December 20, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
“Inflammasomes - multi-protein complexes controlling anti-microbial immunity and pyroptotic cell death”
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 20, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Ralph Isberg
Tufts University
Host: Alex Schier
Isberg's team investigates drug resistance in nosocomial pathogens emphasizing a systems biology and network analysis approach. |
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. |
February 7, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Robert Ivanek (Bioinformatics Core Facility)
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Andreas Kaczmarczyk (group Urs Jenal) |
February 14, 2025 (11:45 am, lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Asya Rolls
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Host: Flavio Donato
Rolls focus her research on specific neuronal networks in the brain, e.g. the reward system, and on general changes in brain activity and analyze their effects on immune activity. |
February 21, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"The design of evolution and the evolution of design"
Guest speaker: Prof. Andreas Plückthun
department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich
Host: Laetitia Rozic
Plückthun's research focuses on protein engineering and directed evolution, especially of antibodies, engineered binding molecules and membrane proteins. |
March 21, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Björn Kscheschinski (group van Nimwegen)
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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. |
April 11, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Sophie Schnider (group Affolter)
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May 9, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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May 23, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Dr. Ana-Maria Lennon Dumenil
Institut Curie, Paris, France
Host: Jean Pieters
Her team aims at deciphering the fundamental molecular and cell biological mechanisms that enables immune cells to efficiently fulfil their functions. |
June 6, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Dr. Carlos Ribeiro
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
Host: Flavio Donato
Ribeiro's lab wants to understand how neuronal circuits control nutritional decisions to regulate important traits such as aging and reproduction. |
June 13, 2025 (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. |
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. |
September 5, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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Guest speaker: Prof. Wallace Marshall
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Host: Ben Engel
His main focus is on how geometry arises within cells, as well as how cells perform computations and behaviors. |
October 17, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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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. |
October 24, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
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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. |
March 6, 2026 (lecture hall U1.131)
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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. |
