Program
The scientific program will consist of 20 lectures by invited speakers (25 min + 10 min discussion) and two poster sessions. Furthermore, there will be a session on career development for young scientists with four invited guests.
The talks take place in the seminar room 1.2/1.3 on the ground floor of the Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ).
The registration takes place in the conference office in the foyer of the building.
Photos (Photographer: Felix Patzschke)
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
| 08:00 | Registration (Foyer) |
| 09:00 | Welcome |
| 09:05 | Lailai Zhu (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Developing Intelligent Microfluidics and Microrobots Through Machine Learning |
| 09:40 | Petra Paiè (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Bridging Microfluidics and Microscopy: High-Throughput Optofluidic Platforms Enabled by Femtosecond Laser Writing |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break (Foyer) |
| 10:50 | Giovanni Volpe (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Deep Learning for Soft Matter |
| 11:25 | Holger Stark (TU Berlin, Germany) Designing and Controlling Active Flow by Activity Patterns |
| 12:00 | Lunch (Foyer) |
| 14:00 | Christina Kurzthaler (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany) Swimming in Complex Environments |
| 14:35 | Matthew Peters (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Sensing in Picoliter Volumes: Droplet Microfluidics Meets Optical Spectroscopy |
| 15:10 | Mikael Käll (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Directional Marangoni Flow Induced by Laser Heating of Gold and Silicon Nanodisk Arrays |
| 15:45 | Poster Pitches for Odd Poster Numbers |
| 16:05 | Coffee Break (Foyer) |
| 16:45 | Poster Session for Odd Poster Numbers (Foyer/Atrium) |
| 17:45 | Dinner (Foyer) |
| 18:45 | Session on Career Development for Young Scientists Isabel Allegro (JENOPTIK AG, Jena, Germany) Holger Becker (microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, Jena, Germany) Ulrich Rant (Kurt Schwabe Institute for Sensor Technologies & TU Dresden, Germany) Richard Zeltner (Menlo Systems GmbH, Munich, Germany) |
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
| 09:00 | Lynn Paterson (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Optical Manipulation and Sensing of Cells and Particles in Ultrafast Laser Inscribed Microfluidic Devices |
| 09:35 | Tetsuro Tsuji (Kyoto University, Japan) Connection Between Thermo-Osmosis and Thermophoresis |
| 10:10 | Coffee Break (Foyer) |
| 10:50 | Anish Das (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Enabling Optical Spectroscopy in Digital Microfluidics: A Platform for Rapid On-Chip Chemical Sensing |
| 11:25 | G.V. Pavan Kumar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India) Hot Brownian Dynamics in 2D Optical Traps: Assembly, Rotation, and Revolution |
| 12:00 | Group Photo Shooting and Lunch (Foyer) |
| 14:00 | Gerhard Gompper (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Swimming and Swarming of Intelligent Active Particles |
| 14:35 | Francesca Bragheri (Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies – CNR, Italy) Optofluidic Platforms for Super-Resolution Microscopy On-Chip |
| 15:10 | Poster Pitches for Even Poster Numbers |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break (Foyer) |
| 16:00 | Poster Session for Even Poster Numbers (Foyer/Atrium) |
| 17:00 | Nicole N. Hashemi (University of Missouri, USA) On-Chip Characterization of Microorganisms Using Hydrodynamic Focusing and Integrated Optics |
| 17:35 | Denis Garoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) Smart Materials for Opto-Thermal Gating of Nanopore |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Thursday, September 18, 2025
| 09:00 | Meltem Elitas (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Environmental Topology Modulates Escherichia coli Antibiotic Response in Microfluidic Microecologies |
| 09:35 | Heidi Ottevaere (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Multifunctional Optofluidic Chips for Biosensing |
| 10:10 | Coffee Break (Foyer) |
| 10:40 | Moritz Kreysing (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Thermoviscous Fluid-Robotics in-vitro and in-vivo |
| 11:15 | Marisol Ripoll (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Self-Phoretic Colloidal and Polymeric Swimmers: Variable Relevance of Hydrodynamic Interactions |
| 11:50 | Diptabrata Paul (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Microfluidic Control and Navigation of Active Particles |
| 12:25 | Poster Prize Ceremony and Closing |
| 12:40 | Lunch (Foyer) |
