Previous Special Seminars

 

Monday, April 30, 2012, 16.00 pm
Prof. Elisa Franco, University of California at Riverside
Analysis, design and in vitro implementation of robust biochemical circuits

 

Thursday, December 15, 2011, 12.00 am
Alejandro Schaffer, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH
Anabaptist Genealogy Database (AGDB)

 

Thursday, November 15, 2011, 15.00 pm
Urs Dürig, Research laboratory, IBM Zürich
Direct Write 3-Dimensional Nanopatterning Using Probes

 

Monday, October 3, 2011, 11.00 am
Manuel Mattheisen, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
Complementary strategies for the analysis of GWA data sets in psychiatric disorders - making use of multi-marker information and prior biological knowledge

 

Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Dr. Jean-Luc Popot, CNRS & Université de Paris-7, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
Applications of amphipols to membrane protein studies (and some new insights into membrane protein folding)

 

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Dr. Roger Brent, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Signal and signal variation in single cells

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Armin Töpfer, Centrum für Biotechnologie (CeBiTec) Universität Bielefeld
Prediction of Group I Introns under structure variation

 

Friday, April 8, 2011
Prof. Gebhart Schertler, Director Biomolecular Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institut
The activation mechanism of G Protein Coupled Receptors derived from
structures of active and inactive GPCRs

 

Monday, April 4, 2011
Dr. Fabio Luciani, Inflammation and Infection Research Centre, School of Medical Sciencies, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
Evolutionary dynamics of hepatitis C virus during very early infections:virological and immunological insights

 

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Patrick Barth, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Engineering proteins to reprogram signaling pathways

 

Friday, March 25, 2011
Prof. Ohad Medalia, Dept. Biochemistry, University of Zurich
From the nuclear periphery to cell adhesion by cryo-electron tomography

 

Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Dr. Elisa Masi, University of Florence
Electrical signaling in plants

 

Monday, December 13, 2010
Prof. Yaeta Endo
Cell-Free Science and Technology Research Center | Ehime University, Japan
RIBOENGINE: Wheat Germ Cell-Free Protein Production System for Functional and Structural Genomics

 

Thursday, November 11, 2010
Prof. Dietmar W. Hutmacher
Chair in Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Biomaterials offer cancer research the third dimension

 

Thursday, October 7, 2010
Prof. Henry Magloire
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon,France
Role of Odontoblasts in Dental Pain

 

Friday, July 16, 2010
Dr. Richard Reinhard
Senior Scientist, Head of Scientific Service and IT-Computing Group and the high-throughput group of the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin-Dahlem
Advances in European Sea Bass genomics

 

Friday, July 16, 2010
Prof. Dr. Bernice Elger
Centre Universitaire de Médecine légale, University of Geneva
Bioethics - an interdisciplinary approach

 

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Prof. Dr. Eckard Wimmer
Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Recoding viral RNA genomes through chemical synthesis: Novel genetics and practical applications

 

Friday, June 11, 2010
Nara Lee
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Identification of a novel long non-coding RNA essential for ES cell maintenance

 

Monday, June 7, 2010
Charlotte Uetrecht
Bijvoet Center and UIPS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Netherlands Proteomics Center
Analyzing macromolecular structures with native mass spectrometry: Insights to virus structure and assembly

 

Monday, June 7, 2010
Achim Tresch
Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Global Dynamics mRNA Transcription and Decay in the Osmotic Stress Response

 

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Thomas Sakoparnig
Kings's College, London UK
MicroRNA target and function prediction

 

Friday, June 4, 2010
Dr. Ulf Hensen
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max-planck-Institute for biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Mechanoenzymatics and Protective Mechanisms of Titins' Catalytic and IG Domains

 

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Dr. Janos Kelemen
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich
Gene Silencing in Quantities

 

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Jens Lagergren
School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Probabilistic analysis of gene families with respect to gene duplication, gene loss, and lateral gene transfer

 

Monday, April 26, 2010
Olivier Michielin, MS, MD-PhD
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Multidisciplinary Oncology Center, Lausanne
Rational design of new therapeutic agents for cancer therapy using molecular modeling approaches

 

Friday, April 9, 2010
Philippe Marliere
Global Energies, Evry, France
Theory and practice of xenobiology: toward chemically modified organisms

 

Monday, March 22, 2010
Dr. Rune Linding
The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London
Cancer Related Network Dynamics and Cellular Information Processing

 

Friday, March 5, 2010
Leonie Ringrose
IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Everything is moving: Quantitative live imaging of a dynamic epigenetic system in Drosophila melanogaster

 

Monday, February 8, 2010
Prof. Ehud Shapiro
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
A Word Processor for DNA

 

Monday, January 25, 2010
Prof. Felix Näf
EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
ISREC (Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research)
Circadian transcription regulatory networks and clock precision

 

Monday, December 14, 2009
Dr. Sven Zenker
University of Bonn, Germany
Dept. of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine
Probabilistic approaches to inverse problems in cardiovascular physiology, with applications to intensive care medicine

 

Monday, November 30, 2009
Dr. Hiroto Saigo
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics
Incorporating detailed information on treatment history improves prediction of response to anti-HIV therapy

 

Friday, November 13, 2009
Andrea S. Foulkes, Sc.D, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachussetts
Mixture modeling for characterizing multi-locus genotype-trait association

 

Friday, November 6, 2009
Prof. Dr. Gregoire Courtine, University of Zurich, Experimental Neurorehabilitation Laboratory
Regaining walking in paralyzed rats

 

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Dr. Michael Shapiro, Department of Pathology, Tufts University, Boston MA, USA
Epidemics on networks: Can I get sick because you got vaccinated?

 

Monday, September 28, 2009
Heinz Koeppl, EPFL
Rule-based models for signal transduction - applications and challenges

 

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Wilhelm Huisinga
Mathematical modelling in pharmacometrics for supporting the drug discovery and development process

 

Monday,  August 17, 2009
Juliane Siebourg
Visualizing Gene Expression Data with Voronoi Treemaps

 

Monday,  August 17, 2009
Federico Felizzi
"Thermodynamic" Error of Sympletic Integrators in Molecular Dynamics 

 

Monday, August 10, 2009
Julia Rausenberger, University of Freiburg, Germany
Mathematical Models in Cell Biology - from Molecules to Phenotypes

 

Wednesday July 22, 2009
Ioannis Xenarios, Ph.D., Director of Swiss-Prot/Vital-IT group,
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva/Lausanne, Switzerland
Modeling cellular decision processes using logic and stochastic modeling

 

Monday, 13th July 2009
Dr. Anastasia Murat, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Allschwil/Basel
Stem-Cell-Related "Self-Renewal" Signature Associated
with Resistance to Concomitant Chemoradiotherapy in Glioblastoma

 

Monday, 22 June 2009
Anne Kuemmel, Novartis Pharma AG
Integration of multiple readouts into the Z¹ factor for assay quality assessment

 

Friday, 12 June 2009
Dr. Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, USA
Molecular Insights into Epigenetic Regulation: Readers of Lysine and DNA Methylation Marks

 

Friday, 3. April 2009
Dr. Johan Elf, Uppsala University, Sweden
Probing intracellular kinetics at the level of single molecules

 

Monday, 25th May 2009
Dr. Juliane Schäfer, Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University Hospital Basel
Sparse High-Dimensional Graphical Gaussian Modeling