Schedule
17:30 – 18:30
Aula Magna
Keynote Speaker Tomaso Poggio (USA)
Science and Engineering: the Race to Understand Intelligence
9:00 – 11:00
Aula Magna
15 | Self-assembly in life science
Nuno C. Santos (Portugal)
André Matagne (Belgium)
HALL 1
17 | Molecular modeling and simulation
Syma Khalid (UK)
Gianluca Lattanzi (Italy)
HALL 2
12 | Cellular biophysics in diseases (cancer, rare diseases, infectious diseases)
Laszlo Matyus (Hungary)
E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam (Germany)
HALL 3
20 | X-ray and Neutron Techniques in Biophysics
Maria Grazia Ortore (Italy)
Martin Weik (France)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Aula Magna
Plenary Speaker Arwen Pearson (Germany)
Pushing the boundaries of macromolecular crystallography: time-resolved and perturbative methods to study protein structure-function-dynamics relationships
12:30 – 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 – 17:00
Aula Magna
05 | Biophysics of biological barriers: membrane structure and organization
Gregor Anderluh (Slovenia)Lorenzo Stella (Italy)
HALL 1
28 | New and Notable
Anthony Watts (UK)
Elena Pohl (Austria)
HALL 2
18 | Advanced microscopy techniques (Brillouin, cryoEM, HS-AFM, …)
Giuliano Scarcelli (USA)
Silvia Caponi (Italy)
HALL 3
11 | Biophysical Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity: From Molecular Dynamics to Network Adaptation in Learning and Memory
Marja-Leena Linne (Finland)
Ausra Saudargiene (Lithuania)
17:00 – 17:30
Lunch Break
17:30 – 18:30
Aula Magna
Plenary Speaker M. Soledad Celej (Argentina)
Phase transitions of Tau and a-synuclein: implications for overlapping neuropathologies
9:00 – 11:00
Aula Magna
02 | Protein aggregation in disease: the next phase
Elizabeth Meiering (Canada)
Annalisa Pastore (UK)
HALL 1
21 | NMR: towards cell process characterization
Miquel Pons (Spain)
Maria Sunnerhagen (Sweden)
HALL 2
14 | Biomaterials and 3D Bioprinting
Shery Huang (USA)
Loredana Casalis (Italy)
HALL 3
19 | Teaching Biophysics in 2025 and beyond
Maria Grazia Ortore (Italy)
Martin Weik (France)
29 | MOSBRI Special Session
Francesca Cutruzzolà (Italy)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Aula Magna
Plenary Speaker Lucia Banci (Italy)
From molecules to mechanisms of Life: the unique contribution of cellular structural biology
12:30 – 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 – 17:00
Aula Magna
23 | Bionanophotonics and single molecule fluorescence
Erwin Peterman (Netherlands)
Giancarlo Ruocco (Italy)
HALL 1
04 | Biophysics and Function of Protein/Peptide-Membrane Interactions
Matthias Buck (USA)
Nathalie Reuter (Norway)
HALL 2
09 | Cell communication: Membrane transport & Ion channels
Teresa Giraldez (Spain)
Michael Pusch (Italy)
HALL 3
25 | Synthetic Biology and Astrobiology
Roman Jerala (Slovenia)
Claudia Bonfio (UK)
17:00 – 17:30
Coffe Break
17:30 – 18:30
Aula Magna
Plenary Speaker Alberto Diaspro (Italy)
The molecular artificial optical microscope. A route for combining molecular content fluorescence and label-free optical microscopy with machine learning
9:00 – 11:00
Aula Magna
24 | Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Pores: Advances and Applications in Biophysics and Beyond
Giovanni Maglia (Netherlands)
Chan Cao (Switzerland)
HALL 1
26 | Powering life: photosynthesis and respiration
Roberta Croce (Netherlands)
Petra Hellwig (France)
HALL 2
10 | Single-Cell Biophysics: Techniques and findings in single-cell analysis and its implications for understanding cellular heterogeneity
Suckjoon Jun (USA)
Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet (France)
HALL 3
01 | The new age of protein structure, prediction and design
Bruno Correia (Switzerland)
Alena Khmelinskaia (Germany)
John Kuriyan (USA)
Ora Schueler-Furman (Israel)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Aula Magna
Plenary Speaker Hagan Bayley (UK)
Engineered nanopores: from gene sequencing to organ repair
12:30 – 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 – 17:00
Aula Magna
06 | Biogenic Nanoparticles and Biomimetic Systems: Nanotechnology from Nature
Antonella Bongiovanni (Italy)
Mauro Manno (Italy)
HALL 1
27 | Breakthrough methods in molecular scale biophysics
Tomasz Kobiela (Poland)
Barbara Zambelli (Italy)
HALL 2
22 | Vibrational Spectroscopies in Biophysics
Christoph Krafft (Germany)
Małgorzata Barańska (Poland)
HALL 3
08 | Cell mechanics: biophysics of cell growth, division, signaling, and motion
Claudia Tanja Mierke (Germany)
Massimo Vassalli (UK)
17:00 – 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:30
Aula Magna
Plenary Speaker Patricia Clark (USA)
New tools for understanding the impact of the cellular environment on protein folding
9:00 – 11:00
Aula Magna
03 | Building Blocks of Life: Protein-Based Materials and Supramolecular Assemblies
Aitziber Lopez Cortajarena (Spain)
Daniel Otzen (Denmark)
HALL 1
16 | Machine learning and Agent-based models
Matej Praprotnik (Slovenia)
Helmut Grubmüller (Germany)
HALL 2
07 | Biophysics of genes, RNA and ribosomes
Norbert Polacek (Switzerland)
Gabriella Viero (Italy)
HALL 3
13 | Biophysics of Ionic Liquids: a versatile toolkit for molecular to cellular control and biomedical innovation
Antonio Benedetto (Ireland & Italy)
30 | At the Heart of Biophysics: the Enduring Lesson of Mario Ageno
Ranieri Bizzarri (Italy)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Aula Magna
Plenary Speaker Sheref Mansy (Canada & Italy)
Towards chemical systems capable of Darwinian evolution
12:30 – 15:00
Lunch Break
13:50 – 15:30
Aula Magna
Award lectures and Poster Awards
- 13:50-14:10 EBSA Young Investigator: Dr. Miguel Mompeán (Spain)
- 14:10-14:40 NanoTemper: Daniel J. Müller (Switzerland)
- 14:40-15:10 Avanti: Rumiana Dimova (Germany)
- 15:10-15:30 Poster Awards
15:30 – 16:00
Aula Magna
Closing Ceremony
Introducing the EBSA Congress in Berlin 2027