October 24, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131) "Evading ageing: metabolic and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes" Guest speaker: Dr. Elvan Böke Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain Host: Fiona Doetsch Böke and her team have made advances in understanding how oocytes, or immature egg cells, maintain pristine conditions over many decades in order to give rise to the next generation. |
October 31, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Dr. Caitie McCafferty (group Ben Engel) tba Dr. Manos Kyriakakis (group Anne Spang) |
November 14, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Alex Dunn Stanford University Host: Alex Schier The generation and detection of mechanical force is a central aspect of cell and developmental biology. The goal is to understand how cells generate, detect, and respond to tension at the molecular level. |
November 21, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Dr. Fengjie Wu (group Sebastian Hiller) tba Dr. Stefan Imseng (CEO, Aukera Therapeutics) Flash Talk Stella Stefanova (FACS Facility) |
December 5, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131) "Nuclear pores as guardians of the genome" Guest speaker: Prof. Martin Beck Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany Hosts: Rod Lim / Birthe Fahrenkrog The Beck lab studies how molecular modules act in concert to generate complex cellular functions. |
December 12, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Dr. Raul Ortiz (group Peter Scheiffele) tba Dr. Meric Ataman (group Mihaela Zavolan) |
December 30, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Dr. Sedat Dilbaz (group Christoph Handschin) tba NN |
POSTPONED TBD (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Host: Attila Becskei Klaus-Robert Müller is most noted for his work in machine learning and brain-computer interfaces. His team works on a diverse set of areas in methodology and application, including Explainable AI, Modeling many-body problems and Brain-Body Monitoring. |
February 13, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus Host: Anne Spang Lippincott-Schwartz lab wants to understand how the different cells comprising an organ operate individually and interdependently to allow an organ to develop, remodel, heal and compute. |
March 6, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Suliana Manley EPFL, Lausanne Host: Anissa Kempf Manley's research goal is to reveal the biophysical principles underlying the dynamic organization of cellular organelles and protein assemblies. |
April 10, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Dr. Silvia Fre Institut Curie, Paris Host: David Brückner The main focus of Fre's research is understanding how tissue-specific stem cells engage in differentiation while retaining self-renewal potential and plasticity. |
May 29, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Dr. Tâm Mignot Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marseille Host: Christoph Dehio Using interdisciplinary approaches, his group studies the spatio-temporal organization of the Myxococcus lifecycle. |
September 4, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Naama Barkai Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Host: Alex Schier Her work on deciphering mechanisms of control in complex biological systems combining experimental work with mathematical modelling shaped the field of systems biology. |
September 18, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Roy Parker University of Colorado Boulder Host: Maria Hondele The Parker lab focuses on understanding the expression, location, and function of eukaryotic RNAs and their connection to human disease. |
October 9, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Darren Gilmour University of Zurich Host: Alex Schier The Gilmour lab takes an integrative, multi-scale approach to study how dynamic cell behaviours, like motility, regulate the assembly and disassembly of organs. |
October 30, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Dr. Marta Zlatic University of Cambridge, UK Host: Alex Schier The Zlatic lab aims to understand the relationship between the structure of the nervous system and its function and to discover the basic principles by which neural circuits implement fundamental computations. |