"Frontiers in Nanoscience" - joint CeNS/CRC 392 Workshop Venice

22.09.2025, 09:00 → 26.09.2025, 18:30 Europe/Berlin

Aula Magna (Venice International University)

This workshop brings together young researchers of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and the CRC Molecular Evolution with experienced scientists from the fields of physics and chemistry. The talks of the workshop are intended to give the graduate students and post-doctoral researchers of CeNS and CRC 392 an overview of current research topics on nanometer-scale science and origin of life research.

Mo., 22. September

15:30 Coffee & Check-in

1 Welcome

2 The Chiral Puzzle of Life's Origins

Sprecher: Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard University)

3 Overcoming the stability of halide perovskite: The Rise of Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites

Sprecher: Aditya Mohite (Rice University)

18:15 Welcome reception

Di., 23. September

4 Free Energy Spectroscopy, a new method for investigating chromatin compaction

Sprecher: Michael Poirier (Ohio State University)

5 Multiscale simulations of molecular photonic materials

Sprecher: Carsten Rockstuhl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

10:30 Coffee break

6 Organic and Perovskite Semiconductors for Printable Solar Cells and Energy Saving Applications to Transform Clean Energy

Sprecher: Alex Jen (City University of Hong Kong)

7 Towards stable and efficient perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

Sprecher: Esma Ugur (LMU Munich)

12:15 Lunch break

8 Our archaeal origins

Sprecher: Buzz Baum (University of Cambridge)

9 Poster Flash Talks 1

10 Group picture

Poster session I & Coffee

11 Magma exoplanets as analogues of the earliest Earth

Sprecher: Tim Lichtenberg (University of Groningen)

12 The emergence of heredity at the origin of life

Sprecher: Daniel Duzdevich (The University of Chicago)

Mi., 24. September

13 Biological Time Crystals and the Quantum Architecture of Life

Sprecher: Dante Lauretta (University of Arizona)

14 Label-free IR nanoscopy and tomography of intracellular structure

Sprecher: Joachim Heberle (FU Berlin)

10:30 Coffee break

15 From Light to Fuel: Expanding Solar Energy Applications Beyond Electricity

Sprecher: Kwanyong Seo (UNIST)

16 Plasmonic Photothermal Chemistry: nanoscale and ultrafast heating with metal nanoparticles

Sprecher: Andrea Baldi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

12:30 Lunch break

17 Prebiotic molecular heterogeneity: Implications for the emergence and evolution of biomolecules on the early Earth

Sprecher: Sudha Rajamani (IISER Pune)

Do., 25. September

18 Leveraging high-throughput magnetic tweezers to investigate coronavirus replication at the single-molecule level

Sprecher: David Dulin (VU Amsterdam)

19 The shape of early life: the chemistry of primitive compartments

Sprecher: Claudia Bonfio (University of Cambridge)

10:30 Coffee break

20 Panel Discussion

Sprecher: Daniel Duzdevich, Diego Puricelli, Dieter Braun, Kerstin Göpfrich, Ralf Stutzki

12:15 Lunch break

21 Biomolecular condensates in chromatin organization

Sprecher: Fabian Erdel (CBI Toulouse)

22 Poster Flash Talks 2

Poster Session II & Coffee

23 Modelling shape shifting across the tree of life

Sprecher: Andela Saric (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

24 Artificial Cells Responsive to Chemical and Physical Environmental Oscillations

Sprecher: Tomoaki Matsuura (Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Institute of Science Tokyo)

Fr., 26. September

25 Towards spatial proteomics at single protein resolution

Sprecher: Eduard Unterauer (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)

26 Synthetic mechanobiology of epithelial shape and migration

Sprecher: Xavier Trepat (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia)

10:45 Coffee break

27 From Astrochemistry to prebiotic chemistry: The evolution of Organic Matter

Sprecher: Grégoire Danger (Laboratoire - PIIM - CNRS - Aix-Marsreille Université)

28 A rocky emergence of life

Sprecher: Christof Mast (LMU Munich)

29 Concluding remarks

12:55 Lunch bags

13:30 Boat to railway station Santa Lucia