MTL SPRING DAYS 2024
We are excited to welcome you all to our Matter to Life Spring Days from 26th to 27th February. Here you will find the schedule and other information. Changes in the program schedule will be updated here.
Venue
Faculty for Physics, Hörsaal 2
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, Göttingen
* Monday check-in time: 08:30 *
In order to reach the venue in time for the check in, you could take this connection from the hotel.
Accommodation
Hotel Rennschuh Göttingen
Kasseler Landstraße 93
Check-In: Sunday after 15:00
Check-Out: Tuesday before 11:00
Directions from the hotel to the venue:
The journey will take approximately 45 minutes by public transport. From the hotel, head to the Zollstock bus station, where you will catch either bus number 31 or 32. At Platz der Göttinger Sieben station, change to bus 21, 22 or 23. Get off at Tammannstraße station. You'll find the large physics faculty building right across from the bus station.
Food
Breakfast: At the hotel (for participants staying at the hotel)
Coffee, lunch and dinner: At the venue of the event
Lab Tours
*** Please check public transportation on Monday already so that you reach the meeting points of your tours in time (5 - 10 min before the beginning of the tour)***
Meeting points:
- Köster-Lab
Main entrance of the Faculty of Physics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, in front of the reception - Salditt-Lab
Main entrance of the Faculty of Physics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, in front of the reception - Betz-Lab
Main entrance of the Faculty of Physics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, in front of the reception - Janshoff-Lab
Main entrance of the Faculty of Physics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, outside, in front of the building - Steinem-Lab
Main entrance of the Faculty of Physics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, outside, in front of the building - Stülke-Lab
Dept. of General Microbiology, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Grisebachstr. 8
Meet in front of the door of the department on the second floor (go up with the elevator).
- Bodenschatz-Lab
MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Faßberg 17
Ring the bell and go into the building, wait in front of the reception and tell the receptionist that you wait for the Bodenschatz-Lab. - Hell-Lab
MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Faßberg 11
Go inside and wait in the entrance hall
Contact for questions
Jan Heidelberger, Email: mattertolife@maxplanckschools.de; Phone: +49 17 5441-6965
Claudia Fournier, Email: claudia.fournier@uni-goettingen.de
Nadja Miosga, Email: nadja.miosga1@uni-goettingen.de
Program
MONDAY, February 26 th | ||
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08:30 - 09:00 | Check- in at Welcome Desk | |
09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome by Stefan Klumpp | |
09:15 – 09:45 | Sarah Köster | Cytoskeletal Proteins as High Performance Materials |
09:45 - 10:00 | Michelle Kemper | Molecular Mechanics Involved in Epithelial Dome Formation |
10:00 – 10:15 | Karim Ajmail | Adhesion Dynamics of Natural Kill Cell Mediated Killing of Adherent Cancer Cells |
10:15 – 10:45 | Claudia Steinem | Artificial Model Membranes: What Information Do They Provide to Biology? |
Coffee Break | ||
11:15 – 11:45 | Ramin Golestanian | Self-Organization of Shape-Shifting complexes due to Non-Reciprocal Interactions |
11:45 - 12:00 | Jan Geisler | Give Exocytosis-Driven Rapid Endocytosis in the Early C. Elegans Embryo |
12:00 - 12:15 | Gregor Häfner |
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12:15 – 13:15 | Petra Schwille | Engineering Minimal Cellular Functions – Towards a Forward-Understanding of Life? |
Lunch Break | | |
14:15 - 16:30 | Career Session | |
Coffee Break | ||
17:00 | Poster Pitches | |
17:15 | Poster Session I | |
18:00 Dinner | ||
19:00 | Poster Session II | |
TUESDAY, February 27 th | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | Lab Tours I | |
10:00 - 11:00 | Lab Tours II | |
Coffee Break | ||
11:30 - 12:30 | Lab Tours III | |
Lunch Break | ||
13:30 - 14:00 | Jörg Stülke | What Makes Life: Towards to the Complete Understanding of a Model Organism |
14:00 - 14:15 | Johannes Hahmann |
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14:15 - 14:30 | Christoph Karfusehr | Cell-sized DNA Membranes |
Coffee Break | ||
15:00 - 15:30 | Timo Betz | Quantifying Intracellular Mechanics by Active and Passive Measurements |
15:30 - 15:45 | Lena Strieker |
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15:45 - 16:00 | Aysecan Ünal |
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