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Michael Sars Guest Seminar Series

Our Guest Seminar Series welcomes local, national and international speakers who share their work on a broad spectrum of research topics within the field of biology.

Researchers giving a presentation
Dr. Valentina Zaffaroni Caorsi and Prof. Giovanni Zambon from the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy, presented their work on the impact of noise pollution on marine and terrestrial ecosystems in March 2024.
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Melanie Burford

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Spring 2025

10 January 2025

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Title: Toward a predictive understanding of cell death: from collective effects to single cell decision
Host: Inés Fournon Berodia/PhDs and postdocs committee

17 January 2025

Department of Biological Sciences, UiB
Title: How to keep fish healthy utilizing genetics, evolution, and cellular biology
Date:Friday 17 January
Host: Aishwarya Ravi/PhDs and postdocs committee

7 February 2025

The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Title: The genomic basis of animal complexity - insights from the MIRevolution project
Host: Max Jordi Makem Pekouankouang/PhDs and postdocs committee

21 February 2025

Department of Biomedicine, UiB
Title: Regulatory mechanisms of dopamine synthesis: structural basis and pathogenic insights
Host: Timothy Lynagh

7 March 2025 - double feature!
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture by
University of Geneva, Switzerland
վٱ:Multicellular developmental diversity and the root of Animals


EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Evolution and diversity in mitosis
Host: Inés Fournon Berodia/PhDs and postdocs committee

21 March 2025

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU
Title: Searching for Evolutionary Traces of Vertebrate Thalamo-Cortical Systems in the Zebrafish Brain
Host: Lionel Christiaen

28 March 2025

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, USA
Title: Building a virtual embryo, one cell at a time
Host: Noah Bruderer/PhDs and postdocs committee

4 April 2025

University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: Identifying protein targets to mitigate pathological remodeling in hearts by proteomics investigations
Host: Timothy Lynagh

25 April 2025

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Temperature and timing in embryonic development
Host: Kathrin Garschall/PhDs and postdocs committee

9 May 2025

Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
Title: Understanding successful regeneration in animals: Insights from the annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Host: Lionel Christiaen

30 May 2025

Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
Title: TBA
Host: Lionel Christiaen

Wednesday 4 June 2025
Dr. KarinKühnel
Editor-in-chief at Structure (Cell Press)
վٱ:Insights into the work of a Cell Press editor
Host: Timothy Lynagh/

Autumn 2025

19 September 2025

Duke University, Durham, USA
Title: TBA
Host: Ruth Styfhals/PhDs and postdocs committee

10 October 2025

Queen Mary University of London, UK
Title: TBA
Host: Timothy Lynagh

2024

26 January 2024

Echo Network, Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: The insect mind
Host: Aishwarya Ravi/PhDs and postdocs committee

2 February 2024

Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Title: Nematostella vectensis: a marine model for understanding microbiome establishment and microbiome-mediated plasticity
Dz:Patrick Steinmetz

9 February 2024
, Group Leader
The Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh
Title: RNA-binding proteins that control fungal growth, and their surprising history.
Host: Pawel Burkhardt and Eivind Valen

Tuesday 13 February 2024 / Darwin Day 2024

Tel Aviv University, Israel
վٱ:Epigenetic Inheritance and the extended evolutionary synthesis.
Dz:Lionel ChristiaenԻ Melanie Burford

8 March 2024
, Group Leader
Marseille Medical Genetics, Aix-Marseille University, France
Title: Multiple roads to the heart and head muscles.
Host: Lionel Christiaen

15 March 2024
Chief of Acoustic LaboratoryԻ
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Title: The effect of anthropogenic noise on biodiversity.
Dz:Marios Chatzigeorgiou

22 March 2024
Group Leader
Department of Genetics, Microbiology, and Statistics at the University of Barcelona, Spain
Title: Omics approaches to understand the origin of new organs and the evolution of winged insects.
Host: Eudald Pascual Carreras/PhDs and postdocs committee

5 April 2024 (13.30)
Prof. Gunnar Mellgren
Hormone Laboratory Research Group, University of Bergen, Norway
վٱ:Cellular and Molecular Factors in Obesity
Host: Ronja Alica Angelika Göhde/PhDs and postdocs committee

12 April 2024

Project Leader, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
վٱ:Metabolic Programming for Aquaculture Production? Insights into Nutrition and Epigenetics, Broodstock and Offspring
Dz:Patrick Steinmetz

16 April 2024

Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Title: Runway to Reality: The Starlet Sea Anemone in the "Real World"
Host: Patrick Steinmetz

19 April 2024

Laboratoire Jean Perrin, CNRS/Sorbonne University, France
Title: Goal-driven navigation in zebrafish larvae
Dz:Marios Chatzigeorgiou

26 April 2024
, Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
Title: Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell dormancy.
Host: Patrick Steinmetz

3 May 2024

Institute for Biosciences at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania
վٱ:Thriving in multi-stress environments: lessons from a humic lake perch
Dz:Marios ChatzigeorgiouԻ Oleg Tolstenkov

Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 11 am

Departments of Biology and Genetics, University of North Carolina, USA
Title: Mechanisms of cardiac sex differences
Dz:Lionel Christiaen

24 May 2024
, Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Gene regulatory mechanisms underlying the life cycle transitions of the tunicate Ciona
Dz:Lionel Christiaen

7 June 2024
, Group Leader
Faculty of Biology,Adam Mickiewicz University,Poznań, Poland
Title:
Dz:Marios Chatzigeorgiou

21 June 2024
Dr.Maija Slaidiņa,Assistant Director at
Dr. Torleif Markussen Lunde, Head of VIS Startup and head of the ocean incubator 70Blå
Title: Innovation? Yes, please!
Dz:Lionel Christiaen

16 August 2024

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Title: Discovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
Host: Emily Claereboudt/PhDs and postdocs committee

23 August 2024

Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
Title: Dynamic regulation of presynaptic function and plasticity in health and disease
Dz:Ronja Alica Angelika Göhde/PhDs and postdocs committee

Monday 26 August 2024
, Principal Investigator
Zoological Institute,Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Title: Molecular interplay of conserved and novel genes shapes the neurogenesis of Hydra
Dz:Oleg Tolstenkov

30 August 2024
, Senior Scientist
University of Montpellier and CNRS, France
Title: Digital ascidian embryos: natural variation and the logical rules of animal embryogenesis
Dz:Lionel Christiaen

27 September 2024

Columbia University, New York, USA
Title: The neural basis of cuttlefish camouflage
Host: Lionel Christiaen andPawel Burkhardt

4 October 2024
, Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
վٱ:Phosphoinositides in control of cellular membrane dynamics
Dz:Pawel Burkhardt

11 October 2024
Prof. Karl Johan Tronstad
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
Title: Metabolic Phenotypes: Key Indicators of Human Health and Disease
Dz:Patrick Steinmetz

18 October 2024
, Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology and University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University, UK
Title: Unlocking the secrets of early animal evolution
Dz:Pawel Burkhardt

25 October 2024

Institute of Biological Sciences,Universiti Malaya
Title: Roles and Fate of Earliest-Born Cortical Neurons
Host: Marios Chatzigeorgiou

1 November 2024
, Lecturer in Neuroscience
University of Sheffield, UK
Title: Plasticity in the zebrafish sensory systems
Dz:Marios Chatzigeorgiou,Oleg Tolstenkov

8 November 2024
and
Institute for Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
Title: Effects of underwater noise on marine ecosystems
Host: Sissel Norland/PhDs and postdocs committee

15 November 2024

The University of Kiel / Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Title: Metabolism under the lens - spatial metabolomics reveals host-microbe interactions
Host: Emily Claereboudt/PhDs and postdocs committee

22 November 2024

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Title: Toward a predictive understanding of cell death: from collective effects to single cell decision
Dz:Inés Fournon Berodia/PhDs and postdocs committee

29 November 2024

Director of the MPI for Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Title: Genetic and genomic basis of brown algal mating rituals
Host: Inés Fournon Berodia/PhDs and postdocs committee

13 December 2024

NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Title: Impact of anthropogenic sound on fish and plankton
Hosts:Sissel Norland,Marios Chatzigeorgiou

2023

10 February, 2023
Etienne Bourgouin
, Paris, France
վٱ:"Jellyfish, one of the three strategic pillars of Paris Aquarium".
Host: Burkhardt Lab

10 March, 2023

Department of Animal Physiology, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Germany
Title "Plasticity and Diversity of the Presynaptic Active Zone"
Host: Burkhardt Lab

24 March, 2023

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden
վٱ:"Cotranslational protein folding"
Host: Ronja Göhde/PhDs and postdocs committee

28 April, 2023
Associate ProfessorArne Skodvin Kristoffersen
Department of Physics and Technology at UiB
վٱ:"Green fjords, remote sensing, and a bit of fluorescence".
Host: Marios Chatzigeorgiou

5 May, 2023
Prof. Nathalie Reuter
Computational Biology Unit and Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Norway
Title: Dissecting peripheral protein-membrane interfaces.
Host: Tim Lynagh

12 May, 2023
, Group Leader
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
Title: Regulation and function of developmentally controlled polyploidization.
Host: Eudald Pascual Carreras/PhDs and postdocs committee

26 May, 2023
Dr., Group Leader
Institut Jacques Monod, University Paris Cité, France
Title: Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we lern from the ciliate Paramecium?
Host: James Gahan/PhDs and postdocs committee

9 June, 2023
, Principal Investigator
Centre for Chromosome Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute, University of Galway
Title: The adult stem cells of the cnidarian Hydractinia
Host: SteinmetzGroup

18 August, 2023
Dr., Group Leader
Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH), Heidelberg
Title: Molecular machinery and mechanisms mediating and controlling neurotransmitter release
Host: Ronja Göhde, Burkhardt Lab

8 September, 2023
, Group Leader
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
Title: Integrating mechanical cues with Planar Cell Polarity signaling in heart development
Host: Lionel Christiaen

27 September, 2023
, Associate Professor
Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Title: Do what you can where you are with what you have- Insights from marine invertebrate sensory systems.
Host: Tim Lynagh

29 September, 2023

Institute of Physiology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Title: Peptide-gated ion channels of Hydra: stoichiometry and ligand-binding site
Host: Tim Lynagh

Monday 2 October, 2023
, Principal Investigator
Department of Embryology,The Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington D.C.
Title: Molecular and cellular bases of coral symbiosis and its breakdown
Host: SteinmetzGroup

13 October, 2023
, Postdoctoral researcher
Single-cell Genomics and Evolution Lab,, Barcelona, Spain
Title: Placozoan single-cell genomics and the emergence of the neuronal gene expression program
Host: Pawel Burkhardt

27 October, 2023
, Principal Investigator
Department of Biology, KU Leuven, Belgium
Title: Building and wiring the unusually large brain of Octopus vulgaris
Host: Eudald Pascual Carreras/PhDs and postdocs committee

3 November, 2023

Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Title: Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into the making and forgetting of memories
Host: Pawel Burkhardt

17 November, 2023
Prof. Anders Goksøyr
Department of Biological Sciences, UiB
Title: Endocrine disruption in marine organisms: nuclear receptors as key mediators
Host: Tim Lynagh

24 November, 2023
, Principal Investigator
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Title: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Whole-body Regeneration: Identifying cells and molecules important regenerative capacity in Schmidtea mediterranea.
Dz:Eudald Pascual Carreras/PhDs and postdocs committee

1 December, 2023

Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London
վٱ:Epithelial Cell extrusion: an exciting beginning to an end
Host: Inés Fournon Berodia/PhDs and postdocs committee

14 December, 2023
, Associate Professor
Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, Trondheim
վٱ:The remarkable cilia in the brain: from sensory detection to flow generation
Dz:Pawel Burkhardt

2022

14 January, 2022
Guest Speaker - Meg Veruki
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
"Structure and function of neurons in the inner retina"
Host: Lynagh Lab

21 January, 2022
Guest Speaker -
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
“Of mice and worms: identifying inputs to single neurons, and chasing bioluminescent signals in the sea”
Host: Christiaen Lab

29 April, 2022
Guest Speaker - Øyvind Fiksen
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen
"Ecological mechanics in the ocean: encounter rates, physiology and behaviour​​​​​​"
Dz:Christiaen Lab

6 May, 2022
Guest Speaker -
University of Copenhagen
"A Drosophila Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor (TNFR) restricts cytoplasmic TRAF3 levels to control gut metabolism and tissue homeostasis"
Host: Steinmetz Lab

15 June, 2022
Guest Speaker -
Department of Ecology & Evolution,The University of Chicago
"Evolutionary histories of an ancient transcription factor"
Host: Lynagh Lab

17 June, 2022
Guest Speaker - Aino Hosia
University Museum of Bergen, Department of Natural History
"Exploring the diversity of Medusozoa and Ctenophora"
Host: Burkhardt Lab

26 August, 2022
Guest Speaker -
UC Berkeley, USA
"From embryos to organoids: neural crest at the heart of development"
Host: Christiaen Lab

23 September, 2022
Guest speaker - Clive R Bramham
Department of Biomedicine, UiB
"Arc as a master regulator of synaptic plasticity: toward a molecular understanding of how the brain works."
Host: Lynagh Lab

30 September, 2022
Guest speaker -
Biozentrum, University Würzburg, Germany
“Guiding chromosomes and shaping nuclei: The exceptional role of the nuclear envelope in meiosis and sperm differentiation.”
Host: Chourrout Lab

14 October, 2022
Guest speaker - , PhD
University of Florida Scripps, U.S.
"Decoding hurdles in Huntington disease"
Host: PhD/Postdoc Committee

21 October, 2022
Guest speaker -
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
"Design principles of early animals: a cnidarian view."
Dz:Steinmetz Lab

28 October, 2022
Guest speaker -
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
"The wide wild world of GABAA receptors"
Host: Burkhardt Lab

4 November, 2022
Guest speaker -
Oslo University Hospital, Norway
"Molecular mechanisms of cytokinetic abscission in vivo."
Host: Lynagh Lab

11 November, 2022
Guest Speaker -
Pasteur Institute, France
“The origin of animal morphogenesis: insights from choanoflagellates.”
Host: Burkhardt Lab

25 November, 2022
Guest Speaker -
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
"Dissecting the molecular mechanisms that determine signaling and functional heterogeneity of chemosensitive gut endocrine cells."
Host: Burkhardt Lab

2 December, 2022
Guest Speaker -
University of Lausanne,Switzerland
"The spark of life. A role for nuclear organization in transcription regulation."
Host:

2021

8 October, 2021
Guest speaker -Nils Halberg
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
Epigenetic Control of Obesity-induced Tumor Initiation in Breast Cancer

12 November, 2021
Guest speaker -Charalampos Tzoulis
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
NAD replenishment therapy for Parkinson’s disease: from the lab bench to trials of experimental therapy

19 November, 2021
Guest speaker -Aurelia Lewis
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen
PI3K signalling in the nucleolus

26 November, 2021
Guest speaker -Sushma Grellscheid
Department of Biological Sciences and CBU, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
Cell Biology Meets Soft Matter Physics to Characterise the Mechanical Properties of Biomolecular Condensates

3 December, 2021
Guest speaker -Iain Johnston
Department of Mathematics and Associate Group Leader, CBU, University of Bergen
Corals, crops, ctenophores... avoiding organelle mutational meltdown across eukaryotes

2020

28 February, 2020
Guest speaker -
University of Manchester
Animal opsins, from functional characterisation to optogenetic application

27 January, 2020
Guest Speaker -
University of Bristol
Polarization as an alternative to colour in animal vision

21 February, 2020
Guest speaker -
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
Top down and Bottom up approaches to understand morphogenesis

20 February, 2020
Guest speaker -
Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, IMEV
Gastrulation in the hydrozoan Clytia

14 February, 2020
Guest Speaker -
UCD Conway Institute
Origin of yeast’s natural genome engineering system, mating-type switching

2019

26 November, 2019
Guest Speaker - Roberto Feuda
University of Leicester
Towards a system-level understanding of the evolution of the nervous system

22 November, 2019
Guest Speaker -
University of Vienna
The evolution of mesoderm and its derivatives - lessons from a diploblastic sea anemone

25 October, 2019
Guest Speaker -
University of Bristol
Comb Jelly origins — A palaeontological perspective

18 October, 2019
Guest Speaker -
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Small proteins with big roles – from coordinating cell migration to mediating species-specific fertilization

27 September, 2019
Guest Speaker -
Marine Biological Laboratory, The University of Chicago
Molecular mechanisims of regeneration: lessons from axolotls

3 May, 2019
Guest Speaker - Ass. Prof.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver
Evolution of epithelial organization and dynamics in animals
Dz:Burkhardtgroup

26 April, 2019
Guest Speaker -
IVEP team, University of Toulouse, France
Decision making and learning abilities in non neural organisms, evidence from slime molds
Dz:Burkhardt Group

12 April, 2019
Guest Speaker -(PI)
Life Science Addition,University of California,Berkeley
Light regulated morphogenesis in a shape-shifting choanoflagellate
Dz:Burkhardt/Hejnol group

29 March, 2019
Guest Speaker -(PI)
Center for Systems Biology,Harvard University
Cephalopod lens development and the evolution of visual system complexity
Dz:Hejnol group

22 March, 2019
Guest Speaker -
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
Early metazoan cell type diversity and regulation by single-cell RNA-seq analysis
Dz:Hejnol group

22 February, 2019
Guest Speaker -
InstitutCurie, Paris
Histone repertoire changes are associated with changes in genome organisation: Loss of CenH3 in holocentric insects
Host: Gahan/Garschall

15 February, 2019
Guest Speaker -
Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Hydra, a model for regeneration and slow aging
Dz:Simona Chera

1 February, 2019
Guest Speaker -
University Hospital Regensburg
Actin/myosin functions in exocytic transport processes
Dz:Burkhardt Group

2018

4 December, 2018
Guest Speaker -
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
Genealogy of Neurons: Deciphering Brain Evolution through the Lens of Single-cell genomics
Host: Burkhardt Group

30 November, 2018
Guest Speaker - Benyamin Rosental, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor
Comparative Immunology lab Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology,
Evolutionary origin of the mammalian hematopoietic system found in a colonial chordate
Dz:Rentzsch Group

16 November, 2018
Guest Speaker -
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Ontario Canada
APC/C-Cort, a meiosis-specific Anaphase Promoting Complex, contributes to sex determination in Drosophila
Host: Thompson Group

9 November, 2018
Guest Speaker -
Genomics and Epigenomics of Animal Development, Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Transcriptomic programs underlying cell fate determination in the sea anemoneNematostella vectensis
Dz:Steinmetz Group

12 October, 2018
Guest Speaker -
Guse Lab, Centre for Organismal ý Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
Uncovering the molecular mechanisms of coral-algal symbiosis using Aiptasia as a model system
Dz:Steinmetz Group

20 September, 2018
Dr. David Garfield
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Humboldt-Universität, Germany
Characterising developmental robustness and evolution from single-cells to population genetics
Sars Group Leader candidate

20 September, 2018
Dr. Elizabeth Hambleton
Centre for Organismal ý, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Molecular mechanisms and evolution of animal-algal symbiosis
Sars Group Leader candidate

20 September, 2018
Dr. Laurel Hiebert
Villefranche-sur-mer Developmental Biology Laboratory, France
The origins of life history stages and modules in nemerteans and ascidians
Sars Group Leader candidate

20 September, 2018
Dr. Timothy Lynagh
The Pless Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Evolution of neurotransmitter receptors
Sars Group Leader candidate

20 September, 2018
Dr. Jacob Musser
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg Germany
Single-cell RNAseq in sponges sheds light on the first animal cell types
Sars Group Leader candidate

20 September, 2018
Dr. Christina Zakas
Department of Biology, New York University, USA
Finding the genetic basis of evolutionary transitions in development using a polychaete model
Sars Group Leader candidate

8 June, 2018
Guest Speaker -
Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
Resolving synapse and organelle formation with 3D Electron microscopy
Dz:Burkhardt Group

1 June, 2018
Guest Speaker –
Professor Titular, Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
Regulation of stem cell differentiation during planarian regeneration
Dz:Rentzsch Group

22 May, 2018
Guest Speaker –
Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution.
Dz:Rentzsch Group

4 May, 2018
Guest Speaker –
Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway
Hydractiniai-cells and their roles in regeneration andsexual reproduction.
Dz:Rentzsch Group

20 April, 2018
Guest Speaker -
Senior Lecturer and Group Leader, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ý on cnidarian microRNAs shed new light on the evolution of post-transcriptional regulation
Dz:Rentzsch Group

19 March, 2018
Guest Speaker -
Assistant Professor of Biology, Clark University
Function of BMP signaling in the annelid Capitella teleta and implication for nervous system evolution
Dz:Hejnol Group

9 March, 2018
Guest Speaker -
Dept. of Evolutionary Developmental Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Beyond bicoid: The Tribolium model system reveals a novel mechanism of axis formation
Dz:Rentzsch Group

23 February, 2018
Guest Speaker -
SNSF Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich
Decoding the emergence and cell fate control of the lateral plate mesoderm
Dz:Steinmetz Group

2017

29 September, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Director of Morgridge Medical EngineeringMorgridge Institute for Research, Wisconsin
Quantifying embryonic development with a smart and gentle light sheet microscope
Dz:Valen Group/Krause

27 September, 2017
Researcher candidate - Oleg Tolstenkov
Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Scienses, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Enlighten the worm crawling: Optogenetic dissection of neuronal circuit controlling locomotion in C. elegans
Dz:Glover Group

22 September, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Control and regenerative functions of sleep
Dz:Chatzigeorgiou Group

15 September, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-mer UPMC/CNRS
A natural (and molecular) history of metamorphosis and thyroid hormones
Dz:Hejnol Group

30 August, 2017
Research Fellow candidate - Emmanuel Haillot
Department of Genetics, Development & Cell Biology (GDCB)University of Iowa, USA
Establishment of the dorsal-ventral axis in the sea urchin embryo Paracentrotus lividus and the annelid embryo Platynereis dumerilii
Dz:Hejnol Group

25 August, 2017
Postdoc candidate - Kathrin Garschall
Department of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of Lausanne, Switzerland
Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Aging and Longevity in D. melanogaster
Dz:Steinmetz Group

30 June, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen
Evolution of GnRH-like neuropeptide signaling systems in protostomes
Dz:Hejnol Group

29 June, 2017
Guest Speaker -
The Organismal Biology Department, Queen Mary University of London
The evolution and comparative physiology of neuropeptide signalling: insights from echinoderms
Dz:Hejnol Group

23 June, 2017
CANCELLED
Guest Speaker -
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics,Dresden
Transcriptional control in time and space
Dz:Hejnol Group

16 June, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University
Pioneering chromatin for neural crest specification
Dz:Hejnol Group/Martìn Duràn

2 June, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster
Emergence of de novo protein coding genes from ‘dark genomic matter’ – – fact or fiction?
Dz:Chourrout Group/Henriet,Hejnol Group/Ѳí-ٳܰá

12 May, 2017
Guest Speaker -
The Blaxter Lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh
Ghosts of symbioses past: fossils of Wolbachia in nuclear genomes reveal the complex history of a dynamic nematode–bacterial symbiosis
Dz:Chourrout Group/Henriet

8 May, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology – Schier LabHarvard University
Whole organism lineage tracing with genome editing
Dz:Valen Group

5 May, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University
New perspectives on the Cambrian explosion - hunting down the first animals
Dz:Steinmetz Group

27 April, 2017
Sars 20th Anniversary Ceremony

26 April, 2017
Dr. Charlotte Aumeier
Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble
Actin-microtubule synergy determines symmetry
Sars Group Leader candidate

26 April, 2017
Dr. Elizabeth Williams
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen Germany
Environmental and neuropeptidergic regulation of marine invertebrate metamorphosis
Sars Group Leader candidate

26 April, 2017
Dr. Eivind A.B. Undheim
Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland Australia
Exploring an arsenal: towards a holistic understanding of venom evolution
Sars Group Leader candidate

26 April, 2017
Dr. Ildiko Somorjai
Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland, Univ. of St. Andrews
Amphioxus: conservation and novelty of a living fossil
Sars Group Leader candidate

26 April, 2017
Dr. Anastasios Pavlopoulos
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, USA
Multi-level studies of developmental morphogenesis
Sars Group Leader candidate

26 April, 2017
Dr. José M. Martín-Durán
University of Bergen, Sars Centre, Hejnol Group
The diversification of animal development
Sars Group Leader candidate

26 April, 2017
Dr. Pawel Burkhardt
Marine Biological Association, Plymouth UK
Choanoflagellates and the evolutionary origin of synapse signalling complexes
Sars Group Leader candidate

7 April, 2017
Guest Speaker -
The Gómez-Skarmeta Lab, Centro Andaluz de Biologia del Desarrollo, CABD/CSIC/UPO
Evolution of regulatory landscapes
Dz:Hejnol Group/Martìn Duràn

17 April, 2017
Guest Speaker -
Wray Lab, Duke University
Rapid evolution of larval morphology in sea urchins through rewiring of a developmental gene regulatory network
Dz:Chourrout Group/Henriet