General Seminars
Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
IMPRS Lecture Series
MPIB Seminar

24.06.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Keynote Lecture

Kate Buchanan
School of Life and Environmental Sciences Deakin University, Australia

Avian developmental programming: the chicken and the egg



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

Host: Susanne Hoffmann
25.06.2025 12:00
LMU Biocenter, Faculty of Biology
Keynote Seminar Series

Claude Desplan
New York University

Pheromones, Aging and Rejuvenation in a Social Insect



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: T. Mikeladze-Dvali / H. Stibor
25.06.2025 17:00
LMU Biocenter
LSM Lecture Series

Dejana Mokranjac, Cell and Developmental Biology
LMU Biocenter, Cell Biology

TBC



LMU Biocenter
Room G00.031

Host: Graduate School Life Science Munich (LSM-LMU)
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
https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom-x.de/j/64180753743

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
30.06.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Institute Seminars

Sam Wang
Princeton University

Disruptions to science and democracy in the United States: an inside view



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Room NQ 105

Host: Winfried Denk
30.06.2025 16:00
LMU Biocenter
EES Seminar Series

Marie Lebherz
University Münster, Germany

Exploring the Emergence of Newly-Evolved Expressed Open Reading Frames (neORFs) in Drosophila



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 00.019

Host: John Parsch
01.07.2025 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Institut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

Christian Kost
Universität Osnabrück

Evolution of metabolic cooperation within microbial communities



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 01.019

Host: S. Robatzek / H. Stibor
02.07.2025 13:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
MPIB Seminar

Sebastian Glatt
Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology Jagiellonian University Krakow

tRNAslational control of eukaryotic gene expression



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Danny Nedialkova
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
https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom-x.de/j/64180753743

Host: IMPRS-ML, ZOOM password 192953
04.07.2025 11:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
MPIB Seminar

Huping Wang
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, UK

Challenges in the secretory pathway — Mechanisms of substrate release at the endoplasmic reticulum



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Small Lecture Hall

Host: Manajit Hayer-Hartl
07.07.2025 16:00
LMU Biocenter
EES Seminar Series

Violaine Llaurens
Collège de France, Paris

From ecological divergence to genetic architecture: what is driving sympatric speciation?



LMU Biocenter
Lecture Hall B 01.019

Host: Richard Merrill
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 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Keynote Lecture

Michael Long
NYU School of Medicine

Neurobiology of vocal creativity



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Room NQ 105

Host: Daniela Vallentin
08.07.2025 17:15
LMU Biocenter, Institut of Microbiology
Seminar Series (LMU)

Khaled Selim
Universität Düsseldorf

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: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/67490761649

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 01.019

Host: H. Stibor / D. Keays
09.07.2025 13:00
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
MPIB Seminar

Remo Rohs
University of Southern California

Structure-based deep learning models for predicting protein-DNA binding specificity



Max Planck Institutes, T-Building
Large Lecture Hall

Host: Karsten Borgwardt
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
10.07.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Institute Seminars

Jo Scherrer
MIT

Single-Neuron Learning using Closed-Loop Neurofeedback



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Hybrid: Room N 101 (Seminar room Denk department) and Zoom: https://gwdg.zoom.us/j/87476523974?pwd=s0Ng5ukpPVD7JalGIs6DttZNI5jMYp.1 Meeting-ID: 874 7652 3974 Kenncode: 710333

Host: Winfried Denk
15.07.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Emerging Scientist Series

Marwa Kavelaars
Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

Decision Making in a Complex World: How Human Foragers Integrate Information from Their Environment, Personal Experience, and Conspecifics



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen
Seewiesen, Haus 4, Seminarraum 4/0.07, Streaming in NQ105, MPI BI

Host: Clemens Küpper
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 01.019

Host: J. Wolf / H. Stibor
17.07.2025 11:00
Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy)

Kim Green
UC Irvine, USA

The importance of microglia and myeloid cells in neurodegenerative disease



Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy)
Center for Stroke and Dementia Research Small Seminar Room 8G U1 106a/b Feodor-Lynen-Str. 17, 81377 Munich

Host: Christian Haass
17.07.2025 14:00
Biomedical Center (BMC), LMU
CANCELED, Will be rescheduled

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Christian Wahl-Schott
BMC, LMU, Munich

TBA



Biomedical Center (BMC)
Room N01.017

Host: Physiological genomics / Magdalena Götz
29.07.2025 11:00
MPI for Biological Intelligence
MPI-BI Institute Seminars

Jean-Michel Cioni
Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italia

Endosome-mRNA association in developing neurons



MPI for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried
Room NQ 105

Host: Angelika Harbauer
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: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/68959061324

Host: Christiane Menzfeld
02.10.2025 14:00
Biomedical Center (BMC), LMU

Jernej Ule
Francis Crick Institute & UK Dementia Research Institute, Kings College

TBA



Biomedical Center (BMC)
Room N01.017

Host: Physiological genomics / Magdalena Götz
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: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/65614950433

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
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