Cell Biology Seminar

Mondays - 11:15

Room C161, IZB, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern

ICB Seminars Spring Semester 2025

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Talk Title
03. March, 2025 Prof. Dr. Andrew Oates
(invited by Dr. Maciej Dobrzynski)		 EPFL "On timers and clocks in development"
17. March, 2025 Prof. Dr. Miriam Stoeber
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)		 University of Geneva Spatiotemporal logic of GPCR signal transduction
24. March, 2025 Prof. Dr. Maria Hondele
(Invited By Prof. Dr. Peter Meister)		 Biozentrum Basel DEAD-box ATPases as regulators of biomolecular condensates and membrane-less organelle
28. March, 2025
(Room C159)		 Prof. Dr. Maria Olmedo
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Towbin)		 Department of Genetics, University of Sevilla, Spain “Maintenance of cell quiescence during starvation in C. elegans”
07. April, 2025 Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Keil
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Towbin)		 Institut Curie Quantitative guiding of developmental cell fate transitions using Waddington landscapes
28. April, 2025 Prof. Dr. Kirsty Wan
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)		 Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter TBD
05. May, 2025 Dr. Girish Mali
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)		 University of Oxford Chaperoning ciliary dynein motors from assembly to activation
12. May, 2025 Prof. Dr. Verdon Taylor
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)		 University of Basel Dynamic gene regulation at the post-transcriptional level
19. May, 2025 Prof. Dr. Katharina Sonnen
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)		 Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands Signalling dynamics in embryonic development and tissue homeostasis
26. May, 2025 Dr. Sophie Collier
(Invited by Dr. Michaela Bulloch)		 The University of Melbourne TBD
20. June, 2025 Prof. Dr. Chenshu Liu
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Peter Meister)		 Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA TBD

Monday, April 28th, 2025 - 10:00 - Baltzerstrasse 4, Room C161

Photo of Prof. Dr. Kristy Wan

Prof. Dr. Kristy Wan | Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter |

Kristy Wan's lab explores how cells and small organisms control and orchestrate complex behaviours. They integrate experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches to explore fundamental biological questions such as how aneural single-celled organisms actuate their motility appendages for swimming. They are particularly interested in understanding the origins and diversification of cilia, also known as eukaryotic flagella, which are evolutionarily conserved across phyla. They pioneer novel biophysical approaches to understanding ciliary form, function, and coordination in diverse species. Kristy currently holds an ERC Starting Grant to study how single-celled lifeforms control their movement and the origins of basal cognition in living systems. She recently completed an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award for a project on the biomechanics of motile cilia. She was a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI (2020-2022).