Talks

2023

Talk at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium Theory and concepts in biology
Heidelberg (Germany), July 18th – 21st
Inferring the stochastic dynamics of cell shape changes during cellular state transitions

Invited talk at the School of Mathematics, Bristol University – Fluids and Materials Seminar
Bristol (UK), Invited, April 20th
How droplets affect the irreversible formation of linear aggregates

DPG Spring Meeting
Dresden (Germany), March 26th- 31st
Stochastic dynamics of cell shape during cellular state transitions

2022

Invited talk at the UCL Bioimage Analysis Interest Group 
Virtual, Invited, November 25th
How to quantify the stochastic dynamics of cell shape during cell state transitions

3rd Annual Meeting of the Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology
Postdoc Prize Talk, Cambridge (UK), April 29th
How cell shapes change during cellular fate transitions

APS March Meeting
Virtual, March 14th – March 18th
Stochastic dynamics of cell shape during cell fate transitions

2021

Invited talk at the Theory@EMBL Seminar Series
Virtual, Invited, December 3rd
Stochastic dynamics of cell shape during cell state transitions

Invited talk at the Max Planck Zentrum für Physik und Medizin
Erlangen (Germany), Invited, September 23rd
Stochastic dynamics of cell shape during cell state transitions

Physical Biology Circle Meeting
Hybrid, September 13th – September 15th
Stochastic dynamics of cell shape during cell fate transitions

APS March Meeting
Virtual, March 15th – March 19th
Condensate rheology affects the irreversible formation of fibrils

2018

DPG Spring Meeting
Berlin (Germany), March 11th – 16th
Pili-mediated substrate motility of bacteria

2017

Invited Talk at the Brooklyn College, City University of New York
New York City (USA), November 15th
Dynamics of bacterial microcolonies – Theory guided by experiments

Long Night of Science / Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Dresden (Germany), June 16th
Von einzelnen Zellen zu multizellulären Strukturen

DPG Spring Meeting
Dresden (Germany), March 19th – 24th
Type IV pili govern the internal dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae microcolonies.

2016

Physical Biology Circle Meeting
Paris (France), May 8th – 10th
Modeling pili-mediated colony formation of N. gonorrhoeae

DPG Spring Meeting
Regensburg (Germany), March 6th – 11th
Differential Motility of N. gonorrhoeae within bacterial microcolonies

2015

Long Night of Science / Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Dresden (Germany), July 3rd
Biofilme – Schleim regiert die Welt

8th International Conference “Engineering of Chemical Complexity”
Garching (Germany), June 22nd – June 26th
Formation of Microcolonies in N. gonorrhoeae bacteria

APS March Meeting
San Antonio (USA), March 2nd – March 6th
Pili-Mediated Interactions between Neisseria gonorrhoeae Bacteria are the Driving
Mechanism of Microcolony Merging

2014

Long Night of Science / Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Dresden (Germany), June 24th
Biofilme – Mehr als nur Schleim

Posters

2022

Physics of Living Matter Symposium, 16th Edition
Cambridge (United Kingdom), September 29th – September 30th
Stochastic dynamics of cell shape during cell state transitions

2019

10th Annual Symposium “Physics of Cancer”
Leipzig (Germany), September 25th – September 27th
Cell shape during cellular fate transitions

Physics of Living Matter Symposium, 14th Edition
Cambridge (United Kingdom), September 2nd – September 3rd
Cell shape changes during cellular fate transitions

DPG Spring Meeting
Regensburg (Germany), March 31st – April 5th
Cross-talk between cell shape and state during cell fate transitions

2017

Physical Biology Circle Meeting
Heidelberg (Germany), May 8th – 10th
Internal dynamics of N. gonorrhoeae microcolonies are governed by type IV pili

Conference “Biology for Physics: Is there new Physics in Living Matter?”
Barcelona (Spain), January 15th – 18th
Pili-mediated dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae microcolonies

2016

International Workshop “Physical Biology of Tissue Morphogenesis – Mechanics, Metabolism and Signaling”
Dresden (Germany), October 17th – October 21st
Pili-mediated dynamics of bacterial microcolonies

623th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Seminar on “Cellular Dynamics”
Bad Honnef (Germany), September 4th – September 7th
Modeling pili-mediated dynamics of bacterial microcolonies

Conference “Active and Smart Matter”
Syracuse (USA), June 20th – 23rd
Pili-mediated cell-cell-interactions control differential motility within N. gonorrhoeae
microcolonies

2015

International Workshop “Random Walks and Nonlinear Dynamics in the Life of Cells”
Dresden (Germany), May 18th – May 22nd
Neisseria gonorrhoeae microcolony merging is driven by pili-mediated interactions

2014

Summer School “Models for bacterial biofilm formation: mathematical, physical and biological perspectives”
Nice (France), June 10th – June 13th
Motility of single cells and clusters of Neisseria gonorrhoeae