Cell Biology Seminar

Mondays - 11:15

Room C161, IZB, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern

ICB Seminars Autumn Semester 2026

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Talk Title

September 14, 2026

Prof. Dr. Michael Raissig
(Invited by Dawid Warmus)

Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern

“Transcription factor control of stomatal morphodiversity in plants”

September 21, 2026

Prof. Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Peter Meister)

Biozentrum, University of Basel

 

"Mechanistic Diversity in Chromatin Regulation Across Evolution: Insights from Mosquitoes and Other Systems"

September 28, 2026

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Neurohr
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Towbin)

Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich

"How Physical Cues Shape Cell Function in Homeostasis, Stress and Senescence"

October 5, 2026

Dr. Timothy Fuqua
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern

"How mutations create new evolutionary innovations: a systems approach"

October 12, 2026

Dr. Veikko Geyer
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Dresden University of Technology

"How molecular motors bend and twist the cilia of the green alga Chlamydomonas"

October 19, 2026

Prof. Dr. Alexis Jourdain
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)

Department of Immunobiology, University of Lausanne

TBA

October 26, 2026

Prof. Dr. Jan Riemer
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)

Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne

TBA

October 30, 2026

Prof. Dr. Florenci Serras
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Towbin)

Development Biology and Genomics, University of Barcelona

TBA

November 2, 2026

Dr. Clare Harding
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow

TBA

November 9, 2026

Dr. Natalie Wiedemar
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

Insitute of Parasitology, University of Bern

"Characterization of Drug Resistance and Exploration of Novel Treatment Options for the Common Liver Fluke, Fasciola hepatica"

November 16, 2026

Prof. Dr. Ashley Vaughan
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Volker Heussler)

Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute

"Using Plasmodium falciparum genetic crosses to understand malaria parasite fitness across the life cycle"

November 23, 2026

Prof. Dr. Simona Huwiler
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Carmen Faso)

Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern

TBA

November 30, 2026

Dr. Alena Zikova
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)

Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS

TBA

December 7, 2026

Prof. Dr. Sangwoo Kim
(Invited by Dr. Maciej Dobrzynski)

EPFL

TBA

December 14, 2026

Prof. Dr. Alexander Eggel

Department for BioMedical Research, Inselspital, University of Bern

TBA

Monday, September 28th, 2026 - 11:15 - Baltzerstrasse 4, Room C161

Photo of professor doctor Gabriel Neurohr

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Neurohr | Institute of Biochemistry | ETH Zurich | "How Physical Cues Shape Cell Function in Homeostasis, Stress and Senescence"

Gabriel Neurohr is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Cell Size and Cell Homeostasis lab. His research investigates why cells have a defined size and how changes in cell size affect cellular physiology and function. His group combines genetics, live-cell microscopy, and quantitative transcriptomics and proteomics to study cell-size regulation, cytoplasmic density, and cellular senescence in yeast and mammalian systems. Gabriel studied biochemistry at ETH Zurich before completing his PhD at the Center for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research with Angelika Amon at MIT, where he investigated the consequences of altered cell size for cellular homeostasis. He joined ETH Zurich as an Assistant Professor in 2020 and has received an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship.

Monday, October 5th, 2026 - 11:15 - Baltzerstrasse 4, Room C161

Photo of doctor Timothy Fuqua

Dr. Timothy Fuqua | Institute of Ecology and Evolution | University of Bern | "How mutations create new evolutionary innovations: a systems approach"

Tim is a molecular biologist working as a postdoc at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research focuses on the evolution of gene expression, and where new gene expression comes from (regulatory emergence), and fitness landscapes. The team researches these questions in prokaryotes (E. coli ) and eukayotes (Drosophila melanogaster and Saccharomyces cerevisiae), and a combination of high-throughput experimental techniques such as massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs), experimental evolution, and computational methods including machine learning.