The "Cell Biology Lecture Series" is a joint effort of the Research Groups Affolter, Engel, Hall, Hondele, Rüegg, Schier and Spang to monthly host international speakers to talk about current research and advances in cell biology. Lectures are planned to be followed by “Meet the speaker” sessions. 

Cell Biology Lecture Series I - 67912-01 (Fall 2025)

Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 12:15-13:15, U1.131

Prof. Christian Ungermann, Department of Biology/Chemistry, Biochemistry Section, University of Osnabrück, Germany: Insights into endolysosomal membrane homeostasis

Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)

Thursday, January 16th, 2026, 12:15-13:15, U1.131

Prof. Edan Foley

Host: Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Schier)

Cell Biology Lecture Series II - 67913-01 (Spring 2025)

Thursday, March 20th, 2025, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif, Zebrafish Neurogenetics Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR3738, Paris, France: Making sense of heterogeneity within adult neural stem cell populations

Host: Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Schier)

Thursday, March 27th, 2025, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Prof. Pedro Carvalho, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK: Endoplasmic Reticulum Protein Homeostasis: From Quality Control to Signalling

Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)

Thursday, April 24th, 2025, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Prof. Alejo Efeyan, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain: Nutrients and the Rag GTPases, metabolic switches for cancer and aging

Host: Dr. Gabriela Casanova Sepúlveda (Group Hall)

Thursday, May 8th, 2025, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Prof. Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA-Visiting Professor EPFL Lausanne: Transposon Addiction in Vertebrate Development

Host: Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Schier)

Thursday, May 22th, 2025, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Dr. Nicole Poulsen, Technical University of Dresden, B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Germany: Navigating Complex Paths: Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Diatom Gliding

Host: Fanny Le Blanc (Group Engel)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, 14:00-15:00, U1.131

Prof. Fred Relaix, University Paris-Est Créteil, INSERM, U955 IMRB, Créteil, France: Rat Duchenne muscular dystrophy models for preclinical studies and deciphering muscle repair mechanisms.

Host: Timothy McGowan (Group Rüegg)

Cell Biology Lecture Series I - 67912-01 (Fall 2024)

Thursday, September 19th, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.131

Dr. Agathe Chaigne, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics Department, Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Cutting it fine: molecular and mechanical regulation of abscission in stem cells

Host: Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Schier)

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.131

Prof. Arkaitz Carracedo, Cancer Cell Signaling and Metabolism Lab, CIC bioGENE, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain: The multifaceted contribution of metabolism to cancer and beyond

Host: Dr. Christoph Müller (Group Hall)

Thursday, October 10th, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.131

Prof. Omaya Dudin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva: Multicellular developmental diversity at the root of animals

Host: Fanny Le Blanc (Group Engel)

Thursday, November 7th, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.131

Prof. Gabriel Neurohr, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich: "When Big is Bad-Escessive cell growth induces genome instability and cytoplasm dilution during cell senescense"

Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)&Dr. Kerstin Dörner (Group Hondele)

Thursday, November 14th, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.131

Asst. Prof. Minchul Kim, Laboratory of Syncytial Cell Biology, IGBMC, University of Strasbourg, France: Myonuclear heterogeneity in health and disease

Host: Dr. Dan Ham (Group Rüegg)

Thursday, November 21st, 2024, 11:15-12:15, U1.101

Dr. Dafni Hadjieconomou, Brain Institute, ICM, Paris, France: "Mind the gut": How inter-organ communication shapes physiology

Host: Cindy Reinger (Group Affolter)

Cell Biology Lecture Series II - 67913-01 (Spring 2024)

Thursday, February 15th, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Dr. Arnaud Hubstenberger, iBV-Institute of Biology Valrose, UMR7277 CNRS, Univ. Côte d'Azur, Nice, France: Robust sorting and buffering within condensates control transcriptome stoichiometries

Host: Dr. Kerstin Dörner (Group Hondele)

Tuesday, May 21st, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Dr. Kevin Watt, Heart Regeneration and Heart Disease Laboratories, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia: Pluripotent stem cell derived models of muscle disease for drug discovery

Host: Dr. Dan Ham (Group Rüegg)
 

Thursday, June 20th, 2024, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Prof. Tatjana Kleele, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich: Resolving the dynamic organization of mitochondria

Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)

Thursday, July 11th, 2024, 11:15-12:15, U1.101

Dr. Elena Casacuberta Suñer, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain: Understanding the role of plasticity in the transition to a multicellular organism

Host: Dr. Alexey Baldin (Group Pieters)

Cell Biology Lecture Series I - 67912-01 (Fall 2023) 

Thursday, September 14th, 2023, 12:15 - 13:15, U1.101

Prof. James Sleigh, Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL, London, UK: Restoring axonal transport as a therapeutic strategy in genetic peripheral neuropathy

Host: Dr. Ines Böhm (Group Rüegg)

Thursday, October 12th, 2023, 17:15-18:15, U1.141

Prof. Maneesha S. Inamdar, INSTEM, Bangalore, India: OCIAD proteins refine mitochondrial control of stem cell fate

Host: Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Schier)

Thursday, October 19th, 12:15 - 13:15, U1.141

Prof. Maria Bohnert, University of Münster, Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging, Münster, Germany: Systematic approaches to uncover new players in lipid droplet biology

Host: Dr. Ludovic Enkler (Group Spang)

Thursday, January 11th, 2024, 12:15 - 13:15, U1.101

Prof. Judith Klumperman, University Medical Center Utrecht, Center for Molecular Medicine, Utrecht, The Netherlands: The HOPS complex: Integrating Lysosomal Trafficking Pathways

Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)

Cell Biology Lecture Series II - 67913-01 (Spring 2023)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023, 12:15-13:15, U1.101

Prof. Margaret Scottie Robinson, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, UK: Adaptor protein complexes: what do they do?

Host: Dr. Dominik Buser, (Group Schier)

Thursday, March 9th, 2023, 12:15 - 13:15, U1.101

Prof. Aurélien Roux, Biochemistry Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland: In vitro morphogenesis of tissue and Hydra by collective nematic order of cells

Host: Dr. Ludovic Enkler (Group Spang)

Thursday, March 16th, 2023, 12:15 - 13:15, U1.101

Prof. Sarah-Maria Fendt, Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism and Metabolic Regulation, VIB KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium: Metabolic rewiring driving metastasis formation

Host: Dr. Christoph Müller (Group Hall)

Monday, April 17th, 2023, 12:15 - 13.15, U1.101

Prof. Peter Ebert Andersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark: Innovation of transcriptional regulation guards germline immortality

Host: Dr. Madalena Madeira Reimão Pinto (Group Schier) 

Thursday, May 11th, 2023, 12:15 - 13:15, U1.101

Dr. Clare Buckley, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK: Building and Breaking the Neural Tube

Host: Ludovico Maggi (Group Affolter)
 

Thursday, May 25th, 2023, 12:15 - 13:15, U1.101

Prof. Buzz Baum, LMB, University of Cambridge, UK: Our archaeal origins

Host: Sophie Schnider (Groupp Affolter) 
 

Cell Biology Lecture Series I - (Fall 2022) 

Thursday, December 15th, 2022, 13:15 – 14:15, U1.101

Prof. Sascha Martens, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna BioCenter, University of Vienna, Austria: Mechanisms of Cargo Selection and Autophagosome Biogenesis in Selective Autophagy

Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)