CELL PHYSICS 2025
International Meeting
October 7-9, Saarbrücken
Welcome to the website of Cell Physics 2025!
The “Cell Physics 2025“ will take place at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, 7-9 October 2025 as in-person format.
Topics Include
Important dates
The conference will start on Tuesday, 7.10.2025, 8:30 and finish on Thursday, 9.10.2025, around 17:30.
| Early registration deadline | June 30, 2025 (extended till July 15, 2025) |
| Regular registration deadline | September 21, 2025 |
| Registration and Welcome | October 7, 2025 |
| Conference | October 7-9, 2025 |
Registration and abstract submission
Abstract submission deadline : September 21, 2025.
Register here
| Early Bird | Regular | |
| until July 15, 2025 | until September 21, 2025 | |
| Participant (PI, PostDoc) | 300 € | 350 € |
| PhD Student / Doctoral Researcher * | 150 € | 200 € |
| Student (MSc, BSc) * | 100 € | 150 € |
| Student (MSc, BSc) of Saarland University * | 50 € | 100 € |
| (* certificate confirming status will be requested) |
Thanks to the generous support of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, we are pleased to offer financial assistance to a limited number of students and doctoral researchers. To be considered, please first register as a regular participant. After completion of your registration, you may then apply separately for financial support by June 15, 2025.
Call for Financial Support
Venue
Saarland University
Campus, Building C4 3
66123 Saarbrücken
Campus map of Saarland University
Travelling to Saarland University
Invited speakers
| Name | Place | Title of talk |
| Kristian Franze | Erlangen | The role of Cell mechanics in development |
|---|---|---|
| Bruno Antonny | Valbonne | TPD54-intracellular nanovesicles form molecular bio-condensates that store cholesterol |
| Mariaceleste Aragona | Copenhagen | Regulation of tissue architecture by mechanotransduction and stem cell dynamics to sustain homeostasis |
| Isabelle Arnal | Grenoble | Exploring the inner life of microtubules: from structure to function |
| Prosenjit Bagchi | Piscataway | Application of machine learning to mechanics of blood cell transport |
| Laurent Blanchoin | Grenoble | Reconstituting the Dynamic Steady States of Actin Networks |
| E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam | Bayreuth | Receptor-mediated multiscale mechanics of cell adhesion and migration |
| Caterina Fuster-Barceló | Madrid | Transforming Bioimage Analysis: The AI4Life Approach |
| Kristina Ganzinger | Amsterdam | Reconstitution of signalling processes for studying immune cell signalling using synthetic biology |
| Pierre Haas | Dresden | Mechanics of lumina |
| Janina Hanne | Konstanz | German BioImaging: Building Community and Advancing Research Data Management |
| Dagmar Iber | Basel | Collective Principles of Epithelial Organization and Directed Cell Migration |
| Edward Lemke | Mainz | Decoding Molecular Plasticity in the Dark Proteome |
| Carien Niessen | Cologne | Mechanochemical coordination of cell fate, shape and position during formation and renewal of epithelial barriers |
| Nathalie Reuter | Bergen | Membrane allosteric control of lipid transfer proteins |
| Steffen Rulands | Munich | Biophysical approaches to emergence in artificial intelligence |
| Verena Ruprecht | Barcelona | Nucleus shape plasticity and mechanotransduction in amoeboid cell migration |
| James Saenz | Dresden | TBA |
| Erdinc Sezgin | Stockholm | Physics of cellular membranes as a new biomarker for health and disease |
| Thomas Surrey | Barcelona | Physical design principles for bipolar spindle organization by two motors |
| Hawa Racine Thiam | Stanford | How chromatin regulates cell and nuclear mechanics, beyond gene expression |
| Stefano Vanni | Fribourg | Discovering new membrane proteins' functions with multi-scale molecular simulations |
Program
| Time | Tuesday 07.10.2025 |
Wednesday 08.10.2025 |
Thursday 09.10.2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Opening | Machine Learning | Cytoskeleton II |
| Kristian Franze | Prosenjit Bagchi | Hawa Racine Thiam | |
| Steffen Rulands | Verena Ruprecht | ||
| Timon Citak | Lucina Kainka | ||
| Erik Maikranza | Laura Strampe | ||
| COFFEE BREAK - 30 min | |||
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Membranes I | Cell Collectives II | Synthetic Biology |
| Stefano Vanni | Carien Niessen | Kristina Ganzinger | |
| Erdinc Sezgin | Pierre Haas | Edward Lemke | |
| Srishti Dar | Joséphine Van Hulle | Naresh Yandrapalli | |
| Fameno Rakotoniaina | Ann-Kathrin Burkhart | Adrián Puerta | |
| LUNCH - 90 min | |||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Flashtalks | Poster Session | Mixed Topics |
| AI4Life - Caterina Fuster-Barceló | |||
| German Bioimaging - Janina Hanne | |||
| Ivy Liang | |||
| Stephen J Enos | |||
| COFFEE BREAK - 30 min | |||
| 15:30-17:30 | Cell Collectives I | Cytoskeleton I | Membranes II |
| E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam | Laurent Blanchoin | Nathalie Reuter | |
| Mariaceleste Aragona | Isabelle Arnal | Bruno Antonny | |
| Dagmer Iber | Thomas Surrey | James Saenz | |
| Kristine Schauer | Marjorlaine Dufour | Quentin Bédel | |
| Joseph d'Alessandro | Shweta Nandakumar Subham Biswas |
Aamna Jain | |
| Evening | Conference Dinner | Social Event | |
Contributed Talks
| NAME | TITLE OF TALK |
|---|---|
| Srishti Dar | The missing link(er)s of cell surface mechanics |
| Fameno Rakotoniaina | Biophysical modeling of invasion of red blood cell by Plasmodium falciparum |
| Kristine Schauer | Mechanosensitive interactions of tumoroids with an engineered environment promote cell proliferation and enhance drug response detection |
| Joseph d'Alessandro | Mechanical plasticity revealed by traction forces of migrating epithelial cell trains |
| Timon Citak | STEP: A Generative AI Framework for Predicting Physics-Governed Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations |
| Erik Maikranz | Leveraging AI and microfluidics to quantify heterogeneity of bacterial morphologies under antibiotic stress |
| Joséphine Van Hulle | Cross-slot experiment with blood |
| Ann-Kathrin Burkhart | The Arp2/3 complex maintains genome integrity and survival of epidermal Langerhans cells |
| Marjorlaine Dufour | From impaired molecular dynamics to perturbed cortical mechanics - How actin variants impair the success of embryonic development |
| Shweta Nandakumar Subham Biswas | Kinesin-induced buckling reveals the limits of microtubule self-repair |
| Lucina Kainka | The role of the actin cortex and membrane tension for microtentacle formation |
| Laura Strampe | High-throughput mechanomic screening reveals novel regulators of single-cell mechanics |
| Naresh Yandrapalli | Communication in synthetic cells regulates population expression variability |
| Adrián Puerta | Development of optically superior tissues for enhanced microscopy imaging |
| Ivy Liang | Mechanistic insights into fibroblast activation from controlled biophysical microenvironments |
| Stephen J Enos | Elongated fibroblasts that are under tension anchor spinal cord stumps after spinal cord transection in zebrafish |
| Quentin Bédel | Immunological synapse modelling : numerical mesoscale simulation accounting for the segregation of the TCR/pMHC and LFA-1/ICAM-1 molecular couples |
| Aamna Jain | Mammalian MemPrep - a technology for characterising ER membrane and its subdomains |
Poster session
The poster session is scheduled for Wednesday from 13:30 to 15:00.
Posters must be in A0 portrait format to fit the poster walls, which measure 93 cm (width) × 132.5 cm (height). Poster presenters will be notified by early September.
Accommodation
The city of Saarbrücken offers many hotels in the city center with good connections by public transport to the university campus Saarbrücken. The invited speakers will stay at the H2 Hotel close to the train station.
Poster
The conference poster is available for download here
Contact us
cellphysics2025(at)uni-saarland.de
- CONFERENCE CHAIRS
- Franziska Lautenschläger
- Jochen Hub
- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Laura Aradilla-Zapata (née Schaedel), Philipp Hövel, Sandra Iden,
- Bianca Schrul, Oskar Staufer, Dora Tang, Christian Wagner
Social Program
The conference dinner is scheduled for Tuesday evening (additional ticket required). A social evening will take place on Wednesday evening (included in registration).