Hamid Kashkar website
Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Cologne
"Cell death and immunity"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Niels Gehring website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Global mapping of cleavage sites reveals various substrates of mRNA quality control in human cells"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Andreas Beyer website
CECAD & Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"Impact of genetic variation on molecular traits"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Thorsten Hoppe website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"Role of the Ubiquitin-Selective ATPase CDC-48 in Chromatin-Associated Protein Degradation"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Alfred Vertegaal website
Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center
"Uncovering small ubiquitin-like modifier signalling networks"
Host: Jürgen Dohmen, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, ground floor

Cologne Spring Meeting 2015 website
"21st Century Genetics"
Download program and poster

Wednesday, Feb 18:
Session 1: 3D – Differentiation, Development and Disease

Thursday, Feb 19:
Session 2: Decoding and regulating genes and genomes
Session 3: The beauty of visualization

Friday, Feb 20:
Session 4: Omics and networks in biology
Session 5: Understanding and manipulating genomes

Organizers: Andreas Beyer, Niels Gehring, Kay Hofmann, Maria Leptin, Mirka Uhlirova, and Thomas Wiehe.
Place: MTI Lecture Hall (Building 44b), Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 52

The conference is accompanied by an industrial exhibition in the foyer of the MTI building. The exhibition will show recent developments in methodology and equipment. Researchers, developers and manufacturers can exchange their experiences.

Manolis Pasparakis website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"title pending"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Thomas Langer website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"Mitochondrial dynamics and metabolism in the heart"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Elena Rugarli website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"New clue about CLUH: a mechanism to regulate mitochondrial biogenesis"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

XVIII. Minisymposium on Plant Biology: "Development"
Program & Poster
Host: CEPLAS & SFB 635
Place: Cologne Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47 b, lecture hall 0.024, ground floor

Tom Bender website
Department of Cell Biology Université de Genève, Switzerland
"The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier as a metabolic regulator at the pyruvate branch point"
Host: Aleksandra Trifunovic, CECAD Research Center
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Jürgen Dohmen website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"Ubiquitin-dependent and -independent proteolytic mechanisms controlling a metabolic pathway"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Ines Neundorf website
Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne
Cancelled and re-scheduled to October 16.
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Jay Gopalakrishnan website
Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne
"Centrosomes and Cilia in asymmetric cell division and cancer"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Randi Rawson website
Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT/USA
"The role of mitochondria in axon degeneration"
Host: Thomas Langer, CECAD/Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Pavel Ivanov website
BWH Brigham Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston
"Angiogenin-mediated RNA cleavage in the regulation of gene expression"
Host: Niels Gehring, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Günter Schwarz website
Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne
"The molecular basis of molybdenum cofactor deficiency"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Marcus Krüger
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"Quantitative Proteomics to study protein dynamics in living animals"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Stefan Müller website
Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt am Main
"The ubiquitin-related SUMO pathway: from mechanisms to functions"
Host: Jürgen Dohmen, Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, ground floor

Thomas Simmer website
Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
"The Mitochondria-Associated Membrane (MAM): A Cellular Structure where Redox and Rabs decide on Cancer and Neurodegeneration"
Host: Stefan Höning, Institute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne/SFB 635
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Michael Lammers website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"Post-translational lysine-acetylation: a regulator of Ran function?"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Mirka Uhlirova website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"Transcriptional control of epithelial homeostasis"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Martin Graef website
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne
"Linking ER homeostasis to the regulation of autophagy - the role of lipid droplets"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Kenneth Pryde website
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University College London, UK
"Unravelling the mechanisms of fission and presumed mitochondrial toxicity during defective mitophagy"
Host: Thomas Langer, CECAD/Institute for Genetics/SFB 635
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Sigrun Korsching website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"title pending"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Thomas Wiehe website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"title pending"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Gunther Döhlemann website
Botanical Institute & CEPLAS, University of Cologne
"title pending"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Matthias Hammerschmidt website
Institute for Developmental Biology, University of Cologne
"Zebrafish models for human development and desease: about skin and bones"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Walter Doerfler website
Department of Virology, University of Erlangen
"Insertion of Foreign DNA - Epigenetic Destabilization - Oncogenesis and Evolution"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Vanessa Morais website
KU Leuven, Belgium
"Mitochondria biology and neurodegeneration"
Host: Thomas Langer, CECAD/Institute for Genetics
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Ulrich Baumann website
Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne
"title pending"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Tina Wenz website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics

Jan Medenbach website
Institute of Biochemistry I, University of Regensburg
Sex and Drugs and Regulation – Translational Control in Drosophila
Host: Niels Gehring, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26, lecture hall, ground floor

Björn Schmacher website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"DNA damage responses in aging and development"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Leo Kurian website
Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (ZMMK), University of Cologne
"Regulatory code that programs pluripotency and embryonic lineage commitment"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Kristen Panfilio website
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne
"Transcription factor evolution and epithelial tissue development in insects"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Berenike Maier website
Biocenter, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne
"Cell sorting in bacterial biofilms"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Jonathan Howard website
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
"title pending"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Ines Neundorf website
Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne
"Modulating cellular uptake and cargo delivery by cyclization of membrane-active peptides"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Aleksandra Trifunovic website
Institute for Genetics & CECAD, University of Cologne
"The role of CLPP protease beyond mitochondrial unfolded protein response"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute for Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, Lecture Hall, 4^th floor

Michael Nothnagel website
Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne
"title pending"
Host: Friday Seminar Series by the Institute of Genetics
Place: Institut für Genetik, Zülpicher Str. 47 a, lecture hall, 4^th floor

Akinori Eiyama
Laboratory of Mitochondrial Dynamics, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan
"Molecular mechanisms of selective mitochondria degradation in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Host: Thomas Langer, CECAD/Institute for Genetics
Place: CECAD Research Center, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 26, lecture hall, ground floor