Molecular Biosensing Symposium

This year, the Centre for Synthetic Biology is once again organising a Start-Up Summer School in cooperation with ryon. This year's topic is molecular biosensing. As part of the ryon Start-Up Summer School, a "Molecular Biosensing Symposium" will take place on 22-23 September 2025 at the TU Darmstadt.

The Start-Up Summer School 2025 kicks off on 22. – 23. September 2025 with the Molecular Biosensing Symposium at TU Darmstadt, to which all interested guests and Summer School participants are invited.

September 22nd, 2025

Veranstaltungsort: TU Darmstadt – Kleiner Hörsaal Biologie

Schnittspahnstraße 3-5, 64289 Darmstadt

13:00 – 13:10 Julius B. Lucks, Northwestern University

14:00 – 14:50 Velia Sicilliano, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

14:50 – 15:10 Coffee Break

15:10 – 16:00 Francesco Ricci, Tor Vergata Universita di Roma

16:00 – 16:50 Karen Polizzi, Imperial College London

16:50 – 17:10 Coffee Break

17:10 – 17:45 Award Ceremony – Centre Thesis Award

September 22nd, 2025

Veranstaltungsort: TU Darmstadt – Kleiner Hörsaal Biologie

Schnittspahnstraße 3-5, 64289 Darmstadt

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome

9:05 – 9:15 Jörg von Hagen, ryon GreenTech Accelerator

9:15 – 9:45 Tobias Dölle, SPRIND

9:45 – 10:15 Lena-Sophie Schütter, HTGF

10:15 – 10:45 Melissa Ott, Start-up factory

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:45 Armin Schneider, Merck KGaA

11:45 – 12:15 Alina Eilers, PhaeoSynth

12:15 -13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 -14:00 Paul Armbruster, Immundiagnostik AG

14:00 – 14:30 Annemarie Lüdecke, Nanotemper

The Molecular Biosensing Symposium will take place at the Campus Botanical Garden of the TU Darmstadt. If you would like to attend the symposium, please register by sending a short Email to .

Organisation

Heinz Koeppl

Heinz Koeppl is director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology at TU Darmstadt and professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and adjunct professor at the Department of Biology. He is currently also heading the graduate school "Life Science Engineering" at TU Darmstadt. He holds a M.Sc. in physics from Graz Karl-Franzens University and a Ph.D in electrical engineering from Graz University of Technology, Austria.

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Jörg von Hagen

Jörg von Hagen is Managing Director of ryon – GreenTech Accelerator Gernsheim GmbH – he is a biotechnologist and cell biologist by training and has more than 30 years of experience in industrial and applied R&D at Merck KGaA.

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Melanie Mikosch-Wersching

Melanie Mikosch-Wersching is Managing Director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology at TU Darmstadt. She holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biology and has experience in scientfic communication and Start-Up support.

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Ulrike Wedel

Ulrike Wedel is executive assistance at ryon. She supports the planning and organisation of meetings and events.

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Disclaimer

If you would like to claim your idea as owner before the Summer School starts, please send the idea forehand to the indicated contact to assure that the idea is attributed to you and any additionally generated ideas resulting in IP are joint rights and maybe used by all team members that contributed to the idea.

Adress:

Campus Botanischer Garten B1|01 Raum 52

Schnittspahnstrasse 3

64289 Darmstadt

Getting to Darmstadt

By air via Frankfurt International Airport (FRA)

Darmstadt is situated approximately 28 km from Frankfurt International Airport (FRA), the largest airport in Germany. A direct bus service (AirLiner) connects the airport with the city of Darmstadt every 30 minutes at peak times, otherwise every 60 minutes (download the detailed schedule (opens in new tab)). The trip duration is appoximately 35 minutes.

If you arrive at Terminal 1, board the AirLiner bus from bus stop, outside the terminal, across the road. At Terminal 2, the bus stops just outside the terminal entrance. Get off the bus at the terminal station (Darmstadt Kongresszentrum/Convention Center). From there you can reach the Campus Botanical Garden via the Bus L (Stop Botanical Garden/ Vivarium).

A taxi from Frankfurt airport to the Venue costs approximately 65 € and takes around 30 minutes.

By train via Darmstadt HBf

Darmstadt is a sizable railway hub, with many trains stopping at Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (main station). Public transport (buses and light rail) from Darmstadt HBf to the Venue is available.