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Archive 2018

Dec 14, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Gunther Döhlemann

Botanical Institute, CEPLAS, University of Cologne

"The molecular weaponry of smut fungi and how it shapes microbial interactions"

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

Dez 12, 2018
3:00 p.m.

Roland Brock

Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

"Targeted photodynamic therapy and oligonucleotide delivery in 3D cancer models"

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

Dec 7, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Elena Rugarli

Institute for Genetics, CECAD, University of Cologne

"How microtubule dynamics regulates lipid droplet biogenesis and why this is relevant for axonal degeneration"

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

Nov 23, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Constantinos Demetriades

MPI for Biology of Aging, Cologne

"Nutrient sensing mechanisms and cell growth control in health and disease"

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

Nov 21, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Robin Klemm

Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland

"Organelle contact sites during adipocyte differentiation"

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

Nov 20, 2018
16:00 a.m.     

Paul Elliott

Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK

"Regulation of the ubiquitin code by deubiquitinating enzymes"

Host: Kay Hofmann, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Nov 16, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Günter Schwarz

Institute of Biochemistry, CECAD, University of Cologne

"Mitochondrial sulfite oxidase: Biogenesis, metabolic function and cellular signaling"

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, 2018
14:00 p.m.     

Niels Gehring

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"How exon junction complexes shape the human transcriptome"

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

Oct 5, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Ines Neundorf

Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"Expanding the toolbox of membrane-active peptides by hybrids with (un)usual building blocks"

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

Sep 21, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Jürgen Dohmen

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"How assembly chaperones guide assembly of proteasome core particles"

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

Aug 31, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Sigrun Korsching

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Olfactory receptors: Birth of function and regulation of affinity"

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

Jul 18, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Christian Frezza

MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge,UK

"Mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer: metabolites and beyond"

Host: Mitoclub/CRC 1218 - Eduard Hofsetz, Laboratory of Aleksandra Trofunovic, CECAD Research Center, University Clinics
Place: Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, lecture hall, ground floor

Jul 13, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Jay Gopalakrishnan

CMMK, University of Cologne

"Centrosome and cilia biochemistry in human cancers"

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

Jul 11, 2018
3:00 p.m.

Christian Siebold

Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

"Molecular Mechanisms of Morphogen Signal Transduction at the Cell Membrane"

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

Jul 6, 2018
11:00 p.m.

Isha Jain

Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA

" Turning the oxygen dial as a therapy: hypoxia as a treatment for mitochondrial dysfunction"

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

Jun 29, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Mirka Uhlirova

Institute for Genetics, CECAD, University of Cologne

"Transcriptional control of epithelial homeostasis and regeneration"

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

Jun 27, 2018
3:00 p.m.

Hans Ulrich Zeilhofer

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, CH

"Cellular and Molecular Players of the Spinal Gate for Pain and Itch"

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

Jun 22, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Karin Schnetz

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Interfering with repression by the nucleoid-structuring protein H-NS in E.coli"

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

Jun 15, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Andreas Beyer

CECAD, CMMC, University of Cologne

"It goes all ways: multi-level omics phenotype mapping"

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

Jun 8, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Manolis Pasparakis

Institute for Genetics, CECAD, University of Cologne

"How the deubiquitinating enzyme A20 inhibits inflammation"

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

Jun 06, 2018
5:00 p.m.

Karl Schmid

University of Hohenheim

"Towards understanding the coevolution of the Maize­-Exserohilum pathosystem"

Host: Joachim Krug, Thomas Wiehe
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Jun 06, 2018
4:00 p.m.

Ellen Baake

Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University

"Ancestral lines under selection"

Host: Joachim Krug, Thomas Wiehe
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall 4th floor

Jun 06, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Martin Graef

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne

"Mitophagy and other autophagy systems"

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

May 30, 2018
3:00 p.m.

Jordi Bella

University of Manchester, UK

"Biotechnological collagens for tissue engineering applications"

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

May 28, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Quan Chen

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

"FUNDC1-mediated mitophagy regulates mitochondrial quality and quantity"

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

May 18, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Mafalda Escobar

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Changing the fate of mitochondria-thanks to ubiquitin!"

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

May 16, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Maya Schuldiner

Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel

"Mitochatting - mitochondrial communication with organelles at contact sites"

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

May 9, 2018
3:00 p.m.

Doron Rapaport

Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen

"Biogenesis of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins in evolutionary context"

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

Apr 27, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Kay Hofmann

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Of protein function prediction and MYTH-busting ubiquitin proteases"

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

Apr 25, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Jan Riemer

Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne

"Mitochondria and ROS signaling"

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

Apr 20, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Leo Kurian

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, CECAD, University of Cologne

"A lncRNA mediated regulatory layer that facilitates embryonic cell-fate transitions"

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

Apr 13, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Berenike Maier

Institute for Biophysics, University of Cologne

"How molecular forces shape bacterial biofilms"

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

Apr 11, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Lena Pernas

Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy

"Mitochondria defend host cells during Toxoplasma infection"

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

Apr 5, 2018
10:00 a.m.

Sascha Martens

Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria

"Mechanisms of Protein Quality Control by Selective Autophagy"

Host: Kay Hofmann, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
Place: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall ground floor

Mar 23, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Michael Nothnagel

Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne

"Genetic mapping of 39 X-chromosomal forensic STRs"

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

Mar 16, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Aleksandra Trifunovic

CECAD, University Hospital Cologne

"Proteolytic control of mitochondrial respiratory chain"

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

Mar 7, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Ana-Jesus Garcia-Saez

Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry (IFIB), University of Tübingen

"Mitochondrial apoptosis at the single molecule level"

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

Feb 28, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Johannes Herrmann

Department of Cell Biology, Universität Kaiserslautern

"Mito-SURF: The ER surface facilitates the intracellular targeting to mitochondria"

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

Feb 7, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Jürgen Dohmen

Institute for Genetics

"Mitochondrial dynamics"

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

Feb 2, 2018
12:00 p.m.     

Thorsten Hoppe

CECAD, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

"Food Perception Through a Single Pair of Olfactory Neurons Governs Organismal Proteostasis"

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

Jan 31, 2018
12:00 p.m.

Marco Sandri

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy

"Role of mitochondrial quality control in metabolism and longevity"

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

Jan 24, 2018
3:00 p.m.

Dirk Schwarzer

Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

"Peptide‐based probes for lysine deacetylases"

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

Jan 10, 2018
3:00 p.m.

Florian I Schmidt

Institute of Innate Immunity, Universitätsklinikum Bonn

"Alpaca Nanobodies as Tools to Study the Cell Biology of the Immune System and Infection"

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