At EMBL, experts from institutes throughout the world speak on a wide range of scientific and technical topics
29 July 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Raimund Fromme , Arizona State University, USA
Host: Andrew McCarthy
Place: EMBL Grenoble Seminar Room
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Grenoble
29 August 2025, 13:00
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Speaker(s): Eitan Okun, Head, the Paul Feder laboratory for Alzheimer's disease research
The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences
Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Host: Meytal Landau
Place: Seminar Room 48e
Hamburg Speaker
EMBL Hamburg
12 September 2025, 16:00
AbstractLarge Language Models LLMs like ChatGPT are transforming the way we do science and very prominently how we analyse scientific data In this talk I will introduce the fundamentals of LLMs and their emerging multimodal extensions such as Vision Language Models VLMs Computer scientists seek to enable analysis of biological images using VLMs turning images into numbers and insights... AbstractLarge Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are transforming the way we do science and very prominently how we analyse scientific data. In this talk, I will introduce the fundamentals of LLMs and their emerging multimodal extensions, such as Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Computer scientists seek to enable analysis of biological images using VLMs, turning images into numbers and insights ideally directly. I will discuss current capabilities and limitations of these models for bio-image analysis and highlight the unique potential of LLMs for automating data analysis workflows through code-generation. Emphasizing practical examples, I will demonstrate how LLM-driven code-generation accelerates data exploration, preprocessing, and quantitative analysis in bio-image data science.
Speaker(s): Robert Haase, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Host: Christian Tischer
Place: Small Operon
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Heidelberg
Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are transforming the way we do science and very prominently how we analyse scientific data. In this talk, I will introduce the fundamentals of LLMs and their emerging multimodal extensions, such as Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Computer scientists seek to enable analysis of biological images using VLMs, turning images into numbers and insights ideally directly. I will discuss current capabilities and limitations of these models for bio-image analysis and highlight the unique potential of LLMs for automating data analysis workflows through code-generation. Emphasizing practical examples, I will demonstrate how LLM-driven code-generation accelerates data exploration, preprocessing, and quantitative analysis in bio-image data science.
3 October 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Cyril Henry, University of Bordeaux, France
Host: Cornelius Gross
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Rome
6 October 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Yasin Dagdas, Cos, Heidelberg, Germany
Place: Large Operon
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Heidelberg
7 October 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Magdalena Götz, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture
EMBL Rome
17 October 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Antonella Riccio, UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, United Kingdom
Place: Sapienza Università di Roma - Aula Odeion - Museo dell'Arte Classica - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma
EMBL - Sapienza Lecture
EMBL Rome
24 October 2025, 11:00
AbstractMemory formation relies on a bidirectional interplay between synaptic plasticity and nucleus templated transcriptional programs but how precisely this interplay is orchestrated by epigenetic mechanisms remains to a large extent unknown In this talk I will showcase our recent efforts to better understand this aspect from two angles First we have found that chromatin plasticity in the... AbstractMemory formation relies on a bidirectional interplay between synaptic plasticity and nucleus-templated transcriptional programs, but how precisely this interplay is orchestrated by epigenetic mechanisms remains to a large extent unknown. In this talk, I will showcase our recent efforts to better understand this aspect from two angles. First, we have found that chromatin plasticity in the mouse brain is a key determinant for memory allocation, the process by which neurons become recruited into the memory trace: When we increased chromatin plasticity by enzymatic overexpression of histone acetyl transferases (HATs), neurons with elevated histone acetylation were preferentially recruited into the encoding ensemble and memory retention was enhanced, while optogenetic silencing of the epigenetically altered neurons prevented memory expression. Second, we have found that after...
Speaker(s): Johannes Graff, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Rome
Abstract
Memory formation relies on a bidirectional interplay between synaptic plasticity and nucleus-templated transcriptional programs, but how precisely this interplay is orchestrated by epigenetic mechanisms remains to a large extent unknown. In this talk, I will showcase our recent efforts to better understand this aspect from two angles. First, we have found that chromatin plasticity in the mouse brain is a key determinant for memory allocation, the process by which neurons become recruited into the memory trace: When we increased chromatin plasticity by enzymatic overexpression of histone acetyl transferases (HATs), neurons with elevated histone acetylation were preferentially recruited into the encoding ensemble and memory retention was enhanced, while optogenetic silencing of the epigenetically altered neurons prevented memory expression. Second, we have found that after learning, the epigenetic make-up of a single locus in the encoding ensemble is necessary and sufficient to bidirectionally alter memory performance across different phases of memory consolidation. Together, these findings stipulate that before and after memory encoding, epigenetic mechanisms play a pivotal role as molecular memory aids.
7 November 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Stavros Lomvardas, Columbia University, USA
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture
EMBL Rome
14 November 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Andrea Ganna, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Finland
Place: Sapienza Università di Roma - Aula Odeion - Museo dell'Arte Classica - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma
EMBL - Sapienza Lecture
EMBL Rome
21 November 2025, 11:00
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Speaker(s): Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture
EMBL Rome
4 December 2025, 14:30
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Speaker(s): Irene Miguel Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
Place: Small Operon
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Heidelberg
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Zoom*: [https://embl-org.zoom.us/j/96374261689?pwd=TnNxRWtQY2lyc2pSa2JpY3NGcDlhZz09] (Meeting ID: [963 7426 1689], Password: [DBU])
Please note that the talk will yes/not be recorded.
*For the FAQ section, as a zoom participant, please use either the chat function (the host will read out your question) or the “raise your hand” function and turn on your microphone.
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