Home News & Events Seminars / Lectures Event archive Event archive Past events at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Room: seminar room 1+2 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] (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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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. 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