Events
Seminar Series: Current research in Bioinformatics I, VV 22830-01
Dr. Hanno Hennighausen: Active fluid framework for spreading and translating cell clusters
Dr. Hanno Hennighausen,
Host: Prof. Dr. David Brückner
Abstract
Seminar Series: New Approaches to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance, VV 14466-01
Prof. Andrea Fossati: Mapping infection at the proteome scale: from spectra to interactions
Prof. Andrea Fossati, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Host: Prof. Yuping Li
Abstract
September 22, 2026
14:30 - 18:00
Location: University Medical Library Basel, Spiegelgasse 5
SciLib Forum 2026
AI in Charge or Human in the Loop? Maintaining Scientific Ownership in the Age of Generative AI. 22 September - 23 September
Program and registration here
D-BSSE seminar
Prof. Sascha Fauser: New treatments in Ophthalmology
Prof. Dr. Sascha Fauser, Roche Pharma Research & Early Development, University of Cologne
Please join us for Coffee & Gipfeli at 11:00 AM outside the lecture hall.
If you are unable to attend in person, you can also join the talk online.
Abstract
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Prof. Simon Hippenmeyer: Principles of Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression
Prof. Simon Hippenmeyer, ISTA, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Julia Reisenbauer: Title tba
Prof. Julia Reisenbauer, ISTA Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Matteo Allegretti: Built to deliver a genome: architecture of the most extreme nucleus in human cells and the molecular basis of male infertility
Matteo Allegretti, MRC Cambridge, UK
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
FMI, Young Investigator Seminar Series
Dr. Frederic Roemschied: Modulation of neural function following experience in alternate social realities
Dr. Frederic Roemschied (European Neuroscience Institute, Goettingen, Germany)
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Kerstin Dörner: How nuclear speckles retain messenger RNAs & Dr. Tamara Maric: Transforming antibiotic discovery with human-relevant models and novel tools
Dr. Kerstin Dörner (group Maria Hondele) & Dr. Tamara Maric (group Urs Jenal)
FMI seminar
Dr. Jan Padeken: UV-Damage-induced Epigenetic Changes in Organismal Resilience and Aging
Dr. Jan Padeken, (Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany)
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Tobias Williams: The Journey of RNA: Nuclear Speckles and mRNA Export
Tobias Williams, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Prof. Mark Ashe: Translation factories" as sites for the co-ordinated production of protein
Prof. Mark Ashe, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Juliane Glaser: Transposable elements during mammalian development
Juliane Glaser, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Darren Gilmour: Title tba
Prof. Darren Gilmour, University of Zurich
Host: Prof. Dr. Alex Schier
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Dr. Ali Seleit: Heterochrony of axis segmentation underlies extreme morphogenesis in the Japanese eel
Dr. Ali Seleit, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Host: Dr. Joaquin Navajas Acedo (group Schier)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Courtney Stairs: Title tba
Prof. Courtney Stairs, Lund University, Sweden
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Valentin Flury: Epigenome maintenance (across cell divisons)
Valentin Flury, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Xavier Trepat: Programming Shape in Living Tissues
Prof. Xavier Trepat , Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Host: Prof. Dr. David Brückner
Abstract
October 19, 2026
14:00 - 12:30
Location: University Hospital, Klinikum 1, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031 Basel, Auditorium: Hörsaal 2 / 2nd floor
Basel Breast Consortium, October 19 -21, 2026
International Annual Meeting on Breakthroughs in breast cancer research and treatment
The early bird registration with abstract submission is extended until September 15, 2026
Late registrations without abstract submission will be possible until October 05, 2026.
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Dr. Daniel Müller: Title tba
Prof. Daniel Müller, DBSSE Basel
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Seminar Series: C2 Graduate Teaching Lecture: Functional Organisation of the Cell Nucleus
Prof. Susanne Wegmann: Nuclear Actions of the Microtubule Associated Protein Tau
Susanne Wegmann, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, Charité, Berlin, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dimitris Dimitrakopoulos: Title tba & Dibya Saha: Title tba
Dimitris Dimitrakopoulos (group Doetsch) & Dibya Saha: (group Hondele)
October 27, 2026
19:00 - 19:45
Location: Biozentrum, Lecture hall Maurice E. Müller Saal, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel
Einblicke Biozentrum: Aktuelles aus der Forschung, lecture in English
Prof. Yuping Li - From Basic Biology to Phage Therapy
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01 Prof. Sigrid Milles, FMP, Berlin, Germany https://leibniz-fmp.de/research/research-section/structural-biology/sigrid-milles
Prof. Sigrid Milles: Title tba
Prof. Sigrid Milles, FMP, Berlin, Germany
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Marta Zlatic: Title tba
Dr. Marta Zlatic,University of Cambridge, UK
Host: Prof. Dr. Alex Schier
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Martin Pilhofer; Title tba
Prof. Martin Pilhofer, ETH Zürich
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Nadine Vastenhouw: Title tba
Prof. Nadine Vastenhouw (University of Lausanne )
Host: Prof. Susan Mango
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV 67912-01
Dr. Dafni Hadjieconomou: Mind the gut”: How ovarian signals trigger maternal gut expansion
Dr. Dafni Hadjieconomou, Brain Institute, ICM, Paris, France
Host: Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Schier)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Magda Bienko: Title tba
Prof. Magda Bienko, Human Technopole Milano, Italy
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Alexander von Appen: Nuclear self-assembly
Alexander von Appen, MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga: The sex and geometry of organs
Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Crick Institute, London, UK
Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV 67912-01
Dr. Núria Ros i Rocher: Title tba
Dr. Núria Ros i Rocher, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Host: Dr. Alexey Baldin (Group Pieters)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Philip Tinnefeld: Towards Optical Dynamic Structural Biology with Graphene Energy Transfer and pMINFLUX
Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, LMU München, Germany
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Ramona Jühlen: Chromatin Dynamics in Mitosis
Ramona Jühlen, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Sam van Beljouw: Title tba & Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog: Title tba
Dr. Sam van Beljouw (group Li) & Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog (group Lim)
November 24, 2026
19:00 - 19:45
Location: Biozentrum, Lecture hall Maurice E. Müller Saal, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel
Einblicke Biozentrum: Aktuelles aus der Forschung
Prof. Alex Schier: Genesis: Vom Ei zum Embryo
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Dr. Ludovic Enkler: Studying prostate cancer across scales
Dr. Ludovic Enkler, LabEx "MitoCross", Strasbourg, France
Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Dr. Thomas Lemmin: Protein Modeling and Design in the Era of Deep Representation Learning
Dr. Thomas Lemmin, University of Bern
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182
Prof. Patrick Onck: Computational microscopy: visualizing nuclear transport at amino-acid resolution
Patrick Onck, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Host: Birthe Fahrenkrog
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Aleksandra Walczak: Title tba
Prof. Aleksandra Walczak, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Host: Anne Moor
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Dr. Yonghua Li-Beisson: Title tba
Dr. Yonghua Li-Beisson, CEA Cadarache, France
Host: Fanny Le Blanc (Group Engel)
Einblicke Biozentrum: Aktuelles aus der Forschung
Prof. David Brückner: Physik trifft Biologie - Wie Zellen sich selbst organisieren
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Dr. Andreas Kuglstatter: Title tba
Dr. Andreas Kuglstatter, Roche, Basel
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Maren Ketterer: title tba & Three technology talks: protein binders, proteomics, light sheet microscopy
Dr. Maren Ketterer (group Dehio) & Prof. Sebastian Hiller, Alex Schmidt and Oliver Biehlmaier
Cell Biology Lecture Series II, VV 67912-01
Prof. Jan Zylicz: Title tba
Prof. Jan Zylicz, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Uni Copenhagen, Denmark
Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Iñaki Ruiz: Title tba
Prof. Iñaki Ruiz (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona
Host: Prof. Dr. Jean Pieters