Home Events Dahlem Colloquia 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 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]
