BIOPMAC-BP Network-wide Trainings Events
We provide basic scientific training for all DCs, best conveyed in network-wide joint events (T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6). These events play an essential role in strengthening professional and private links between the individual DC and helping them to extend their professional network by meeting renowned scientists from inside and outside the project in a comfortable working environment. Bringing together expertise from microbiology, soft matter physics, physical chemistry, agricultural science, chemical and materials engineering.
Events & Conferences |
Lead Institution/Location |
Date |
| Introduction to BIO2PHYM (T1) | FORTH / ETH Zürich, Switzerland | 24-29/08/2025 |
| Advanced Module (T2) | FORTH / FZJ Jülich, Germany | 20-25/09/2026 |
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BIOMAC-BP Summer School “Multiphase Materials for next generation Bio-pesticides – from lab to field” (T3) |
FORTH / Berlin, Germany | 13-19/09/2026 |
| Industrial Training (together with the CoCoGel Network) (T4) | SYENSQO / Utrecht, Netherlands | 30/03-02/04 2026 |
| BIOMAC-BP Conference (T5) | FZJ/FORTH | Tba |
Connecting Disciplines: BIOMAC-BP Online Seminar Networks (T6)
Our seminar series is designed to encourage interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration across soft matter science, chemical engineering, microbiology and agricultural sciences, reflecting the programme’s scientific breadth and societal relevance.
The primary audience of the seminar series consists of the BIOMAC-BP doctoral candidates, their supervising scientists , and associated researchers within the network.
Online Seminar Series/Topic |
Speaker/Institution |
Date |
| “Geometrical incompatibility induced friction at a Soft interface” | Deepak Kumar / IIT Delhi, India | 28/01/2026 |
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“Mechanically Mediated Interactions Between Biofilm “Environmental Fate of Starch Nanocrystal Stabilized |
Damm, Ina / ETH Zürich, Switzerland Heininen, Venla /Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany |
25/02/2026 |
| Rehearsal Midterm Review Utrecht | BIOMAC_BP Doctoral Candidates | 25/03/2026 |
| “Bacterial navigation in porous media” | Mathijssen, Arnold / University of Pennsylvania, USA | 29/04/2026 |
| “Material-fungi interactions” (Cancelled) | Fischer, Peter / ETHZ Switzerland | 27/05/2026 |
| “Network outreach activities” | Tba | 24/06/2026 |
| Topic tba | Carsten Beta / University of Potsdam, Germany | 29/07/2026 |
| Topic tba | Tba | 30/09/2026 |
| Topic tba | Ulf D. Schiller / University of Delaware, USA | 28/10/2026 |
| “Material-fungi interactions” | Fischer, Peter / ETHZ Switzerland |
25/11/2026 |
