Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series (DSSS)

The Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series is a joint colloquium of the Max Planck Institute for Biology and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. External (inter)national guest speakers alternate with our own scientists presenting a range of exciting research that reflects the diversity of our institutes. Each seminar is followed by  opportunities to discuss research findings further with the speakers in an informal small group or 1-1 setting.

Time: Friday at 3:00 pm (according to announcement)

Organizers: Honour McCann, Hassan Salem

DSSS - Humans and their gut microbes: shared evolutionary trajectories and adaptations

• Date: Mar 31, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Ruth Ley
• MPI for Biology Tübingen
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - What’s Wrong with Evolutionary Theory?

• Date: Apr 14, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Ralf Sommer
• MPI for Biology Tübingen
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition

• Date: Apr 21, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Andrea Pauli
• Group Leader, IMP, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
• Location: MPI für Biologie, Max-Planck-Ring 5, room 0A01

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DSSS - Elisa Izaurralde Memorial Lecture

• Date: Apr 28, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Lori A Passmore
• MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK
• Location: MPI für Biologie, Max-Planck-Ring 5, room 0A01

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DSSS - Behaviour and infection in clonal ant societies

• Date: May 5, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Yuko Ulrich
• Principal Investigator, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - Eco-evolutionary dynamics of phage-bacteria interactions

• Date: May 12, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Martin Polz
• Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science University of Vienna
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: May 26, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Mar Albà Soler
• ICREA Research Professor Evolutionary Genomics Group Biomedical Informatics Research Program Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
• Location: online only

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Jun 2, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Hajk-Georg Drost
• MPI for Biology Tübingen
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Jun 16, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Maria Duque-Correa
• Research Group Leader - Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Jul 7, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: John Bracht
• Assoc. Professor Department of Biology, American University, Washington DC
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Jul 14, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Matilde Galli
• Group Leader, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Jul 21, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Andrew H. Moeller
• Assistant Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Oct 6, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Julia Mahamid
• Structural and Computational Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Oct 13, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Amy Zanne
• Aresty Chair in Tropical Ecology Department of Biology University of Miami
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Oct 27, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. David S. Guttman
• Department of Cell & Systems Biology Director, Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution & Function University of Toronto
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Nov 10, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Lindsay J Hall
• Chair of Intestinal Microbiome Technical University of Munich
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Nov 17, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Christian Schlötterer
• Head of the Institute of Population Genetics Vetmeduni Vienna
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Dec 1, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Eves-van den Akker
• Head of Plant-Parasite Interactions Group The Crop Sciences Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Dec 8, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Leonie Moyle
• The Moyle Lab - Ecology & Genetics of Adaptation & Speciation, Indiana University Bloomington
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Dec 15, 2023
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Cátia Igreja
• MPI for Biology Tübingen
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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DSSS - tba

• Date: Jan 26, 2024
• Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Wenbo Ma
• The Sainsbury Laboratory TSL, Norwich
• Location: NO.002, MPI für Intelligente Systeme

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