23.04.2025 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Rotem Sorek
Weizman Institute

The immune system of bacteria and the origin of innate immunity



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: K. Jung / H. Stibor
29.04.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Keynote Lecture

Stavros Lomvardas
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

Achieving Singularity in Olfactory Receptor Gene Expression



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Room NQ 105

Host: Christian Mayer
29.04.2025 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Institut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

1. Susan Golden, 2. James Golden
University of California, USA

1. Circadian regulation of gene expression in cyanobacteria, in vivo und in vitro 2. Engineering expression of natural products in cyanobacteria



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: Kirsten Jung
05.05.2025 13:15
Helmholtz Zentrum München

David A. Brown
Neuroinflammation Research Group, WIMR, Sydney University and NSW Health Pathology ICPMR, Westmead

Immune contribution to treatment resistant psychiatric disease: What can Trisomy 21 teach us?



Helmholtz Zentrum München - Großhadern
Room 101

Host: Andreas Moosmann (Department of Medicine III, LMU-Klinikum)
05.05.2025 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Bianca Jones Marlin
Columbia University

Nature, nurture, and the neuroscience of parenthood



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Nadine Gogolla
06.05.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Emerging Scientist Series

Marina Papadopoulou
University of Tuscia, Italy

Cognitive rules underlying the self-organization of animal collectives



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen
Haus 4, Seminarraum 4/0.07 und 4/0.08

Host: Susanne Hoffmann
06.05.2025 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Institut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

Abram Aertsen
KU Leuven, Belgien

The extended life cycle of bacteriophage Lambda



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: Kirsten Jung
06.05.2025 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Tobias Bonhoeffer
Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Intelligenz

Vom Lernen und Vergessen



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: Vor Ort und online: ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: Stefanie Merker
07.05.2025 13:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series

Jamie H. Cate
University of California, Berkeley Innovative Genomics Institute

RNA Language Models to Improve RNA Function



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Elena Conti
08.05.2025 11:00
SFB 1064 Chromatin Dynamics
LMU Seminar

Timo Müller
Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Munich & Walther-Straub Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, LMU Munich

Novel Insights into Regulation of Energy and Glucose Metabolism by GIPR Agonism and GLP-1:GIP co-agonism



Biomedical Center (BMC)
Room N02.017

Host: Maren Heimhalt and Andreas Ladurner
08.05.2025 14:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
MPIB Seminar

Jennifer Doudna
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Innovative Genomics Institute, Berkeley

Adventures in Biochemistry with CRISPR: The ABC's of a Career in Science (Followed by Round Table Discussion)



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Elena Conti; Danny Nedialkova; Kikue Tachibana
08.05.2025 16:00
IMPRS
IMPRS Lecture Series

Jürgen Cox
MPI of Biochemistry

MaxQuant: Computational proteomics for the masses



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: IMPRS-ML, ZOOM password 192953
09.05.2025 14:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series

Jennifer Doudna
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Innovative Genomics Institute, Berkeley

The Chemistry of CRISPR: What's Ahead for Genome Editing



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Elena Conti
12.05.2025 13:15
LMU Gene Center

Evan Karousis
University of Bern

tba



Gene Center Lynen Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall 0.75

Host: Jonathan Bohlen
13.05.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Institute Seminars

Julia Clarke
The University of Texas at Austin

Insight into the evolution a novel vocal organ in birds



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Room NQ 105

Host: Maude Baldwin
15.05.2025 16:00
IMPRS
IMPRS Lecture Series

Maude Baldwin
MPI for Biological Intelligence

Functional evolution of the taste and digestive system in birds



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: IMPRS-BI, ZOOM password 192953
16.05.2025 09:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN), MPI for Biological Intelligence

Several speakers
tba

Munich Brain Day 2025



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Large Lecture Hall

Host: O. Behrend, S. Capello, L. Fenk, A. Harbauer, D. Keays, O. Mauger, G. Nordmann, R. Portugues,
22.05.2025 11:00
SFB 1064 Chromatin Dynamics
LMU Seminar

Nadine Vastenhouw
University of Lausanne, Center for Integrative Genomics

The role of nuclear organization in transcription regulation



Biomedical Center (BMC)
Room N02.017

Host: Kikuë Tachibana
22.05.2025 16:00
IMPRS
IMPRS Lecture Series

Julian Stingele
LMU

Cellular responses to RNA damage



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: IMPRS-ML, ZOOM password 192953
27.05.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Keynote Lecture

Jeff Podos
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Biology

Linking diet, song, and evolution in tropical birds



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen
Seewiesen, Haus 4, Seminarraum 4/0.07

Host: Henrik Brumm
27.05.2025 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Insitut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

Victor Sourjik
MPI Marburg

Physics meets physiology: strategies of bacterial resource investment into swimming motility



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: Kirsten Jung
02.06.2025 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Jonathan Pillow
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton

Dissecting neural circuits with cell-type latent dynamical systems



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Andreas Herz
03.06.2025 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Albert Zink
Biozentrum der LMU

Ötzi: neue Erkenntnisse zum Leben und Sterben der Gletschermumie



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: Vor Ort und Online: ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: tba
05.06.2025 16:00
IMPRS
IMPRS Lecture Series

Susanne Hoffmann
MPI for Biological Intelligence

Applying neurophysiology during field research to study the neural mechanisms of duet singing in birds



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: IMPRS-BI, ZOOM password 192953
12.06.2025 16:00
IMPRS
IMPRS Lecture Series

Karl Duderstadt
MPI of Biochemistry

Imaging the machines that reshape and remake chromosomes



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: IMPRS-ML, ZOOM password 192953
18.06.2025 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Jürgen Heinze
University of Regensburg

Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Insect Societies



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: B. Grothe / H. Stibor
25.06.2025 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Claude Despan
New York University

Pheromones, Aging and Rejuvenation in a Social Insect



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: T. Mikeladze-Dvali / H. Stibor
26.06.2025 16:00
IMPRS
IMPRS Lecture Series

Pablo Oteiza
MPI for Biological Intelligence

A conserved algorithm for flow navigation in teleosts



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: IMPRS-BI, ZOOM password 192953
30.06.2025 09:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Symposium (LMU)

Several speakers
tba

Harvard Young Scientists' Forum 2025



LMU Biocenter
D00.003, GSN Seminar Room, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried

Host: Oliver Behrend
01.07.2025 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Institut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

Christian Kost
Universität Osnabrück

tba



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: Simon Heilbronner
02.07.2025 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Susana Coelho
Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

The curious world of seaweeds: from mating rituals to viral infections



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: S. Robatzek / H. Stibor
03.07.2025 16:00
IMPRS
IMPRS Lecture Series

Brenda Schulman
MPI of Biochemistry

Regulation by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: IMPRS-ML, ZOOM password 192953
07.07.2025 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Katharina Schmack
University College London

Neural circuits and immunity in psychosis



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Nadine Gogolla
08.07.2025 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Institut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

Khaled Selim
Universität Tübingen

Being lazy is not always bad: second messenger signaling in cyanobacteria



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: Jürgen Lassak
08.07.2025 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Lotte Schlicht
Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Intelligenz

Konzert im Morgengrauen: Warum Vögel morgens singen



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: Vor Ort und online: ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: Sabine Spehn
09.07.2025 12:00
LMU Biocenter
Keynote Seminar Series

Lutz Becks
University of Konstanz

Will you kindly cooperate? - Evolution of novel endosymbiosis



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: H. Stibor / D. Keays
10.07.2025 11:00
SFB 1064 Chromatin Dynamics
LMU Seminar

Kazuhiro Maeshima
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Local chromatin behaviors during the cell-cycle revealed by single-molecule imaging/analysis



Biomedical Center (BMC)
Room N02.017

Host: Peter Becker
16.07.2025 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Claire Spottiswoode
University of Cape Town, SA

The natural history of a human-animal mutualism



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: J. Wolf / H. Stibor
30.09.2025 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

F.-Ulrich Hartl
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie

Molekulare Anstandsdamen der Zelle: Ihre Rolle bei der Proteinfaltung und neurodegenerativen Krankheiten



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online: ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: Christiane Menzfeld
03.11.2025 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Carolyn BcBride
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton

tbd



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Nadine Gogolla
11.11.2025 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Anneli Peters
Biomedizinisches Centrum der LMU

Überraschende Zusammenhänge: Darmbakterien als Auslöser der Multiplen Sklerose?



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: Vor Ort und online: ONLINE PRESENTATION

Host: Henrike Klinker
01.12.2025 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Michael Brecht
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

Large-brain-neuroscience in elephants



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Benedikt Grothe