ESBS 2025

18.08.2025, 09:00 → 22.08.2025, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Mo., 18. August

09:00 → 09:40 Welcome Speech

Sprecher: Erwin Frey (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

09:40 → 10:20 Turbulence in plasmas and biological systems

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

10:20 → 11:00 Coffee Break

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

Sprecher: Jonathan Bauermann (Harvard University)

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

Sprecher: Mattia Serra (University of California San Diego)

12:20 → 14:20 Lunch Break

14:20 → 15:00 Exploring critical and bifurcation points across biological contexts: from tuning to function

Sprecher: Isabella Graf (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

15:00 → 15:40 Active Antagonism: Reproducing Microorganisms and Fluid Flows

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

15:40 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 18:00 Poster Session I

Di., 19. August

09:00 → 09:40 Coulomb Universality

Sprecher: Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado)

09:40 → 10:20 Evolving molecular complexity towards a primitive replicator

Sprecher: Christoph Weber (University of Augsburg)

10:20 → 11:00 Coffee Break

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

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

11:40 → 12:20 Droplets Come to Life

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

12:20 → 14:20 Lunch Break

14:20 → 15:00 How living tissue can flow while remaining rigid

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

15:00 → 15:40 Ratcheting in stationary activity landscapes

Sprecher: Klaus Kroy (IPT Uni Leipzig)

15:40 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 17:00 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)

17:00 → 17:40 Emergence in intelligent matter

Sprecher: Steffen Rulands (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

Mi., 20. August

09:00 → 09:40 Topological defects in active and living matter

Sprecher: Cristina Marchetti (University of California Santa Barbara)

09:40 → 10:20 Quantifying the metabolic fluxes that govern the microbial ecosystem of the human intestine

Sprecher: Jonas Cremer (Stanford University)

10:20 → 11:00 Coffee Break

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

Sprecher: Mauro Mobilia (University of Leeds)

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

Sprecher: Dieter Braun (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

12:20 → 14:20 Student Lunch (d-fine)

14:20 → 15:00 Chromatin and protein organization in the cell nucleus

Sprecher: Andriy Goychuk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:00 → 15:40 Decoding the neural processing of speech

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

15:40 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 18:00 Poster Session II

Do., 21. August

09:00 → 09:40 Nanoscale single-molecule studies of the emergence of global order from local elements

Sprecher: Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology)

09:40 → 10:20 Broken Symmetries in Living Matter

Sprecher: Nikta Fakhri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:20 → 11:00 Coffee Break

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

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

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

Sprecher: Igor Aronson (Pennsylvania State University)

12:20 → 14:20 Lunch Break

14:20 → 15:00 Non-equilibrium dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABP) -- a paradigm in soft matter/biological physics

Sprecher: Thomas Franosch (Universität Innsbruck)

15:00 → 15:40 The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics

Sprecher: Rob Phillips (California Institute of Technology)

16:00 → 18:00 Treasure Hunt

Fr., 22. August

09:00 → 09:40 Integrating Molecular Simulations with Experiments: Challenges and Insights in Modeling Complex Biosystems

Sprecher: Gianluca Lattanzi (University of Trento)

09:40 → 10:20 Stability of Flocks with Discrete and Continuous Symmetry

Sprecher: Sunghan Ro (Harvard University)

10:20 → 11:00 Coffee Break

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

Sprecher: Ulrich Gerland (Technical University of Munich)

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

Sprecher: Karen Alim (Technical University of Munich)

12:20 → 12:40 Closing Remarks