Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Dahlem Colloquia in Molecular Genetics

As part of the Dahlem Colloquia, the MPIMG regularly invites internationally recognized scientists from all over the world to present their work. All Dahlem Colloquia are held in English. Everybody is welcome!

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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