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: Physics of structure formation in living systems. Time change: at 15:00 in HS3 (PDF).
January 21, 2025Prof. Dr. Florian Berger, Utrecht University: Active processes in biology: Observing, describing, perturbing, and controlling (PDF).
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