Welcome Speech

• Erwin Frey (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

Turbulence in plasmas and biological systems

• Frank Jenko (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

Coffee Break

Genetic interfaces at the frontier of soft expanding colonies

• Jonathan Bauermann (Harvard University)

Control of Tissue Flows and Embryo Geometry in Avian Gastrulation

• Mattia Serra (University of California San Diego)

Lunch Break

Exploring critical and bifurcation points across biological contexts: from tuning to function

• Isabella Graf (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

Active Antagonism:  Reproducing Microorganisms and Fluid Flows

• David Nelson (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

Coffee Break

Poster Session I

Coulomb Universality

• Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado)

Evolving molecular complexity towards a primitive replicator

• Christoph Weber (University of Augsburg)

Coffee Break

Sperm hyperactivation drives a circling-and-wandering migration strategy

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

Droplets Come to Life

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

Lunch Break

How living tissue can flow while remaining rigid

• Fridtjof Brauns (KITP, University of California Santa Barbara)

Ratcheting in stationary activity landscapes

• Klaus Kroy (IPT Uni Leipzig)

Coffee Break

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)

Emergence in intelligent matter

• Steffen Rulands (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

Topological defects in active and living matter

• Cristina Marchetti (University of California Santa Barbara)

Quantifying the metabolic fluxes that govern the microbial ecosystem of the human intestine

• Jonas Cremer (Stanford University)

Coffee Break

Slow spatial migration can help eradicate cooperative antimicrobial resistance in time-varying environments

• Mauro Mobilia (University of Leeds)

The which, why and how of early Life – Update on Origin of Life experiments

• Dieter Braun (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

Student Lunch (d-fine)

Chromatin and protein organization in the cell nucleus

• Andriy Goychuk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Decoding the neural processing of speech

• Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Coffee Break

Poster Session II

Nanoscale single-molecule studies of the emergence of global order from local elements

• Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology)

Broken Symmetries in Living Matter

• Nikta Fakhri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Coffee Break

Structure formation in cytoskeletal and organoid systems

• Andreas Bausch (TUM, Center for Functional Protein Assemblies)

Colloidal swarms that can deliver drugs and climb vertical walls

• Igor Aronson (Pennsylvania State University)

Lunch Break

Non-equilibrium dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABP) -- a paradigm in soft matter/biological physics

• Thomas Franosch (Universität Innsbruck)

The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics

• Rob Phillips (California Institute of Technology)

Treasure Hunt

Integrating Molecular Simulations with Experiments: Challenges and Insights in Modeling Complex Biosystems

• Gianluca Lattanzi (University of Trento)

Stability of Flocks with Discrete and Continuous Symmetry

• Sunghan Ro (Harvard University)

Coffee Break

Control versus self-organization in enzymatic systems and beyond

• Ulrich Gerland (Technical University of Munich)

Non-neural information processing

• Karen Alim (Technical University of Munich)

Closing Remarks