Announcement for MTL Spring Days 2026, 26th-27th March at Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, with floral design.

This time at the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg!

Join us as we come together with the MtL community to share projects, spark new ideas, and celebrate science! Find all the details below. 

Accommodation

Address
B&B Hotel Marburg
Gutenbergstraße 6
35037 Marburg

Check in from 3 pm
Check out until 12 pm

Venue

Our friendly host this time will be Tobias Erb at MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg!

Address

Center for Synthetic Microbiology
Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14
D-35043 Marburg, Germany

On Thursday, please arrive at the venue 8:30 latest for the check-in! 

*Please note the following: Due to road construction, bus routes will be rerouted. Access to the Lahnberge will be restricted from March 22.*. Please inform yourself about changes to the respective bus lines before traveling. Get an overview about the directions to ZSM

Food

  • Breakfast will be provided at the hotel on both days
  • Lunch will be provided at the Center for Synthetic Microbiology
  • Dinner is self-organized

Questions? Contact us:

mattertolife@maxplanckschools.de

Julia Ricken +0160 99444284
 

Program Agenda

Thursday, 26.03.

  
08:45 - 09:00Welcome by Tobias Erb 
09:00 - 10:30Session 1Chair: Nitin Bohra
09:00 - 09:30Tobias Erb(Inorganic) Matter to Life: Building (photo)synthetic Cells from Scratch
09:30 - 10:00Andrea MusacchioThe Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Cell Division
10:00 - 10:30Martin JechlingerModel Systems to Trace Cancer Evolution, Treatment and Emergence of Residual Disease
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break 
11:00 - 12:00Session 2Chairs: Sarah Wypysek / Julia Ricken
11:00 - 11:30Tim Albrecht (UoB)Confinement, Crowding and DNA Oscillators in "Next Generation" Nanopore and Nanopipette Devices
11:30 - 12:00Davide Calebiro (COMPARE, Birmingham) Shedding New Light on the Spatiotemporal Organisation of Receptor Signalling: From Membrane Nanodomains to Endosomal Signalling
12:00 - 13:00Lunch 
13:00 - 15:00Poster Session 
14:30 - 15:00Coffee Break 
15:00 - 15:30Group Picture 
15:30 - 17:00Session 3Chair: Sunnatullo Fazliev
15:30 - 16:00Lena DaumannLanthanides as New (and Old) Life Metals
16:00 - 16:30Claudia SteinemHow Lipid Membranes Meet Chip Technology
16:30 - 17:00Wolfram ZimmermannBioengineered Muscle for Drug Discovery and Life Support
17:00 - 18:00Keynote: Benoit LadouxFrom Active Nematics to Mechano-Hydraulics: Physical Forces Shaping Collective Cell Behavior

Friday, 27.03.

  
09:00 - 10:30Session 4Chair: Vitalii Grigorev
09:00 - 09:30Laura HeinenArtificial Metabolism for Synthetic Cells
09:30 - 10:00Franziska LautenschlägerThe Cytoskeleton Driving Cellular Behavior
10:00 - 10:30Vera TitzeLight Management in Marine Organisms: From Nature to Bio-Based Technology
10:15 - 12:00 Poster Session 
12:00 - 13:00Lunch 
13:00 - 14:30Visit of MaxGENESYS 
13:00 - 13:20Talk by Candice Jones - Head of MaxGENESYS Facility 
13:20 - 14:30Facility visit (in groups) 
14:30 - 15:00Coffee Break 
15:00 - 15:45Session 5Chair: Mahin Mursalin
15:00 - 15:30Richard Wombacher 
15:30 - 15:45Closing Remarks 

 

Poster Session

Thursday 13:00 - 15:00 and Friday 10:15 - 12:00 

  • Boris Schüpp: Precise Mechanochemical Scission of DNA Guided by Secondary Structures
  • Frida Sofia Garcia Castro: Towards Sustained Protein Synthesis in Metabolically Active Protocells
  • Jakub Malerczyk: Directed Evolution of Enzymes Using Microdroplet Arrays 
  • Katharina Weber: The “Synthetic Cell” as an Interdisciplinary Boundary Object in Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology
  • Marlene Maager: From Code to Chemistry: De Novo Design of an FMN-Binding Scaffold Using Computational Tools
  • Matěj Dvořák: Observing Nanoscale Dynamics of Living Dngineered Heart Muscle Tissue Using X-ray Diffraction
  • Ming Hong Lui: Evolution-Inspired Exploration of Pattern Formation in Reaction Diffusion Systems
  • Mingqi Yan: Dynamically Induced Spatial Segregation in Multi-Species Bacterial Bioconvection
  • Misael Real Enriquez: PNIMAP NEAM Microrods for Tissue Engineering
  • Mubarrat Mursalin: Effects of Crowding on the Patchy Particle Model of Phase Separation
  • Pelin Demirci: Evaluating Machine-Learned Force Field Grappa for RNA Simulations
  • Rajlaxmi Saha: Effects of Ion Concentrations on p53-TAD Conformational Ensemble 
  • Kate Albrecht: Tbd
  • Yong Han Phee: Phase Separation of Actin in Zebrafish Embryo

  

 

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