Past lectures
09.10.2023
Suckjoon Jun UCSD
Bacterial replication initiation as precision control by protein counting
27.03.2023
Alena Khmelinskaia LiMES Bonn
Expanding the repertoire of de novo protein assemblies
21.03.2023
Liang Liang UCSF School of Medicine
Metabolomic Fingerprinting of Human Pregnancy
27.02.2023
Mohammad Lotfollahi Helmoltz Center Munich
Deep learning for multi-scale analysis of single-cell data to understand health and disease
06.02.2023
Alexander Stark IMP Vienna
Decoding transcriptional regulation
25.04.2022
Marianne Bauer Center of the Physics of Biological Function (Princeton)
Sensing transcription factors in the fly embryo
28.03.2022
Uri Alon Weizmann Institute
Design Principles of Physiological Circuits
14.03.2022
Žiga Avsec DeepMind
Learning the sequence grammar of gene expression using AI
11.10.2021
Camilo Perez University of Basel
Mechanism of cell wall transporters and role in virulence of bacterial pathogens
28.06.2021
Mihaela Pertea Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Towards a new comprehensive human gene catalogue
07.06.2021
David Pincus University of Chicago
The Heat Shock Response in Time: Initiation Signals and Feedback Loops
28.05.2021
Susanna Manrubia CSIC Madrid
How the architecture of hyperastronomically large genotype spaces shapes evolutionary dynamics
14.05.2021
David Joerg Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Self-organised homeostasis of stem cells through competition for fate determinants
15.03.2021
Scott Blanchard St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis
Variant Ribosomal RNA Alleles Are Conserved, Exhibit Context-Specific Expression and Regulate Gene Expression
09.11.2020
Jernej Ule The Francis Crick Institute London
Studies of TDP-43 uncover new roles of phase separation in RNA regulatory networks
26.05.2020
James Ferrell University of Stanford
The nucleus acts as pacemaker for the cell cycle oscillator
25.05.2020
Fabio Vandin Imperial College London
Cancelled due to Corona Lockdown
04.05.2020
Gaudenz Danuser South Western Medical Center
Controlling cell protrusion – the mechanics, the chemistry, and the surprises
06.04.2020
Matthias Hentze EMBL
Cancelled due to Corona Lockdown
23.03.2020
Karsten Weis ETH Zuerich
Cancelled due to Corona Lockdown
16.03.2020
Peter Tessarz MPI Cologne
Cancelled due to Corona Lockdown
09.03.2020
David Rueda Imperial College London
Cancelled due to Corona Lockdown
02.12.2019
Stefan Raunser MPI of Physiology, Dortmund
The power of cryo-EM to elucidate biological mechanisms
18.11.2019
Shelley L. Berger Perelman School of Medicine, Univ Pennsylvania
Epigenetic pathways as targets in human disease
23.09.2019
Clare Waterman NIH/NHLBI
Integrating actin and adhesion dynamics in cell migration and innate immunity
16.09.2019
Pakorn Kanchanawong National University of Singapore
Nanoscale Architecture of Cell Adhesion Complexes
26.11.2018
Olivier Martin GQE-Le Moulon, INRA, Gif-sur-Yvette
Quantitative modeling of dynamic intra-cellular networks
13.11.2018
Tuomas Knowles University of Cambridge
Biophysics of protein aggregation
22.10.2018
Mike Stubbington 10X Genomics
Antigen receptor repertoires at single-cell resolution and the Human Cell Atlas
08.10.2018
Andrew Jackson The University of Edinburgh
A to Z of Microcephaly: From genome instability to autoinflammation and cancer therapeutics
23.07.2018
Robert Endres Imperial College London
Information processing by the „probrain“: how bacteria sense and respond to chemicals
02.07.2018
Nigel Goldenfeld University of Illinois
Evolutionary transitions at the dawn of life: the emergence of the genetic code and biological homochirality
18.05.2018
Geeta Narlikar UCSF
ATP-dependent and independent mechanisms of regulating chromatin
16.04.2018
Matthias Selbach Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
Proteome dynamics
12.03.2018
Bridget Carragher NY Structural Biology Center
Challenges and opportunities for cryoEM automation
19.02.2018
Rickard Sandberg Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research & Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Deciphering gene regulation using single-cell transcriptomics
15.01.2018
Ruedi Aebersold ETH-Zurich
The proteome in context
21.11.2017
Xavier Trepat IBEC, Barcelona
Forces driving migration, division, and folding in cellular layers
14.11.2017
Christian Eggeling University of Oxford
New insights into plasma membrane organization from super-resolution microscopy
07.11.2017
Jörg Langowski DKFZ, Heidelberg
Cancelled
23.10.2017
Terence Hwa University of California, San Diego
Quantitative study of gene expression: from transcriptome to proteome
11.10.2017
Christine Jacobs-Wagner Yale University
How to achieve cellular replication without fail: Lessons from bacterial cells
27.09.2017
Maria Polychronidou Editor - Molecular Systems Biology
Behind the scenes of scientific publishing: The editorial process
24.07.2017
Jan Huisken Morgridge Institute for Research, Wisconsin
Multi-scale imaging with personalized light sheet techniques
05.07.2017
Eva Nogales UC Berkeley
The human transcription initiation machinery: structure, interactions and dynamics
04.07.2017
Ned Wingreen Princeton University
Building a biofilm the Vibrio cholerae way
30.05.2017
Sander Tans AMOLF Institue
Hsp70 mediated protein stabilization & collective cell motion in lung organoids
15.05.2017
Raúl Méndez IRB, Barcelona
The CPEB family of RNA-binding proteins: Post-transcriptional (re)programing gene expression in homeostasis and disease
13.03.2017
Ethan Garner Harvard University
Watching rods form out of spheres, how bacteria form and grow in defined widths
20.02.2017
Irmgard Sinning Heidelberg University
Insights into co-translational protein targeting and folding
13.02.2017
Bart Deplancke EPFL, Lausanne
Understanding and predicting complex phenotypes using genetic and molecular data
23.01.2017
Helen Saibil Birkbeck University of London
Protein aggregation and disaggregation in situ and in vitro
16.01.2017
Christine Vogel NYU
The ups and downs of protein expression regulation
28.11.2016
Domenico Libri Institute Jacques Monod
Pervasive transcription in yeast: generation, control and function
31.10.2016
Mick Watson The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
Can bioinformatics help feed the world?
19.09.2016
Sarah Teichman WT Sanger Institute
Understanding Cellular Heterogeneity
20.06.2016
Sunney Xie Harvard University
Life at the Single Molecule Level: From Single Molecule Enzymology to Single Cell Genomics
06.06.2016
Bernd Bukau ZMBH
Mechanisms of chaperone assisted protein folding
17.05.2016
Michael Lässig University of Cologne
Predicting evolution: statistical mechanics and biophysics far from equilibrium
26.04.2016
Pieter Rein ten Wolde FOM Inst AMOLF
The thermodynamics of cellular computation
14.03.2016
Vincent Noireaux University of Minnesota
Cell Free TX-TL: from gene circuit to self-assembly in a test tube
29.02.2016
Roland Kontermann University of Stuttgart
Bispecific and bifunctional antibody fusion proteins for cancer therapy
15.02.2016
Ralf Jungmann MPI for Biochemistry
Superresolution microscopy with DNA molecules
01.02.2016
Bas van Steensel NKI
Genomics of chromosome architecture and gene regulation
25.01.2016
Richard Neher MPI Tübingen
Quantifying and predicting evolution of viruses and bacteria
11.01.2016
Andrej Sali UCSF
Integrative modeling of biomolecular assemblies and pathways
14.12.2015
Susan Gasser FMI Basel
Does spatial organization of genome matter?
16.11.2015
Frank Jülicher MPI PKS Dresden
Physics of active matter in living cells
12.10.2015
Boris Shraiman KITP Santa Barbara
Mechanics and growth control in animal development
21.09.2015
Ewan Birney EMBL-EBI, Cambridge
Big data in biology: impact in basic and translational research
22.06.2015
Thomas Gregor Princeton University
Bridging the scales in development: from single molecules to macroscopic biological patterns
11.05.2015
Eran Segal Weizman Institute, Israel
Journal Club – Eran Segal
04.05.2015
Jasmin Fisher Microsoft Research
Computing cancer
20.04.2015
Andres Leschziner Harvard University
Mechanism and regulation of cytoplasmic dynein
02.03.2015
Darren Wilkinson Newcastle University
Stochastic modeling of genetic interaction in budding yeast
09.02.2015
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen MPI Marburg
Regulation of cell division in bacteria
02.02.2015
Erich Sackmann TUM
How mechanical forces guide the adhesion, locomotion and polarization of cells
19.01.2015
Liedewij Laan TU Delft
How yeast fixes a broken polarization machine: towards a mechanistic understanding of evolutionary change
12.01.2015
Johan Elf Uppsala University
Probing intracellular kinetics at the level of single molecules
15.12.2014
Jürgen Cox MPI for Biochemistry
Quantitative proteomics for data driven systems biology
