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Archive 2017

Dec 15, 2017
12:00 p.m.     

Kristen Panfilio

Institute for Zoology, Developmental Biology, University of Cologne

"Macroevolutionary divergence in transcription factor function and copy number, and gene structure divergence"

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, 2017
3:00 p.m.

Jonathan Wolf Mueller

Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham

"Sulfonation Pathways and Healthy Ageing"

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

Dec 1, 2017
12:00 p.m.     

Brunhilde Wirth

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne

"Genetic modifiers help to unveil disease cellular and molecular pathways and to develop novel therapies in spinal muscular atrophy"

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

Nov 24, 2017
12:00 p.m.     

Gunther Döhlemann

Botanical Institute & CEPLAS, University of Cologne

"Papain-like cysteine proteases are hubs in plant immunity"

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

Nov 22, 2017
3:00 p.m.

Andrea Sinz

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

"The Advancement of Cross-linking/Mass Spectrometry for Studying Protein Structures and Protein-Protein Interactions"

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

Nov 22, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Aleksandra Trifunovic

CECAD, University Hospital Cologne

"Mitochondrial genetics and gene expression"

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

Nov 17, 2017
12:00 p.m.     

Elena Rugarli

CECAD, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"mRNAs encoding mitochondrial proteins finally have a CLUH"

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

Nov 10, 2017
12:00 p.m.     

Tobias Bollenbach

Institute for Experimental Biophysics, University of Cologne

"Ecological interactions in polymicrobial infections"

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

Nov 9, 2017
3:00 p.m.

Vsevolod Belousov

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences & UM Göttingen

"Understanding redox regulation using metabolic engneering and imaging"

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

Nov 8, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Junjie Hu

National Laboratory of Macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academa of Science, Beijing, China

"Fusion of the outer mitochondrial membrane"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Mafalda Escobar, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: MPI for for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9 b, lecture hall, ground floor

Nov 6, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Koji Okamo

Laboratory of Mitochondrial Dynamics, Osaka University, Japan

"Targeting autophagy for mitochondrial clearance"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: pending

Oct 20, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Argyris Papantonis

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne

"Factory-derived circular RNAs controlling inflammatory signaling"

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

Oct 18, 2017

3:00 p.m.
 

Robert Ernst

University of Saarland

"The activation of the unfolded protein response by lipid bilayer stress"

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

Oct 18, 2017
12:00 p.m.

William F. Martin

Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

"Mitochondrial origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Jan Riemer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: MPI for for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9 b, lecture hall, ground floor

Oct 13, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Niels Gehring

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Protection and surveillance of the human transcriptome by RNA-binding proteins"

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

Oct 11, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Elena Rugarli

CECAD, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Mitochondrial biogenisis and its regulation"

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

Sep 22, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Achim Tresch

Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Science andEpidemiology, University Hospital Cologne

"The quantification of RNA turnover - successes and failures"

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

Sep 8, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Ines Neundorf

Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"Cell-penetrating peptides as alternative transfection agents"

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

Jul 19, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Mafalda Escobar-Henriques

CECAD, University of Cologne

"Mitochondrial structure and sub-compartments: proteins and lipids"

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

Jul 14, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Karsten Niefind

Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"BIVAK2: bivalent and dualinhibitors to target protein kinase CK2"

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

Jul 12, 2017
12:00 p.m.

 

 

Alex Withworth

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK

"PINK1-Parkin in Parkinson’s disease; is it really just mitophagy?"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: MPI for for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9 b, lecture hall, ground floor

Jun 21, 2017
12:00 p.m.

 

 

 

Jan Riemer

Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"Mitochondrial metabolism"

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

Jun 16, 2017
05:00 p.m.

Yu Chien

Academica Sinica Nagkang, Taipei, Taiwan

"Development: elegant harmony in chaos"

Host: CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Jun 8, 2017
05:00 p.m.

Soni Deshwal

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

"Monoamine oxidases perturb ER-mitochondria function leading to fibrosis and LV diastolic dysfunction in Type 1 diabetes"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Jun 2, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Alga Zuccaro

CEPLAS, Botanical Institute, University of Cologne

"Effector-mediated suppression of extracellular ATP-triggered immunity ba a root endophyte"

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

May 31, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Thomas Misgeld

Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology, TU Munich

"Neuronal organelles and signalling dynamics explored by transgenic mice and in vivo imaging"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: MPI for for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9 b, lecture hall, ground floor

May 24, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Thomas Langer

CECAD, University of Cologne

"Introduction to mitochondral biology"

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

May 19, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Sigrun Korsching

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Evolutionary origin of olfactory receptor repertoires"

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

May 12, 2017
12.00 p.m.

Matthias Hammerschmidt

Institute of Zoology / Vertebrate Development & Regeneration, University of Cologne

"Zebrafish models for human bone and skin diseases: Retinoic acid-dependent hyper-ossification and matriptase-dependent epidermal carcinogenesis"

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

Apr 28, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Björn Schumacher

CMMC & CECAD, University of Cologne

"Non-cell-autonomous DNA Damage responses"

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

Apr 26, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Nika Danial

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

"Changin appetites: fuel choice, biosynthesis and tumor cell survival"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: MPI for for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9 b, lecture hall, ground floor

Apr 7, 2017
12:30 p.m.

Aswin Pyakurel

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

"Loss of ERK1/2 in the retinal pigment epithelium leads to RPE65 decrease and retinal degeneration"

Host: CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Apr 7, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Ulrich Baumann

Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"Structural and functional studies on the collagen chaperone Hsp47"

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

Mar 31, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Mirka Uhlirova

CECAD, University of Cologne

"Down to the core: how epithelial polarity controls gene expression"

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

Mar 17, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Andreas Beyer

CECAD & Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Impact of genetic variability on post-transcriptional traits"

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

Mar 8, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Andreas Reichert

Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, University Hospital Düsseldorf

"The DUbs and downs of regulating mitophagy"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Thomas Langer, CECAD Research Center, Institute for Genetics
Place: MPI for for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9 b, lecture hall, ground floor

Feb 17, 2017
12:00 p.m.

Alvaro Rada-Iglesias

CMMC & CECAD, University of Coloigne

"Chromatin signatures as powerful tools to functionally annotate vertebrate genomes"

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