September 28 – October 1, 2026
Interdiscliplinary CeNS/BioSysteM Workshop
Venice International University
Isola di San Servolo, 30133 Venice, Italy
This workshop brings together young researchers of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and BioSysteM with experienced scientists from the fields of physics and (bio)chemistry.
The talks of our invited conference speakers will give our researcher community of CeNS and BioSysteM an overview of current research topics on nanometer-scale and molecular design.
Registration is open to members and students of CeNS and the Cluster of Excellence BioSysteM. It will open by the beginning of June.
Photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0
Program
The workshop will start on Monday, September 28 at 9 am and will end on Thursday, October 1 at 6 pm. A conference app will be available to all participants and speakers, including schedule, abstracts for talks and posters, list of participants, and general information.
Next to the invited talks, all participants are encouraged to present a poster at one of the two poster sessions taking place on Tuesday and Thursday.
Confirmed Speakers
Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie Paris
Guiseppe Battaglia, IBEC Barcelona
Marianne Bauer, TU Delft
Jan Brugués, TU Dresden
Otger Campàs, TU Dresden
Lorenzo Di Michele, University of Cambridge
Aurore Dupin, University of Bordeaux
Neus Feliu Torres, Universität Hamburg
Elisa Franco, UCLA
Sarah Hedtrich, The University of British Columbia
Björn Högberg, Karolinska Institutet
Jean-Francois Joanny, Institut Curie
Peter Loskill, Universität Tübingen
Henrike Niederholtmeyer, TU Munich
Lukas Milles, LMU Munich & MPI of Biochemistry
Teresa Pellegrino, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa
Beatrice Ramm, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
Oskar Staufer, Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Thomas Surrey, Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona
Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford
Christoph Weber, Augsburg University
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 4.0
Accommodation
Rooms for speakers and participants have been booked from Sunday (September 27) to Friday morning (October 2) in the historic center of Venice.
Single rooms (or double rooms upon request) are available for speakers and PIs of CeNS/BioSysteM. For graduate students, twin, triple and quadruple rooms have been reserved.
Warning: Hotel Booking Scam
In the past, the Venice workshop has been the target of hotel scams. Scammers contact invited speakers, encouraging them to book rooms using fake promotion codes at various hotels close to the conference venue. Please know that CeNS/BioSysteM will NOT be requesting speakers’ credit card details to make a room reservation and that any person who claims to do so on our behalf is not authorized to do so.
Group travel from Munich
Group travel by train has been arranged from Munich to Venice and back. Participants can book this option when registering for the workshop.
The outbound journey (RJ85) departs from Munich Central Station on Sunday, September 27, at 11:23 am, arriving at Venezia Santa Lucia at 6:25 pm. The return trip (RJ84) leaves Venezia Santa Lucia on Friday, October 2, at 11:35 am, with arrival in Munich at 6:38 pm.
Contact
Dr. Susanne Hennig and Rui Li-Stickland (CeNS)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
D-80539 München
Tel: +49-(0)89-2180-5791
E-Mail: cens_venice@physik.uni-muenchen.de
