Joint CeNS and BioSysteM Workshop Venice

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Aula Magna (Venice International University)

Aula Magna

Venice International University

Isola di San Servolo, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy
Description

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

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    • 08:40
      Boat to San Servolo
    • 1
      Welcome
    • 2
      Biomolecular Structures and Machinery from DNA
      Speaker: Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford)
    • 3
      Synthetic RNA condensates and organelles
      Speaker: Lorenzo Di Michele (University of Cambridge)
    • 10:35
      Coffee break
    • 4
      A minimal human ESCRT-III system to mimic HIV-1detachment
      Speaker: Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie)
    • 5
      Self-organization of the cytoplasm by physical instabilities
      Speaker: Jan Brugues (Physics of Life, TU-Dresden)
    • 6
      Synthetic biology approaches to self-organization across scales
      Speaker: Beatrice Ramm (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory)
    • 13:20
      Lunch
    • 7
      Reconstructing biological function with de novo protein design
      Speaker: Lukas Milles (LMU Munich / Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
    • 8
      AI-driven optimization of mRNA-LNPs
      Speaker: Joschka Müller (LMU Munich)
    • 15:20
      Coffee break
    • 9
      Designed to Assemble—and to Know When
      Speaker: Alena Khmelinskaia (LMU Munich)
    • 10
      Synthetic DNA Alive : from Protein Discovery to Origami Morphing
      Speaker: Damien Baigl (ENS Paris)
    • 11
      Group picture
    • 17:30
      Welcome reception
    • 19:20
      Boat to San Zaccaria
    • 08:40
      Boat to San Servolo
    • 12
      Refocusing Mammalian Synbio to Speak the Language of Biology (and improve human health)
      Speaker: Ron Weiss (MIT)
    • 13
      Programmable artificial organelles in mammalian cells
      Speaker: Elisa Franco (UCLA)
    • 10:20
      Coffee break
    • 14
      Cell-free immuno-profiling on a genetically programmed biochip
      Speaker: Aurore Dupin (University of Bordeaux)
    • 15
      Decoding Development: How cells can extract precision from noisy signals
      Speaker: Marianne Bauer (TU Delft)
    • 16
      Poster Flash Talks 1
    • Poster session I & Lunch break
    • 17
      Towards programmable living materials and neuro-mechanical control
      Speaker: Jörn Dunkel (MIT)
    • 18
      The Biophysics of Genome Inheritance
      Speaker: Iva Tolic (RBI Zagreb)
    • 16:20
      Coffee break
    • 19
      Active emulsions
      Speaker: Jean-Francois Joanny (Institut Curie)
    • 20
      In situ gene editing to rescue severe, monogenic epithelial diseases
      Speaker: Sarah Hedtrich (University of British Columbia / LMU Munich)
    • 18:20
      Boat to San Zaccaria
    • 08:40
      Boat to San Servolo
    • 21
      DNA Microscopy - Deciphering biology using DNA reaction networks
      Speaker: Björn Högberg (Karolinska Institutet Stockholm)
    • 22
      Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Imaging
      Speaker: Neus Feliu (Hamburg University)
    • 10:20
      Coffee break
    • 23
      In vitro reconstitution of mitotic spindle-like microtubule networks
      Speaker: Thomas Surrey (Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona)
    • 24
      Engineering biology across scales with cell-free systems
      Speaker: Henrike Niederholtmeyer (TU Munich)
    • 12:20
      Lunch break
    • 25
      Emergence as a design principle: chemotaxis, multivalency and supramolecular therapeutics
      Speaker: Guiseppe Battaglia (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia)
    • 26
      Magnetic hyperthermia, radiotheranostics, MRI/MPI imaging, and immune cell engineering
      Speaker: Teresa Pellegrino (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa)
    • 14:50
      Boat to San Zaccaria
    • 08:40
      Boat to San Servolo
    • 27
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    • 28
      Mechanism of vacuole formation in liquid condensates
      Speaker: Christoph Weber (University of Augsburg)
    • 10:20
      Coffee break
    • 29
      Building immunity from the bottom-up: Synthetic Cell-Based Tumor Immune Microenvironments
      Speaker: Oskar Staufer (Leibniz Institute for New Materials)
    • 30
      Facilitated displacement based on protein modules
      Speaker: Roman Jerala (National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
    • 31
      Poster Flash Talks 2
    • Poster Session II & Lunch Break
    • 32
      Dynamic Structural Biology with Vertical Nucleic Acids on Graphene
      Speaker: Lars Richter (LMU Munich)
    • 33
      Designing de novo enzymes with CANVAS
      Speaker: Julian Beck (University of Bayreuth)
    • 34
      Photoactivated Programmable DNA Nanoblocks for Pattern Building Across Scales
      Speaker: Svetozar Gavrilovic (MPI of Biochemistry)
    • 35
      Concluding Remarks
    • 16:50
      Boat to San Zaccaria