D3: Molecular and Cellular Structural Biology II – 17001
(2 hrs/week; 2 CP; Fall 2025)
Sebastian Hiller, Timm Maier
Structural Biology Across Scales - This course will provide an overview of integrative structural approaches that bridge size scales from atoms to cells. Topics include high-resolution structure determination by techniques such as cryo-electron microscopy, resolving molecular structures within the cellular context with cryo-electron tomography, applications of AI-based structure prediction, NMR spectroscopy, structural proteomics and interactomics, whole-cell 3D imaging with volume electron microscopy and superresolution light microscopy, and computational modeling that integrates diverse structural data.
Schedule for Fall 2025
On-site / zoom meetings and student chalk talks are scheduled on Thursday 13:15 – 15:00 in room U1.193
Date | Time |
| Speaker |
| 18.09.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Johann Danzl, Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| 25.09.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Michael Hothorn, University of Geneva, Switzerland "Integrating structural biology, quantitative biochemistry, and genetics to unravel new signaling pathways controlling plant growth and development." |
| 02.10.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Anne Schütz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany "Title TBA" |
| 09.10.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Georg Hochberg, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany "Title TBA" |
| 16.10.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 U1.195 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Volodymyr Korkhov, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland "Molecular mechanisms of gap junction-mediated intercellular communication" |
| 23.10.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | Prof. Dr. Basile Wicky, ETH Zürich, Switzerland "Title TBA" | |
| 30.10.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | ||
| 06.11.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Wanda Kukulski, University of Bern, Switzerland "Correlative microscopy for structural cell biology" |
| 13.11.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | Prof. Dr. Nenad Ban, ETH Zürich, Switzerland | |
| 20.11.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Bruno Klaholz, University of Strasbourg, France |
| 27.11.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | ||
| 04.12.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Prof. Dr. Matthias Hentze, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany "Title TBA" |
| 11.12.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Dr. Florian Wollweber, EMBL Grenoble, France "Multi-scale imaging of Asgard archaea illuminates the origin of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton" |
| 18.12.2025 | 13:15 – 15:00 | On-site | Student chalk talks |