Nils Johnsson website
Institut für Molekulare Genetik und Zellbiologie, Universität Ulm
"Towards a dynamic and functional presentation of the protein interaction network underlying polar growth and cytokinesis in yeast"
Host: Jürgen Dohmen, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, 4^th floor

Thomas Wunderlich website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"IL-6 and obesity promote cancer development"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Seminar room, 4^th floor

Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters website
Center for Advanced imaging (CAi), University of Düsseldorf
"About FCS, FLIM, FRET and Multi-parameter Fluorescence"
Host: Astrid Schauss, CECAD Imaging Facility, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, 4^th floor

George Coupland website
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne
"Control of seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, 4^th floor

Ute Deichmann website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"The concept of the causal role of genes in heredity and development and its opponents from Darwin to Lysenko"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Günter Schwarz website
Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne
"Biogenesis and Catabolism of the Molybdenum Cofactor: From Epilepsy to Cancer"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Sascha Martens website
Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna
"Molecular mechanisms of autophagosome formation: Insight from reconstitutions"
Host: Jonathan Howard, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635, Cologne
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Hans-Ulrich Fried website
CAESAR, MPG Bonn
"Intravital Two-photon Microscopy"
Host: Astrid Schauss, CECAD Imaging Facility, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, 4^th floor

Joanna Masel website
University of Arizona and Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
"Molecular errors, cryptic sequences, and evolvability"
Host: Thomas Wiehe, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, ground floor

Michael Lammers website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Regulation of the cytoskeleton by post-translational lysine-acetylation"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Rafik Neme website
MPI fürEvolutionsbiologie, Plön
Phylogenetic patterns of gene emergence in vertebrate genomes
Host: Thomas Wiehe, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, seminar room, 4^th floor

Jorma Palvimo website
Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio
"SUMOylation-regulated gene programs and stress responses of steroid receptors"
Host: Gerrit Praefcke/SFB 635, Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, 4^th floor

Raffaele Teperino website
Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
"Hedgehog rewires metabolism: New Hopes for the treatment of diabetes and cancer"
Host: Jens Brüning, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Brunhilde Wirth website
Institute of Human Genetics at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"The modifying network of spinal muscular atrophy"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, 4^th floor

Frank Nestle website
Mary Dunhill Chair of Cutaneous Medicine and Immunotherapy, St Johns Institute of Dermatology, King`s College London, UK
"Psoriasis: From genes to function and therapy"
Host: Manolis Pasparakis, Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln & Thomas Krieg, Department of Dermatology, Medical Faculty/SFB 829
External seminar! Place: ZMMK, lecture hall, Robert-Koch-Straße 21

Ana Domingos website
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York
"Sweeter than dopamine: neurobiology of food preference "
Host: Jens Brüning, Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, ground floor

Cologne Spring Meeting 2013:
"Neural circuits: development, function and degeneration"
Host: Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln
Place: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Zülpicher Str. 77

Karsten Niefind website
Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne
"Interfering with the plant defense protein EDS1 and the survival kinase CK2 via critical protein/protein interactions and small molecules"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Martin Hülskamp website
Botanical Institute, University of Cologne
"Analysis of the function of the BEACH domain protein SPIRRIG in
ESCRT regulation in Arabidopsis"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Ming-Ching Wong website
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Transcriptional control of an integrinbased gene network in C. elegans distal tip cell migration
Host: Mirka Uhlirova and Siegfried Roth
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, seminar room, 3^rd floor

Erika Isono website
Lehrstuhl Systembiologie der Pflanzen, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, TU München
Transcriptional control of an integrinbased gene network in C. elegans distal tip cell migration
Host: Swen Schellmann, Botanisches Institut/SFB 635
External seminar: Place: Botanisches Institut, Zülpicher Str. 47 b, lecture hall 0.024, ground floor

Sigrun Korsching website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Unusual mapping strategies for amphibian olfactory receptors"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Karin Schnetz website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Feedback control of pleiotropic regulators in Escherichia coli"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Gerrit Praefcke website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Function and regulation of interferon-induced molecular complexes"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Ulrich Tepass website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Novel insights into epithelial polarity and cell adhesion"
Host: Siegfried Roth, Institute for Developmental Biology
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Marc Bramkamp website
Department Biologie I: Microbiology, LMU München
"Growth and division in rod-shaped bacteria"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Aleksandra Trifunovic website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Mitochondrial stress signaling and longevity"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Eugene V. Koonin website
National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
"The Virus World: Evolution of viruses and antivirus defense"
Host: Michael Lässig/SFB 680
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Eugene V. Koonin website
National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
"Mathematical modeling of the evolution of adaptive immunity in prokaryotes"
Host: Michael Lässig/SFB 680
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, seminar room 0.46, ground floor

Sofia Ahola-Erkkilä website
Research Program of Molecular Neurology, Biomedicum-Helsinki
"Modified Atkins diet in late-onset mitochondrial myopathy"
Host: Thomas Langer, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Mirka Uhlirova website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Tissue-specific RNA-processing controls survival and developmental transitions"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Jörg Höhfeld website
Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn
"The Hsp70 chaperone machinery - mode of action and physiological importance"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

CECAD Symposium: "Posttranslational control of proteostatsis and aging"
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
Program
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, ground floor

Raymond Chan website
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
"Clearing the path for cytokinesis: a novel function for the condensin complex"
Host: Björn Schumacher, Institute for Genetics/CECAD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, ground floor

CECAD-Symposium: "Translational research in aging-associated diseases"
Presentations in the frame of the selection process for a CECAD W3 Translation Professorship
Program
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Tina Wenz website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Lysine acetylation: a novel regulatory mechanism for oxidative phosphorylation?"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Jens Brüning website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Molecular mechanisms of insulin action and resistance"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Gyan Bhanot website
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry & Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway/NJ
"How viruses evolve and adapt"
Host: Michael Lässig/SFB 680
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Kay Hofmann website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"A common evolutionary basis for necrosis signaling in animals, fungi and plants"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Tom MacVicar website
School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol/UK
"Mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy: essential protection against misbehaving mitochondria"
Host: Thomas Langer, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Seth Davis website
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne
"Metabolism and stress: to and from the circadian clock"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Clemens Schmitt website
Hematology, Oncology, and Tumor Immunology Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CVK), and Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine
"Targeting senescence-associated hypermetabolism in cancer"
Host: Björn Schumacher, Institute for Genetics/CECAD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture Hall, ground floor

Ute Höcker website
Botanical Institute, University of Cologne
"Light signaling in Arabidopsis: the role of protein degradation and auxin signaling"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Thomas Benzing website
Department II of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne
"Posttranslational control of lipid-protein supercomplexes in the kidney"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Thomas Wiehe website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Molecular innovations from an evolutionary biology perspective"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by SFB 635, CECAD & IGSDHD
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Seminar room, 4^th floor

Magdalena Zimón website
VIB - Department of Molecular Genetics, Molecular Neurogenomics Group, University of Antwerp
"A hint towards understanding inherited peripheral neuropathies"
Host: Thomas Langer, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Ruth Lehmann website
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology & The Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
"Making and protecting the germ line"
Host: Aleksandra Trifunovic and Siegfried Roth
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Bernard Moussian website
Institute of Cell Biology, University of Tuebingen
"On muscles and the terminal differentiation of the tracheal system in the embryo of Drosophila"
Host: Parisa Kakanj, AG Leptin, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, 4^th floor

Meike Broemer website
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn
"Deubiquitylating enzymes and the regulation of cell survival"
Host: Kay Hofmann, Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture hall, ground floor