16th Annual Symposium
Physics of Cancer
Leipzig, Germany
Sept. 22 - 24, 2025
postersession  
The three best posters will be awarded by the Organizing Committee (see Young Scientist Awards for more information).


Onsite Poster Session:

Posters must fit within a rectangle 90 cm wide and 120 cm high (DIN A0), portrait format. The material necessary to mount the poster (pins or "Poster Strips") will be provided.




Tuesday - September 23, 2025
 

12:30 – 15:00

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- Young Scientist Awards -

1
Epithelial tissue response under solid shear stress
Narmin Abasova
(FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
2
Adipose tissue modulates cancer cell mechanics
Eliane Blauth
(Leipzig University, Germany)
3
Tissue interfaces as instructive microenvironments for breast cancer cell phenotype switching
Cornelia Clemens
(Leipzig University, Germany)
4
Mesenchymal-epithelial transition reduces proliferation but increases immune evasion in tumor spheroids
Gina Dimari
(TU Dresden, Germany)
5
Raman spectroscopy applied to ovarian cancer
Zeinab Farhat
(Le Mans University, France)
6
Biophysical hallmarks of early-onset colorectal cancer: From tissue stiffening to altered epithelial proliferation
Jacopo Ferruzzi
(University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
7
Quantification of infiltration mechanisms in a stem cell-based brain tumor organoid model
Michael Frischmann
(Ludwig Maximillians University Munich, Germany)
8
Effects of the traditional Vietnamese drug XaLinh on the actin cytoskeleton of cancer cells
Thomas Fuhs
(iba Heiligenstadt, Germany)
9
Bioprinting of tumor microenvironments
Radik Gataulin
(FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
10
Mechanical polarity in cell migration
Steffen Grosser
(IBEC Barcelona, Spain)
11
In-silico modelling of nucleus-driven cell jamming and shape dynamics
Leon Hillmann
(Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
12
Tumor solid stress in glioma is associated with poor patient survival
Noah Jaitner
(Charité, Germany)
13
Optical multifrequency time-harmonic elastography for fresh tissue samples
Jakob Jordan
(Charité, Germany)
14
Investigating neuroblastoma niche adaptation and tumor mechanics in a zebrafish pseudo-metastasis model
Julia Köppke
(Charité, Germany)
15
Bridging the gap between single cell and tissue mechanics with tumour organoids
Mathilde Lettinga
(TU Dresden, Germany)
16
Spatial engineering of collagen ligand nanopatterns to study integrin-dependent migration in cancer
Victoria Levario Diaz
(University of Bayreuth, Germany)
17
Dual attack against skin cancer-supporting anticancer drugs by membrane-organization-breaking (Mem-Break) antibiotics
Adéla Melcrová
(University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands)
18
Unraveling tumor vascular remodeling: Hemodynamic control and context-dependent effects of anti-angiogenic therapy in microfluidic models
Fatemeh Mirzapour
(TU Darmstadt, Germany)
19
Flicker physics: Phase-contrast VFA of plasma-membrane mechanics
Marharyta Podliian
(Leipzig University, Germany)
20
Biomechanical characterization of VX2 liver tumors using MR Elastography in a translational rabbit model
Justus Ramtke
(Charité, Germany)
21
Development of MM and AML models in a microfluidic chip system
Annika Reisbitzer
(iba Heiligenstadt, Germany)
22
The nematic extracellular matrix and cancer cell motility
Kilian Roth
(Charité, Germany)
23
Rapid high-resolution mechanical characterization in multiscale cancer research with optical multifrequency time-harmonic elastography
Frank Sauer
(Charité, Germany)
24
Brillouin Microscopy: A tool for 3D imaging in mechanobiology
Raimund Schlüßler
(Cellsense Technologies GmbH, Germany)
25
Impact of Taxol® on collective cell motility
Anne Marie Scholz
(Leipzig University, Germany)
26
Active nematics on a viscoelastic substrate
Gianmarco Spera
(University of Oxford, UK)
27
Breaking the balance: Targeting aldolase A in hepatocellular carcinoma leads to glycolytic instability in metabolism
Ralf Steuer
(Leipzig University, Germany)
28
Ultrasound time-harmonic elastography in live adult zebrafish
Mareike Wolff
(Charité, Germany)
29
Experimental model of the mechanobiology of the immunocompetent tumor ecosystem
Janet van der Graaf Mas
(IBEC Barcelona, Spain)

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