Joint CeNS and BioSysteM Workshop Venice

28.09.2026, 08:40 → 01.10.2026, 18:30 Europe/Berlin

Aula Magna (Venice International University)

This workshop brings together young researchers of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and the Excellence cluster BioSysteM with experienced scientists from the fields of physics and (bio)chemistry. The talks of the workshop are intended to give the graduate students and post-doctoral researchers of CeNS and BioSysteM an overview of current research topics on nanometer-scale and molecular design

Mo., 28. September

08:40 → 08:50 Boat to San Servolo

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

09:15 → 10:00 Andrew Turberfield

10:00 → 10:45 Ron Weiss, MIT

10:45 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Patricia Bassereau

12:15 → 13:00 Jan Brugués

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Beatrice Ramm

14:45 → 15:30 Lukas Milles

15:30 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:45 Julian Beck

16:45 → 17:30 Damien Baigl

17:45 → 19:15 Welcome reception

19:20 → 19:30 Boat to San Zaccaria

Di., 29. September

08:40 → 08:50 Boat to San Servolo

09:00 → 09:45 Synthetic RNA condensates and organelles

Sprecher: Lorenzo Di Michele (University of Cambridge)

09:45 → 10:30 Elisa Franco

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:00 Cell-free immuno-profiling on a genetically programmed biochip

Sprecher: Aurore Dupin (University of Bordeaux)

12:00 → 12:45 Marianne Bauer

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 Henrike Niederholtmeyer

14:30 → 14:50 Poster Flash Talks 1

14:50 → 15:00 Group picture

15:00 → 17:00 Poster session I & Coffee

17:00 → 17:45 Active emulsions

Sprecher: Jean-Francois Joanny (Institut Curie)

17:45 → 18:30 In situ gene editing to rescue severe, monogenic epithelial diseases

Sprecher: Sarah Hedtrich (LMU Munich)

18:40 → 18:50 Boat to San Zaccaria

Mi., 30. September

08:40 → 08:50 Boat to San Servolo

09:00 → 09:45 Björn Högberg

09:45 → 10:30 Neus Feliu

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:00 Thomas Surrey

12:00 → 12:45 Mechanism of vacuole formation in liquid condensates

Sprecher: Christoph Weber (University of Augsburg)

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 Guiseppe Battaglia

14:30 → 15:15 Teresa Pellegrino

15:30 → 15:50 Boat to San Zaccaria

Do., 1. Oktober

08:40 → 08:50 Boat to San Servolo

09:00 → 09:45 Peter Loskill

09:45 → 10:30 Otger Campàs

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:00 Building immunity from the bottom-up: Synthetic Cell-Based Tumor Immune Microenvironments

Sprecher: Oskar Staufer (Leibniz Institute for New Materials)

12:00 → 12:45 Roman Jerala

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:15 tba

14:15 → 14:35 Poster Flash Talks 2

14:35 → 16:30 Poster Session II & Coffee

16:30 → 17:00 tba

17:00 → 17:45 tba

18:00 → 18:10 Boat to San Zaccaria