CELLULAR MATTERS Conference 2023

Toward an understanding of properties, functions & applications of bio-condensates

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CELLULAR MATTERS Conference, Monte Verità, Ascona. June 4-7, 2023.

This meeting is meant to function as a unifying event of the emerging and rapidly expanding field of biomolecular condensates, meant to bring together scientists coming from different disciplines, but looking for synergistic ways to tackle the challenges this interdisciplinary field presents. In this respect, the meeting will contribute to defining a common vocabulary and addressing the key rising questions.

It is a unique occasion to reflect and together discuss the future of the field. It will also serve to identify and address the possible points of contention, allowing the participants to obtain a clearer view of the problems that need to be addressed and the conceptual framework in which they need to be considered and contribute to set the tone of the future research especially for the young scientists that will attend. As a natural consequence, we expect numerous and fruitful collaborations to emerge from this event.

TOPICAL SESSIONS

  • Cyto- and nucleo-plasmic structure/function relationship: physical and biochemical causes of bio-condensate diversity
  • Effect of cytoplasmic parameters (crowding, pH, temperature, dynamics, gradients, density, viscosity, size, etc.) on bio-condensates
  • The bio-condensate interface and bio-condensates at an interface
  • Mutual interactions and effects of bio-condensates
  • How to interfere with cells using bio-condensates
  • (Potential) Applications of bio-condensates as materials

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Paolo AROSIO
Biochemical Engineering
ETH Zurich, CH

external pageAlessandra CARBONE
Analytical Genomics &
Computational Biology

CNRS-Sorbonne Univ., FR

external pageD. Allan DRUMMOND
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Human Genetics
University of Chicago, USA

external pageJorge R. ESPINOSA
Chemical Physics
Complutense Univ. Madrid, ES

external pageMaria HONDELE
Biochemistry
The Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH
 

external pageRoland KNORR
Interfacial Cell Biology
Humboldt University, DE

 

external pageTuomas KNOWLES
Physical Chemistry and Biophysics
University of Cambridge, UK
 

external pageSuliana MANLEY
Biophysics
EPFL, CH

Thomas MICHAELS
Theoretical Soft and Living Matter Physics
ETH Zurich, CH

external pageTanja MITTAG
Structural Biology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
 

external pageMagdalini POLYMENIDOU
Biomedicine
University of Zurich, CH

 

Aleksander REBANE
Biological Soft Matter
NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE


external pageGeraldine SEYDOUX
Molecular Biology and Genetics
The Johns Hopkins Univ., USA

external pageEvan SPRUIJT
Coacervates and Soft Interfaces

Radboud University, NL
 

external pageDavid ZWICKER
Theory of Biological Fluids
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, DE

ORGANIZATION

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Yves BARRAL
Cellular Biology

ETH Zurich, CH

Eric DUFRESNE
Soft Living Materials

ETH Zurich, CH

Roland RIEK
Physical Biological Chemistry

ETH Zurich, CH

EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION:

Grazia GONELLA
BML Initiative

ETH Zurich, CH
 

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