Joint CeNS and BioSysteM Workshop Venice
from
Monday, 28 September 2026 (08:40)
to
Thursday, 1 October 2026 (18:30)
Monday, 28 September 2026
08:40
Boat to San Servolo
Boat to San Servolo
08:40 - 08:50
Room: Aula Magna
09:00
Welcome
Welcome
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Aula Magna
09:15
Biomolecular Structures and Machinery from DNA
-
Andrew Turberfield
(
University of Oxford
)
Biomolecular Structures and Machinery from DNA
Andrew Turberfield
(
University of Oxford
)
09:15 - 09:55
Room: Aula Magna
09:55
Synthetic RNA condensates and organelles
-
Lorenzo Di Michele
(
University of Cambridge
)
Synthetic RNA condensates and organelles
Lorenzo Di Michele
(
University of Cambridge
)
09:55 - 10:35
Room: Aula Magna
10:35
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 - 11:20
Room: Aula Magna
11:20
A minimal human ESCRT-III system to mimic HIV-1detachment
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Patricia Bassereau
(
Institut Curie
)
A minimal human ESCRT-III system to mimic HIV-1detachment
Patricia Bassereau
(
Institut Curie
)
11:20 - 12:00
Room: Aula Magna
12:00
Self-organization of the cytoplasm by physical instabilities
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Jan Brugues
(
Physics of Life, TU-Dresden
)
Self-organization of the cytoplasm by physical instabilities
Jan Brugues
(
Physics of Life, TU-Dresden
)
12:00 - 12:40
Room: Aula Magna
12:40
Synthetic biology approaches to self-organization across scales
-
Beatrice Ramm
(
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
)
Synthetic biology approaches to self-organization across scales
Beatrice Ramm
(
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
)
12:40 - 13:20
Room: Aula Magna
13:20
Lunch
Lunch
13:20 - 14:20
Room: Aula Magna
14:20
Reconstructing biological function with de novo protein design
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Lukas Milles
(
LMU Munich / Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
)
Reconstructing biological function with de novo protein design
Lukas Milles
(
LMU Munich / Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
)
14:20 - 15:00
Room: Aula Magna
15:00
AI-driven optimization of mRNA-LNPs
-
Joschka Müller
(
LMU Munich
)
AI-driven optimization of mRNA-LNPs
Joschka Müller
(
LMU Munich
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Aula Magna
15:20
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:20 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
16:00
Designed to Assemble—and to Know When
-
Alena Khmelinskaia
(
LMU Munich
)
Designed to Assemble—and to Know When
Alena Khmelinskaia
(
LMU Munich
)
16:00 - 16:40
Room: Aula Magna
16:40
Synthetic DNA Alive : from Protein Discovery to Origami Morphing
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Damien Baigl
(
ENS Paris
)
Synthetic DNA Alive : from Protein Discovery to Origami Morphing
Damien Baigl
(
ENS Paris
)
16:40 - 17:20
Room: Aula Magna
17:20
Group picture
Group picture
17:20 - 17:30
Room: Aula Magna
17:30
Welcome reception
Welcome reception
17:30 - 19:20
Room: Aula Magna
19:20
Boat to San Zaccaria
Boat to San Zaccaria
19:20 - 19:30
Room: Aula Magna
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
08:40
Boat to San Servolo
Boat to San Servolo
08:40 - 08:50
Room: Aula Magna
09:00
Refocusing Mammalian Synbio to Speak the Language of Biology (and improve human health)
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Ron Weiss
(
MIT
)
Refocusing Mammalian Synbio to Speak the Language of Biology (and improve human health)
Ron Weiss
(
MIT
)
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Aula Magna
09:40
Programmable artificial organelles in mammalian cells
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Elisa Franco
(
UCLA
)
Programmable artificial organelles in mammalian cells
Elisa Franco
(
UCLA
)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Aula Magna
10:20
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna
11:00
Cell-free immuno-profiling on a genetically programmed biochip
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Aurore Dupin
(
University of Bordeaux
)
Cell-free immuno-profiling on a genetically programmed biochip
Aurore Dupin
(
University of Bordeaux
)
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Aula Magna
11:40
Decoding Development: How cells can extract precision from noisy signals
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Marianne Bauer
(
TU Delft
)
Decoding Development: How cells can extract precision from noisy signals
Marianne Bauer
(
TU Delft
)
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Aula Magna
12:20
Poster Flash Talks 1
Poster Flash Talks 1
12:20 - 12:50
Room: Aula Magna
12:50
Poster session I & Lunch break
12:50 - 14:50
Room: Aula Magna
15:00
Towards programmable living materials and neuro-mechanical control
-
Jörn Dunkel
(
MIT
)
Towards programmable living materials and neuro-mechanical control
Jörn Dunkel
(
MIT
)
15:00 - 15:40
Room: Aula Magna
15:40
The Biophysics of Genome Inheritance
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Iva Tolic
(
RBI Zagreb
)
The Biophysics of Genome Inheritance
Iva Tolic
(
RBI Zagreb
)
15:40 - 16:20
Room: Aula Magna
16:20
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:20 - 16:50
Room: Aula Magna
16:50
Active emulsions
-
Jean-Francois Joanny
(
Institut Curie
)
Active emulsions
Jean-Francois Joanny
(
Institut Curie
)
16:50 - 17:30
Room: Aula Magna
17:30
In situ gene editing to rescue severe, monogenic epithelial diseases
-
Sarah Hedtrich
(
University of British Columbia / LMU Munich
)
In situ gene editing to rescue severe, monogenic epithelial diseases
Sarah Hedtrich
(
University of British Columbia / LMU Munich
)
17:30 - 18:10
Room: Aula Magna
18:20
Boat to San Zaccaria
Boat to San Zaccaria
18:20 - 18:30
Room: Aula Magna
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
08:40
Boat to San Servolo
Boat to San Servolo
08:40 - 08:50
Room: Aula Magna
09:00
DNA Microscopy - Deciphering biology using DNA reaction networks
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Björn Högberg
(
Karolinska Institutet Stockholm
)
DNA Microscopy - Deciphering biology using DNA reaction networks
Björn Högberg
(
Karolinska Institutet Stockholm
)
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Aula Magna
09:40
Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Imaging
-
Neus Feliu
(
Hamburg University
)
Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Imaging
Neus Feliu
(
Hamburg University
)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Aula Magna
10:20
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna
11:00
In vitro reconstitution of mitotic spindle-like microtubule networks
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Thomas Surrey
(
Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona
)
In vitro reconstitution of mitotic spindle-like microtubule networks
Thomas Surrey
(
Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona
)
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Aula Magna
11:40
Engineering biology across scales with cell-free systems
-
Henrike Niederholtmeyer
(
TU Munich
)
Engineering biology across scales with cell-free systems
Henrike Niederholtmeyer
(
TU Munich
)
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Aula Magna
12:20
Lunch break
Lunch break
12:20 - 13:15
Room: Aula Magna
13:15
Emergence as a design principle: chemotaxis, multivalency and supramolecular therapeutics
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Guiseppe Battaglia
(
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
)
Emergence as a design principle: chemotaxis, multivalency and supramolecular therapeutics
Guiseppe Battaglia
(
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
)
13:15 - 13:55
Room: Aula Magna
13:55
Magnetic hyperthermia, radiotheranostics, MRI/MPI imaging, and immune cell engineering
-
Teresa Pellegrino
(
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa
)
Magnetic hyperthermia, radiotheranostics, MRI/MPI imaging, and immune cell engineering
Teresa Pellegrino
(
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa
)
13:55 - 14:35
Room: Aula Magna
14:50
Boat to San Zaccaria
Boat to San Zaccaria
14:50 - 15:10
Room: Aula Magna
Thursday, 1 October 2026
08:40
Boat to San Servolo
Boat to San Servolo
08:40 - 08:50
Room: Aula Magna
09:00
tba
tba
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Aula Magna
09:40
Mechanism of vacuole formation in liquid condensates
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Christoph Weber
(
University of Augsburg
)
Mechanism of vacuole formation in liquid condensates
Christoph Weber
(
University of Augsburg
)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Aula Magna
10:20
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna
11:00
Building immunity from the bottom-up: Synthetic Cell-Based Tumor Immune Microenvironments
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Oskar Staufer
(
Leibniz Institute for New Materials
)
Building immunity from the bottom-up: Synthetic Cell-Based Tumor Immune Microenvironments
Oskar Staufer
(
Leibniz Institute for New Materials
)
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Aula Magna
11:40
Facilitated displacement based on protein modules
-
Roman Jerala
(
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
)
Facilitated displacement based on protein modules
Roman Jerala
(
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
)
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Aula Magna
12:20
Poster Flash Talks 2
Poster Flash Talks 2
12:20 - 12:50
Room: Aula Magna
12:50
Poster Session II & Lunch Break
12:50 - 14:50
Room: Aula Magna
15:00
Dynamic Structural Biology with Vertical Nucleic Acids on Graphene
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Lars Richter
(
LMU Munich
)
Dynamic Structural Biology with Vertical Nucleic Acids on Graphene
Lars Richter
(
LMU Munich
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Aula Magna
15:20
Designing de novo enzymes with CANVAS
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Julian Beck
(
University of Bayreuth
)
Designing de novo enzymes with CANVAS
Julian Beck
(
University of Bayreuth
)
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Aula Magna
15:50
Photoactivated Programmable DNA Nanoblocks for Pattern Building Across Scales
-
Svetozar Gavrilovic
(
MPI of Biochemistry
)
Photoactivated Programmable DNA Nanoblocks for Pattern Building Across Scales
Svetozar Gavrilovic
(
MPI of Biochemistry
)
15:50 - 16:10
Room: Aula Magna
16:10
Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks
16:10 - 16:25
Room: Aula Magna
16:50
Boat to San Zaccaria
Boat to San Zaccaria
16:50 - 17:00
Room: Aula Magna