Thursday Seminar and Other Seminars 2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012



Thu May 3, 2012

David Gems - Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London
New concepts about ageing in C. elegans
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 22, 2012

Casper Hoogenraad - Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University
Control of neuronal polarity and plasticity - the role of cargo trafficking
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo March 19, 2012

Benoît Biteau - Department of Biology, University of Rochester Rochester, USA
Control of tissue homeostasis in the Drosophila intestine
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 1, 2012

James L. Kirkland - Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, USA
Aging, Fat, Frailty, and Senescence
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo February 27, 2012

Lenhard Rudolph - Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Department on Stem Cell Aging, University of Ulm
Colloquium in the context of an extraordinary appeal procedure Molecular Mechanisms of Stem Cell Aging
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue February 21, 2012

Lars Zender - Hannover Medical School, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology
RNAi based functional genomics for target discovery in regeneration and cancer
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 9, 2012

Andreas Höflich - Leibniz-Institut für Nutztierbiologie, AG Mausgenetik FBN Dummerstorf
Grow fast, die young - insights from genotype- and phenotype-derived mouse models
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 26, 2012

Michael Hiller - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
Discovering genomic regions involved in phenotypic differences between species
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed January 18, 2012

Melanie Philipp - Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulm
GPCR Kinase Dependent Signaling Nodes
Time : 10:00
Place : Bioinstrumentezentrum (BIZ) - Meeting Rooms Sao Paulo/Buenos Aires


Thu January 12, 2012

Markus C. Wahl - Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Berlin
Brr2 - an unusual RNA helicase for spliceosome remodeling
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed January 11, 2012

Lucian Moldovan - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Regulation of homologous recombination in cancer and aging
Time : 15:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 15, 2011

Björn Schumacher - University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics
DNA Damage Responses in Development and Aging
Time : 15:50
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 15, 2011

Heinrich Jasper - University of Rochester
Stem Cell Aging in Drosophila
Time : 14:15
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 15, 2011

Simona Saccani - Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Freiburg
Understanding specificity of transcription using NF-kappaB as model system
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 8, 2011

László Nagy - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Center for Molecular Medicine Medical and Health Science Center University of Debrecen, Hungary
Nuclear
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 1, 2011

Sebastiaan Meijsing - Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Berlin
Rewiring of the transcriptional program induced by the glucocorticoid receptor by perturbation of allosteric domain-interplay
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 17, 2011

Stefan Schulte-Merker - Developmental Biology, Hubrecht Institute Utrecht, The Netherlands
Osteogenesis and Angiogenesis - Genetic Studies in Zebrafish
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue November 15, 2011

Axel Behrens - Mammalian Genetics Laboratory London Research Institute
Transcriptional control in stem cells and cancer
Time : 11:30
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 10, 2011

Thorsten Hoppe - University of Cologne, CECAD at the Institute for Genetics, Department of C. elegans Genetics and Development
Life and Destruction: Ubiquitin-mediated Proteolysis in Aging and Longevity
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 3, 2011

Ion Cirstea - Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, Duesseldorf
Senescence and premature aging in patients with Costello and Cardio-Facio-Cutaneous Syndromes
Time : 15:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu October 27, 2011

Dmitriy Chudakov - Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Quantitative TCR profiling by NGS as a tool for adaptive immunity studies
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu September 15, 2011

Lijian Hui - Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences - Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China
Induction of functional hepatocyte-like cells from mouse fibroblasts by defined factors
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo August 15, 2011

Susanne Mandrup - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Southern Denmark
Transcriptional networks controlling adipocyte differentiation
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue July 19, 2011

Peter Baumann - Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City, USA
All is well that ends well - molecular insights into chromosome capping and parthenogenesis
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu July 7, 2011

Roland Piekorz - Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Centrosome function in cancer and senescence
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 30, 2011

Thomas Ried - Section of Cancer Genomics Genetics Branch/CCR/NCI/NIH, Bethesda, MD
Genome and Transcriptome Dynamics in Cancer Cells
Time : 17:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 30, 2011

Carmen Villmann - Institut für Biochemie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Neuromotor disorders due to disturbances in glycinergic inhibition
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo June 27, 2011

Jan Vijg - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Bronx, New York
Genome dynamics in aging
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri June 17, 2011

Karl Lenhard Rudolph - Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Group on Stem Cell Aging University of Ulm
Genetic and environmental factors influencing stem cell aging
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 9, 2011

Ralph Kehlenbach - Universität Göttingen Zentrum für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellbiologie
Nucleoporins as regulators of nucleocytoplasmic transport
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue June 7, 2011

Michael Sendtner - University of Würzburg, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology
Defects in mRNA processing in the ethology of degenerative motoneuron diseases
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May, 26, 2011

Annette Borchers - Georg August University Göttingen, Dept. of Developmental Biochemistry
Let´s move it! PTK7 signaling in Xenopus development
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue May, 24, 2011

Henk Stunnenberg - Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences (NCMLS); Department of Molecular Biology Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Co-activation of GR and NF-kB leads to rearrangement of their binding sites and target genes
Time : 9:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 5, 2011

Fabrice Ango - Institute of functional Genomics Montpellier, France
L1CAM and SEMA3A: a zipcode for GABAergic cell type recognition in cerebellum
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 31, 2011

Claus Scheidereit - MDC für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
Signaling from the inside out: The mechanism of NF-kappaB activation in the DDR
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 24, 2011

Christian Widmann - Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Physiological role of RasGAP cleavage by executioner caspases: when the knife does not kill
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 17, 2011

Benedikt Grothe - Department Biologie II - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
The auditory brainstem - a model system for exact sensory processing in young and old
Time : 17:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 17, 2011

Gerald de Haan - Department of Stem Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Aging of hematopoietic stem cells
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 10, 2011

Clemens Tesch-Roemer - Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (German Centre of Gerontology), Berlin
Ageing and health in context: The role of social change and social inequality for health in the second half of life
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 27, 2011

Russ Hodge - Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
The Kansas Creationists vs. the Evolutionary Atheists: Is talking about Intelligent Design a waste of time?
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 13, 2011

Georg Schett - Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg
Rheumatoid arthritis and regulatory T-cells
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 9, 2010

Manfred Lutz - University of Würzburg - Institute for Virology and Immunology
How to make regulatory T cells by dendritic cells?
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo December 6, 2010

Filippo Giancott - Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Mechanisms underlying early dissemination, adaptation, and exit from domancy of metastatic breast cancer cells
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 2, 2010

Michael Brand - Biotechnology Center; Excellence Cluster and DFG Research Center for Regenerative Therapies CRTD Dresden University
Adult neural stem cells and CNS regeneration in the zebrafish brain
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 25, 2010

Hugues Roest Crollius - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France - CNRS UMR 854, Department of Biology
Evolution of vertebrate genomes: from ancestral reconstructions to recent positive selection
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed November 24, 2010

Rudi Balling - Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg - Faculty fo Science, Technology and Communication
The LCSB in Luxembourg: From Systems Biology to Systems Biomedicine
Time : 16:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri November 19, 2010

Douglas Forrest - NIDDK/NIH
The functions of thyroid hormone in mammalian development: more than meets the eye
Time : 10:00
Place : Large Seminar room


Thu November 18, 2010

Freddy Radtke - Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Schweiz
Notch: lineage specifier, oncogene, tumor suppressor and stem cell gate keeper
Time : 9:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue November 16, 2010

Michael Karin - University of California San Diego, Department of Pharmacology-La Jolla, USA
Inflammation, metabolism, aging and cancer: Dangerous Liaisons
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue November 16, 2010

Alan Lehmann - Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Replication of damaged DNA and cancer protection
Time : 9:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 11, 2010

Paul Saftig - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Institute of Biochemistry
At the acidic edge: lysosomal membrane proteins in health and disease
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed November 3, 2010

Michael Boutros - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Dissecting signaling circuits by genome-wide RNAi
Time : 15:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu October 28, 2010

Denis Duboule - University of Geneva, Switzerland, Dept of Zoology and Animal Biology
Hox genes and the genetic control of vertebrate development and evolution
Time : 15:00
Place : Lecture Hall Abbe Center Beutenberg


Thu October 21, 2010

Fabrice Ango - Institute of functional Genomics Montpellier, France
L1CAM and SEMA3A: a zipcode for GABAergic cell type recognition in cerebellum
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu October 14, 2010

Günther Schütz - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Crucial role of the nuclear receptor tailless (Tlx) in neural stem cells and brain tumor formation
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri September 17, 2010

Kanaga Sabapathy - Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Division of Cellular & Molecular Research, Humphrey Oei Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Centre, Singapore
Is the p53 homologue p73 a bona-fide tumour suppressor capable of preventing cellular transformation?
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu September 16, 2010

Matt Sweet - Insitute for Molecular Bioscience - University Queensland
The good, the bad and the ugly of innate immunity: Toll-like Receptor-inducible Anti-microbial and Inflammatory Pathways
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri September 10, 2010

Adam Antebi - Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne
Steroid regulation of longevity in C. elegans
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu September 2, 2010

Wieland Huttner - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
The cell biology of neural stem and progenitor cells and neurogenesis
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu July 15, 2010

Reza Ahmadian - Institut für Biochemie & Molekularbiologie II - Klinikum der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
25 years RAS structural biochemistry: interaction and network perspectives
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu July 8, 2010

Tim Clausen - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
Identification and characterization of a novel protein kinase that targets arginine residues
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 3, 2010

Keith Caldecott - Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex Brington, UK
New components of human chromosomal DNA strand break repair
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 27, 2010

Björn Schumacher - CECAD Cologne, Institut für Genetik, University Köln
DNA Damage in Aging and Longevity
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 20, 2010

Magdalena Götz - Helmholtz Zentrum München Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt Institut für Stammzellforschung
Glial cells generate neurons - new approaches to neuronal repair
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo May 3, 2010

João Pedro de Magalhães - School of Biological Sciences - University of Liverpool
Building haystacks and finding needles in the genomics of aging
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 22, 2010

Michael Kreutz - Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie, Magdeburg
Sending signals from synapse-to-nucleus: Jacob on the move
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 15, 2010

Sebastian Arnold - University Medical Centre - Centre for Clinical Research (ZKF), Freiburg
From Signals to cell fate: Roles of Eomesodermin in cell type specification during mouse development
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 25, 2010

Jürgen Behrens - Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin
The Amer family of APC binding proteins
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 18, 2010

Joseph Kissil - The Wistar InstitutePhiladelphia, USA, Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program
Merlin - novel functions at the cell membrane
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 11, 2010

Ulrich Rüther - Institute for Animal Developmental and Molecular Biology
The Fat mass and obesity (Fto) associated gene
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 4, 2010

Thomas Stamminger - Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology - University Hospital Erlangen
Interplay between cytomegalovirus infection and host defense by PML nuclear bodies
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri February 19, 2010

Christof Niehrs - Division of Molecular Embryology; German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg
Regulation of Wnt/Lrp6 signaling in development
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 18, 2010

Wolfgang Sommer - Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Molekulare Pharmakologie, Mannheim
What can animal models contribute to understanding the genetics of alcoholism?
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 11, 2010

Sepand Rastegar - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie - Institut für Toxikologie und Genetik
Deciphering the transcriptional regulatory code in vertebrate development
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 28, 2010

Friedemann Kiefer - Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine - Department of Vascular Cell Biology
Regulation of developmental lymphangiogenesis by leukocytes
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 21, 2010

Erik Johansson - Umea University - Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Sweden
Properties of yeast DNA polymerase epsilon - implications for leading strand synthesis
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 10, 2009

Francesca M. Pisani - Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche Napoli, Italy
Biochemical studies on the archaeal/eukaryal DNA replication machinery
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri December 04, 2009

Christina Back - Charles River, Sulzfeld
Virus PCR Testing for Research Biologics
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Abbe Center Beutenberg


Fri December 04, 2009

Angelika Lorenz - Gesellschaft für innovative Mikroökologie mbH Michendorf
Infektionen in Versuchstierhaltungen - Überwachung des Hygienestatus
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri December 04, 2009

Michael Mähler - Labor für biomedizinische Diagnostik - BioDoc - Hannover
Prävalenz von ausgewählten Infektionserregern bei Labormäusen und -ratten in Westeuropa
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 26, 2009

Tony Carr - University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Chromosome rearrangements and replication fork stalling
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 19, 2009

Karolien De Bosscher - Universiteit Gent Department of Physiology Lab for EukaryoticGene Expression & Signal Transduction Belgium
Molecular strategies to reduce side effects of steroid therapy
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue November 17, 2009

Peter Howley - Department of Pathology Harvard Medical School Boston, USA
Regulation of Papillomavirus Oncogene Expression
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue November 17, 2009

John Doorbar - National Institute for Medical Research Division of Virology London, UK
Understanding the Biology of HPV-Associated Disease
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri November 13, 2009

Bruno Amati - European Institute of Oncology IFOM-IEO Campus Milan, Italy
The cell cycle kinase Cdk2 is required to suppress cellular senescence upon oncogenic activation of c-Myc
Time : 9:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed November 11, 2009

Ulrich Hübscher - Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zürich-Irchel
Repair of oxdative damage after DNA replication: MUTYH and DNA polymerase l cooperate in a novel long patch base excision repair of 8-oxo-guanine
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed November 11, 2009

Steve C. West - Cancer Research UK - London Research Institute
Defects in DNA strand break repair and links to human disease
Time : 9:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 5, 2009

René H. Medema - Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Motor proteins in bipolar spindle assembly
Time : 17:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu October 29, 2009

Roger Horton - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
A continuing story of human MHC sequencing
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri October 9, 2009

Rob Wolthuis - Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Spindle Checkpoint-Dependent and Independent Control of Protein Destruction in Mitosis
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu October 8, 2009

Ursula Strobl - Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics
Deregulated CD40 signaling in B cell lymphomagenesis
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu October 1, 2009

Pärt Peterson - IGMP, Biomedicum University of Tartu Estonia
Regulation of transcriptional control by the autoimmune regulator Aire
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu Sep 10, 2009

Claude Libert - Molecular Mouse Genetics; DMBR/VIB/UGent, Belgium
The protective role of the glucocorticoid receptor in acute inflammation: a study with TNF and LPS in mice
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu Aug 20, 2009

Simone Sommer - Leibniz-Institute for Zoo- and Wildlife Research (IZW) Berlin
The role of immune genes (MHC) in parasite resistance and mate choice - lessons from case studies in mammals
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed July 1, 2009

Heinrich Koerner - Cellular Immunology Lab, Comparative Genomics Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Analysis of Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Gene-deficient Mouse Models
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 18, 2009

Christiane Otto - TRG Woman's Healthcare, Bayer Schering Pharma AG
GPR30 -a G-protein-coupled estrogen receptor
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue June 16, 2009

Christian Broberger - Department Neuroscience, Karolinska Institut
Switching Neuronal Network Configurations: Novel Mechanisms-of-Action for Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone (TRH) in Lactation and Arousal
Time : 14:00
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Thu June 11, 2009

Ari Waisman - 1. Medical Department, University of Mainz, Medical School
CYLD regulates T cell function and autoimmune responses
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue June 9, 2009

Nils Offen - Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz
Development of sexually dimorphic fins in the genus Xiphophorus
Time : 10:00
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Fri June 5, 2009

Christoph Cremer - KIP, University Heidelberg, Germany
Nanoscopy
Time : 11:15
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Mo May 11, 2009

Dagmar Wilhelm - University of Queensland, Australia
The role of non-coding RNAs in mammalian sex determination and beyond
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 7, 2009

Georg Stoecklin - DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance Heidelberg
Processing Bodies, Stress Granules and the Posttranscriptional Control of Cytokine Expression
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 30, 2009

Holger Bastians - Institute of Molecular Biology and Tumor Research, University Marburg
Tumor suppressor genes required for chromosomal stability
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo April 27, 2009

Dirk Carstanjen - Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
Irf8 and Klf4: two transcriptional regulators of myelopoiesis
Time : 15:30
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Mo April 27, 2009

David Chen - UT Southwestern Medical School, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dallas, Texas, USA
DNA-PKcs phosphorylation in DNA repair and hematopoietic stem cell maintenance
Time : 14:30
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri April 24, 2009

Andrew Dillin - Salk Insitutute for Biological Studies - La Jolla, CA, USA
Keynote lecture FLI-Alumni-Meeting
Time : 09:30
Place : Lecture Hall Abbe Center


Thu April 23, 2009

Martin Blum - Insitute of Zoology - University Hohenheim,
Keynote lecture FLI-Alumni-Meeting
Time : 15:15
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 23, 2009

Andreas Trumpp - DKFZ Heidelberg
Keynote lecture FLI-Alumni-Meeting
Time : 14:14
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo March 30, 2009

Guido Posern - MPI for Biochemie, Martinsried
Gene regulation and de-regulation by MAL/MRTF coactivators
Time : 17:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 26, 2009

Jan Korbel - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
Global Mapping of Copy-Number Variants in Humans by Next-Generation Sequencing
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue March 24, 2009

Richard Moriggl - Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research (LBI-CR)
Consequences for growth and metabolism of a disturbed hepatic Stat5-Glucocorticoid Receptor interaction
Time : 13:30
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Wed March 18, 2009

Thorsten Horn - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Telomere ageing - applications and limitations
Time : 14:00
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Thu March 12, 2009

Klemens Hertel - Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics University of California, Irvine, USA
Splicing Errors and Disease
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Wed March 11, 2009

Norbert Dencher - Physikalische Biochemie, FB Chemie, Technische Universität Damstadt
Ageing, Alzheimer's disease, caloric restriction and oxidative stress: Proteomic and biophysical views
Time : 14:00
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Tue March 10, 2009

Bin Wang - China Agricultural Unviersity
Induction of antigen specific Treg cells by DNA vaccination, an unexpected phenomenon and its potential applications
Time : 14:00
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Mo March 9, 2009

Martin Osterholz - Deutsches Primatenzentrum Göttingen
Evolutionary and epigenetic mechanisms in vertebrates
Time : 13:00
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Wed February 25, 2009

Ari Barzilai - Department of Neurobiochemistry George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel
The interrelations between DNA damage response, CNS development and organization
Time : 13:00
Place : FLI Seminar Room


Thu February 5, 2009

Volkmar Leßmann - Institute for Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg
Mechanisms of secretion and synaptic actions of BDNF and other neurotrophins
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 29, 2009

Stefan Lorkowski - Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Functional heterogeneity of macrophages
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 22, 2009

Juhani Syväoja - Faculty of Biosciences University of Joensuu, Finnland
TopBP1, a DNA replication and damage response protein
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri December 5, 2008

Martin Reichard - Institute of Vertebrate Biology The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno
Orexins in the genital and gastrointestinal tracts of some vertebrate species
Time : 10:00
Place : Seminar Room FLI


Thu December 4, 2008

Volker Burkart - German Diabetes Center GDC
Heat shock proteins in the pathogenesis of diabetes
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 27, 2008

Stephan Herzig - DKFZ Heidelberg
Fat matters: The molecular energy balance
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 20, 2008

Christine Mayer - DKFZ Heidelberg
The old meets the new: Intergenic and antisense transcripts regulate rRNA synthesis on an epigenetic level
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 13, 2008

Massimo Tommasino - International Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon, France
Molecular mechanisms of human papillomaviruses in carcinogenesis
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue November 4, 2008

Björn Vennström - Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Neurological and physiological consequences of a dominant negative thyroid hormone receptor alpha 1 in mice
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue November 4, 2008

Michael Karin - Department of Pharmacology University of California, San Diego
Neurological and physiological consequences of a dominant negative thyroid hormone receptor alpha 1 in mice
Time : 9:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue October 07, 2008

Axel Behrens - Mammalian Genetics Laboratory - London Research Institute
JNK signalling in stem cells and cancer
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue September 30, 2008

Jens Mittag - Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Role of thyroid hormone receptor a1 in regulation of energy metabolism
Time : 13:30
Place : Seminar Room FLI


Wed September 10, 2008

Anna Maisa - University Marburg
The role of the cellular subtilase SKI-1/S1P in the life cycle of Lassa virus
Time : 10:00
Place : Seminar Room FLI


Wed September 03, 2008

Francesc X. Guix - Molecular Physiology Unit, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Amyloid beta-peptide-induced nitrotyrosination of triosephosphate isomerase promotes helical filament formation
Time : 14:00
Place : Seminar Room FLI


Mo August 25, 2008

Edith Friesema - Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam
Characterization and clinical implications of the thyroid hormone transporters MCT8 and MCT10
Time : 10:00
Place : Seminar Room FLI


Thu July 17, 2008

Stephen Meyn - The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
Joint management of DNA breaks and telomeres by DNA repair and telomeric proteins
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 26, 2008

Prim Singh - Research Center Borstel
HP1 and epigenetic inheritance
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 12, 2008

Denise Barlow - Institute of Genetics, Vienna Biocenter, Austria
Gene silencing by imprinted macro non-coding RNAs
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 05, 2008

Doris Abele - Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven
Long lived bivalves as models for the physiology of ageing
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 08, 2008

Urban Liebel - KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Large scale High Content Screening microscopy. Status & challenges
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 24, 2008

Heribert Hofer - Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin (IZW)
Getting old in a female-dominated society: evolutionary consequences for males and females
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 17, 2008

Anna von Mikecz - Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung (IuF), Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf
Nanoparticle-induced protein aggregation reveals how the ubiquitin-proteasome-system prevents chaos in the cell nucleus
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 10, 2008

Martin Bastmeyer - University Karlsruhe (TH), Institute for Zoology I, Cell - and Neurobiology
2D and 3D micropatterned substrates to study cell differentiation and neurite outgrowth
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo March 18, 2008

Frank Buchholz - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
From RNAi screens to molecular function: a systematic pipeline for gene function in mammalian cells
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo March 3, 2008

Ian Hickson - Professor of Molecular Oncology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
Genome maintenance, cancer and ageing: lessons from analysis of RecQ helicase disorders of man
Time : 17:15
Place : Universitätsklinikum Jena Lobeda, seminar room 1


Thu February 21, 2008

Britta Qualmann - FSU Jena, Institute of Biochemistry
Shaping membranes - Roles for cytoskeletal dynamics in vesicle formation and morphology control
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 14, 2008

Simone Difilippantonio - Bethesda, USA
53BP1 deficiency reveals a novel joining defect in V(D)J recombination
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 07, 2008

Michael Kiebler - University Wien
Dendritic RNA localization and its contribution to activity-dependent changes at the mammalian synapse
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 31, 2008

Heike Schäcke - Bayer Pharma Schering
SEGRA - Selective Glucocorticoid Receptor Agonists: on the way from bench to the clinics
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 24, 2008

Christoph Klein - Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Medical School Hannover
Monogenic disorders of hematopoiesis - from identifying defects in myelopoiesis to gene therapy
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 17, 2008

Jochen Hampe - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für klinische Molekularbiologie
Chances and challenges in genome-wide association studies
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 10, 2008

Andreas Kispert - Institute for Molecular Biology, MHH Hannover
Another field out there? Formation of the venous pole of the heart
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu December 13, 2007

Makoto Kuro-o - University of Texas, Dallas
The anti-aging mechanism mediated by Klotho
Time : 15:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 29, 2007

Alison C. Lloyd - MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
Modelling tumour formation in NF1
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 8, 2007

Björn Clausen - University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center (AMC) Department of Cell Biology and Histology
Functional characterization of Langerhans and dendritic cells by inducible cell ablation and conditional gene targeting in mice
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu November 1, 2007

Amalio Telenti - nstitut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Lausanne, Schweiz
Genomics meets AIDS: First whole-genome association study for host control of HIV-1
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu October 10, 2007

Jochen Graw - GSF-National Research Center for Environment & Health, Institute of Developmental Genetics
Genetic aspects of congenital and senile cataracts
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue September 11, 2007

Stephan Beck - Immunogenomics Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Reverse Phenotyping: Towards a Systems Approach to Complex Phenotypes and Common Disease
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 21, 2007

Changxian Zhang - Unit of Cancer Genetics, CNRS - Faculté de Médecine Rockefeller, Lyon
Different faces of the Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) gene in the development and tumorigenesis of endocrine pancreas
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 14, 2007

Peter Becker - Adolf-Butenandt-Institut München
ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling: from nucleosome to heterochromatin
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu June 7, 2007

Lloyd Demetrius - Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.)
What determines longevity: metabolic rate or stability?
Time : 13:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 31, 2007

Jürgen Popp - IPHT Jena
Raman Spectroscopy - a Powerful Tool for the Analysis of Complex Biological Systems
Time : 16:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue May 29, 2007

Bin Wang - Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, State Key Lab for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing
Immunotherapeutic approaches against allergic and autoimmune diseases by co-immunization of DNA and protein vaccines
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 24, 2007

Aphrodite Kapurniotu - RWTH Aachen, Institute of Biochemistry
Inhibition of cytotoxic protein self-association in Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 10, 2007

Ari Barzilai - Department of Neurobiochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel
The role of the DNA damage response in brain development and function
Time : 16:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu May 3, 2007

Hubert Schorle - Dept. of Developmental Pathology, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn Medical School
AP-2gamma Function in Development and Disease
Time : 16:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 26, 2007

Mathias Jucker - Hertie-Institut für klinische Hirnforschung Tübingen
Mechanisms of cerebral beta-amyloidosis
Time : 16:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 19, 2007

James W. Vaupel - MPI for Demographic Research, Rostock
The remarkable rise in life expectancy and the prospects for further improvements
Time : 17:30
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu April 5, 2007

Michele Vendruscolo - Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Predictions of aggregation propensities of proteins
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 15, 2007

Bruno Amati - European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy
Function of the histone acetyl-transferase Tip60 in oncogene-induced DNA damage responses and tumor suppression
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue March 13, 2007

Henry V. Baker - Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
Transcriptomic response to burn injury
Time : 15:30
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 8, 2007

Manfred Gossen - MDC für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
Dynamics of the DNA replication initiator ORC
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Fri March 6, 2007

Helmut Pospiech - University of Oulu, Department of Biochemistry, Finland
Distinctive roles of DNA polymerases alpha, delta, and epsilon during human DNA replication
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu March 1, 2007

Christoph Röcken - Institut für Pathologie, Charité Berlin
Is amyloidosis a metabolic disease?
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Tue February 27, 2007

Olivier Kassel - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, ITG
A Trip to Glucocorticoid Receptor Action
Time : 10:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Mo February 26, 2007

Pauline Schaap - School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
The evolution of developmental signaling in social amoebas
Time : 11:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 22, 2007

Emilio Casanova - Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Wien
Life Imaging of GABA(B) Receptors
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu February 8, 2007

Michael Pankratz - Institut für Toxikologie und Genetik, Karlsruhe
Neuroendocrine circuits controlling metabolism and aging in Drosophila
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg


Thu January 25, 2007

Thomas Schmitt-John - Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Murine Vps54 Mutations Provide New Insight in the Pathomechanism of Motor Neuron Diseases
Time : 14:00
Place : Lecture Hall Beutenberg