Events

During the application phase, we offer several virtual info sessions with members of Matter to Life. This is your opportunity to ask us truly anything: Regarding the program structure and curriculum details, the application process and requirements, information on funding and support for students. Some sessions even include meeting current MtL students and learning about their experience firsthand. more

Franziska Thomas
Heidelberg University more

Michael L. Wong
Earth & Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science more

Thorsten Moos
Heidelberg University

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Laura De Laporte
DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen & RWTH Aachen University more

Andreas Herrmann
DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen & RWTH Aachen University

Lecture Topic: “Sonopharmacology and Sonogenetics: Activation of Drugs, Proteins and Nucleic Acids by Ultrasound”

Oskar Staufer
INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken

Lecture topic: "Immunizing the future – Bottom-up assembly of synthetic cell-based immune microenvironments"

Andrij Pich
DWI - Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen & RWTH Aachen University

Lecture topic: "Colloidal Hydrogels: Functional Building Blocks for Interactive Soft Matter"

Dieter Braun
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Lecture topic: "How to Tackle the Origin of Life with Lab Experiments"

Kai Sundmacher
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg & University of Magdeburg

Lecture topic: "Towards Artificial Life-like Systems (ALLS)"

Lecture topic: "What makes life? Functional Characterization of Unknown Proteins"

Jörg Stülke
University of Göttingen

Lecture topic: "Lessons from Smart Slime: From Memories to Behaviour"

Karen Alim
Technical University of Munich

Lecture topic: "Overriding the Central Dogma: Engineering a Synthetic Model Cell"

Kerstin Göpfrich
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg & Heidelberg University

Lecture topic: "Emergence of directional reversals and torsional forces in cytoskeletal motor systems"

Stefan Diez
Technical University of Dresden

Lecture topic: "Why does it have to be so complicated? Reconstructing bacterial cell division."

Petra Schwille
MPI of Biochemistry, Munich & Technical University of Munich

Lecture topic: "Cell migration on single cell microarrays - matching mechanisms to statistics"

Joachim Rädler 
LMU Munich

On Tuesday, December 19^th, you can ask our PhD student Aysecan Ünal any questions about our program.
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In our new virtual format, our MtL Fellows will highlight one method or technique used within our broad research network. You will get an overview of the method or technique itself, as well as learn how it is applied in the different MtL research areas. In a subsequent discussion round, different aspects, opportunities and limitations will be discussed! Your questions and contributions are welcome!  Join us for our first session on May 11^th at 3 pm!

Presentations and Panel Discussion chaired by Katharina Landfester from MPI for Polymer Research (Mainz), joined by Sarah Köster from University of Göttingen and Joachim Rädler from LMU Munich.

Look forward to an exciting triple feature with our MtL guest Peter Baur on December 15! He will give us some fascinating insights into his research on diffusion processes through plant membranes, tell us what we can learn from the Amazon, and finally discuss with us the pros and cons of working in industry and academia.

Join us for this great event on December 15 at 4:30pm - register now at Zoom!

Ashutosh Chilkoti who is leading the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University will share insights from his latest work!
Please note that there will be small change in his talk. The new title is: “Functional Biomolecular Condensates from Synthetic Intrinsically Disordered Proteins”.

Join the talk by our special guest on November 23 at 3 pm CET on Zoom - Register now!