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Archive 2019

Dec 20, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Karsten Niefind

Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"Structure-function relationships in the EDS1-family of plant immunity regulator proteins"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Dec 13, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Sigrun Korsching

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"The fifth class of G proteins: evolution and function"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Dec 6, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Andreas Beyer

CECAD, CMMC, University of Cologne

"Age-associated decline of Pol-II performance"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Nov 29, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Jürgen Dohmen

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Mingle-Mangle of post-translational modifications: Substrate selection by SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligases"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Nov 27, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Stephen Tait

Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Glasgow, UK

"Mitochondria: inflammatory killers"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218, Tom MacVicar, Laboratory of Thomas Langer
Place: MPI for Biology of Aging, lecture hall, ground floor

Nov 22, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Manolis Pasparakis

Institute for Genetics, CECAD, University of Cologne

+++ cancelled +++ cancelled +++

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Nov 20, 2019
3:00 p.m.

Fabrizia Stavru

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

"Mitochondria and intracellular bacteria: how close can you get?"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Lena Pernas, MPI for Biology of Aging, CECAD Research Center
Place: MPI for Biology of Aging, lecture hall, ground floor

Nov 15, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Kay Hofmann

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

+++ cancelled +++ cancelled +++

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Nov 8, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Mafalda Escobar

Institute for Genetics, CECAD, University of Cologne

"Mitofusins: from membrane mergers to disease keepers"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Oct 16, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Martin Ott

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Stockholm, Sweden

"Spatial and temporal control of mitochondrial translation"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, MPI for Biology of Aging, CECAD Research Center
Place: MPI for Biology of Aging, lecture hall, ground floor

Oct 11, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Berenike Maier

Institute for Biophysics, University of Cologne

"Fitness effects of horizontal gene transfer"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Sep 20, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Tobias Bollenbach

Institute for Biophysics, University of Cologne

"Temporal order and precision of microbial stress responses"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Sep 18, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Adam Hughes

Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

"Dissecting organelle relationships that drive aging and disease"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Martin Graef, MPI for Biology of Aging
Place: MPI for Biology of Aging, lecture hall, ground floor

Sep 13, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Aleksandra Trifunovic

CECAD, University Hospital Cologne

"Untangling the mitochondrial stress responses"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Sep 6, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Thorsten Hoppe

CECAD, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Mechanisms of Endoplasmic Reticulum Homeostasis Important for Viral Defense and Aging"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Aug 30, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Michael Nothnagel

Cologne Center fo Genomics, University of Cologne

"Distinct human genetic variation in Iran"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall ground floor

Jul 12, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Linda Odenthal-Hesse

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön

"Hitting the spot - regulating meiotic recombination and genome instability in mammals"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Jul 10 22, 2019
15:00 p.m.     

Armin Geyer

Philipps-Universität Marburg

"Cys-rich peptide motifs – from synthetic mimetics to genetically encodable topologies"

Host: Biochemical colloquium
Place: Institute for Biochemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, seminar room 170, 1st floor

Jun 28, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Ulrich Baumann    +++   cancelled   +++   cancelled   +++  

Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"title to be announced"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Jun 26 22, 2019
15:00 p.m.     

Ulrike Gruneberg

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, England

"Regulation of chromosome segregation in human cells by the spindle assembly checkpoint"

Host: Biochemical colloquium
Place: Institute for Biochemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, seminar room 170, 1st floor

Jun 07, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Alvaro Rada-Iglesias

CMMC, University of Cologne

"Modelling the pathological long-range regulatory effects of structural variation with patient-specific hiPSC"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

May 24, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Marcus Krüger

Institute for Genetics, CECAD, University of Cologne

"Lysine methylation outside the histone code and autophagy-associated protein breakdown"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

May 22, 2019
17:00 p.m.     

Bernhard Haubold

MPI for Evolutionary Biology

"Do Mouse Genomes Contain Homozygous Lethal Loci?"

Host: Thomas Wiehe
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall ground floor

May 22, 2019
15:00 p.m.     

Oleksandr Volkov

Structural Biology Brussels, University of Brussels

"Seeing the Invisible by NMR: Study of Lowly-Populated States in Electron Transfer Protein Complexes"

Host: Biochemical colloquium
Place: Institute for Biochemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, seminar room 170, 1st floor

May 17, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Stan Kopriva

Botanical Institute, CEPLAS, University of Cologne

"Root-specific camalexin biosynthesis controls plant microbe interactions in the rhizosphere"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

May 10, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Martin Graef

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, CECAD, Cologne

"Mechanisms and physiological functions of autophagy"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

May 08, 2019
15:00 p.m.     

Miriam Cortese-Krott

University Hospital Düsseldorf

"Regulation of NO/sulfide metabolism and vascular tone"

Host: Biochemical colloquium
Place: Institute for Biochemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, seminar room 170, 1st floor

May 3, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Hamid Kashkar

CMMC, University Hospital Cologne

"Control of host cell death by bacterial invaders"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Apr 17, 2019
15:00 p.m.     

Esther Zahin

Cell and Developmental Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

"Patterning cortical contractility during animal development"

Host: Biochemical colloquium
Place: Institute for Biochemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, seminar room 170, 1st floor

Apr 12, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Alga Zuccaro

CEPLAS, Botanical Institute, University of Cologne

"Plant immunity and cell death in fungal root symbiosis"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Apr 10, 2019
15:00 p.m.     

Nora Vögtle

Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg

"MitoUPreR: Early events in mitochondrial unfolded protein response pathways"

Host: Biochemical colloquium
Place: Institute for Biochemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, seminar room 170, 1st floor

Apr 10, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Peter Kloppenburg

Institute for Zoology, University of Cologne

"How intracellular Ca2+ handling influences neuronal activity under physiological and pathophysiological conditions"

Host: Mito-RTG |Lecture series by PIs of the CRC 1218
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Apr 5, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Björn Schuhmacher

CECAD, CMMC, University of Cologne

"Non-cell-autonomous regulation of the DNA damage response"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Apr 3, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Julien Prudent

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

"New Roles for PI(4)P in Mitochondrial Division"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, MPI for Biology of Aging, CECAD Research Center
Place: MPI for Biology of Aging, lecture hall, ground floor

Mar 22, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Achim Tresch

Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, University Hospital Cologne

"Analysis of cell differentiation processes using time lapse microscopy and the tree hidden factor graph model"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Mar 15, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Kostas Tokatlidis

Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, University of Glasgow, UK

"Safeguarding mitochondria by unconventional translocation of the cytosolic antioxidant machinery into the intermembrane space"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Jan Riemer, MPI for Biology of Aging, CECAD Research Center
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Feb 22, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Jan Riemer

Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"Limiting hydrogen peroxide-induced cell death by peroxiredoxinhyperoxidation"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Feb 20, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Hamid Kashkar

University Hospital Cologne

"Mitochondria, cell death and inflammation"

Host: Mito-RTG |Lecture series by PIs of the CRC 1218
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Feb 18, 2019
4:00 p.m.     

Michael A. Beer

Department of Biomedical Engineering and McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

"Using Machine Learning to Detect Enhancer Variation, Enhancer-Promoter Interactions, and Regulatory Conservation"

Host: Andreas Beyer, Systems Biology
Place: Lecture Hall, ground floor, CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26

Feb 15, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Ute Deichmann

Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Data, theory, and scientific belief in early molecular biology: Crick’s and Pauling's conflicting notions about the genetic determination of protein synthesis and the solution to the 'secret of life'"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Feb 8, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Martin Denzel

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging, Cologne

"Forward genetic screens give new insights into protein function and ageing"

Host: Friday Seminars on molecular and computational biology, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Feb 6, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Luca Scorrano

Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Venice, Italy

"Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of life and death"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, MPI for Biology of Aging, CECAD Research Center
Place: MPI for Biology of Aging, lecture hall, ground floor

Jan 30, 2019
12:00 p.m.

Thorsten Hoppe

Institute for Genetics, CECAD, University of Cologne

"Cell responses to mitochondrial stress"

Host: Mito-RTG |Lecture series by PIs of the CRC 1218
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Jan 9, 2019
12:00 p.m.     

Benedikt Westermann

Cell Biology & Electron Microscopy, University of Bayreuth

"Mitochondrial dynamics, inheritance, and aging in yeast"

Host: Biochemical colloquium
Place: Institute for Biochemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, seminar room 170, 1st floor