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 2024)

Thursday, September 19, 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: Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Alex Schier)

Thursday, October 3, 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 Mike Hall)

Thursday, October 10, 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 Ben Engel)

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

Prof. Gabriel Neurohr, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich: Title tbd

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

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

Dr. Minchul Kim, Laboratory of Syncytial Cell Biology, IGBMC, University of Strasbourg, France: Title tbd

Host: Dr. Dan Ham (Group Markus-A. Rüegg)

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

Thursday, February 15, 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 Maria Hondele)

Tuesday, May 21, 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 Markus-A. Rüegg)
 

Thursday, June 20, 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 Anne Spang)

Thursday, July 11, 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 Jean Pieters)

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

Thursday, September 14, 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 Markus Rüegg)

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

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

Host: Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Alex Schier)

Thursday, October 19, 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 Anne Spang)

Thursday, January 11, 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 Anne Spang)

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

Tuesday, February 28, 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 Alex Schier)

Thursday, March 9, 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 Anne Spang)

Thursday, March 16, 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 Mike Hall)

Monday, April 17, 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 Alex Schier) 

Thursday, May 11, 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 Markus Affolter)
 

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

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

Host: Sophie Schnider (Groupp Markus Affolter) 
 

Cell Biology Lecture Series I - (Fall 2022) 

Thursday, December 15, 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 Anne Spang)