04.10.2023Reverse engineering brains: Use of animal ‘models’ for understanding the relation between brain, behavior and cognition

Brian SmithSchool of Life Sciences Arizona State University

Host: Martin NawrotComputational Systems Neuroscience Institute of Zoology Department of Biology University of Cologne

05.10.2023Xenium in situ Analysis - the Resolution Revolution

Andrea Hamm-Baarke10x Genomics

Host: Debora Grosskopf-KroiherCenter for Molecular Medicine Cologne

05.10.2023Increasing importance of selective autophagy and adaptation in neurodegeneration

Christian Behl Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute of Pathobiochemistry, GER

Host: Natalia KononenkoCenter for Physiology & CECAD Research Center

09.10.2023Unravelling new functions of electrical synapses in fast flapping flyers

Carsten DuchInstitute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology (iDN), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

Host: Ansgar BueschgesInstitute of Zoology, UoC

10.10.2023Cell death and Innate Immune Regulation in the Gut

Monica YabalTechnical University Munich, Institute for Molecular Immunology, Munich, GER

Host: SFB 1403 Uris RosInstitute for Genetics

11.10.2023Mitochondrial Biogenesis Regulation

Elena RugarliInstitute for Genetics, CECAD

Host: Katerina VlantisCRC 1218 | mito-RTG

16.10.2023Human kidney organoids reveal self-organizing principles of embryonic organogenesis and pathomechanisms

Yun XiaNanyang Technological University, Singapore

Host: Leo KurianCenter for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Institute for Neurophysiology & CECAD

18.10.2023Role of forces in membrane dynamics and tissue morphogenesis

Marino ZerialMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Host: Thomas LangerMax-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing

18.10.2023Structures, function and assembly mechanism of mammalian mitochondrial supercomplexes

Irene VercellinoErnst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons – Structural Biology Forschungszentrum Juelich

Host: Elmar BehrmannInstitute of Biochemistry

20.10.2023The Brain in Action – through the lens of evolution

Sten Grillner Nobel institute for neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Host: Christina StarkClinic for Neurology, University Hospital of Cologne