Home Events public talks Room: Seminar room 1 Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Leeat Keren: Spatial proteomics for next generation pathology Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jun 16, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Leeat Keren Weizmann Institute of Science Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Matthew C. Lorincz: Chromatin-guided DNA methylation of CpG island promoters: insights from the mouse germline & early embryo Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jun 2, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Matthew C. Lorincz University of British Columbia Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Konrad Hochedlinger: Investigating mechanisms of cell identity in tissue homeostasis and disease Dahlem Colloquium Date: May 26, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Konrad Hochedlinger Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, USA Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Wei Xie: Decoding the transcription circuitry when the life begins Dahlem Colloquium Date: May 9, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Wei Xie Tsinghua University, Beijing Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Cassandra Extavour: New blood: horizontal transfer as a source of genetic novelty in developmental and adaptive evolution Dahlem Colloquium Date: May 7, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Cassandra Extavour Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Nir Yosef: Spatiotemporal perspectives on tumor growth with single cell genomics Dahlem Colloquium Date: May 5, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nir Yosef Weizmann Institute of Science Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Robert Schneider: Novel Players in Chromatin Dahlem Colloquium Date: Apr 23, 2025 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Robert Schneider Institute of Functional Epigenetics (IFE), Munich Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Martin Vingron Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Pierre Stallforth: Natural products from interacting microorganisms and ancient microbiomes Dahlem Colloquium Date: Apr 16, 2025 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Pierre Stallforth Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Hagen Tilgner: A single-cell view of splicing dysregulation in frontotemporal dementia with progranulin mutations as well as Alzheimer’s disease Dahlem Colloquium Date: Mar 17, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hagen Tilgner Weill Cornell Medicine, NY Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Andreas Mayer Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Matthias Muhar: How chemical scars mark proteins for degradation Dahlem Colloquium Date: Mar 5, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Matthias Muhar ETH Zurich Corn Lab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Stamatis Papathanasiou: Mitotic errors as a source of inherited (epi)genetic instability Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 20, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Stamatis Papathanasiou IMB Mainz Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Prof. Jef Boeke: Scaling up genome writing in yeast and mice Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 11, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Jef Boeke New York University Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Mundlos Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Ida Marie Astad Jentoft: Mammalian oocytes store proteins for the embryo on cytoplasmic lattices Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 10, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ida Marie Astad Jentoft IMP – Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Martin Fischer: Gene regulation by convergent promoters Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 3, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Martin Fischer Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Helene Kretzmer, Dept. Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Arnaud Krebs: Transcription regulation, one molecule at a time Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 30, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Arnaud Krebs EMBL Heidelberg Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Daniel Ibrahim Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Jacob H. Hanna: Synthetic Ex Utero Embryogenesis: from Naive Pluripotent Cells to Complete Developmental Models Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 27, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jacob H. Hanna Weizmann Institute of Science Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Claudia Langenberg: From molecules to health records: utility of omics at population scale Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 24, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Claudia Langenberg BIH - Digital Health Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Hannah Uckelmann: Targeting epigenetic regulators in leukemia development Dahlem Colloquium Date: Dec 16, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hannah Uckelmann Goethe University Frankfurt Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Bas van Steensel: Dicing and shuffling the genome to unravel gene regulation Dahlem Colloquium Date: Nov 25, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Bas van Steensel Netherlands Cancer Institute Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Edda Schulz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Cantaş Alev: Towards reconstituting human and primate early embryonic development in vitro Dahlem Colloquium Date: Sep 23, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Cantaş Alev ASHBi, Kyoto University Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Roser Vento-Tormo: Gene regulation of human cell systems Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jun 3, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Roser Vento-Tormo Wellcome Sanger Institute Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Alex Schier: Reconstructing development Dahlem Colloquium Date: Apr 15, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Alex Schier University of Basel Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Mia Levine: Intra-genomic conflict and the evolution of the genome integrity Dahlem Colloquium Date: Apr 10, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Mia Levine University of Pennsylvania Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner & Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Efrat Shema: Single-molecule and single-cell epigenetics – Decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnosis Dahlem Colloquium Date: Mar 13, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Efrat Shema Weizmann Institute of Science Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner & Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Elvan Böke: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 12, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Elvan Böke CRG Barcelona Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Sanja Vickovic: Describing tissue pathogenesis with spatial sequencing Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 9, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sanja Vickovic Columbia University, New York Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Matthew Kraushar Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Marc Timmers: Basal transcription factor TFIID in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration Dahlem Colloquium Date: Dec 11, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Marc Timmers Universitätsklinikum Freiburg Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Heiner Schrewe Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Argyris Papantonis: 3D genome organisation transitions between homeostasis, ageing, and malignancy Dahlem Colloquium Date: Oct 16, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Argyris Papantonis University Medical Center Göttingen Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Kevin Chalut: Extracellular matrix mechanics and its regulation of regeneration Dahlem Colloquium Date: Oct 6, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Kevin Chalut Altos Labs Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Katharina Sonnen: Signaling dynamics in the control of embryonic development and tissue homeostasis Dahlem Colloquium Date: Sep 25, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Katharina Sonnen Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Heiner Schrewe Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Judith Zaugg: How do cells integrate extrinsic signals and intrinsic state? A systems epigenetics approach Dahlem Colloquium Date: Sep 19, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Judith Zaugg EMBL, Heidelberg Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Michael Levine: Organization and function of the regulatory genome in the Drosophila embryo and brain Dahlem Colloquium Date: Sep 15, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Michael Levine Princeton University, USA Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Heiner Schrewe, Dept. Herrmann Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Dylan Taatjes: Understanding transcription regulation through transcriptomics and biochemical reconstitution Dahlem Colloquium Date: May 22, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dylan Taatjes Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Heiner Schrewe, Dept. Herrmann Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Maria Llorens Martin: Human adult hippocampal neurogenesis – How things started; How things are going Dahlem Colloquium Date: Mar 20, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Maria Llorens Martin CBM, CSIC Madrid Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Barbara Treutlein: Understanding brain development and regeneration using single-cell genomics Dahlem Colloquium Date: Mar 13, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Barbara Treutlein Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Matthew Kraushar Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Mina Gouti: Building advanced human neuromuscular organoids to study development and disease Dahlem Colloquium Date: Mar 6, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Mina Gouti BIMSB/MDC Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Tuuli Lappalainen: Functional variation in the human – lessons from the transcriptome Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 27, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Tuuli Lappalainen NYGC & KTH & SciLifeLab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Petra Hajkova: Erasure, stability, and maintenance of the epigenetic information in vivo Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 20, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Petra Hajkova Imperial College London Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Douglas Higgs: Dissecting and rebuilding a super-enhancer Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 6, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Douglas Higgs Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Daniel Ibrahim, Research Group Mundlos, Development and Disease Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Prisca Liberali: Design principles of tissue organization Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 23, 2023 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prisca Liberali Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Shahragim Tajbakhsh: Stem cell diversity and function in developmental and regenerative myogenesis Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 16, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Shahragim Tajbakhsh Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, Cell Chromatin Group Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Joe Nadeau: Developmental plasticity, the missing dimension of phenotypic variation and disease risk Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 10, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Joe Nadeau Maine Health Institute for Research, Scarborough, USA Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Bernhard Herrmann, Department Herrmann Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Meritxell Huch: Human organoids to model disease Dahlem Colloquium Date: Jan 9, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Meritxell Huch Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Alexander Meissner, Dept. of Genome Regulation [more] Mikko Taipale: Functional proteomics by induced proximity Dahlem Colloquium Date: Dec 19, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Mikko Taipale University of Toronto, Canada. Website of the Taipale Lab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Kathrin Lang : Expanding the genetic code – new chemistries and tools for biology Dahlem Colloquium Date: Dec 14, 2022 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Kathrin Lang ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Website of the Lang Lab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Emma Farley: Regulatory principles governing enhancers in development and disease Dahlem Colloquium Date: Dec 9, 2022 Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Emma Farley UC San Diego, USA. Website of the Farley Lab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Jeffrey Chao: Imaging the life and death of mRNAs in single cells Dahlem Colloquium Date: Dec 5, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jeffrey Chao FMI Basel, Switzerland. Website of the Chao Lab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, Cell Chromatin Group Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Lacramioara Bintu: High-throughput discovery and characterization of human and viral transcriptional regulators Dahlem Colloquium Date: Nov 14, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Lacramioara Bintu Website of the Bintu Lab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation [more] Hemai Parthasarathy : On building a better future, powered by science Dahlem Colloquium Date: Nov 10, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hemai Parthasarathy Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Sarah Kinkley Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Verena Ruprecht: Morphodynamic cell and tissue plasticity in the early embryo Dahlem Colloquium Date: Nov 8, 2022 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Verena Ruprecht Website of the Ruprecht Lab Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Denes Hnisz, Department of Genome Regulation Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Laszlo Tora: Are general transcription factors (GTFs) really 'general' in RNA polymerase II transcription? Dahlem Colloquium Date: Mar 23, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Laszlo Tora IGBMC, Strasbourg Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Andreas Mayer, Otto-Warburg-Laboratory Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Elly Tanaka: Cell position and identity during successful and unsuccessful limb regeneration Dahlem Colloquium Date: Feb 21, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Elly Tanaka Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more] Susan Gasser: Stabilizing the genome and cell-type specific gene expression through heterochromatin Date: Jul 19, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Susan Gasser Director of Fondation ISREC, Agora Cancer Center, Lausanne Location: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Room: Seminar room 1 Host: Sarah Kinkley Contact: dc-register@molgen.mpg.de [more]
