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Soft Matter Day 2025 The eight Soft Matter Day, organized by the Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, will take place on 11 July 2025 at the Lecture Hall for Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences, Linnéstr. 5, Leipzig. It aims at stimulating scientific exchange and interactions among the groups of the institute and the Leipzig groups that do related work in this field. Registration Deadlines Participants with a talk or poster: 30 May 2025 Participants without contribution: 18 June 2025 |
Program
– Program as PDF
– List of Posters
| 08:55–09:00 | Meeting of the Members of the Institute |
| 09:00–09:05 | Welcome |
| 09:05–09:25 | Motility and chemotaxis of E. coli in soft agar gels Saba Telele, Katja M. Taute |
| 09:25–09:45 |
A reconfigurable optofluidic platform for soft matter studies employing programmable microenvironments
Falko Schmidt, Carlos Gonzalez David, Marc Sulliger, Emilio Ruiz Rena, Raul Rica, Jaime Ortega Arroyo, Romain Quidant |
| 09:45–10:05 |
(SPARXS) Single-molecule parallel analysis for rapid eXploration of sequence space across varied tempeatures
Naveen Kumar, Carolien Bastiaanssen, Patrick Irmisch, Archana Sivaraman, Henri Franquelim, Chirlmin Joo, Ralf Seidel |
| 10:05–10:25 |
The role of fatty tissue in cervical cancer progression
Eliane Blauth, Hans Kubitschke, Kolya Lettl, Daniel Hoffmann, Marko Trifunovic, Pablo Gottheil, Benjamin Wolf, Nadja Dornhöfer, Grit Gesine Ruth Hiller, Lars-Christian Horn, Jenny Leopold, Jürgen Schiller, Matthias Blüher, Bahriye Aktas, Josef A. Käs |
| 10:25–10:50 | Break (Aula) |
| 10:50–11:10 | Maintaining balance: the role of regulation in metabolic stability Ralf Steuer |
| 11:10–11:30 | Reconfiguring hydrodynamic flow fields of active particles by light Lisa Rohde, Gordei Anchutkin, Frank Cichos |
| 11:30–11:50 | Investigating 3D scaffolds for biomedical application Jonas Naumann, Kresten Singer, Siddharth Shukla, Alok Maurya, Stefan Schlichter, Imre Szenti, Akos Kukovecz, Amit Rawal, Nils Wilharm, Ulrich Thome, Mandy Laube, Stefan Mayr, Mareike Zink |
| 11:50–12:10 | Dynamical and morphological changes of polyethylenimine thin films in relation to its CO2 absorbtion performance Maximilian Brückner, Soma Ahmadi, Shiwang Cheng, Martin Treß |
| 12:10–12:30 | DNA mold-based fabrication of silver nanostructures Christoph Hadlich, Ulrich Kemper, Ralf Seidel |
| 12:30–14:35 | Poster Session and Lunch (Corridor/Aula) |
| 14:35–14:55 | Nonequilibrium dynamics of the helix–coil transition in polyalanine Maximilian Conradi, Henrik Christiansen, Suman Majumder, Fabio Müller, Wolfhard Janke |
| 14:55–15:15 | Cationic peptide-mediated charge neutralization of lipidated DNA origami: effects on membrane binding and release dynamics Subhasini Singh, Henri G. Franquelim |
| 15:15–15:35 | Feedback driven thermofluidic assembly of colloids in confinement Desmond Joseph Quinn, Sandrine Heijnen, Diptabrata Paul, Lisa Rohde, Philip Jones, Giorgio Volpe, Frank Cichos |
| 15:35–16:00 | Break (Aula) |
| 16:00–16:20 | Biofilm wrinkling may result from the buckling physics of a viscoelastic growing beam Valentin Slepukhin, Oskar Hallatschek |
| 16:20–16:40 | Mechanics of dissemination and residual disease in cervical cancer Jörg Walter, Salvador Rivera-Moreno, Ivonne Nel, Bahriye Aktas, Josef A. Käs |
| 16:40–18:00 | Poster Session (Corridor) |
| 18:00 | Barbecue |
The time for each talk is 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion.