
(
University of California Santa Barbara
)
23
Quantifying the metabolic fluxes that govern the microbial ecosystem of the human intestine
Sprecher
:
Jonas Cremer
(
Stanford University
)
24
Coffee Break
25
Slow spatial migration can help eradicate cooperative antimicrobial resistance in time-varying environments
Sprecher
:
Mauro Mobilia
(
University of Leeds
)
26
The which, why and how of early Life – Update on Origin of Life experiments
Sprecher
:
Dieter Braun
(
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
)
27
Student Lunch (d-fine)
28
Chromatin and protein organization in the cell nucleus
Sprecher
:
Andriy Goychuk
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
29
Decoding the neural processing of speech
Sprecher
:
Tobias Reichenbach
(
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
)
30
Coffee Break
31
Poster Session II
Do., 21. August
Mo., 18. Aug.
Di., 19. Aug.
Mi., 20. Aug.
Do., 21. Aug.
Fr., 22. Aug.
32
Nanoscale single-molecule studies of the emergence of global order from local elements
Sprecher
:
Cees Dekker
(
Delft University of Technology
)
33
Broken Symmetries in Living Matter
Sprecher
:
Nikta Fakhri
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
34
Coffee Break
35
Structure formation in cytoskeletal and organoid systems
Sprecher
:
Andreas Bausch
(
TUM, Center for Functional Protein Assemblies
)
36
Colloidal swarms that can deliver drugs and climb vertical walls
Sprecher
:
Igor Aronson
(
Pennsylvania State University
)
37
Lunch Break
38
Non-equilibrium dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABP) -- a paradigm in soft matter/biological physics
Sprecher
:
Thomas Franosch
(
Universität Innsbruck
)
39
The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics
Sprecher
:
Rob Phillips
(
California Institute of Technology
)
40
Treasure Hunt
Fr., 22. August
Mo., 18. Aug.
Di., 19. Aug.
Mi., 20. Aug.
Do., 21. Aug.
Fr., 22. Aug.
41
Integrating Molecular Simulations with Experiments: Challenges and Insights in Modeling Complex Biosystems
Sprecher
:
Gianluca Lattanzi
(
University of Trento
)
42
Stability of Flocks with Discrete and Continuous Symmetry
Sprecher
:
Sunghan Ro
(
Harvard University
)
43
Coffee Break
44
Control versus self-organization in enzymatic systems and beyond
Sprecher
:
Ulrich Gerland
(
Technical University of Munich
)
45
Non-neural information processing
Sprecher
:
Karen Alim
(
Technical University of Munich
)
46
Closing Remarks