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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.