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Handover symposium Prof. Dr. Kurt Kremer – Prof. Dr. Frauke Gräter
We warmly invite you to the “Handover symposium Prof. Kremer to Prof. Gräter”, taking place September 18, 2026, in the Staudinger lecture hall.
Programme
10:00 Kurt Kremer, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research: “Almost 30 years of Theory at MPIP: From scaling relations to materials”
10:20 Siewert-Jan Marrink, University of Groningen: “Three decades making sense of Kremer’s bead-spring models”
10:55 Edward Lemke, Institute of Molecular Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU): “Decoding Molecular Plasticity in the Dark Proteome”
11:30 Francesca Grisoni, Eindhoven University of Technology: “Charting the Chemical Universe with Artificial Intelligence”
12:05 Group photo
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University: “Designing and Controlling Responsive Polymer Networks”
13:50 Mikko Karttunen, University of Eastern Finland: “Short stories about glassy polymers, dimensionality reduction, and molecular conformations”
14:25 Yuji Sugita, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research: “Multi-scale enhanced sampling simulations of biomolecular complexes in the cell”
15:00 Christoph Dellago, University of Vienna: “Learning to Sample: “From Molecular Configurations to Dynamical Trajectories”
15:35 Coffee break
16:15 Peter Fratzl, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces: “Chemo-Mechanical Roles of Water in Biological Materials”
16:50 Gerhard Hummer, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics: tba
17:25 Frauke Gräter, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research: “Learning from polymers for biology – or: what’s next?”
17:35 End of symposium
19:00 Speakers´ Dinner