Lecture Series

The QBM lecture series features talks by external speakers on relevant topics. Speakers are invited and hosted by QBM graduate students.

Upcoming Lectures

18.11.2019

Shelley L. Berger Perelman School of Medicine, Univ Pennsylvania

Epigenetic pathways as targets in human disease

01:00 pm - 02:00 pm , Feodor Lynen Lecture Hall, Gene Center

02.12.2019

Stefan Raunser MPI of Physiology, Dortmund

The power of cryo-EM to elucidate biological mechanisms

05:15 pm , at the TUM: Ivar-Ugi-Hörsaal (CH22.210), Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85747 Garching

09.03.2020

David Rueda Imperial College London

Title TBA

12:00 am , TBA

16.03.2020

Peter Tessarz MPI Cologne

Title TBA

12:00 am , TBA

23.03.2020

Karsten Weis ETH Zuerich

Title TBA

12:00 am , TBA

06.04.2020

Matthias Hentze EMBL

Title TBA

12:00 am , TBA

04.05.2020

Gaudenz Danuser South Western Medical Center

Title TBA

12:00 am , TBA

25.05.2020

Fabio Vandin Imperial College London

Title TBA

12:00 am , TBA

12.10.2020

Jernej Ule Imperial College London

Title TBA

12:00 am , TBA

Past lectures

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