Winter Term 2024 / 2025

17:00 in HS 5
Date Speaker
November 5, 2024 Prof. Dr. Felix Ritort, University of Barcelona: Variance sum rule for entropy production (PDF)
November 19, 2024 Prof. Dr. Suzanne Fielding, Durham University: Active soft matter: modelling the mechanics of biological tissue (PDF)
December 3, 2024Dr. Nicolas Minc, Institute Jacques Monod, Université Paris Cité: How large cells do it? Division positioning and cytoplams mechanics in early embryos (PDF)
January 7, 2025Prof. Dr. Stephan Grill, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.
January 21, 2025Prof. Dr. Florian Berger, Utrecht University.
February 4, 2025Prof. Dr. Anne Bernheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

 Summer Term 2024

17:00 in HS 5
Date Speaker
April 9, 2024Dr. Florian Mann, Bayer Pharmaceuticals: “Delivering the message” - RNA delivery using lipid nanoparticles in an industry setting (PDF).
April 24, 2024Dr. Andrea Candelli, Lumicks: Single-Molecule Biology - revealing the molecular mechanisms of health and disease (PDF).
May 7, 2024Dr. Nicolas Minc - MOVED to Winter Term 2024
May 14, 2024Prof. Dr. Arne Gennreich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York: Unraveling the Mysteries of Kinesin Motors: Insights from CryoEM and Single-Molecule Studies in HS3 (PDF)
May 21, 2024Prof. Dr. Anna Akhmanova, University of Utrecht: Cellular Roadmaps - Control of microtubule organization and dynamics (PDF).
June 4, 2024Prof. Dr. Timo Betz, University of Göttingen: The Mechanics of Life - Probing Cellular Dynamics through Physical Laws (PDF)
June 18, 2024Prof. Dr. Karsten Kruse, University of Geneva: Mechanochemical pattern formation (PDF)
July 2, 2024Prof. Dr. Verena Ruprecht - MOVED to Summer Term 2025
July 2, 2024Prof. Dr. Jan Huisken, University of Göttingen: Customized light sheet microscopy for fast and gentle 3D bioimaging inside and outside the optics lab (PDF)

 Winter Term 2023 / 2024

17:15 in HS 5
Date Speaker
October 24, 2023Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Lombardi, University of Florence: Dual filament regulation of muscle contraction and the role of titin (PDF)
November 7, 2023Prof. Dr. Andreas Bausch, TU Munich: Structure formation in molecular and organoid systems (PDF)
November 21, 2023Prof. Dr. Silke Henkes, Leiden University: Emergent mesoscale correlations in soft active materials (PDF)
December 5, 2023Prof. Dr. François Nédélec, Cambridge University: Simple cytoskeletal mechanics (PDF)
January 9, 2024Prof. Dr. Annette Zippelius, University of Göttingen: Active droplets (PDF)
January 23, 2024Prof. Dr. Karsten Kruse, University of Geneva: Mechanochemical pattern formation (PDF) - MOVED to Summer term 2024
February 6, 2024Prof. Dr. Melina Schuh, MPI NAT Göttingen: New insights into human eggs and female infertility (PDF)
February 20, 2024Prof. Dr. Mohan Balasubramanian, University of Warwick: Reconstituting and powering cytokinesis (PDF)

 Summer Term 2023

17:15 in HS 5
Date Speaker
April 11, 2023Prof. Dr. Heiko Rieger, Saarland University: Biophysics of Killing – Theory and Experiment (PDF)
April 17, 2023; 16:30 HS2Prof. Dr. Gijsje Koenderink, TU Delft: The paradoxical material properties of living matter
April 24, 2023Dr. David Zwicker, MPI f. Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen: Theory of droplets embedded in elastic meshes (PDF)
May 9, 2023Dr. Peter Bieling, MPI f. Molecular Physiology, Dortmund: Collective molecular mechanisms of actin network assembly (PDF)
May 23, 2023Prof. Dr. Cecile Sykes, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris: Cytoskeletal dynamics and activity: actin comets, membrane deformations, phase diagrams, trajectories and phase portraits (PDF)
June 6, 2023Dr. Rafael Bernardi, Auburn University: Unbreakable Bonds: Unlocking Adhesins' Extreme Force-Resilience (PDF)
June 20, 2023Prof. Dr. Stefan Diez, TU Dresden: Emergence of directional reversals and torsional forces in cytoskeletal motor systems (PDF)
July 3, 2023, 16:30 HS2Prof. Dr. Josef Käs, Universität Leipzig: Does Oncology need Physics of Cancer?
July 4, 2023Prof. Dr. Andreas Bausch, TU Munich: Structure formation in molecular and organoid systems - MOVED to Winter Term 2023