September 13, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. KC Huang
Stanford University, USA
Host: Urs Jenal
Huang's team employs diverse interdisciplinary methods to understand the relationships among cell shape detection, determination, and maintenance in bacteria. |
September 24, 2024 (TUESDAY 11:15 pm; U1.101)
"Purinosome: assembly mechanisms and biological functions"
Guest speaker: Ruey-Hwa Chen
Academia Sinicia, Taiwan
Host: Anne Spang
Her research focuses on the role of protein degradation and exosomal secretion in controlling cancer cell signaling and tumor immune microenvironment. |
September 27, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Alex Schmidt (Proteomics Core Facility)
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Haiyan Zhang (group Jean Pieters) |
October 18, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Vivek Malhotra
Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
Host: Mike Hall
Malhotra and his team want to understand the mechanism by which eukaryotic cells model membranes to generate transport carriers based on their needs. |
October 25, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Kerstin Dörner (group Maria Hondele)
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Yinan Wan (group Alex Schier) |
November 1, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Martin Beck
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
Host: Rod Lim
The Beck lab studies how molecular modules act in concert to generate complex cellular functions. |
November 15, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Erika Holzbaur
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Host: Anne Spang
The Holzbaur lab is focused on understanding the dynamics of intracellular motility in neurons. |
November 22, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Dr. James Lightfoot
Max Planck Institute for the Neurobiology of Behaviour, Bonn, Germany
Host: Susan Mango
The Lightfoot lab explores the divergent behaviours observed between the free-living round worms, C. elegans and P. pacificus. |
December 6, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Susanne Falkner (group Peter Scheiffele)
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Eva Jiménez Siebert (group Knut Drescher) |
December 20, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Petr Broz
University of Lausanne
Host: Maren Ketterer (Postdoc group Dehio)
Broz' research focuses on host defense mechanisms, inflammasomes and the induction of pyroptosis, a lytic, inflammatory cell death. |
January 10, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Maria Cristina Gambetta
University of Lausanne
Host: Susan Mango
Her team aims to understand the molecular basis of gene regulation specificity in Drosophila using genetics, genomics, biochemistry and live-imaging tools. |
January 31, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Raphael Gottardo
CHUV Lausanne University Hospital
Host: Oliver Biehlmaier/Fiona Doetsch
His group focuses on developing novel computational tools, statistical methods and machine learning algorithms for the analysis of high-throughput and high-dimensional datasets. |
April 4, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Ruth Ley
Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Host: Marek Basler
Ley is interested in the co-evolution of humans with their microbiomes. Her lab studies the evolutionary history of gut microbes and how they affect human biology and health. |
June 20, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Villa
University of California San Diego and HHMI
Host: Ben Engel
Villa's team is interested in revealing the structure and function of macromolecular complexes in their natural environment at the highest possible resolution. |
August 29, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Richard Benton
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Host: Anissa Kempf
His group is interested in the structure, function and evolution of nervous systems with a focus on the olfactory system, which mediates recognition of myriad environmental signals to control diverse behaviours. |
