12.11.2025A hydrologically informed agricultural land use intensity index: Assessing multiple pressures on stream ecosystems

Michael Kyei AgyekumHelmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), Magdeburg

Host: Patrick FinkUniversity of Cologne, Institute of Zoology

12.11.2025Pangenome based analysis of structural variation

Tobias MarschallInstitute for Medical Biometry and Bioinformatics, Medical Department, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Host: Susanne MotamenyCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne; University Hospital Cologne

12.11.2025Mechanisms of TNF receptor activation: From understanding to application

Harald WajantHead of the Division of Molecular Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg

Host: Henning WalczakCentre of Biochemistry / Institute for Biochemistry I / University Hospital Cologne

12.11.2025Freier Wille und metabolische Homeostase: Wie die Biologie unser Verhalten bestimmt

Marc TittgemeyerMPI for Metabolism Research

Host: Erik Norman Dzwiza-OhlsenHusserl Archives Cologne

13.11.2025Lunch & Learn with Qiagen: Solutions for all your RNA challenges
* Foundations of RNA Purification: The Science Behind
* From Principles to Practice: Workflow Optimization, Troubleshooting and ensuring RNA Quality
* Navigating QIAGEN’s RNA Solutions: Finding the Perfect Fit for Your Application

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer
Dr. Yvonne Ponath and Dr. Katharina Rehklau QIAGEN Hilden

Host: Debora Grosskopf-KroiherCenter for Molecular Medicine Cologne

13.11.2025Bridging Molecular Mechanisms to Tissue Function: Selective mTORC1 Signalling in Skeletal Muscle Metabolism and Ageing”

Stephanie FernandesMPI for Biology of Aging

Host: Julia EtichExperimental Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Center for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne

13.11.2025Targeting polyamine transport in liver cancer

Christoph MuellerUniversity of Basel, The center for Molecular Sciences, CH

Host: Björn SchumacherCECAD

14.11.2025Transcriptional Adaptation, an RNA-based mechanism of genetic compensation

Didier StainierMPI for Heat and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim

Host: Ina HuppertzMPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne

14.11.2025Reproducibility for Big Data Science - Git, Conda, Docker advanced

ICCB WorkshopInstitute for Computational Cancer Biology

Host: Roland SchwarzInstitute for Computational Cancer Biology

14.11.2025PRPF39-PRTF1 mediates splicing of short and U-rich atypical introns across metazoans

Simon Bekker-JensenDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Host: Ina HuppertzMPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne