10.12.2025 17:00
LMU Biocenter
LSM Lecture Series
postponed to 14.01.2026

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Bernd Lepenies
LMU, Veterinary Faculty

Myeloid C-type lectin receptors as targets for immune modulation



LMU Biocenter
Room G00.031

Host: Graduate School Life Science Munich (LSM-LMU)
15.12.2025 17:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Martin Lercher
Universität Düsseldorf

Night science: the creative side of the scientific process



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: W. Enard / H. Kunz / H. Stibor
16.12.2025 09:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
Symposium (MPI-BI)

Gabrielle Pouchelon, CSHL, New York, and Benjamin Judkewitz, Charité Berlin


Symposium: Frontiers in Biological Intelligence (Day 1 - Session 1)



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Manfred Gahr
16.12.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
Symposium (MPI-BI)

Andrés Bendesky, Columbia University, New York; Ann Kennedy The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego


Symposium: Frontiers in Biological Intelligence (Day 1 - Session 2)



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Manfred Gahr
16.12.2025 14:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
Symposium (MPI-BI)

Brady Weissbourd, MIT, Cambridge and Johanna Kowalko, Lehigh University, Bethlehem


Symposium: Frontiers in Biological Intelligence (Day 1 - Session 3)



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Manfred Gahr
16.12.2025 16:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
Symposium (MPIB)

Yuko Emilie Ulrich, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena and Arnau Sébé-Pédros CRG, Barcelona


Symposium: Frontiers in Biological Intelligence (Day 1 - Session 4)



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Manfred Gahr
17.12.2025 08:30
MPI for Biological Intelligence
Symposium (MPI-BI)

Daisy Dent, ETH, Zürich and Meital Oren-Suissa Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot


Symposium: Frontiers in Biological Intelligence (Day 2 - Session 5))



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Manfred Gahr
17.12.2025 10:30
MPI for Biological Intelligence
Symposium (MPI-BI)

Nathaniel Sawtell, Columbia University, New York and Frances Bonier, Queen's University, Kingston


Symposium: Frontiers in Biological Intelligence (Day 2 - Session 6)



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Manfred Gahr
17.12.2025 17:00
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience

György Buzsáki
NYU Neuroscience Institute

From Actions to Cognition in the Hippocampal System



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: Talking Science team
12.01.2026 13:15
LMU Gene Center

Viktoria Trinkaus
MPI Dortmund

Structural Basis for Cardiac Thick Filament Activation



Gene Center Haus A
Lecture Hall 0.75

Host: Karl-Peter Hopfner
12.01.2026 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures
Room changed

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Daniel Baldauf
Universitá Trento

Connectivity profiles of prefrontal cortex for spatial vs. non-spatial control



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: tba
13.01.2026 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Institute Seminars

Eric Schulz
Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI, München

Bridging biological and artificial intelligence with foundation models



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Room NQ 105

Host: Manfred Gahr
15.01.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Karen Alim
TUM

Non-neural information processing



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

22.01.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Ralf Jungmann
MPIB

From DNA Nanotechnology to Biomedical Insight: Towards Single-Molecule Spatial Omics



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

27.01.2026 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Institute Seminars

Josh Huang
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham

Genetic dissection of cortical neuron type trajectories: from developmental origin to behavioral function



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Room NQ 105

Host: Christian Mayer
27.01.2026 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Institut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

Holger Sondermann
CSSB Hamburg

Dinucleases - At the interface of dinucleotide signaling and RNA degradation



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: Daniel Unterweger
28.01.2026 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Isabel Almudi
University of Barcelona

The mayfly Cloeon dipterum: a new platform to study insect evolution and morphological novelties



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: N. Turetzek, H. Stibor
29.01.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Don C. Lamb
LMU

The Fluorescence Suite including: Dance of the Proteins, Waltz of HIV and March of the Mitochondria



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

02.02.2026 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures
Room changed

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Veronika Egger
Universität Regensburg

Rhythms in the olfactory bulb: From neuronal network oscillations to heartbeat interoception



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.027

Host: Andreas Herz
03.02.2026 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Stefan Stricker
Munich Center for Neurosciences MCN

CRISPR: Wie eine (stumpfe) Schere die Lebenswissenschaften revolutioniert



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

Host: Henrike Klinker & Daniela Diefenbacher
11.02.2026 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Manuel Théry
Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission Paris

Morphogenesis by microtubules and molecular motors



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: T. Mikeladze-Dvali, H. Stibor
04.03.2026 13:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
MPIB Seminar

Onur Boymann
Center for Human Immunology, University of Zurich, CH

From intracellular pathways to cytokine immunotherapies



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Karsten Borgwardt
05.03.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Roland Beckmann
LMU

Structural biology of translational quality control and stress signaling



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

12.03.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Elena Conti
MPIB

Molecular mechanisms of RNA degradation



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

18.03.2026 13:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
Nobel Prize Laureate

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Thomas R. Cech
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado Boulder

The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Matthias Mann
19.03.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

John Briggs
MPIB

Cryo-electron microscopy and tomography for “in situ” structural biology



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

26.03.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Michael Sattler
TUM

Integrative structural biology reveals the dynamic regulation of protein-RNA interactions



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

21.04.2026 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Auguste von Bayern
Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Intelligenz

Gefiederte Intelligenz - Rabenvögel und Papageien und was sie uns über die Evolution von Intelligenz verraten



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

Host: Sabine Spehn & Stefanie Merker
30.04.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Maria Robles
LMU

Proteomics approaches to understand circadian- and sleep-driven processes



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

04.05.2026 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Matthew Larkum
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Flexible learning and memory through 2-compartment pyramidal neurons



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Julijana Gjorgjieva, Steffen Schneider
12.05.2026 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Johannes Bruno Müller-Reif
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie

Ein Bluttest für viele Krankheiten: Proteine als Fenster zur individuellen Gesundheit



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

Host: Christiane Menzfeld
21.05.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Johanna Klughammer
LMU

Spatial expression profiling in complex tissues – a view on tools and technologies



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

28.05.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Matthias Mann
MPIB

Spatial proteomics at single cell type resolution: Technologies and clinical applications



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

08.06.2026 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Karin Roelofs
Radboud University

Heart-brain interactions and decision making under threat



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Simone Schuetz-Bosbach
11.06.2026 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
IMPRS Lecture Series

Thierry Nordmann
MPIB

Precision Dermatology in era of OMIC technologies



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Hybrid: vor Ort und online ONLINE PRESENTATION (Passcode: 371556)

13.07.2026 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Reading Scenes: A hierarchical view on attentional guidance in real-world environments



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Thomas Geyer
14.07.2026 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Alexander Keller
Biozentrum der LMU München

Blüten, Bestäuber und ihre Bakterien – eine Dreiecksbeziehung



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

Host: tba
13.10.2026 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Kirsten Jung
Biozentrum der LMU München

Alarm! Wie sich Bakterien unter Stress anpassen



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

Host: tba
09.11.2026 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Sonja Hofer
University College London

Neural circuits for visual processisng and visually-guided behavior



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Mark Hübener
10.11.2026 19:00
Max Planck Institutes, Martinsried
Vortragsreihe: Was Wissen schafft

Andreas Ladurner
Biomedizinisches Centrum der LMU München

Zucker macht dick – und jetzt verstehen wir wie



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

Host: Henrike Klinker & Daniela Diefenbacher
07.12.2026 17:00
LMU Munich Center for Neuroscience (MCN)
Munich Neuroscience Lectures

Martin Picard
Columbia University

The energy resistance principle across the body, brain, and mind



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Angelika Harbauer