The “Cell Physics 2025“ will take place at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, 7-9 October 2025 as in-person format.
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 |
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) |
Name | Place | Title of talk |
Kristian Franze | Erlangen | The role of Cell mechanics in development |
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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 | Towards the reconstitution of signalling processes in biomembranes |
Pierre Haas | Dresden | Mechanics of lumina |
Janina Hanne | Konstanz | German BioImaging: Building Community and Advancing Research Data Management |
Dagmar Iber | Basel | Principles of 3D organization of cells in epithelia |
Edward Lemke | Mainz | Decoding Molecular Plasticity in the Dark Proteome |
Carien Niessen | Cologne | TBA |
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 |
Time | Tuesday 07.10.2025 |
Wednesday 08.10.2025 |
Thursday 09.10.2025 |
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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 |
NAME | TITLE OF TALK |
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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 |
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.
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).