Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Event archive

Past events at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom

The Immune System of Bacteria: Beyond CRISPR

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Dec 6, 2024
Time: 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Rotem Sorek
Weizmann Institute of Science
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Arturo Zychlinsky
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Chemical ecology of Bacilli: diversity, function, and evolution of secondary metabolite production

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Nov 27, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Ákos Kovács
Leiden University
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Igor Iatsenko
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The neutrophil nucleus as a signaling hub during chemotaxis and DNA release

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Nov 20, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Carole A. Parent
Raymond and Lynne Ruddon Collegiate Professor of Cancer Biology and Pharmacology Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute University of Michigan
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Arturo Zychlinsky and Sergio San Miguel
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Identifying risk factors for infection using pathogen genomics & health records

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Oct 30, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Daniel Wilson
University of Oxford
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Felix M. Key
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Symbiotic microbes as driving forces of evolutionary innovation in beetles

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Oct 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Martin Kaltenpoth
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Igor Iatsenko
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The recognition of partnering symbionts at each new generation: Lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Oct 16, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Margaret McFall-Ngai
Carnegie Science, Washington, D.C. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Arturo Zychlinsky
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Self or non-self? Detection of nucleic acids in the endolysosome

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Oct 9, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Veit Hornung
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Olivia Majer
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Hijackers, hitchhikers, or co-drivers? The mysteries of mobilizable genetic elements

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Sep 23, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Eduardo Rocha
Institut Pasteur, CNRS, Université Paris Cité
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Felix M. Key
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Curiouser and curiouser: regulating the remarkable dynamics inside killer T cells

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Sep 18, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gillian Griffiths
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Marcus Taylor
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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(Dis)connecting Aberrant Nuclear Condensates and Neurological Disorders

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jun 26, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Christian Schlieker
Yale
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Simone Reber
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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How uncontrolled neutrophil responses to sterile inflammation affect the adaptive immune system

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jun 19, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Matthias Gunzer
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Arturo Zychlinsky
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Mechanisms of axonal dysfunction in lysosome-transport disorders

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jun 5, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Juan Bonifacino
NIH
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Olivia Majer & Caroline Holley
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The gut microbiota – from interindividual differences to novel therapeutics

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Till Strowig
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Felix M. Key
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Enabling discovery by in-cell structural biology

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Apr 24, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Julia Mahamid
EMBL
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Simone Reber
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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From Bugs to Drugs: SLC46s as Critical Components for Innate Immune Recognition and Targets for Anti-inflammatory Therapies

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Apr 15, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Neal Silverman
University of Massachusetts
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Igor Iatsenko
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Community assembly in the skin microbiome at the strain level

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Mar 27, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Tami Lieberman
MIT
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Felix M. Key
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Building an immunological synapse with bispecific engagers

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Mar 20, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Michael Dustin
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, The University of Oxford.
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Marcus Taylor
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The Future of Medicines for Prevention, Cure and Eradication of Malaria

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Mar 13, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jörg Möhrle
VP Head of Translation and Modelling, MMV, Geneva
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Silvia Portugal
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The Achilles Principle of Immune Evolution

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jan 31, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Mark Hanson
University of Exeter
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Elena Levashina & Igor Iatsenko
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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New Adventures in Nanopore Sequencing: Decoding host-virus interactions at the level of individual RNAs

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jan 17, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Daniel P Depledge
Hannover Medical School
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Silvia Portugal
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The Jungle Book in the 21st century: Art and Storytelling in Conservation Science

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jan 12, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Arjun Srivathsa
Arjun Srivathsa is a DST-INSPIRE Fellow at the National Centre for Biological Sciences–TIFR, India, and an Affiliate Scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society–India. He is currently a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: Seminar Room 3
Host: Simone Reber
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Genetic and genomic approaches to inform malaria vaccinology: from field to lab and back again

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jan 10, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Amy Bei
Yale School of Public Health
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Silvia Portugal
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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From ancient lipids to synthetic membranes

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Dec 13, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: James Sáenz
Technische Universität Dresden
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Marcus Taylor & Simone Reber
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection – fighting the enemy within

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Nov 29, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Andreas Peschel
University of Tübingen
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Igor Iatsenko
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Resolving human immune responses to viral infections and pharmaceutic interventions | Voices in Infection Biology

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Nov 15, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Leif Sander
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: Seminar Room 1st Floor
Host: Marcus Taylor & Simone Reber
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Clinical evaluation of anti-malarial monoclonal antibodies in Africa

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Nov 10, 2023
Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Peter Crompton
NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: Seminar Room 1st Floor
Host: Silvia Portugal
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Causal Frameworks in Observational Research: Necessity and Implications

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Oct 11, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Tobias Kurth
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: Seminar Room 1st Floor
Host: Matthieu Domenech de Cellès
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Protein supersaturation powers innate immune signaling

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Oct 4, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Randal Halfmann
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Marcus Taylor
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The microbiota in lung infections: From protection to predisposition

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Sep 20, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Bastian Opitz
Charité - University Hospital Berlin
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Olivia Majer
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Towards an integrative immuno-biology of infectious disease

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Sep 6, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jessica Metcalf
Princenton University
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Arturo Zychlinsky
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The evolution and specification of the cytoskeletal networks

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Jun 28, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Lillian Fritz-Laylin
UMass Amherst
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Marcus Taylor
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Virus-host-virus interactions: the good, the bad and the ugly

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: May 24, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Pablo Murcia
Medical Research Council - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Matthieu Domenech de Cellès
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Exploring Malaria-host interaction with single cell transcriptomics – Opportunities, bioinformatics and outlook

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: May 3, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Thomas Otto
University of Glasgow
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Silvia Portugal
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Mechanistic origins of cellular geometry

Inaugural Lecture

Date: Apr 26, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Simone Reber
Max Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology & Technische Hochschule Berlin
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: MPIIB
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Darwinian medicine: How to control antibiotic resistance evolution in pathogens

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Apr 19, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Hinrich Schulenburg
CAU Kiel
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Igor Iatsenko
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Autophagy determines immune cell fate

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Apr 5, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Katja Simons
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Arturo Zychlinsky
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Genomics and functional dynamics of host-microbiome systems in humans

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Mar 29, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Mathilde Poyet & Mathieu Groussin
MIT & CAU Kiel
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Felix M. Key
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Prostaglandin E2 controls the metabolic adaptation of T cells to the intestinal microenvironment

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Mar 22, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Matteo Villa
Medical University of Graz
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Olivia Majer & Lyn Lim
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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The benefit of being different: Decoding cell-to-cell heterogeneity in pathogens

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Mar 14, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Nicolai Siegel
LMU Munich
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Silvia Portugal
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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New genetic strategies in Giardia define the role of disc-mediated attachment in host cellular pathology

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Mar 1, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Scott Dawson
UC Davis
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Marcus Taylor
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Social behaviour and infection dynamics in clonal ant societies

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Feb 22, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Yuko Ulrich
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Igor Iatsenko
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Physical phenotyping of cells in biology and medicine

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Feb 15, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jochen Guck
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Simone Reber
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Mammalian DNases and their role in the tug of war between Staphylococcus aureus and the host

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Feb 6, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Victor Torres
NYU Langone Health
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Arturo Zychlinsky & Gerben Marsman
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Profiling Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

Voices in Infection Biology

Date: Feb 1, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Susanne Häußler
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and via Zoom
Room: seminar room 1+2
Host: Felix M. Key
Contact: vseminars@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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