Selected Talks

2024

TitleSymposium / Conference / Workshop
Pregl Lecture: Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: to bud or not to budPregl Colloquium Lecture Series, the National Institute of Chemistry, October 2024, Slovenia
Plenary talk: Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: when a membrane meets a dropIV National Congress of Physical Sciences, October 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria
Plenary talk: Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: when a membrane meets a dropMeeting of the German Biophysics Society, September 2024, Leipzig, Germany
Membrane remodeling in artificial cells:
to bud or not to bud
807. WE-Heraeus-Seminar Physical Modes of Action  
of Membrane-Active Compounds, April 2024, Bad Honnef, Germany
Giant Vesicles Unleashed: Probing Biomembrane Marvels and Mysteries68th Biophysical Society Meeting, February 2024, Philadelphia, US

2023

To bud or not to bud: remodeling of artificial cellsEMBO Membrane shaping and remodeling by proteins, November 2023, Kunming, China
Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: to bud or not to budCELL PHYSICS, October 2023, Saarbrücken, Germany
Remodeling of model membranes: To bud or not to budEMBO workshop Cell polarity and membrane dynamics, May 2023, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
Thompson Award lecture: About membranes, curvature, electric fields and and droplets67th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, February 2024, San Diego, US

2022

To bud or not to bud: protein-free remodeling of artificial cells5th symposium on “Membrane Shaping and Remodeling by Proteins”, November 2022, Kunming, China
Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: to bud or not to budCurvoBio2022 workshop, August 2022, Berlin, Germany
Remodeling, fusion and fission of giant vesiclesEMBO conference on “Birth and Fission of Cellular Compartments”, July 2022, Bilbao, Spain
Keynote lecture: Remodeling of model membranes: to bud or not to budBESS 2022 Lipid Bilayers at ESS- BESS in Lund, June 2022, Lund, Sweden
Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: to bud or not to budDGfB – Membrane Biophysics Meeting Drübeck, May 2022, Drübeck, Germany

2021

Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: to bud or not to bud3rd Youth Scientific Session: Biomedicine and quality of life, December 2021, Bulgaria, virtual
Keynote lecture: Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: to bud or not to budDutchBiophysics conference, Netherlands, virtual
To bud or not to bud: remodeling of artificial cells20th IUPAB Congress, 45th Annual SBBf Meeting, and 50th Annual SBBq Meeting, Brazil, virtual
Membrane remodeling in artificial cellsSymposium SFB-GEM 2021 (Societe Francaise de Biophysique), France, virtual
To bud or not to bud: remodeling of artificial cellsEBSA 13th European Biophysics Conference, Vienna, Austria, hybrid
Liesegang Award lecture: Giant vesicles: versatile colloids for unravelling biomembrane properties and for building artificial cellsBunsen-Tagung, German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Germany, virtual
Remodeling of artificial cells: to bud or not to bud7th European Joint Theoretical/Experimental Meeting on Membranes (EJTEMM 2021), Graz, Austria, virtual

2020

To bud or not to bud: remodeling of artificial cellsBioSoft Colloquium, Institute of Biological Information Processing, Jülich, Germany
Understanding biomembranes with optical microscopyCurvoBio2020 workshop, Germany

2019

Membrane wetting, budding and tubulationWorkshop “Membrane imaging: structure and dynamics in cells and models”, Odense, Denmark
Morphology, growth and division of biomimetic microcompartmentsWorkshop on Synthetic biology, Berlin, Germany
Probing the membrane nanoregime with optical microscopyIMPRS workshop, Potsdam, Germany
Keynote lecture: Curving in or out – membrane remodeling by ions and moleculesAnnual Brazilian Biophysical Society Meeting, Santos, Brazil

2018

Membrane Wetting, Engulfment, Budding and TubulationGordon Research Conference Biointerface Science, Il Ciocco, Italy
Giant vesicles as tools for assessing membrane mechanics, wetting and reshaping62nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Francisco, CA, US 
Giant vesicles as handy tools for assessing membrane mechanics, wetting and reshaping2018 International Symposium on Chemical Biology, Geneva, Switzerland
Selected Talks in 2018

2017

Lipid nanotube formation in giant vesiclesKolloid-Tagung “Multiresponsive systems”, TU Munich, Germany
Membrane wetting, budding and tubulation in vesicles exposed to aqueous two-phase systemsPhysical aspects of polymer science, Swansea University, Swansea UK
Membrane wetting, budding and tubulation in vesicles exposed to aqueous two-phase systems2017 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, US
Membrane nanotube formation in giant vesiclesSpring meeting of the German Physical Society, Dresden, Germany
GM1 softens the membrane, induces domains and causes spontaneous tubulation in giant vesicles61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, New Orleans, LA, US

2016

Spontaneous tubulation in giant vesicles induced by GM1 and PEGBiomembrane Days, Berlin, Germany
Vesicle-vesicle fusion: features and applicationsEMBO Workshop “Membrane fusion in health and disease”, Paris, France
Giant vesicles: membrane models and cell-like capsulesCroucher workshop, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China

2015

Phase Separation in Ternary Mixture Membranes:Effect of Adhesion and Protein Adsorption10th European Biophysical Congress EBSA 2015, Dresden, Germany
Effects of GM1 on phase state, mechanics and curvature of phospholipid membranes585th  WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Advanced Microscopy of Membrane Biophysics, Bad Honnef, Germany
How GM1 affects the phase state and mechanical properties of phospholipid membranes59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, Baltimore, MD, US

2014

Light-induced changes in lipid membranesIMPRS workshop, Harnack Haus, Berlin, Germany
Phase separation in ternary-mixture membranes:effect of protein adsorptionSoftComp workshop on Proteins&Nanoparticles@ Membranes, Jülich, Germany
Vesicles in electric fields: electro-deformation, -poration, and –fusionGordon Research Conference on Bioelectrochemistry, University of New England, Maine, US
Vesicles in electric fields58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Francisco, CA, US

2013

Membrane wetting, budding and tube formation in vesicles enclosing two aqueous phases27th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, Sofia, Bulgaria
Membrane wetting, budding and tube formation in vesicles enclosing two aqueous phases64th Mosbacher Kolloquium on “Membranes in Motion – from Biophysics to Cell Biology”, Mosbach, Germany
Giant vesicles in electric fields –approaches for measuring properties of lipid membranesBioelectrochemistry 2013, 12th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry &XXII International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics of the Bioelectrochemical Society, Bochum, Germany

2012

Membrane transformations and morphological changes in lipid vesiclesMRS Fall 2012 Symposium, Boston, MA, US
Membrane wetting, budding and tube formation in vesicles enclosing two phasesPhysCell2012, 2nd conference – EMBO Series (Cell Biophysics), Hyères, France
Membrane transformations in vesicles enclosing aqueous two-phase polymer solutions76th Annual Meeting of the DPG, Berlin, Germany

2011

Giant vesicles: a handy tool for exploring membrane processesSFB 803 colloquium, Göttingen, Germany

2010

Holes in MembranesUniversity of São Paulo, Brazil
Giant vesicles in electric fields: electro-deformation, poration and -fusionELOPTO 2010, Mainz, Germany