ISE Symposium 2025

Venue

The Symposium will take place in the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Lecture Theatre at the Freie Universität Berlin in Berlin-Dahlem, Königin-Luise-Strasse 12-16, close to the botanical garden.

Public transport

The four bus stops “Königin-Luise-Platz / Botanischer Garten“ are within 250 m from the entrance and are served by the bus lines X83 (connecting the U3 (stop “Dahlem Dorf”) with the U9 and S1 (stop “Rathaus Steglitz”) every 3-5 min during the day), bus 101 (north-south connection, every 20 min during the day) and night bus N3 (going to Wittenberg-Platz in the city center).

For ticket options see: Tickets | VBB.

To optimize connections, we recommend to use the “BVG app” or the BVG webpage (https://www.bvg.de/en). Our recommendations are:

Coming to Berlin by plane

The airport BER is well connected by the public transport system. You will need an ABC ticket (available at the vending machines) to get into the city and back to the airport. For the rest of the conference an AB ticket is sufficient.

The most convenient options are trains calling at “Südkreuz” (S45). More trains go to “Ostkreuz” (e.g. RE8, RB23, RB32, FEX). There, continue as described below.

Coming to Berlin by long-distant train:

Coming from the South, North or East:

Via “Südkreuz”: Go upstairs. and take the S41 (circle line) to “Schöneberg” (= next stop), change downstairs to S1 (direction: Zehlendorf, Wannsee) and leave the train at “Rathaus Steglitz”. Alternatively, you can take the S41 to “Bundesplatz” and take there the U9 (direction: “Rathaus Steglitz”) to “Rathaus Steglitz”.

Via “Ostkreuz”: Take the S41 (circle line) to “Schöneberg” or “Bundesplatz” and follow the description given for arriving at Südkreuz.

Via “Hauptbahnhof”: On platform 16 (upper level) you can take any train heading westwards (e.g. S7 direction “Potsdam” or S3 direction “Olympiastadium”). Go off at “Zoologischer Garten”. There, take the underground line U9 (station is in front of the railway station) to „Rathaus Steglitz”.

From “Rathaus Steglitz” the conference venue is in walking distance (6-10 min). Or you can take bus X83 (direction: “Dahlem Dorf” or “Clay Allee”) on the small market place (Hermann-Ehlers-Platz, opposite of the hotel “Steglitz international”) to “Königin-Luise-Platz-Botanischer Garten”. The conference venue is in the tall building opposite of the bus stop.

Coming from the West, you can change already in “Berlin-Spandau”:

Take the U7 (direction: “Rudow”; the underground station is in front of the railway station), change at “Fehrberlliner Platz” into U3 (direction “Krumme Lanke”). Leave it at “Dahlem Dorf”. From there you can walk to the conference venue (5-7 min) or take the X83 (direction “Rathaus Steglitz” / “Lankwitz”). The bus stop is a few meters left on Königin-Luise-Straße. Leave the bus at “Arnimallee”. Then, follow Königin-Luise-Strasse for ca. 250 m to the main entrance of the Plant Physiology building (Königin-Luise-Strasse 12-16).

Coming by car:

The university owns a few parking lots next to the building in Gustav-Meyer-Strasse. Alternatively, you can park on Königin-Luise-Strasse or in one of the roads nearby. Via the side entrance at Gustav-Meyer-Strasse you have also excess to one parking space for handicapped people.