Simon Boulton
Francis Crick Institute, UK

Chromosome end protection

R. Brian Langerhans
North Carolina State University, United States of America

Predictability and parallelism of multi-trait adaptation and speciation.

Katrin Amunts
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Human brain mapping: concepts, tools and insights

Jan Hackel
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew London

Phylogenomics for plant and fungal biogeography

Sebastian Hess
University of Cologne

Diversity and interactions of microalgae: from species to molecules

Leda Dimou
Molecular and Translational Neuroscience (MTN) Ulm University

Glial cells after trauma: good friends or enemies?

Jörg Renkawitz
Peter Hans Hofschneider Professor for Molecular Medicine (Foundation Experimental Biomedicine) Biomedical Center (BMC) LMU Munich

Mechanical Centrosome Fracturing during Cellular Navigation

Michael Sattler
TUM / Helmholtz Zentrum

Integrative structural biology reveals dynamic regulation of protein-RNA and chaperone-client recognition

Eran Stark
Tel-Aviv University

Deciphering local network mechanisms underlying cognition using multi-site optogenetic manipulations

Sven Halbedel
RKI Wernigerode

Control of Listeria monocytogenes peptidoglycan biosynthesis by an essential protein phosphorylation

Lorenz Fenk
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt

Inter-hemispheric competition in a sleeping dragon

Victor Borrell
Instituto de Neurociencias, Alicante (Spain)

Conserved progenitor cell lineage multiplicity in the mammalian cerebral cortex

Jürgen Plitzko
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

A glimpse into the future of cryo-electron microscopy and tomography

Dina Grohmann
Universität Regensburg

Living life to the extreme: lifestyle and adaptation mechanisms of hyperthermophilic Archaea

Pascal Giehr
LMU München

Chasing non-canonical nucleotides in DNA and RNA using Third-Generation-Sequencing

Jan-Michael Peters
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna

How cohesin folds the genome by loop extrusion

Berenike Maier
Universität Köln

Fitness effects of horizontal gene transfer

Wolfgang Enard
Biozentrum der LMU

Was wir von Schimpansenzellen lernen können – Die Evolution molekularer Schaltkreise

Bas van Steensel
Netherlands Cancer Institute

Probing principles of genome organisation and function

Matthias Mann
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie

Massenspektrometrische Proteomik und ihre Anwendung auf die Krebsdiagnostik

Iain Couzin
MPI Animal Behavior Konstanz

The Geometry of Decision Making

Annika Guse
Biozentrum der LMU

Korallen-Symbiose: Anpassung an die Umwelt durch Teamwork

Barbara Schraml-Schotta
Biomedizinisches Centrum der LMU

Eindringlinge habt Acht! Wie das Immunsystem Keime erkennt

Clemens Küpper
Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Intelligenz

Verhaltensvielfalt bei Watvögeln

Christian Haass
Biomedizinisches Centrum der LMU & Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen

Können wir Alzheimer jemals heilen?

Lisa Fenk
Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Intelligenz

Aktive Augenbewegungen bei Fliegen geben spannende Einblicke in Sehprozesse