Previous Seminars

2011

Tuesday, February 22
Timm Schroeder, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: New tools for old questions

Tuesday, March 8
Stefan Hell, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Nanoscopy with focussed light

Tuesday, March 29
Ernst Bamberg, Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a. Main
Microbial Rhodopsins: Light-gated ion channels and pumps as optogenetic tools in neuro- and cell biology

Tuesday, April 12
Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Reprogramming the code of life

Tuesday, May 10
Tibor Antal, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh University
Stochastic Models of Tumor Progression

Tuesday, May 24
Manfred Zinn, Biomaterials Lab, EMPA St. Gallen
Let’s grow PHA bioplastics in the bioreactor: current and future approaches

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 4.00 pm
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Mechanical forces driving zebrafish epiboly

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 4.00 pm
David Harel, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Can we Computerize an Elephant?

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 4.00 pm
Celeste Nelson, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
Mechanical stress, cellular dynamics and tissue morphogenesis

Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 4.00 pm
Ray Goldstein, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Evolution of Biological Complexity

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 4.00 pm
Reinhard Lipowsky, Department of Theory & Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institue of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Biomolecular Systems and Functional Modules: Bridging the Gap between Nanoscopic and Mesoscopic Scales

Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 4.00 pm
David Erickson, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
Optofluidics for Energy and Single Molecule Analytics

2010

Tuesday, January 19
Ruedi Aebersold, ETH Zürich, IMSB
Mass Spectrometric Methods to Measure Dynamic Protein Interaction Networks

Tuesday, March 9
Ralf Takors, Institut für Bioverfahrenstechnik, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Systems Biology for Industrial White Biotechnology: Practical Constrains and Scientific Developments

Tuesday, March 23
Ron Weiss, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Boston
Synthetic biology from modules to systems

Tuesday, April 13
Colin Dewey, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Approximating statistical genomics models with local alignments: applications to gene expression estimation and whole-genome orthology prediction

Tuesday, April 27
Andre Levchenko, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Capacity (and limits) of Information processing in signaling pathways, understanding through confluence of novel experimental and computational tools

Tuesday, May 11
Tim Elston, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A systems biology analysis of yeast chemotrophic growth

Tuesday, September 28
Bart Deplancke, Laboratory of Systems Biology and Genetics, Institute of Bio-engineering and School of Life Sciences, EPFL
Deciphering the regulatory code through DNA-centered transcriptional network mapping

Tuesday, November 16
Serge Lemay, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
Electrochemical nanofluidics: Mesoscopic and single-molecule limits

Tuesday, November 23
Daniel Fletcher, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Do cells have a sense of touch? Mechanical regulation of the cytoskeleton

Tuesday, November 30
Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley
Computational Challenges in Human Genetics

Tuesday, December 14
Matthias Mann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
High resolution mass spectrometry based proteomics for studying cell signalling and cancer

2009

Tuesday, February 17
Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers, University of New Jersey
Remarks on Interconnections, Modularity, and Dynamics in Systems Biology

Tuesday, February 24
Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota
Shaping BMP Morphogen Gradients in the Drosophila Embryo and Pupal Wing

Tuesday, March 10
Frank Julicher, MPI Dresden
Dynamic Organization of Epithelia

Thursday, March 19
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School
Structure and Functional Analyses of the Drosophila Insulin Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Network

Tuesday, March 31
Hansjörg Hauser, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig
Dynamic Aspects of the Interferon System

Tuesday, April 7
Alexander Loewer, Harvard Medical School
Dynamics of the p53 Signaling Network on Individual Cells

Tuesday, April 21
Antonio J. Ricco, Stanford University
Fully Autonomous Bioanalytical Systems Track Microbial Gene Expression and Drug Dose Dependence in Outer Space: GeneSat and PharmaSat

Tuesday, April 28
Garry Nolan, Stanford University
Mechanistic Insights from the Single Cell: Inference Engines for Clinically Predictive Indicators in Cancer & Autoimmunity

Tuesday, May 5
Caroline Hill, Cancer Research UK
A Computational Model for the TGF-beta/Smad Pathway

Tuesday, May 12
Marcos Gonzalez, University of Geneva
Spatial Versus Temporal Dpp Computation During Proliferation Control

Tuesday, May 26
Jotun Hein, University of Oxford
Statistical Alignment and Footprinting

Tuesday, June 2
Michiel Vellekoop, Technische Universität Wien
Miniaturised (Bio)Chemical Analysis Devices based on Physical Measurement Methods

Tuesday, July 21
Carl Hansen, University of British Columbia
Application of Microfluidic Integration: from Single Cells to Single Molecules

Tuesday, July 28
Ralf Wagner, University of Regensburg
Impact of High Throughput gene Synthesis on Synthetic Biology

Tuesday, September 22
Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh
Noise and Fluctuations in Gene Expression

Tuesday, October 6
Nico de Rooij, EPFL Neuchatel
Microsystems Technology and Opportunities for Technology Transfer

Tuesday, October 20
Martin Howard, John Innes Centre, UK
Modelling Noisy Concentration Gradients in Developmental Biology

Tuesday November 3
Alfonso Martinez Arias, University of Cambridge
Origin, Function and Regulation of Non Genetic Heterogeneities in Mouse ES Cells

Tuesday, November 10
Carsten Peterson, Lund University
Computational Modeling of Stem Cell Fate Decisions

Tuesday, November 17
Erich Nigg, University of Basel
How do Dividing Human Cells Keep Track of their Chromosomes?

Tuesday, November 24
Marco Vignuzzi, Pasteur Institute Paris
RNA Virus Quasispecies Dynamics: Linking polymerase fidelity, mutation
frequencies and pathogenesis

Tuesday, December 1
Xuedong Liu, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Quantitative Analysis of TGF-β/Smad Signaling Dynamics

Tuesday, December 15
Fritjof Helmchen, University of Zurich
In Vivo Two-Photon Imaging of Neuronal Ensemble Activity

2008

Thursday, April 17
David Arnosti, Michigan State University
Deciphering a cis-regulatory code in the Drosophila embryo: a bottom-up approach to billboard enhancers

Friday, May 9
Lucas Pelkmans, ETH Zurich
Functional genomics of non-stochastic heterogeneity of virus infection in human cell populations

Wednesday, May 21
Thomas Cleland, Cornell University
The high-dimensional architecture of odor representation and decorrelation in the olfactory bulb

Friday, June 6
Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard Medical School
Programming with Models

Friday, June 13
Jörg P. Kutter, Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, DTU Copenhagen
Lab-on-a-Chip devices: At the Intersection of Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Engineering

Friday, June 20
Michael Hallett, McGill University
Towards a systems approach to understanding breast cancer

Monday, September 15
Satoshi Konishi, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
MEMS for Multi-scale interface for BME

Thursday, September 18
Mark Fortini, National Cancer Institute, Frederik, MA
Roles of intramembrane proteolysis and endosomal trafficking during Notch receptor activation

Friday, October 10
Boris Mizaikoff, University of Ulm
Can We See More by Looking at Less ?

Friday, October 17
Sebastian Maerkl, EPF Lausanne
Increasing per-capita productivity in biology through microfluidics

Friday, October 24
Brian MacCraith, Dublin City University
Enhanced Optical Biosensor Platforms for Next-Generation Biomedical Diagnostics

Friday, November 7
Mathias Gautel, King's College London
Mechanoenzymatics of the giant elastic protein kinase titin

Friday, November 14
Philippe Bastiaens, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund

Friday, November 21
Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics, Cambridge/UK
High-Resolution Mapping of Meiotic Crossovers and Non-Crossovers in Yeast

Friday, November 28
Thomas Höfer, DKFZ Heidelberg
Stochasticity and Specificity in DNA Repair: a Dynamic Model for Chromatin-Associated Regulatory Processes

Friday, December 5
Philippe Renaud, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dielectric Flow Cytometry in Microfluidic chips

Friday, December 12
Roland Eils, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg
Model-based Study of Life and Death Pathways diverging from the CD95 Death Receptor

Friday, December 19
Frank Holstege, University Medical Center Utrecht
Understanding regulatory circuitry expression-profile phenotypes