| Time: | June 5, 2025, 2:00 p.m. (CEST) |
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| Venue: | Universität Stuttgart, Keplerstr. 17, K2, Tiefenhörsaal 17.02 |
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The future of biology lies not in merely observing life as it exists, but in engineering life as it could be. DNA, nature’s timeless blueprint, has now become our most versatile molecular building material. No longer just a repository of genetic information, DNA can be crafted into dynamic components that reshape, reconfigure, and communicate, breathing life into artificial cellular systems. Recent research demonstrates how DNA nanostructures can orchestrate dramatic cellular transformations, controlling shape-shifting behaviors, regulating molecular transport, and programming environmental responses. These aren’t speculative visions but functioning systems operating in laboratories today. The coming era promises adaptive smart therapeutics, evolvable biomaterials, and synthetic organisms with unprecedented capabilities.
Yet beneath these technological wonders lies a profound question: As we rewrite biology’s rulebook, what new possibilities for life might we create? This represents more than scientific progress but a fundamental shift in how we conceive our relationship with the very essence of life itself.