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.

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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 PlaceTitle of talk
Kristian Franze ErlangenThe role of Cell mechanics in development
Bruno Antonny ValbonneTPD54-intracellular nanovesicles form molecular bio-condensates that store cholesterol
Mariaceleste Aragona CopenhagenRegulation of tissue architecture by mechanotransduction and stem cell dynamics to sustain homeostasis
Isabelle Arnal GrenobleExploring the inner life of microtubules: from structure to function
Prosenjit Bagchi PiscatawayApplication of machine learning to mechanics of blood cell transport
Laurent Blanchoin GrenobleReconstituting the Dynamic Steady States of Actin Networks
E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam BayreuthReceptor-mediated multiscale mechanics of cell adhesion and migration
Caterina Fuster-Barceló MadridTransforming Bioimage Analysis: The AI4Life Approach
Kristina Ganzinger AmsterdamReconstitution of signalling processes for studying immune cell signalling using synthetic biology
Pierre Haas DresdenMechanics of lumina
Janina Hanne KonstanzGerman BioImaging: Building Community and Advancing Research Data Management
Dagmar Iber BaselCollective Principles of Epithelial Organization and Directed Cell Migration
Edward Lemke MainzDecoding Molecular Plasticity in the Dark Proteome
Carien Niessen CologneMechanochemical coordination of cell fate, shape and position during formation and renewal of epithelial barriers
Nathalie Reuter BergenMembrane allosteric control of lipid transfer proteins
Steffen Rulands MunichBiophysical approaches to emergence in artificial intelligence
Verena Ruprecht BarcelonaNucleus shape plasticity and mechanotransduction in amoeboid cell migration
James Saenz DresdenTBA
Erdinc Sezgin StockholmPhysics of cellular membranes as a new biomarker for health and disease
Thomas Surrey BarcelonaPhysical design principles for bipolar spindle organization by two motors
Hawa Racine Thiam StanfordHow chromatin regulates cell and nuclear mechanics, beyond gene expression
Stefano Vanni FribourgDiscovering 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


NAMETITLE 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 JainMammalian 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.


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).


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

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