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11 March 2022, 13:00
Hamburg SpeakerSpeaker: Moshe Dessau
Bar-Ilan University, Safed
Host: Meytal LandauLocation: via Zoom VC
Place: via Zoom VC
Seminars: Hamburg Speaker
EMBL Hamburg
17 March 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Jordi Van Gestel
University California, San Francisco (UCSF), US
Place: via Zoom VC
Symbnet series
EMBL Heidelberg
17 March 2022, 16:30
Speaker: Jonathan Howard
Host-Pathogen Co-evolution Lab, FCG-IGC, Portugal
Place: via Zoom VC
Symbnet series
EMBL Heidelberg
18 March 2022, 13:00
Speaker: Maya Topf
CSSB, Hamburg
Host: Maria Garcia
Place: via Zoom VC
Hamburg Speaker
EMBL Hamburg
25 March 2022, 11:00
https://embl-org.zoom.us/j/96838401413?pwd=bGJSUlpKNUhSb0toZFFCRlhhWVdV… Meeting ID: 968 3840 1413 Passcode: BlueSCB https://embl-org.zoom.us/j/96838401413?pwd=bGJSUlpKNUhSb0toZFFCRlhhWVdV… Meeting ID: 968 3840 1413 Passcode: BlueSCB
Speaker: Jasper Michels
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz
Host: Mahamid Lab / Mukthi Iyer
Place: Small Operon
Seminar given by an external postdoc
EMBL Heidelberg
25 March 2022, 15:00
The establishment of left-right (LR) asymmetry during embryonic development is vital to the proper formation of internal organs in vertebrates. In the zebrafish embryo, Kupffer’s vesicle (KV) is a transient organ that acts as the LR organizer. For this LR organization to occur, KV cells must change shape along the anterior-posterior (AP) axis as the KV travels through the tailbud tissue, resulting in an asymmetric distribution of cells. However, the mechanisms that drive these KV cell shape changes remain poorly understood. The establishment of left-right (LR) asymmetry during embryonic development is vital to the proper formation of internal organs in vertebrates. In the zebrafish embryo, Kupffer’s vesicle (KV) is a transient organ that acts as the LR organizer. For this LR organization to occur, KV cells must change shape along the anterior-posterior (AP) axis as the KV travels through the tailbud tissue, resulting in an asymmetric distribution of cells. However, the mechanisms that drive these KV cell shape changes remain poorly understood. 3D vertex-like modeling results and in vivo particle image velocimetry (PIV) analysis suggest that drag forces exerted by the tailbud tissue flow can change KV cell shapes. As a continuation of these findings, we recently ablated the embryo’s notochord to disturb the notochord’s convergent extension, which seems to affect KV movement. This work was supported by NIH...
Speaker: Paula Sanematsu
Syracuse University, New York
Place: via Zoom VC
Seminar given by an external postdoc
EMBL Heidelberg
1 April 2022, 10:00
Detecting the direction of image motion is important for visual navigation, predator avoidance and prey capture, and thus essential for the survival of all animals that have eyes. However, the direction of motion is not explicitly represented at the level of the photoreceptors: it rather needs to be computed by subsequent neural circuits, involving a comparison of the signals from neighboring photoreceptors over time. The exact nature of this process represents a classic example of neural computation and has been a longstanding question in the field. Detecting the direction of image motion is important for visual navigation, predator avoidance and prey capture, and thus essential for the survival of all animals that have eyes. However, the direction of motion is not explicitly represented at the level of the photoreceptors: it rather needs to be computed by subsequent neural circuits, involving a comparison of the signals from neighboring photoreceptors over time. The exact nature of this process represents a classic example of neural computation and has been a longstanding question in the field. Only recently, much progress has been made in the fruit fly Drosophila by genetically targeting individual neuron types to block, activate or record from them. Our results obtained this way demonstrate that the local direction of motion is computed in two parallel ON and OFF pathways. Within each pathway, a retinotopic array of four...
Speaker: Alexander Borst
Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
Host: Hiroki Asari
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture
EMBL Rome
5 April 2022, 09:30
Speaker: Marina Gebert
Head of Marine Biotechnology Department, FRAUNHOFER EMB
Host: Rainer Pepperkok
Place: Virtual
Planetary Biology Lectures
Virtual
8 April 2022, 11:00
Understanding how different epigenetic layers are coordinated to facilitate robust lineage decisions during development is one of the fundamental questions in regulatory genomics. Using single-cell epigenomics coupled with cell-type specific high-throughput mapping of enhancer activity, DNA methylation and the 3D genome landscape in vivo, we dissected how the epigenome is rewired during cortical development. Understanding how different epigenetic layers are coordinated to facilitate robust lineage decisions during development is one of the fundamental questions in regulatory genomics. Using single-cell epigenomics coupled with cell-type specific high-throughput mapping of enhancer activity, DNA methylation and the 3D genome landscape in vivo, we dissected how the epigenome is rewired during cortical development. We identified and functionally validated key transcription factors such as Neurog2 which underlie regulatory dynamics and coordinate rewiring across multiple epigenetic layers to ensure robust lineage specification. This work showcases the power of high-throughput integrative genomics to unravel the molecular rules of cell fate decisions in the brain and more broadly, how to apply them to evolution and disease.
Speaker: Boyan Bonev
Helmholtz Zentrum München Munich
Host: Marzia Munafo` & Rahul Sureka
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Rome
8 April 2022, 13:00
Speaker: Sarel Fleishman
Weizmann Institute of Science
Host: Meytal Landau
Place: via Zoom VC
Hamburg Speaker
EMBL Hamburg
13 April 2022, 16:00
Novel RNA genomics technologies go beyond traditional RNA-Seq and have the potential to illuminate structural and regulatory aspects of RNA as well as the RNA interactome. This seminar will detail NGS-based strategies to investigate RNA interactions with RNA binding proteins, RNA modifications such as m6A, alternative transcription start site (TSS) and polyadenylation site (PAS) usage as well as the microRNA-mRNA interactome. Novel RNA genomics technologies go beyond traditional RNA-Seq and have the potential to illuminate structural and regulatory aspects of RNA as well as the RNA interactome. This seminar will detail NGS-based strategies to investigate RNA interactions with RNA binding proteins, RNA modifications such as m6A, alternative transcription start site (TSS) and polyadenylation site (PAS) usage as well as the microRNA-mRNA interactome.
Speaker: Karen B. Chapman
Eclipse Bioinnovations, Inc.
Host: Matthias Hentze
Place: Virtual seminar
Company Representative
EMBL Heidelberg
20 April 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Host: Alexander Aulehla for Theory@EMBL
Place: Large Operon
Theory@EMBL seminar
EMBL Heidelberg
21 April 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Nils Raedecker
Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry, EPFL-UNIL, Switzerland
Place: via Zoom VC
Symbnet series
EMBL Heidelberg
21 April 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Erwin Frey
LMU Munich
Host: Alexander Aulehla for Theory@EMBL
Place: Large Operon
Theory@EMBL seminar
EMBL Heidelberg
21 April 2022, 16:30
Speaker: Ricardo Henriques
Optical Cell Biology Lab, FCG-IGC, Portugal
Place: via Zoom VC
Symbnet series
EMBL Heidelberg
22 April 2022, 11:00
The epigenome is malleable and responsive to environmental influences, providing a potential mechanism through which our physical, social and biological experiences can alter gene function and ultimately disease risk and disease course. The epigenome is malleable and responsive to environmental influences, providing a potential mechanism through which our physical, social and biological experiences can alter gene function and ultimately disease risk and disease course. This talk will present findings from molecular epidemiological investigations looking into the influence of the environment on the epigenome (DNA methylation) in human populations. Such methods are potentially complementary to model-based systems and experimental approaches that have been used to interrogate the role of the epigenome in cellular processes and have relevance to the Human Ecosystems theme of the new EMBL Molecules to Ecosystems Programme (2022-2026).
Speaker: Caroline Relton
Bristol Medical School University of Bristol, Bristol
Host: Cornelius Gross & Helen Parkinson
Place: Conf Room/Building 14
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Rome
22 April 2022, 13:00
Speaker: Frank Raushel
Texas A&M University, Texas Visiting Professor, University of Regensburg
Host: Matthias Wilmanns
Place: Seminar Room 48e
Hamburg Speaker
EMBL Hamburg
22 April 2022, 16:00
*** Meeting ID: 910 5345 7980 / Passcode: 449594*** *** Meeting ID: 910 5345 7980 / Passcode: 449594*** Abstract: Probability is arguably the most effective mathematical tool that all sciences use. However, probability is not reality, and one should be aware of the relations between them, in order to avoid errors, and actually develop useful predictive theories. In this lecture, I will invite the audience and myself to ponder the matter, illustrating various notions probability and giving examples of how statistical physics understands thermodynamic phenomena. I will then discuss success and failures in the use of probabilities in Physics, and will conclude mentioning some applications of biological and geophysical interest.
Speaker: Lamberto Rondoni
Polytechnic University of Turin
Host: Anna Erzberger
Place: Large Operon
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Heidelberg
23 April 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Karen Alim
Technical University Munich
Host: Alexander Aulehla for Theory@EMBL
Place: Large Operon
Theory@EMBL seminar
EMBL Heidelberg
25 April 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Pieter Rein ten Wolde
AMOLF
Host: Alexander Aulehla for Theory@EMBL
Place: Large Operon
Theory@EMBL seminar
EMBL Heidelberg
26 April 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Rachel Banks
Caltech
Host: Alexander Aulehla
Place: Large Operon
Theory@EMBL seminar
EMBL Heidelberg
27 April 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Gasper Tkacik
IST
Host: Alexander Aulehla for Theory@EMBL
Place: all EMBL HD
Theory@EMBL seminar
EMBL Heidelberg
28 April 2022, 10:00
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
29 April 2022, 11:00
Speaker: Claire Wyart
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere CHU, Paris
Host: Cornelius Gross/Andrea Mele
Place: Sapienza Università di Roma - Aula Odeion - Museo dell'Arte Classica - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma
EMBL - Sapienza Lecture
EMBL Rome
4 May 2022, 15:00
Speaker: Dianne Newman
Caltech
Host: Ron Milo
Place: Virtual
External Faculty Speaker
Virtual
6 May 2022, 13:00
Speaker: Francis O'Reilly
Berlin Institute of Technology
Host: Nikolay Dobrev, ( Wilmanns group)
Place: via Zoom VC
Hamburg Speaker
EMBL Hamburg
13 May 2022, 11:00
Several molecular markers have been described to predict adult stem cell potential with great success, e.g., in tissues like the blood, where a clear hierarchy of functional cell types can be identified. In other tissues, neutral competitive dynamics has been reported to remove a large fraction of biochemically identifiable stem cells, thereby creating a severe mismatch between cell-specific biochemical identity and the actual role of them as functional stem cells within the collective forming the tissue. Several molecular markers have been described to predict adult stem cell potential with great success, e.g., in tissues like the blood, where a clear hierarchy of functional cell types can be identified. In other tissues, neutral competitive dynamics has been reported to remove a large fraction of biochemically identifiable stem cells, thereby creating a severe mismatch between cell-specific biochemical identity and the actual role of them as functional stem cells within the collective forming the tissue. In the case of the intestinal epithelium, this mismatch goes even further: In spite the number of biochemically identifiable (LGR5+) stem cells is the same in the crypts of both large and small intestines, lineage tracing techniques show that the number of them that actually play the role of stem cell displays remarkable differences. In that context, a natural question arises: How to...
Speaker: Bernat Corominas-Murtra
University of Graz
Host: Nicoletta Petridou
Place: Large Operon
External Faculty Speaker
EMBL Heidelberg
13 May 2022, 14:30
Behavior assessment is a cornerstone of neuroscience. Current molecular approaches have achieved high temporal precision of physiological measurements. Recent advances in machine vision, enable a similar level of precision in monitoring animal behavior. It is now possible to extract high-dimensional representation of animal sequences of movements and postures and break animal behavior down into subcategories and even into small behavioral motifs. Behavior assessment is a cornerstone of neuroscience. Current molecular approaches have achieved high temporal precision of physiological measurements. Recent advances in machine vision, enable a similar level of precision in monitoring animal behavior. It is now possible to extract high-dimensional representation of animal sequences of movements and postures and break animal behavior down into subcategories and even into small behavioral motifs. We have established an automated pipeline for deep behavior phenotyping and show its ability to capture specific deviations in adaptation and movement as well as differences in the detailed structure of behavioral dynamics. I will demonstrate these capacities in wild-type mice undergoing free exploration, as well as several models of Autism Spectrum Disorder. To examine contextual learning, we established a platform for the context-dependence of...
Speaker: Mikhail Kislin
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ
Host: Hiroki Asari
Place: Virtual seminar
Seminar given by an external postdoc
EMBL Rome
19 May 2022, 15:00
Speaker: Jeremy Nathans
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD
Host: Cornelius Gross
Place: Virtual seminar
EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture
EMBL Rome
19 May 2022, 16:00
Speaker: Jan van der Meer
Environmental and Evolutionary Microbiology Lab, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland
Place: via Zoom VC
Symbnet series
EMBL Heidelberg
19 May 2022, 16:30
Speaker: Tina Keller Costa
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal
Place: via Zoom VC
Symbnet series
EMBL Heidelberg
20 May 2022, 14:00
Speaker: Gaël McGill
Center for Molecular & Cellular Dynamics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Host: Nikolay Dobrev ( Wilmanns group)
Place: via Zoom VC
Hamburg Speaker
EMBL Hamburg
23 May 2022, 14:00
Speaker: Mai Sun
Manager, Clinical Bioinformatics, EMEA, Illumina
Place: Virtual
Career Event
Virtual
24 May 2022, 14:00
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
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