Lectures &amp; Talks

Otto Warburg Summer School

Start: Aug 29, 2022
End: Sep 2, 2022

The summer school will include tutorial style lectures and research talks by invited speakers as well as contributed talks from selected participants. It provides ample opportunity for interaction between lecturers and doctoral students in a relaxed and friendly environment, and foster an atmosphere of scientific discussion across disciplines (including molecular biology, bioinformatics, biological physics, mathematics) between doctoral students, Postdocs and speakers. [more]

Ernst Schering Prize Lecture: Aviv Regev – From Cell Atlases to Therapies in Cancer

Date: Sep 8, 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:15
Speaker: Aviv Regev
Location: online
Host: Alexander Meissner, Dept. of Genome Regulation

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Seminar with Jurian Schuijers

Date: Sep 24, 2019
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Jurian Schuijers
Center for Molecular Medicine, UMC Utrecht, NL
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Denes Hnisz

"Mediator condensates localize signaling factors to key cell identity genes" [more]

Seminar with Ivan Bedzhov

Date: Jun 24, 2019
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Ivan Bedzhov
Embryonic Self-Organization Research Group Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, Cell Chromatin Group

“Self-organisation of the pluripotent linage during mouse peri-implantation development” [more]

Seminar with Marta Shahbazi

Date: Jun 18, 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker: Marta Shahbazi
Mammalian Embryo and Stem Cell Group Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK
Location: Seminar Room S2, Tower 2, Ground Floor
Host: Abhishek Sampath Kumar, Genome Regulation Group

"Integrating stem cell identity and tissue architecture in the mammalian embryo" [more]

Seminar with Stefan Legewie

Date: Jun 11, 2019
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Stefan Legewie
Modelling of Biological Networks, IMP Research Mainz
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Edda Schulz

"Signal integration in alternative splicing networks" [more]

Seminar with Markus Elsner

Date: May 16, 2019
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Markus Elsner
Senior Editor Nature Biotechnology
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Alexander Meissner

"How to get published-Perspectives from a Nature Biotechnology editor" [more]

Seminar with Vincent Pasque

Lectures & Talks

Date: May 8, 2019
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Vincent Pasque
Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
Location: MPIMG, seminar room 1
Host: Edda Schulz

Dynamic establishment and erasure of epigenetic memory during development and reprogramming [more]

Seminar with Miguel A. Esteban

Date: May 8, 2019
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Miguel A. Esteban
South China Institute of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Alexander Meissner

"Regulation of RNA-protein interactions" [more]

Seminar with Iftach Nachman

Date: Mar 22, 2019
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Iftach Nachman
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University, IL
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Alexander Meissner

"Early differentiation decisions in a 3D developmental model - What can we learn from embryoid bodies?" [more]

Lecture: "Detecting and manipulating chromosome structure in vivo without crosslinking and ligation”

Date: Nov 27, 2018
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Luca Giorgetti
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Edda Schulz

"Detecting and manipulating chromosome structure in vivo without crosslinking and ligation” [more]

Seminar with Sriharsa Pradhan

Date: Nov 22, 2018
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Sriharsa Pradhan
Genome Biology Division, New England Biolabs (NEB), Ipswich MA/USA Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA/USA
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Alexander Meissner

“Accessible chromatin mapping of human and mouse at single base-pair resolution” [more]

Seminar with Steffen Rulands

Date: Nov 14, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Steffen Rulands
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
Location: Seminar Room S1, Tower 1 ground floor
Host: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu

“Understanding cell fate: from molecules to tissues” [more]

Lecture: "PHF3 binds RNA polymerase II via the SPOC domain and regulates transcription of neuronal genes"

Date: Nov 6, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Dea Slade
Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Biocenter (VBC)
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Andreas Mayer

"PHF3 binds RNA polymerase II via the SPOC domain and regulates transcription of neuronal genes" [more]

Seminar with Stefan H. Stricker

Date: Oct 24, 2018
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Stefan H. Stricker
MCN Junior Research Group "Epigenetic Engineering" Institute for Stem Cell Research Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, DE
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Helene Kretzmer, Dept. Meissner

"Editing fate changing marks" [more]

Seminar with David Garfield

Date: Sep 27, 2018
Time: 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker: David Garfield
IRI Life Sciences Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Alexandra Mattei, Dept. Meissner and Michael Robson, FG Mundlos

"Single-cell and population genetic approaches to understand developmental evolution" [more]

Otto Warburg International Summer School and Research Symposium on Epigenetics and Regulation

Otto Warburg Summer School

Start: Sep 2, 2018
End: Sep 7, 2018
Location: MPI-MG
Room: Seminar room 1

The summer school will include tutorial style lectures and research talks by invited speakers as well as contributed talks from selected participants. It provides ample opportunity for interaction between lecturers and PhD students in a relaxed and friendly environment, and foster an atmosphere of scientific discussion across disciplines (including molecular biology, bioinformatics, biological physics, mathematics) between PhD students, Postdocs and speakers. [more]

Seminar with Sven Beyes

Date: Aug 30, 2018
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Sven Beyes
Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg
Location: Seminar Room S4, Tower 2 ground floor
Host: Denes Hnisz

"The EMT master regulator SNAIL1 deregulates stem cell genes in colorectal cancer cells" [more]

Lecture: "Mining the genome: Novel tissue-specific genes and lincRNAs in human inflammation"

Date: Aug 1, 2018
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Jane Ferguson
Vanderbilt University
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Annalisa Marsico

"Mining the genome: Novel tissue-specific genes and lincRNAs in human inflammation" [more]

Lecture: "Probing gene control via chemical protein degradation"

Date: Jul 25, 2018
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Georg Winter
Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Andreas Mayer

"Probing gene control via chemical protein degradation" [more]

Seminar with Albert Jeltsch

Date: Jul 23, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Albert Jeltsch
Institut für Biochemie und Technische Biochemie Abt. Biochemie, Universität Stuttgart
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Alexander Meissner

"Mechanisms involved in reading and writing of methyl marks" [more]

Seminar with Ankit Arora

Date: Jun 21, 2018
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker: Ankit Arora
Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne
Location: Seminar Room S4, Tower 2 ground floor
Host: Denes Hnisz

"In-Silico Dissection of LINE-1 Retrotransposons in Cellular Senescence" [more]

Seminar with Jaydeep Bhat

Date: Jun 15, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Jaydeep Bhat
Institute for Immunology University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (Campus Kiel), DE
Location: Seminar Room SI, Tower 3
Host: Denes Hnisz