CRC 969 Colloquia

Besides the CRC 969 seminars there are CRC 969 colloquia where invited speakers give an overview over their research.

Winter term 2023/2024

27 November 2023Towards an Evolutionary Cell Biology Perspective on (A)Sexual Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation in Eukaryotes.
13:00 h, ML630, via zoomDr. Eelco Tromer, University of Groningen, zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/46u359s8, Meeting-ID: 570 922 3268, Code: 521033

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
04 December 2023Bottom-Up Approaches for Understanding Aneuploidy Patterns.
13:00 h, ML630, via zoomProf. Christopher Campbell, University of Vienna, zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/46u359s8, Meeting-ID: 570 922 3268, Code: 521033

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
06 December 2023The Leap from Academia to Corporate World: How to Navigate Your Way as a Biology Graduate.
14:00 h, via zoomDr. Mei Min Mah, Medical Writer, Artivion, zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/mr2t4jdf

Host: Michael Basler
06 December 2023Of Mice and Men: My Academic Path from Basic to Translational Immunology.
15:00 h, P1122 Dr. Franziska Oliveri, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ulm University Medical Center

Host: Michael Basler
07 December 2023The Making and Braking of Bacterial Ribosomes. POSTPONED!
13:30 h, M701 Dr. Rainer Nikolay, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin

Host: Elke Deuerling
07 December 2023Fates and Rates in Neurodevelopment set by the Ribosome. POSTPONED!
14:15 h, M701 Dr. Matthew Kraushar, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin

Host: Elke Deuerling
07 December 2023Quantifying the Unquantifiable: Focus on rRNAs. POSTPONED!
15:00 h, M701 Stefan Stefanov, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin

Host: Elke Deuerling
07 December 2023Single Cell RNA Sequencing. POSTPONED!
15:45 h, M701, via zoom Dimitrii Zagrebin, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, zoom link: tba

Host: Elke Deuerling
11 December 2023Time is (Not) on Your Side: Control of Cell Proliferation by Memories of Mitosis.
17:00 h, M631, via zoomProf. Arsad Desai, UC San Diego Health Sciences, La Jolla, zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/46u359s8, Meeting-ID: 570 922 3268, Code: 521033

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
14 December 2023Control of Meiotic Divisions by the Conserved Mos Kinase.
15:15 h, M631Dr. Peter Lénárt, MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
14 December 2023RNA-Binding Proteins and Oocyte Meiosis.
16:00 h, M631Dr. Shiya Cheng, MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

Host: Thomas U. Mayer

Summer term 2023

19 April 2023Pinpointing Crucial Enzyme-Ligand Interactions Using High Resolution NMR. The Activation and Selectivity of the Ubiquitous and Essential Enzyme Adenylate Kinase.
13:30 h, L601Dr. Per Rogne, Umeå University, Sweden

Host: Michael Kovermann
15 June 2023Spatial Metabolomics Reveals a Myc-Driven Increase in Vitamin B5 Uptake in Heterogeneous Tumours.
15:15 h, M630Dr. Peter Kreuzaler, CECAD Cologne

Host: Florian Stengel
21 June 2023High-Throughput (Phospho)Proteomics to Analyze Disease Signaling Networks
15:15 h, M701Prof. Jesper Olsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Kopenhagen

Host: Florian Stengel
17 July 2023Chemistry and Biochemistry; Glycans in the Muscular Tissue
15:15 h, L601Prof. Jun-ichi Tamura, Tottori University

Host: Valentin Wittmann
19 July 2023Structural Mass Spectrometry to Study Protein Complexes in Synaptic Vesicles and the Neuronal Synapse
14:00 h, M701Prof. Carla Schmidt, University of Mainz

Host: Florian Stengel

Winter term 2022/2023

17 October 2022Investigating the Biosynthesis of Tambjamines: Bacterial Alkaloid Natural Products
15:15 h, P1138Prof. Avena C. Ross, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Host: Lena Barra
20 October 2022Exploring Epoxyketone Synthases and Their Biosynthetic Potential
12:00 h, P1138Dr. Marlene Rothe, University of Warwick

Host: Lena Barra
07 December 2022Following the Traces of Academia: From Cell Migration to LISTIC Interactions
15:00 h, R0513Dr. Guerric Samson, University of Basel

Host: Annette Aichem
07 December 2022The Road to Quality Control
16:00 h, R0513Dr. Tobias Held, Lonza (Biologics)

Host: Annette Aichem

Summer term 2022

In this summer term all colloquia will be held on campus again!

20 May 2022An NMR View on Protein-Peptide and Protein-Polymer Interactions
13:00 h, ZT1202Prof. Heiko Möller, University of Potsdam

Host: Christof R. Hauck
22 June 2022Focused and Global Methods to Characterize Protein Complex (Re)Organization in Perturbed Systems
14:15 h, M629Dr. Ben Collins, Queen’s University Belfast

Host: Florian Stengel
24 June 2022Reprogramming of Mitochondria by Proteolysis
15:15 h, M629Prof. Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne

Host: Martin Scheffner
19 July 2022Chemistry-Based Strategies for Investigating NAD+ Signaling and Protein ADP-Ribosylation
15:15 h, A704Prof. Michael S. Cohen, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

Host: Andreas Marx

Winter term 2021/2022

11 October 2021Formation and dynamics of an in-vitro reconstituted molecular condensate
10:00 h, M701Christian Fabri, University of Göttingen

Host: Florian Stengel

Summer term 2021

Due to the Corona pandemic we had no colloquia in this summer term!

Winter term 2020/2021

17 November 2020Temporal Control of Cell Cycle Events via Multi-Site Phosphorylation of CDK Targets
15:15 hProf. Mart Loog, University of Tartu, Estonia
via zoomhttps://zoom.us/j/93832287435?pwd=ZVI1TlJGUDRrQ3pTZGxsM0lWbUVNUT09
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
08 December 2020The Consequences of Aneuploidy and its Role in Tumorigenesis
15:15 hProf. Zuzana Storchová, University of Kaiserslautern
via zoomhttps://zoom.us/j/93832287435?pwd=ZVI1TlJGUDRrQ3pTZGxsM0lWbUVNUT09

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
15 December 2020The Challenges of Meiosis: How to Avoid the Generation of Aneuploidies in Oocytes
15:15 hProf. Katja Wassmann, University Sorbonne
via zoomhttps://zoom.us/j/93832287435?pwd=ZVI1TlJGUDRrQ3pTZGxsM0lWbUVNUT09

Host: Thomas U. Mayer

Summer term 2020

Due to the Corona pandemic there will be no colloquia in this summer term!

Winter term 2019/2020

29 November 2019Proteostasis Impairment in Protein Aggregation Diseases
15:00 h, R511Dr. Mark Hipp, University of Groningen

Host: Marcus Groettrup
10 December 2019Super-Resolution Microscopy with DNA Molecules: Towards Localizomics
16:15 h, A704Prof. Ralf Jungmann, MPI Martinsried

Host: Elke Deuerling
12 December 2019Phosphatases Dictate the Temporal Pattern of Cell Cycle Progression by Counterbalancing Cyclin/Cdk Complexes
15:00 h, ML630Dr. Anna Castro, CNRS Montpellier

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
12 December 2019How Cyclin A-Cdk Bora Triggers Mitotic Entry
11:00 h, ML630Dr. Thierry Lorca, CNRS Montpellier

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
17 March 2020POSTPONED! DNA Damage is Only the Beginning POSTPONED!
15:15 h, A704Prof. Marc M. Greenberg, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Host: Andreas Marx

Summer term 2019

09 September 2019Endoplasmic Reticulum Remodeling During Autophagy
14:00 h, M701Prof. Marisa Otegui, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Host: Erika Isono
09 September 2019Autophagy, the Master of Cellular Recycling
10:30 h, L602Prof. Richard D. Vierstra, University of Washington in St. Louis

Host: Erika Isono
02 July 2019Nature’s Dirty Little Secret: The Diverted Total Syntheses of Rhizosphere Natural Products as Targeted Antibacterial Agents
13:30 h, L602Prof. William Wuest, Emory University

Host: Thomas Böttcher
24 June 2019Mass Spectrometry Approaches to Dynamic Protein Structure: From Disorder to Membrane Pores
14:00 h, M701Prof. Frank Sobott, University of Leeds

Host: Florian Stengel
13 June 2019Identification of Small Molecules for Modulating Water Reabsorption in the Kidney – New Treatments for Water Balance Disorders
14:00 h, M701Dr. Enno Klußmann, MDC Berlin

Host: Florian Stengel

Winter term 2018/2019

14 February 2019Killing Cells in and out of Mitosis
13:15 h, ML630Prof. Andreas Villunger, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
11 January 2019Optogenetic Control of T Cell Activation
13:00 h, L602Prof. Wolfgang Schamel, University of Freiburg

Host: Marcus Groettrup
10 January 2019Cellular Modulation of Gene Expression Variability
13:30 h, ML630Dr. Maike Hansen, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, USA

Host: Thomas U. Mayer
03 December 2018High-Resolution Cryo-EM Studies of Protein Complexes Involved in Cell Cycle Regulation
13:30 h, ML630Dr. Andreas Boland, MRC Cambridge, UK
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
13 November 2018Female Meiosis: The Challenge of Eliminating Centrosomes
13:30 h, M701Prof. Oliver Gruß, University of Bonn
Host: Thomas U. Mayer

Summer term 2018

26 September 2018Translation Oscillation is Required to Optimize Type-I Interferon Production During Viral Infection
14:30 h, M630Prof. Philippe Pierre, Centre D’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France
Host: Marcus Groettrup
12 July 2018Proteostasis of Aging and Stem Cells
13:30 h, M701Dr. David Vilchez, CECAD University Cologne
Host: Martin Scheffner
04 July 2018Deciphering (de)regulation of Gene Expression in Health and Disease using Integrative omics Approaches
12:15 h, ML630Prof. Michiel Vermeulen, Radboud University Nijmegen
Host: Florian Stengel
07 May 2018Shedding Light on Photoreceptor Degeneration: The Role of Chaperones in the Proteostasis of Retinal Phosphodiesterase and Therapeutic Outlook
11:00 h, P1122Dr. Jacqueline van der Spuy, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
Host: Marcus Groettrup
18 April 2018Synthetic Immune Systems to Outsmart Cancer
13:00 h, P1138Prof. Carl Figdor, Radboud University Nijmegen
Host: Marcus Groettrup

Winter term 2017/2018

27 February 2018Unravelling the Structure of Toxic Protein Aggregates In Situ
13:00 h, M701Dr. Ruben Fernández-Busnadiego, MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried
Host: Florian Stengel
26 February 2018Mechanistic Insights into Proteasome Function
15:15 h, M701Dr. Eri Sakata, MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried
Host: Florian Stengel
13 December 2017Uncovering the Sub-Cellular Localisation of the APC/C by Super-Resolution Microscopy
13:30 h, ML630Dr. Thomas Tischer, MRC Cambridge, UK
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
30 November 2017Cancer Therapy and Microtubules – How Basic Research and Medicine Collaborate but Fail to Communicate
13:30 h, ML630Dr. Stefan Florian, MRC Cambridge, UK
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
22 November 2017Nuclear Pore Complex Disassembly in Mitosis Requires Phosphorylation of Nucleoporins by CDK1 and PLK1
13:30 h, ML630Dr. Monika Isabelle Linder, ETH Zürich
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
18 October 2017Ubiquitin and Reproductive Manipulation by Intracellular Bacteria
16:15 h, M630Prof. Mark Hochstrasser, Yale University
Host: Elke Deuerling

Summer term 2017

07 August 2017Role of Molecular Chaperones in Proteostasis Maintenance in the Cell
13:15 h, M630Prof. Judith Frydman, Stanford University
Host: Elke Deuerling
06 July 2017Mechanisms for Restraining cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase: New Insights from Subunit Quantitation and Novel Crosslinking Approaches
15:00 h, M701Dr. Matthew G. Gold, University College London
Host: Martin Scheffner
28 June 2017Proteostasis Network Analysis and Its Capacity in Amyloid Remodelling
10:00 h, M630Dr. Janine Kirstein, Leibniz-Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin
Host: Elke Deuerling
22 June 2017Understanding Cdk1 Activation in Xenopus Oocytes
10:45 h, ML630Dr. Aude Dupré, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
22 June 2017Chromosome Segregation in Oocytes: Double Burden for Checkpoint Kinases
10:00 h, ML630Prof. Katja Wassmann, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Host: Thomas U. Mayer

Winter term 2016/2017

09 December 2016Outer Membrane Biogenesis in Gram-Negative Bacteria
15:15 h, M629Prof. Tom Silhavy, University of Princeton
Host: Elke Deuerling
05 December 2016Epigenetic Barriers to Nuclear Reprogramming
13:30 h, ML630Dr. Eva Hörmanseder, University of Cambridge
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
22 November 2016A Conserved Binding Motif Provides Substrate Specificity to the PP2A-B56 Phosphatase
15:15 h, ML630Prof. Jakob Nilsson, University of Copenhagen
Host: Thomas U. Mayer

Summer term 2016

12 July 2016Regulation and Function of Mammalian DNA Methylation
15:00 h, M701Prof. Tuncay Baubec, University of Zurich
Host: Florian Stengel
22 June 2016Solving a 3D Jigsaw With 1000 Pieces – The Structure of the Human Nuclear Pore Complex
15:00 h, M701Dr. Martin Beck, EMBL Heidelberg
Host: Florian Stengel
10 June 2016Curbing Protein Synthesis is an Important Part of the Heat Shock Response of Bacillus subtilis
10:00 h, ML630Prof. Kürsad Turgay, University of Hannover
Host: Elke Deuerling
30 May 2016Spatial and Temporal Control of RhoA Activation and Function During Cytokinesis
13:00 h, ML630Prof. Michael Glotzer, University of Chicago
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
22 April 2016Ubiquitin-Like Proteins and Fungal Development
14:00 h, P602Prof. Gerhard Braus, University of Göttingen
Host: Marcus Groettrup
11 April 2016Metabolic and Developmental Control through Regulated Protein Degradation in Plants
15:15 h, M627Prof. Hanjo A. Hellmann, Washington State University
Host: Dietmar Funck

Winter term 2015/2016

23 March 2016Integrative Structural Modeling of Macromolecular Complexes
14:00 h, ML630Dr. Riccardo Pellarin, Institut Pasteur
Host: Florian Stengel
12 October 2015Cellular Stress Responses by the Ubiquitin-Directed VCP/p97 Chaperone
15:00 h, L601Prof. Hemmo Meyer, University Duisburg-Essen
Host: Marcus Groettrup

Summer term 2015

30 July 2015More Than An Eraser; Protein Phosphatase Makes a Mitotic Switch Together with Kinase
13:30 h, ML630Prof. Satoru Mochida, Kumamoto University
Host: Thomas U. Mayer
28 July 2015Niacin, NAD and PARPs: Translators from Environment to Germline Epigenetics?
11:45 h, ML630Prof. Mirella Meyer-Ficca and Prof. Ralph Meyer, Utah State University
Host: Alexander Bürkle
25 June 2015Deubiquitylases in Cellular Stress Responses
16:00 h, M701Dr. Anja Bremm, University of Frankfurt
Host: Martin Scheffner
18 May 2015A fluorescence-based assay to identify inhibitors of ribosome assembly
15:30 h, M1001Dr. Rainer Nikolay, Charité Berlin
Host: Elke Deuerling
18 May 2015Intrinsically disordered domains interfere with productive import into the endoplasmic reticulum; implications for neurodegenerative diseases
14:30 h, L602Prof. Jörg Tatzelt, Ruhr-University Bochum
Host: Marcus Groettrup
29 April 2015Balancing Forces during Mitosis: How Intra- and Extra-cellular Forces Regulate the Mitotic Spindle in Epithelial Tissue
15:00 h, M630Dr. Sarah Woolner, University of Manchester, UK
Host: Thomas U. Mayer

Winter term 2014/2015

24 March 2015Using Tandem Fluorescent Timer Proteins to Address Yeast Proteome Homeostasis
15:15 h, M630Prof. Michael Knop, ZMBH, Heidelberg
Host: Stefan Kreft
07 January 2015Safeguarding Proteostasis
10:15 h, ML630Dr. Marc Brehme, Center for Molecular Medicine, Vienna, Austria
Host: Elke Deuerling
08 December 2014How do Chromosomes Regulate Mitosis?
13:30 h, ML630Dr. Hideki Yokoyama, ZMBH, University of Heidelberg
Host: Thomas U Mayer
26 November 2014Cohesin Rings at the Mouse Oocyte‐to‐Zygote Transition
17:00 h, M701Dr. Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski, IMBA, Vienna, Austria
Host: Thomas U Mayer
21 November 2014The Mitotic Spindle: To be Asymmetric or Not
15:15 h, M701Prof. Patrick Meraldi, CMU, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Host: Thomas U Mayer
10 November 2014Chaperoning in the Cell, Elucidated by a Complex of Hsp90 with Disordered Tau
15:15 h, ML630Prof. Stefan Rüdiger, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Host: Elke Deuerling
13 November 2014Genome Instability, Aging and Neurodegeneration
15:15 h, M630Prof. Vilhelm Bohr, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Host: Alexander Bürkle

Summer term 2014

05 July 2014Plasticity of the Beta-Barrel Assembly Machinery Investigated by NMR
15:15 h, ML630Tessa Sinnige, University of Utrecht
Host: Elke Deuerling
21 May 2014Mouse Models to Study Cell Cycle, Liver Cancer and Regeneration
13:30 h, M801Dr. Philipp Kaldis, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
Host: Thomas U Mayer
29 April 2014Investigating Phosphatase Interactors and Substrates with (bio)chemical Protein Engineering
15:15 h, A704Dr. Maja Köhn, EMBL Heidelberg
Host: Valentin Wittmann

Winter term 2013/2014

13 December 2013Making the Problem Go Away: Inducing Intracellular Protein Degradation
15:15 h, ML630Prof. Craig M. Crews, Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
Host: Thomas U Mayer
11 December 2013Mechanisms of Centriole Assembly
15:15 h, M627Prof. Pierre Gönczy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Host: Thomas U Mayer
05 December 2013Segregating the Genome – Design Principles of Kinetochores
15:15 h, M701Dr. Stefan Westermann, IMP Vienna, Austria
Host: Thomas U Mayer

Summer term 2013

01 July 2013The ubiquitin-selective AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97
17:15 h, M629Prof. Alexander Buchberger, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg
Host: Martin Scheffner
17 June 2013Tension-induced autophagy – may the chaperone be with you
16:15 h, M629Prof. Jörg Höhfeld, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bonn
Host: Martin Scheffner

Winter term 2012/2013

13 February 2013A Bird’s Eye View of the Chemical Compass
17:00 h, L602Dr. Christiane Timmel, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Host: Malte Drescher
19 December 2012What End Tracking Proteins Can Reveal About the Mechanism of Microtubule Dynamic Instability
15:15 h, M627Dr. Thomas Surrey, London Research Institute, Cancer research UK, London, UK
Host: Thomas U Mayer
18 December 2012Regulation of Calvin Cycle Enzymes through Protein-Protein Interactions in Photosynthetic Organisms
08:45 h, M629Dr. Brigitte Meunier-Gontero, Laboratoire Enzymologie de complexes supramoléculaires, CNRS Marseille
Host: Peter Kroth
11 December 2012Deconvolution of Native HDAC Complexes Using Chemoproteomics
15:15 h, M701M. Sc. Antje Dittmann, Cellzome GmbH, Heidelberg
Host: Thomas U Mayer
05 December 2012How to Maintain a Stable Genome? A Passenger Perspective
15:15 h, M627Dr. Susanne Lens, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Host: Thomas U Mayer
28 November 2012Mechanisms for Maintaining Chromosomal Stability
13:30 h, M627Prof. Geert Kops, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Host: Thomas U Mayer
26 November 2012Modulation of the Endocytic Pathway and MHC Class I Cross-presentation by Insulin-regulated Aminopeptidase
14:00 h, R512Prof. Peter Van Endert, INSERM, Paris, France
Host: Marcus Groettrup
23 November 2012Evidence for a Third Ribosomal Initiation Mode in Bacteria: The 70S-Scanning Inititation
08:30 h, M627Prof. Knud Nierhaus, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
Host: Elke Deuerling
22 November 2012Silencing the Ribosome: The Detection of a New, Universally Conserved Translational Factor
14:00 h, M701Prof. Knud Nierhaus, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
Host: Elke Deuerling
24 October 2012Activation of the Immune System by Staphylococcal TLR2 and Nod2 Ligands
15:30 h, M629Prof. Fritz Götz, University of Tübingen, Tübingen
Host: Elke Deuerling
21 September 2012Assembling the Machinery of Protein Destruction in the Cell
16:00 h, M701Prof. Mark Hochstrasser, Yale University, USA
Host: Stefan Kreft