Seminar room 01.002-004, Josef Schneider Str. 2/ Bau D15, 6 p.m.

Mikrobiologisches Kolloquium SS2013

Invited Speakers SS2013:

21 May 2013     Vladimir Pelicic | Imperial College London
DNA-binding type IV pilins as modulators of horizontal gene exchange during natural transformation

28 May 2013     Olaf Groß | TU Munich
Inflammasomes – beyond IL-1β

04 June 2013    Regulating RNA in Bacteria  Meeting at the IMIB

11 June 2013    TBA

18 June 2013    Johannes Wagener | LMU Munich
From the inside and outside: new antifungal strategy to treat Aspergillus infections

25 June 2013    Vojo Deretic | University of New Mexico
Autophagy in infection, inflammation, and immunity

02 July 2013    Guy Tran Van Nhieu | CIRB, Paris
Calcium signals and cytoskeletal remodeling during Shigella invasion of epithelial cells

09 July 2013    Mohamed-Ali-Hakimi | UIF-Grenoble
Toxoplasma gondii secretes an armada of effector proteins to co-opt its host cell - transcriptome and microRNome to promote sustained parasitism

In the past:

14 May 2013     Ralph Bartenschlager | University Hospital of Heidelberg
On the complexities of interactions between the hepatitis C virus and its host cell

07 May 2013     Klaus Erb | Boehringer Ingelheim
Pathogen derived products for the treatment of allergic disorders: balancing inflammation with immune regulation

30 April 2013    Liam Good | University of London
RNA Silencing in Bacteria and a Novel Method for Cellular Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals

23 April 2013    Richard Ffrench-Constant | University of Exeter
Photorhabdus: shedding light on symbiosis and pathogenesis using
a bacterium-nematode-insect model

16 April 2013    Christiane Wolz | University Hospital of Tübingen
Interplay of the stringent control and other regulatory circuits
to control virulence and survival of Staphylococcus aureus

05 Feb 2013   Inigo Lasa | UPNA-CISC, Navarra, Spain
Lessons from the Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome

29  Jan 2013   Dirk Haller | TU Munich
Mechanisms of microbe-host interactions for chronic inflammation in the gut

22  Jan 2013   Mathias Herrmann | Saarland University  Hospital, Homburg
Disease mechanisms in Staphylococcus aureus endovascular infection 

15  Jan 2013    Gunther Hartmann | University Hospital, Bonn
RIG-I: a key immune sensor of RNA

08  Jan 2013 Dr. Kay Johswich | University of Toronto, Canada
Of mice and meningococci: The potential of humanized mouse models

08  Jan 2013 Sten Linnarsson | Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Quantitative analysis of single-cell transcription  

18  Dec 2012   Karl Kuchler | Medical University Vienna, Austria
Molecular Mechanisms of Fungal Pathogenesis & Host Immune Response - A Tale of Action, Reaction and Over-Reaction

11  Dec 2012   Jan Rupp | University of Lübeck
The impact of a low oxygen environment on host-pathogen interactions

04  Dec 2012   Raphael Valdivia | Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
NextGen approaches to tackle the biology of genetically "intractable" microbial pathogens

27  Nov 2012    Martin Thanbichler | MPI Marburg
Compartmentalization of bacterial cells by protein diffusion barriers

20  Nov 2012   Hubert Hilbi | LMU Munich
Pathogen vacuole formation in phagocytes - the Legionella paradigm

13  Nov 2012    Jeremy Mottram | University of Glasgow, UK
Cell death and autophagy in Leishmania

06  Nov 2012   Mathias Hornef | MH Hannover
Innate immune recognition and antimicrobial host response by the intestinal epithelium     

30 Oct 2012   Konstantin Severinov | Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, USA
Small RNA-based adaptive immunity in bacteria 

16 Oct 2012   Florian Greten | TU Munich
Cell plasticity, stemness and microflora - novel aspects in the inflammatory microenvironment of colon cancer 

17 July 2012 Rasika Harshey | University of Texas, Austin
Moving on a surface: trials, tribulations and triumphs

03 July 2012  Tâm Mignot | CNRS, Marseille
How do complex macromolecular machines evolve? Insights from the newly discovered surface motility machinery in Myxococcus

26 June 2012  Matthias Machner | NIH, Bethesda
A master manipulator of host cell membrane traffic

19 June 2012  Christof Hauck | University of Konstanz
CEA-family glycoproteins as facilitators of mucosal colonization by bacteria

12 June 2012 Jose-Juan Lopez Rubio | Institut Pasteur, Paris
Antigenic variation in P. falciparum: from epigenetic regulation to the
generation of diversity

05 June 2012  Victor Sourjik | ZMBH, Heidelberg
Self-assembly and partitioning of multi protein complexes inbacteria

29 May 2012  NassosTypas | EMBL, Heidelberg
From systems microbiology to molecular mechanism

22 May 2012  Jean-Marc Ghigo | InstitutPasteur, Paris
Airborne interactions mediated by volatile molecules produced by bacterial communities

15 May 2012  Christine Josenhans | MH, Hannover
Lessons from Epsilon proteobacteria: how to sense energy levels in an extracellular host environment

08 May 2012  Kim Lewis | NortheasternUniversity, Boston
Dormancy rules: persister cells and uncultured microorganisms

24 April 2012  José Penadés | CSIC, Spain
Phage dUTPases control transfer of staphylococcal pathogenicity islands by a proto-oncogenic G-protein like mechanism

17 April 2012  Craig Roy | Yale School of Medicine, USA
Subversion of Rab1 function by Legionella pneumophila

28 February 2012 |  Fritz Melchers | MPI for Infection Biology, Berlin
Microenvironmental guidance of B lymphocyte development

07 Feb 2012   Anne Müller | University of Zürich, Switzerland
Pathogenicand immunomodulatory properties of Helicobacter pylori govern
disease outcome in gastrointestinaland allergicdisease models

31 Jan 2012   PARASITOLOGY DAY, starting at 5 p.m., lecture hall

24 Jan 2012   Marc Bramkamp | University of Köln, Germany
Chromosome segregation and division in actinobacteria

17 Jan 2012   Dirk Hofreuter | University of Hannover, Germany
What makes Campylobacter jejuni thrive: food for a food-borne pathogen

10 Jan 2012   Angelika Grundling | Imperial College London, UK
Lipoteichoic acid synthesis in Gram-positive bacteria and how S. aureus
manages to survive without it

20 Dec 2011   Andreas Bäumler | University of California, USA
Food from the fire: how the host response feeds Salmonella
13 Dec 2011   John McKinney | EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Individuality of bacterial responses to fluctuating environments

06 Dec 2011   Alistair Brown | Aberdeen, UK
Adapt or die - How a fungal pathogen adapts to its host

29 Nov 2011   Petra Dersch | HZI Braunschweig, Germany
How Yersiniae promote and control entry into human cells

22 Nov 2011   Martin Heisenberg | RVZ Würzburg, Germany
How behavior can be free. - Brain research on the fly Drosophila melanogaster

15 Nov 2011  Jorge Galan | Yale University, USA
Type III secreation at work - Interaction of Salmonella within host cells

08 Nov 2011   Peter Brodersen | University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Coupling of RNA silencing and innate immunity pathways in plants

25 Oct 2011   David Holden | Imperial College  London, UK
Subversion of host cell functions by Salmonella

18 Oct 2011   Friedrich Götz | University of Tübingen, Germany
Staphylococcus aureus: stimulation of and response to innate immunity

26 July 2011 Kumara Ramamurthi | NIH Bethesda, USA
'Morphogenesis of large structures during development'

12 July 2011  Heike Broetz-Oesterheld | Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
'Over-activation instead of inhibition - the novel mechanistic principle of acyldepsipeptide antibiotics'

21 June 2011  Berenike Maier | Universität Münster, Germany
'Force generation by bacterial pili'

14 June 2011  Steffen Backert | UCD University College Dublin, Ireland
'Role of the actin-binding protein cortactin in host pathogen interactions'

07 June 2011  Ferric Fang | University of Washington, USA
'Salmonella: A Window Into Biology'

31 May 2011  Patrick Cramer | Genzentrum München, Germany
"Gene transcription: molecular movies of dynamic systems"

24 May 2011  Jos van Strijp | UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
'Staphylococcal immune evasion'

17 May 2011  Jörg Stülke | Universität Göttingen, Germany
'Virulence determinants of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, the minimal pathogen'

10 May 2011 Ruth Schmitz-Streit | Universität Kiel, Germany
'The nitrogen regulation in Methanoarchea:The archeal way?'

03 May 2011  Eric Masse | Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

08 February 2011 | Dr. Franz Narberhaus

01 February  2010 |Dr. Isabel Delany | Novartis Sienna, Italy
'Control of antigen expression in Neisseria meningitidis'

25 January 2010 | Dr. Duccio Medini  | Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Siena, Italy
'Population genomics of bacteria: the role of restriction modification in the Neisseria meningitidis population structure and dynamics'