CiM-IMPRS Graduate School Meeting 2025
Advances across Scales and Systems
8th - 10th October 2025
Program
A full day of insights, hands-on sessions, and creative conversations—designed to keep you inspired from start to finish.
Wednesday 8, Oct
12:45 - 13:00
Registration (Zoom Webinar)
Zoom Webinar
13:00 - 13:10
Symposium Opening
Zoom Webinar
13:10 - 13:50
Fabian Theis
Decoding cellular systems: From observational atlases to generative interventions
Zoom Webinar
13:50 - 14:20
Assaf Zaritsky
Enabling non-invasive, long-term observation of cellular processes via label-free live imaging and in silico labeling
Zoom Webinar
14:20 - 14:50
Robert Insall
How Cells Steer Themselves: Finding Infections, Building Embryos, Solving Mazes
Zoom Webinar
16:05 - 16:35
Nina Andreas
Role of Medical Liaison Management in the Pharmaceutical Industrie - Taking on Opportunities and Challenges
Zoom Webinar
16:35 - 17:05
Binyamin Düthorn
Processes, Innovations, Communication: The R&D perspective in an IVD company
Zoom Webinar
17:05 - 17:35
Gloria Mancinelli
Turning scientific expertise into corporate strategic impact
Zoom Webinar
17:35 - 17:45
Sponsors
Zoom Webinar
17:45 - 18:00
Poster Introductions
Zoom Webinar
Thursday 9, Oct
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
Max Planck Lecture Hall
9:00 - 9:10
Opening Symposium
Max Planck Lecture Hall
9:10 - 9:40
Jérôme Gros
Mechanics of avian gastrulation
Max Planck Lecture Hall
9:40 - 10:10
Jan Huisken
High-resolution imaging across scales with modular and portable light sheet microscopy
Max Planck Lecture Hall
10:10 - 10:50
Roberto Mayor
Neural Crest: The Great Invaders of the Embryo
Max Planck Lecture Hall
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee Break
Max Planck Lecture Hall
11:10 - 11:40
Jeroen Bakkers
The Fish that Heals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiac Regeneration
Max Planck Lecture Hall
11:40 - 12:10
Nadine Vastenhouw
The spark of life. Initiating transcription in embryos.
Max Planck Lecture Hall
12:10 - 12:50
Anna Akhmanova
Cellular Roadmaps: Control of microtubule organization and dynamics
Max Planck Lecture Hall
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break
Max Planck Lecture Hall
14:00 - 14:30
Lukas Kunz
Single-neuron Mechanisms for Spatial Memory in Humans
Max Planck Lecture Hall
14:30 - 15:00
Büşra Çoban
Unleashing hidden visual potential through olfactory deprivation in Drosophila
Max Planck Lecture Hall
15:00 - 15:40
Eva-Maria Krämer-Albers
Extracellular vesicles in neuron-glia communication and CNS homeostasis
Max Planck Lecture Hall
15:40 - 17:00
Poster Session I & Coffee Break
Max Planck Lecture Hall
17:00 - 17:30
Pablo Vargas
Leukocyte migration under confinement: From cell biology to therapeutics
Max Planck Lecture Hall
17:30 - 18:00
Michael Sixt
Leukocyte navigation in complex environments
Max Planck Lecture Hall
18:00 - 20:00
Social Event
Max Planck Lecture Hall
Friday 10, Oct
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
Max Planck Lecture Hall
9:00 - 9:20
Theresa Groß-Thebing
Does dosage matter? Quantitative control of cell fate determination during human gastrulation
Max Planck Lecture Hall
9:20 - 9:40
Micaela Boiero Sanders
Structural insights into actin filament regulation
Max Planck Lecture Hall
9:40 - 10:00
Agata Witkowska
Biophysical mechanisms of neuronal membrane shape regulation
Max Planck Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee Break
Max Planck Lecture Hall
10:20 - 11:00
Holger Gerhardt
Endothelial Dynamics in Vascular Patterning - A Tale of Fish and Chips
Max Planck Lecture Hall
11:00 - 11:30
Anna Dimberg
The vasculature as a target for therapy in glioblastoma
Max Planck Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:00
Rui Benedito
Unraveling Vascular Biology with Ratiometric Single-Cell Functional Genetics
Max Planck Lecture Hall
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break
Max Planck Lecture Hall
13:30 - 14:00
Oleksiy Kovtun
Cryo‑EM snapshots of vesicular transport from test‑tube to cell
Max Planck Lecture Hall
14:00 - 14:40
Lars Kuepfer
Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling in health and disease
Max Planck Lecture Hall
14:40 - 14:55
Awards & Feedback
Max Planck Lecture Hall
14:55 - 15:10
Poster Award
Max Planck Lecture Hall
