ESBS 2025

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

Mo., 18. August

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

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

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

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

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