24 May 2022, 14:00

Latest information from the world of Quantitative Phase Imaging

This presentation is important for everyone who would like to understand what QPI can do for her/his research. We would love to hear what problems you are facing when analyzing cells and how could we address them. Are you struggling with phototoxicity? Have you ever wondered if there is a quantitative label-free imaging method? Are your cells too sensitive to disturbances or staining? Have you ever wondered how many picograms your cells weigh? Are you not satisfied with the segmentation results and cell tracker performance? This presentation is important for everyone who would like to understand what QPI can do for her/his research. We would love to hear what problems you are facing when analyzing cells and how could we address them. Are you struggling with phototoxicity? Have you ever wondered if there is a quantitative label-free imaging method? Are your cells too sensitive to disturbances or staining? Have you ever wondered how many picograms your cells weigh? Are you not satisfied with the segmentation results and cell tracker performance?

Speaker: Tomáš Slabý, Zuzana Nováková

Telight

Host: Stefan Terjung, ALMF

Place: Virtual seminar

Company Representative

EMBL Heidelberg

27 May 2022, 11:00

Do animals use the same mechanisms to generate and regenerate complex organs?

Speaker: Michalis Averof

IGFL

Host: Hanh Vu

Place: Large Operon

External Faculty Speaker

EMBL Heidelberg

10 June 2022, 11:00

MBD5 and MBD6 couple DNA methylation to gene silencing through the J-domain protein SILENZIO

Speaker: Lucia Ichino

UCLA, Dept of Biological Chemistry, Los Angeles, USA

Host: Matthieu Boulard

Place: Conf Room/Building 14

Seminar given by an external postdoc

EMBL Rome

10 June 2022, 11:00

Making the transition to a group leader role

Speaker: Sebastian Glatt

Max Planck Research Group Leader, Jagiellonian University Krakow

Place: Virtual

Career Event

Virtual

10 June 2022, 13:00

To be announced

Speaker: Panagiotis Kastritis

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Host: Jan Kosinski

Place: Seminar Room 48e

Hamburg Speaker

EMBL Hamburg

13 June 2022, 14:00

Understanding the global biogeography and ecology of soil microbial communities in a warmer and more arid planet

Join Zoom Meeting https://embl-org.zoom.us/j/93608179765?pwd=dU1aTERLdm5YVEl5MlJ4VVJNMGNr… Meeting ID: 936 0817 9765 Passcode: PBLS Join Zoom Meeting https://embl-org.zoom.us/j/93608179765?pwd=dU1aTERLdm5YVEl5MlJ4VVJNMGNr… Meeting ID: 936 0817 9765 Passcode: PBLS

Speaker: Fernando Maestre

University of Alicante

Host: James Sharpe

Place: Virtual

Planetary Biology Lectures

Virtual

21 June 2022, 10:00

KingFisher Sample Purification Systems – automatized magnetic bead isolation for DNA, RNA, Cells and Proteins

Already using magnetic beads in your experimental workflow or looking for ways to save hands on time and get more consistent results? Then join our Webinar and learn about the KingFisher Sample Purification Systems and their versatile applications ranging from DNA, RNA and Protein isolation to the isolation and activation of entire cells. Already using magnetic beads in your experimental workflow or looking for ways to save hands on time and get more consistent results? Then join our Webinar and learn about the KingFisher Sample Purification Systems and their versatile applications ranging from DNA, RNA and Protein isolation to the isolation and activation of entire cells.

Speaker: Msc. Michael Kostka

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Host: Mandy Rettel - PCF

Place: Large Operon

Company Representative

EMBL Heidelberg

1 July 2022, 11:00

Socially induced brain plasticity and behavioral reprogramming in ants

Social insects are an ideal system to study the role of gene regulation in brain development and function because individuals from different castes (workers and queens) display dramatic different behaviors despite sharing the same genome. Social insects are an ideal system to study the role of gene regulation in brain development and function because individuals from different castes (workers and queens) display dramatic different behaviors despite sharing the same genome. We have been developing the ant Harpegnathos saltator as a model organism because of its unique phenotypic plasticity. In Harpegnathos ants, adult workers can become queens via a caste transition that results in germline activation, lifespan extension, and major changes in behavior. This transition can be induced and reversed and offers a unique experimental paradigm to study the molecular regulation of behavioral and neuroanatomical plasticity. In the past ten years, we have sequenced the Harpegnathos genome, determined that all major epigenetic pathways are conserved and active in this organism, and have established various manipulation techniques,...

Speaker: Roberto Bonasio

Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA

Host: Marzia Munafo` & Rahul Sureka

Place: Conf Room/Building 14

External Faculty Speaker

EMBL Rome

1 July 2022, 13:00

To be announced

Speaker: Maria Hariolaki

Diamond Light Source Ltd.

Host: Elizabeth Duke

Place: Seminar Room 48e

Hamburg Speaker

EMBL Hamburg

2 September 2022, 13:00

To be announced

Speaker: Yves Gaudin

Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette,

Host: Kay Gruenewald(CSSB) and Matthias Wilmanns(CSSB)

Place: CSSB Auditorium DESY, Notkestraße 85, Building 15

Hamburg Speaker

EMBL Hamburg

16 September 2022, 13:00

To be announced

Speaker: Ben Engel

Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen

Host: Kay Gruenewald (CSSB) & Matthias Wilmanns (EMBL)

Place: via Zoom VC

Hamburg Speaker

EMBL Hamburg

16 September 2022, 15:00

What Art can tell us about the Brain

Artists have been doing experiments on vision longer than neurobiologists. Some major works of art have provided insights as to how we see; some of these insights are so fundamental that they can be understood in terms of the underlying neurobiology. For example, artists have long realized that color and luminance can play independent roles in visual perception. Picasso said, "Colors are only symbols. Artists have been doing experiments on vision longer than neurobiologists. Some major works of art have provided insights as to how we see; some of these insights are so fundamental that they can be understood in terms of the underlying neurobiology. For example, artists have long realized that color and luminance can play independent roles in visual perception. Picasso said, "Colors are only symbols. Reality is to be found in luminance alone." This observation has a parallel in the functional subdivision of our visual systems, where color and luminance are processed by the evolutionarily newer, primate-specific What system, and the older, colorblind, Where (or How) system. Many techniques developed over the centuries by artists can be understood in terms of the parallel organization of our visual systems. I will explore how the segregation of color and luminance processing are the basis...

Speaker: Margaret Livingstone

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Host: Santiago Rompani

Place: Virtual seminar

EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture

EMBL Rome

23 September 2022, 10:00

To be announced

Speaker: Karel Svoboda

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Ashburn, VA

Host: Hiroki Asari

Place: Conf Room/Building 14

EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture

EMBL Rome

7 October 2022, 11:00

Somatic epigenetics mechanisms of stress allostasis and germ cell delivery of extracellular vesicles

Somatic epigenetics mechanisms of stress allostasis and germ cell delivery of extracellular vesicles Tracy L. Bale, N. Kanyuch, J. Chan, C. Morgan, N.A. Leu, S. Ament, M. Kane, C.N. Epperson Somatic epigenetics mechanisms of stress allostasis and germ cell delivery of extracellular vesicles Tracy L. Bale, N. Kanyuch, J. Chan, C. Morgan, N.A. Leu, S. Ament, M. Kane, C.N. Epperson Parental lifetime exposures to perturbations such as stress, infection, malnutrition, and advanced age have been linked with an increased risk for offspring disease, including a strong association with neurodevelopmental disorders. Our studies have focused on identifying the causal biological mechanisms whereby dynamic information in the environment can be transmitted by sperm to the point of conception. In our studies, we examine a causal role for somatic-to-germline transmission of stress information capable of altering fetal neurodevelopment via extracellular vesicles (EVs) in a preclinical model. Further, we have examined the somatic cells along the male reproductive tract able to generate...

Speaker: Tracy Bale

Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

Host: Cornelius Gross and Andrea Mele

Place: Sapienza Università di Roma - Aula Odeion - Museo dell'Arte Classica - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma

EMBL - Sapienza Lecture

EMBL Rome

14 October 2022, 11:00

Probabilistic and Epigenetic Underpinnings of Disease

Speaker: Andrew Pospisilik

Van Andel Institute Grand Rapids, MI

Host: Mathieu Boulard / Irene Bozzoni

Place: Sapienza Università di Roma - Aula Odeion - Museo dell'Arte Classica - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma

EMBL - Sapienza Lecture

EMBL Rome

21 October 2022, 11:00

RNA modifications: their function and role in cancer

Speaker: Tony Kouzarides

Milner Therapeutics Institute and Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge Cambridge

Host: Mathieu Boulard / Irene Bozzoni

Place: Sapienza Università di Roma - Aula Odeion - Museo dell'Arte Classica - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma

EMBL - Sapienza Lecture

EMBL Rome

28 October 2022, 13:00

To be announced

Speaker: Nassos Typas

EMBL Heidelberg Unit

Host: Kay Gruenewald ( CSSB) & Matthias Wilmanns( EMBL)

Place: CSSB Auditorium DESY, Notkestraße 85, Building 15

Hamburg Speaker

EMBL Hamburg

25 November 2022, 10:00

Epigenetic regulation in development and disease

Speaker: Alexander Meissner

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Berlin

Host: Jamie Hackett

Place: Conf Room/Building 14

EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture

EMBL Rome