Cell Biology Seminar

Mondays - 11:15

Room C161, IZB, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern

ICB Seminars Spring Semester 2026

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Talk Title

23. Februrary, 2026

Dr. Hermes Gadelha
(invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

University of Bristol

"Animating Matter: Reaction–Diffusion Motion Patterns from Molecular Motors to Cilia and Robots"

09. March, 2026

Dr. Romain Levayer
(invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)

Institut Pasteur

"Toward a predictive understanding of epithelial cell death: from collective effects to single cell decision"

16. March, 2026

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Aumeier
(invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)

University of Geneva

"Motors shaping the microtubule network"

23. March, 2026

Prof. Dr. Pedro Beltrao
(invited by Ana Maria Stavridi)

ETH Zurich

"Stress-testing AlphaFold3: modelling host-pathogen interactions, RNA binding, and protein ubiquitination"

13. April, 2026

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Kleele
(invited by Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)

ETH Zurich

“How mitochondrial remodeling drives cellular metabolism and function”

20. April, 2026

Dr. Gaudenz Danuser
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)

Institute of Human Biology, Roche

"Cell morphological control of oncogenic signals"

27. April, 2026

Dr. Manu De Rycker
(invited by Dr. Gaelle Lentini)

University of Dundee

"Drug Discovery for Kinetoplastid Diseases; developing new treatments and approaches"

04. May, 2026

Dr. Hans-Georg Sprenger
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, University of Cologne

"Exercise-Sensitive Metabolites and Their Role in Metabolic Reprogramming"

11. May, 2026

Dr. Gautier Courbon
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

University of Toronto

"Cryo-EM in tuberculosis drug discovery: from bedaquiline to next-generation inhibitors"

18. May, 2026

Prof. Dr. Dirk Fasshauer
(invited by Mathi Funk)

University of Lausanne

"Structural and Evolutionary Insights into the Vesicle Fusion Machinery"