Biozentrum Discovery Seminars
Biozentrum Discovery (BZD) is a seminar series, which alternates between talks by renowned guest speakers and seminars given by graduate students and postdocs from the Biozentrum.
The seminars usually take place on Fridays at 11:15 - 12:15.
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| March 6, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Cris Tocchini (group Susan Mango) Using Notebook LM Marek Basler & Michael Podvinec | |
| March 13, 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. | |
| March 20, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Dr. Tony Hyman Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Host: Maria Hondele The Hyman lab studies how the formation of liquid phases within a liquid cytoplasm impacts the formation of membraneless compartmentalisation of macromolecules inside living cells. | |
| April 10, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) "Conserved signals dictate symmetry breaking and regeneration of multilayered epithelia" 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. | |
| April 17, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Dr. Alexey Baldin (group Jean Pieters) tba NN (group Anissa Kempf) | |
| May 8, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Host: Attila Becskei Klaus-Robert Müller is 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. | |
| 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. | |
| June 26, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Lacra Bintu Stanford University, USA Host: Laetitia Rozic The Bintu lab uses systems and synthetic biology approaches to characterize the dynamics of gene and chromatin regulation in mammalian cells. The goal is to improve mammalian synthetic biology. | |
| July 3, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131) tba Guest speaker: Dr. Alexander Stark Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria Host: Alex Schier In his research, he addresses the question of how is gene regulation and therefore the development of our bodies encoded in our DNA sequence. | |
| September 4, 2026 (lecture hall tba) 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 tba) 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 tba) 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 16, 2026 (lecture hall tba) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Xavier Trepat Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Host: David Brückner In his research, Trepat's aims to understand how physical forces and molecular control modules cooperate to drive biological function. | |
| October 30, 2026 (lecture hall tba) 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. | |
| November 6, 2026 (lecture hall tba) "The sex and geometry of organs" Guest speaker: Dr. Nadine Vastenhouw University of Lausanne Host: Susan Mango Vastenhouw's team studies how the transcriptional machinery and chromatin template are brought together in time and space to robustly regulate transcription during development. | |
| November 13, 2026 (lecture hall tba) "The sex and geometry of organs" Guest speaker: Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga Crick Institute, London, UK Host: Claudia Keller Valsecchi The Miguel-Aliaga lab seeks to understand how organs sense and react to their environment to maintain or change our physiology. | |
| December 4, 2026 (lecture hall tba) tba Guest speaker: Prof. Aleksandra Walczak Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Host: Anne Moor Walczak's main interest lies in understanding the link between function, development and evolvability in living systems. |