Sep 18 – 19, 2024
Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin
Europe/Berlin timezone

Grand Opening Symposium

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

Registration is closed!

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
tba

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
tba

Kandice Tanner - National Cancer Institute
tba

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"