Program

Arrival & Hotel Check-In

Evening

Informal Get-together

08:30

Registration

09:00

Welcome address: Reinhard Lipowsky (MPI-KG)

Session: Formation of biomimetic micro-compartments and protocells
Chair: Reinhard Lipowsky

09:15

Keynote lecture: Stephen Mann (University of Bristol)
Towards synthetic cellularity via protocell design and construction

10:00

Eberhard Bodenschatz:
Liposomes and polymersomes in microfluidic environment:
Fabrication and Application

10:30

Group photo & coffee break

11:00

Rumiana Dimova:
Membrane curvature, wetting and phase separation

11:30

Laura Thomi (Landfester group):
Functional Polymersomes

12:00

Keynote lecture: Bartosz Lewandowski (ETH Zürich):
Nature-Inspired Synthetic Supramolecular Systems

12:30

Lunch

Session: Mimicry of life processes in biomimetic micro-compartments
Chair: Eberhard Bodenschatz

13:45

Keynote lecture: David Weitz (Harvard University):
Droplet microfluidics for single cell studies

14:30

Titus Franzmann (Hyman Group):
Reconstitution and analysis of two-phase droplets

15:00

Philippe Bastiaens:
Reconstitution of a morphogenic membrane system

15:30

Joachim Spatz:
Reconstitution of the Adhesion and Migration Units in Synthetic Cells

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Keynote lecture: Tobias Erb (MPI Marburg):
We do it our (path)way: Bringing inorganic carbon into life
with synthetic CO2-fixation

17:00

Judita Mascarenhas (Sourjik Group):
Reconstitution of Essential Steps in Cell Division

17:30

Michael Mangold:
Bringing the parts together - Steps towards an in-siliico protocell

18:00

Junior Research group contribution 2
Dora Tang: Bottom up synthesis of articifical cells

20:00

Dinner

Session Cluster D: Ethical aspects of Synthetic Biology

21:00

Peter Dabrock (Vice-Chair of the German Ethics Council):
Biosecurity – freedom and responsibility
of research Opinion of the German Ethics Council

Session: Non-equilibrium processes in biomimetic micro-compartments
Chair: Jean-Christophe Baret

09:00

Lei Kai (Schwille Group):
A cell free protein expression system based on E.coli S30 Extracts
and its applications

09:30

Ivan Ivanov (Sundmacher Group):
Bottom-up synthesis of energy and metabolism pathways

10:00

Junior Research group contribution 1
Tom Robinson: Microfluidic systems for bottom-up synthetic biology

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Junior Research group contribution 3
Hannes Mutschler: New life from old – RNA replication in prebiotic
and synthetic biology

11:30

Junior Research group contribution 4
Seraphine Wegner: Light controlled organization

12:00

Lunch/Departure