Scientific symposium celebrating the grand opening of the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin
Fundamental research in interdisciplinary physics for new stimuli in medicine
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The timetable for the talks can be viewed under timetable/Tagesordnung in the menu on the left.
Confirmed Speakers:
Uri Alon - Weizmann Institute of Science
"A physics approach to understand aging"
Elias Barriga - Dresden University of Technology
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Patricia Bassereau - Institut Curie
"Lipid membranes and membrane proteins: an intimate relationship"
Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam - University of Bayreuth
"Forces at play in receptor-mediated cell adhesion"
Ibrahim Cisse - Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics
"Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells"
Sujit Datta - Princeton University
"The wisdom of the crowd: How bacterial collectives (re)shape themselves"
Dennis Discher - University of Pennsylvania
"Genetic Instability – from matrix rigidity effects to physics of tumor elimination by eng’d macrophages"
Anna Erzberger - EMBL Heidelberg
"Geometry-driven organisation in living matter"
Kerstin Göpfrich - University Heidelberg
"Engineering synthetic cells with RNA origami"
Gijsje Koenderink - Technical University Delft
"The material world of the human body: from molecule to tissue to disease"
Michael Sixt - Institute for Science and Technology Austria
"Global coordination of protrusive forces in migrating immune cells"
Melody Swartz - University of Chicago
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Kandice Tanner - National Cancer Institute
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Xavier Trepat - Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
"Bottom-up mechanobiology: from cell sheets to organoids "
Raphael Voituriez - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
"Emergent memory effects in cell polarity and migration"
Aleksandra Walczak - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
"How personalised is our immune repertoire?"
David Weitz - Harvard University
"Soft matter physics for the rheology of a cell"
Sara Wickström - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
"Mechanical regulation of cell states"
