Lectures take place on Mondays, starting at 16:15h, unless noted otherwise. Most lectures take place at the Biozentrum (room see below), some are on zoom.

The zoom link is posted on ADAM (for registered students) and on the Biozentrum Intranet. 

Students who would like to obtain credits for this course, please register: 21563-01 Current research in Bioinformatics II (spring semester), 22830-01 Current Research in Bioinformatics I (fall semester). See ADAM for details to pass.

Please check below schedule for upcoming lectures. The schedule will be updated regularly.

22.09.2025 | Alex Popinga,  Colorado State University

Alex Popinga
Predictive Quantitative Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins CO, USA

Model, Fit, and Predict the Dynamics of Life with the SSIT:
The Stochastic System Identification Toolkit

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Date: Monday, September 22, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: Máté Balajti

29.09.2025 | Eugene V. Koonin,  NIH

Eugene V. Koonin
Computational Biology Branch, Division of Intramural Research
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda MD, USA

Emergence of globular protein folds from random amino acid sequences

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Date: Monday, September 29, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: Aleksei Mironov

13.10.2025 | Francis Corson,  École normale supérieure

Francis Corson
Theoretical neuroscience and biophysics
Laboratoire de physique de l'École normale supérieure & CNRS
Paris, France

How cells agree on making an embryo

Date: Monday, October 13, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: David Brückner

27.10.2025 |  Pierre Ronceray, Université Aix-Marseille

Pierre Ronceray
Measuring and Modeling Soft Living Matter
Turing Centre for Living Systems, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanosciences de Marseille
CNRS & Université Aix-Marseille
Marseille, France

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Date: Monday, October 27, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: David Brückner

03.11.2025 | Pavel Baranov,  University College Cork

Pavel Baranov
Laboratory of Post-Transcriptional control and bioinformatics
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland

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Date: Monday, November 3, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: Aleksei Mironov

10.11.2025 | Thomas Michaels, ETH-Z

Thomas Michaels
Theoretical Soft and Living Matter Physics
Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland

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Date: Monday, November 10, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: David Brückner

24.11.2025 | Donate Weghorn, University of Bern & University College Dublin

Donate Weghorn
Evolutionary Processes Modeling
Computational Biology and Health Genomics
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Barcelona, Spain

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Date: Monday, November 24, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: Aleksei Mironov

01.12.2025 | Rory Johnson, University of Bern & University College Dublin

Rory Johnson
Genomics of long noncoding RNA and Disease
Department of BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern &
School of Biology and Environmental Science
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland

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Date: Monday, December 1, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: Aleksei Mironov

8.12.2025 | Zena Hadjivasiliou, Université Aix-Marseille

Zena Hadjivasiliou
Mathematical and Physical Biology Laboratory
The Francis Crick Institute
London, UK

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Date: Monday, December 8, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: David Brückner

15.12.2025 | Mehmet Can Uçar, University of Sheffield

Mehmet Can Uçar
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK

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Date: Monday, December 15, 2025
Time: 16:15 h 
Location: Biozentrum, 02.073
Contact: David Brückner