work-in-progress seminar
Our work-in-progress seminars take place (usually) on Tuesdays from 10:15 – 11:45 am in the seminar room ZMPT (00.020) at Henkestraße 91 (directly to the left of the main entrance).
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03. September 2024 | Leah Vogler | Mechanosensing von Sphäroiden in 3D Biopolymernetzwerken | Bachelor's thesis defence. Talk in German. |
| 18. June 2024 | Christoph Mark | Uncharted Territory between the Mean and the Median | |
| 11. June 2024 | Ben Fabry, Lovis Schween | News in Biophysics, Desmin-R406W Assembly | |
| 28. May 2024 | Tina Czerwinski | Analyse des Migrationsverhalten von Immunzellen in dreidimensionalen Umgebungen | PhD defense. Talk in German. Talk starts at 3 pm |
| 14. May 2024 | Lovis Schween | Desmin Filament Assembly Characteristics and the Loss of Elongation Control in Mutant R406W | |
| 7. May 2024 | Prof. Mercedes Costell | Cancer microenvironment when the fibronectin synergy site is inactive | Guest speaker, University of Valencia, Spain |
| 30. April 2024 | David Böhringer | Collective force oscillations of spheroids are mechanically communicated through 3D matrices | |
| 23. April 2024 | Ben Fabry | Penguin season 2023/24 at Atka Bay | |
| 16. April 2024 | Lena Fischer | Methods to monitor and improve cell viability and behavior during and after bioprinting | PhD defense. Talk in German. Talk starts at 1pm |
| 18. July 2023 | Alexander Winterl | Remote sensing of breeding success from secluded species by exploitation of breeding population size. | |
| 11. July 2023 | Nele Bringmann | Analyse des Migrationsverhaltens von differenzierten, neutrophil-ähnlichen Zellen in 3-dimensionalen Biopolymernetzwerken | Bachelor's thesis defense |
| 04. July 2023 | Prof. Dr. Anja Lux | Unravelling mechanisms of IgG activity in health and disease | |
| 27. June 2023 | Johannes Bartl | Tracking Dense Emperor Penguin Huddles | |
| 20. June 2023 | Nadine Ströhlein | Development of a fluorescence shear flow deformation cytometer for measuring cell mechanics and mechanotransduction | Master's thesis defense |
| 13. June 2023 | Prof. Dr. Danijela Gregurec | Overview of research activities at the Gregurec-Lab | |
| 30. May 2023 | Miriam Zenner | Charakterisierung der Cytotoxizität von natürlichen Killerzellen in 3-dimensionalen Biopolymernetzwerken | Bachelor's thesis defense |
| 23. May 2023 | Prof. Dr. Harald Herrmann | Syncoilin - an intermediate filament protein that is in fact not one: Molecular collisions and turbulences at the costamere | |
| 09. May 2023 | Prof. Dr. Kristian Franze | Mechanotransduction in neural cells: real or fake? | |
| 02. May 2023 | Sebastian Bohle | Cell detection with neural networks for microfluidic applications | Master's thesis defense |
| 25. April 2023 | Lovis Schween | Recombinant Desmin - Expression, Assembly, Mutations, and Cell Migration | |
| 09. Mar 2023 | Marina Spörrer | Influence of Mutations on Specific Intermediate Filament Proteins on Biological and Mechanical Properties of Cells and Tissues | PhD defense. Talk in German. Talk starts at 1pm in room 01.020! |
| 14. Feb 2023 | Thabang Matseke | New and notable from the biofabrication front. | |
| 07. Feb 2023 | Marina Spörrer | Intermediate filements in skeletal muscle. | Test run ("Vorsingen") for thesis defense |
| 31. Jan 2023 | Tina Czerwinski | Migration of immune cells in 3D environments | Talk starts at 2pm! |
| 24. Jan 2023 | Alexander Winterl | Remote Sensing of Breeding Success in Emperor Penguins by Exploitation of Phenology | Talk starts at 2pm! |
| 17. Jan 2023 | Delf Kah | Responses of cells and tissue to mechanical stimuli | PhD defense. Talk in German. Talk starts at 2pm! |
| tba | Lars Bischof | 3-D traction forces of immune cells during migration | |
| 20. Dec 2022 | Johannes Bartl | Shear Flow Deformation Cytometry: Improving Precision and Speed of Cell Detection |
Master's thesis defense |
| 13. Dec 2022 | Katharina Hast | Role of calcium ions in shear-stress induced cell membrane damage during bioprinting | Master's thesis defense |
| 6. Dec 2022 | Dr. Andrea Malandrino | Quantifying fluid dynamics in a model of embolized microvasculature. | |
| 22. Nov 2022 | David Böhringer | Measuring cellular forces and matrix re-modelling in disease models. | |
| 15. Nov 2022 | Delf Kah | Responses of cells and tissue to mechanical stimuli | |
| 8. Nov 2022 | Dr. Ingo Thievessen | The focal adhesion protein β-parvin controls cardiomyocyte shape and sarcomere assembly in response to mechanical load | |
| 25. Oct 2022 | Lovis Schween | Dissecting the lateral and longitudinal assembly kinetics of vimentin with a dual wavelength stopped-flow approach | |
| 18. Oct 2022 | Dr. Christoph Mark | Three-Dimensional Force Microscopy of Immune Cells in Biopolymer Networks | |
| 28. July 2022 | Niko Schwarm | How to improve cell spreading, migration, and proliferation in alginate hydrogels by pre-crosslinking | Master's thesis defense |
| 26. Apr 2022 | Konstantin Takors | Vikoelastizität maligner Tumorzellen | Bachelorarbeit Verteidigung (deutsch) 10.30 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 31. Mar 2022 | Jonas Hügen | Influence of extracellular matrix composition on cardiac myocyte hypertrophy | Master thesis defense 9.30 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 24. Mar 2022 | Ernst Wittmann | Neural network based long-term evaluation of the migratory capabilities of immune cells | Master thesis defense 9 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 22. Mar 2022 | Lovis Schween | Dual Wavelength Stopped-Flow Analysis of the Assembly Kinetics of Vimentin | Master thesis defense 10:15 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 07. Dec 2021 | Jennifer Elsterer | shear flow deformability cytometry | Master thesis defense 10:15 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 16. Nov 2021 | Paul Kenntner | Detektion von Immunzellen mit neuronalen Netzwerken | Bachelor colloquium 10:15 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 09. Nov 2021 | Lars Bischof | 3-D traction forces of immune cells during migration | Master colloquium 10:15 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 26. Oct 2021 | Martin Ahn | Controlled pre-crosslinking of alginate-based hydrogels for cell bahavior optimization | Bachelor colloquium 10:15 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 27. Sep 2021 (Monday!) | Lisa-Marie Senger | Physiological and Pathological Hypertrophy in Cardiac Muscle | Master's colloquium 10:00 a.m. via https://fau.zoom.us/j/93879426371 |
| 11. Mar 2021 | Sebastian Trinkl | The role of vinculin in regulating lamellipodial actin polymerisation |
Bachelor presentation, 9:00 via Zoom |
| 08. Dec 2020 | Dr. Richard Gerum | saenopy: A finite element method to calculate 3D traction forces of cells | 10.15 a.m. via Zoom |
| 01. Dec 2020 | Kaveh Roshanbinfar, PhD student in the laboratory of Felix Engel | Cardiac tissue engineering using electroconductive biomaterials | 10.15 a.m. via Zoom |
| 24. Nov 2020 | Dr. Mar Cóndor | The role of mechanical forces in angiogenesis | 10.15 a.m. via Zoom |
| 17. Nov 2020 | Dr. Alexander Tesler | Silicone oil grafting as a platform for low-cost and scalable anti-biofouling coating on various substrates | 10.15 Zoom |
| 27. Oct 2020 | Jan Robering | Lymphatic tissue engineering for the treatment of lymph edema | 10:15 a.m. via Zoom |
| 13. Oct 2020 | Anke Kaufmann | Design, optimization and characterization of a microindentation setup for measuring the mechanical properties of alginate-based hydrogels | 14:00 p.m. via Zoom, Bachelor's Defense |
| 15. Sep 2020 | Natalie Huhn | Einfluss von regulatorischen T-Zellen auf die 3-D Motilität von Effektor-T-Zellen | 10:15 a.m. via Zoom |
| 09. Sep 2020 | Milena Trabert | Biocompatibility Testing of Hydrogel Blends | Bachelor's Defense, 11.00 a.m. via Zoom |
| 08. Sep 2020 | Sebastian Sanokowski | Implementation of recurrent neural networks for stationary input processing | 10.15 a.m. via Zoom |
| 01. Sep 2020 | Sebastian Bohle | Quantitative Hochdurchsatz-Messung mechanischer Eigenschaften von Zellen in einer Scherströmung | 11.00 a.m. via Zoom |
| 30. Jun 2020 | Dr. Alexander Tesler | Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) as Non-toxic Anti-biofouling Coating Alternative for Marine and Biomedical Applications | via Zoom |
| 09. Jun 2020 | Mar Eroles | Fast phenotyping of cell mechanics | via Zoom |
| 02. Jun 2020 | Benedikt Laubmann | Strukturanalyse von Kaiserpinguinhuddles | via Zoom, Bachelor's Defense, Talk in German |
| 19. May 2020 | Jia You | Evaluation of cell viability in response to the flow and shear stress profile in printing needles during biofabrication | via Zoom, Master‘s Defense |
| 12. May 2020 | Dr. Ingo Thievessen | Integrin-based signaling processes in hypertrophic cardiomyocytes | via Zoom |
| 29. Apr 2020 (Wednesday) at 10.00 a.m. (s.t.) | Wubulikasimu Yibulayin | FRET microscopy for investigating RNA polymerase interactions in the flavi-virus | Wendesday (!)10.00 a.m. (s.t.) via Zoom |
| 17. Mar 2020 | Delf Kah | Force generation in cells in response to matrix stiffness | |
| 03. Mar 2020 | Fritzi Zorn, Paula Kapfer | Alginat Bioprinting | Talk in German |
| 25. Feb 2020 | Alexander Winterl | Global Warming in Antarctica | |
| 11. Feb 2020 | Lena Fischer | Shear stress response and cell damage during biofabrication | |
| 04. Feb 2020 | Tina Czerwinski | Generic principles of immune cell migration | |
| 28. Jan 2020 | Elham Mirzahossein | Stress stiffening of cells | |
| 14. Jan 2020 | David Boehringer | High throughput measurements of 3-D contractile forces | |
| 07. Jan 2020 | Nadine Grummel | Do biophysical properties of patient-derived tumor cells correlate with clinical data? | |
| 17. Dec 2019 | Andreas Bauer | Cell generated forces during collective migration | Master‘s Defense |
| 10. Dec 2019 | Marina Spoerrer | Generation of highly contractile skeletal muscle microtissues | |
| 03. Dec 2019 | Dr. Imke Leicht and Dr. Micaela Zirngibl (Office for Gender and Diversity) | Erfolgreich kommunizieren: Empfehlungen für einen geschlechtersensiblen Sprachgebrauch | Talk in German |
| 26. Nov 2019 | Dr. med. Stefan Uderhardt | Effectors vs. Protectors: Visualizing Inflammatory Responses at Sites of Tissue Damage | |
| 14. Nov 2019 | Lucas Heublein | Neural networks for cell detecttion | Master's Defense |
| 22. Oct 2019 | Karuna Kapoor | Mechanics of pollen tube growth. | |
| 23. July 2019 | PD Dr. Claus Metzner | Detection of immune cell homing | |
| 09. July 2019 | Emil Iftekhar | Shear stress and flow profile of shear-thinning bioinks in a microfluidic channel | |
| 02. July 2019 | Prof. Dr. Michael Schmiedeberg | Phase field crystal theories | |
| 25. Jun 2019 | Mona Seifert | Uncovering genetic sequences impairing RNA virus genome replication for the development of vaccines | |
| 04. Jun 2019 | Dr. Ingo Thievessen | Coupling Cell Protrusion and Adhesion in Migrating Cells | |
| 28. May 2019 | Tina Czerwinski | Immune cell migration in a 3D environment | |
| 21. May 2019 | Julia Kraxner | Stretching Behavior of Single Vimentin Filaments | |
| 14. May 2019 | Lena Fischer | Cellular stress responses in biofabrication processes. | |
| 30. Apr 2019 | Dr. Christoph Mark | Collective Forces of Tumor Spheroids in 3D Biopolymer Networks | |
| 23. Apr 2019 | Marina Spörrer | Generation of functional skeletal muscle tissue from satellite cells. | |
| 20. Mar 2019 | Christopher Dürrbeck | How to keep magnetic tweezer forces under control | Master's Defense |
| 26. Feb 2019 | Lisa Gebhardt | Lysophosphatidic acid activates glial cells | |
| 22. Jan 2019 | Elham Mirzahosseini (Sharif University of Technology, Iran) |
Microrheology of Red Blood Cells | Interview |
| 17. Jan 2019 | Dr. Sebastian Richter | Computer vision-aided biophysical and ecological studies of Antarctic species | Doktorverteidigung |
| 15. Jan 2019 | Michael Hlavatsch | Characterization of biological fluids and cells with particle tracking microrheology | Master's Defense |
| 18. Dec 2018 | David Böhringer | Modelling and measuring contractile forces of tumor spheroids and muscle fibers in synthetic tissue matrices | Master's Defense |
| 24. Oct 2018 12.00 a.m. at lecture hall H |
Prof. Dr. Josef Käs | Cancer Metastasis - A new type of unjamming transition | Note different time and location: Lecture hall H at Staudtstrasse 5 |
| 23. Oct 2018 | Christoph Mark | Heterogene stochastische Prozesse in komplexen Systemen | Doktorverteidigung |
| 24. Oct 2018 | Sebastian Sanokovski | Automatisierte Detektion von Immunzellen in einer 3-D Matrix mit Machine Learning | Bachelorvortrag |
| 17. Oct 2018 12.00 a.m. at lecture hall C |
Dr. David Dulin | Magnetic tweezers to study gene machines at the single-molecule level | Note different time and location: Lecture hall C at Staudtstrasse 5 |
| 16. Oct 2018 | Dr. Kenneth Chih-Wei Chen | WNT5A triggers activation of latent TGFβ via force transduction and further promotes tissue fibrosis | |
| 14. Oct 2018 | Prof. Dr. Robert Endres | Information processing by the ‘probrain’: how bacteria sense and respond to chemicals | lecture hall Henkestr. 91 |
| 19. Jun 2018 | Marina Spoerrer | Desmin and the Biomechanical Behavior of Skeletal Muscle | |
| 12. Jun 2018 | Julia Lell | Mechanische Konditionierung von Kardiomyozyten | |
| 29. May 2018 | Richard Gerum | Jamming and Glass Transitions in King Penguin Colonies During Breeding | |
| 15. May 2018 | Christoph Mark | How To Make Money at the Stock Exchange | |
| 8. May 2018 | Mona Seifert | Force Measurement of the RNA Polymerase Motor Using Magnetic Tweezers | |
| 24. Apr 2018 | Delf Kah | A Bioreactor System for Fabrication, Stimulation, and Characterization of Muscle Micro Tissues |