Friday, 19 March 2010, 11:00
New tricks for comparative genomics analysis of gene expression regulation in Drosophila
Pavel Tomancak, MPI Dresden
Host: Francesca Peri
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Friday, 19 March 2010, 14:00
Light-driven ion pumping: Europe vs. USA
Hartmut Luecke, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Host: Carsten Schultz
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Friday, 19 March 2010, 15:00
The Cancer Genome Atlas and Systems Biology of Cancer Cells

Chris Sander, Computational Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, , New York,
Host: Peer Bork
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 16:00
Neuron Tracing and Computational Neuroanatomy with Free Software
Mark Longair, Edinburgh
Host: Francesca Peri
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 25 March 2010, 16:00
The mysterious 4th chromosome: just why doesn't it recombine?
Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City
Host: Christian Haering
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 14:00
Are all protein-protein interactions functional?
Lessons from evolution
Emmanuel D. Levy, Département de Biochimie Stephen Michnick's Laboratory Université de Montreal Montreal, , Quebec, Canada
Host: Anne-Claude Gavin
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 16:00
Is proteomics the new genomics?
Matthias Mann, MPI für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
Host: Jürg Müller + Jeroen Krijgsveld
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 1 April 2010, 10:00
Lodestar and chromosome stability
Prof. Janos Szabad, Dept. of Biology, Fact. of Medicine, Univ. of Szeged
Host: Imre Gaspar
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 1 April 2010, 15:00
Role of Histone Modifications in Alternative Splicing
Reini F. Luco, Cell Biology of Genome Expression, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda
Host: Eileen Furlong and Lars Steinmetz
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Tuesday, 6 April 2010, 14:00
Using Phenotype-Driven Approaches to Elucidate Lymphocyte Development and Function
Karsten Sauer, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Host: Carsten Schultz
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Monday, 12 April 2010, 10:00
Pyrrolidines and Analogs: Search for New Anti-Cancer Heterocyclic Compounds
Claudia Bello, Pierre Vogel group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Host: Anne-Claude Gavin
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Monday, 12 April 2010, 14:30
to be confirmed
Robert Grosse, Philipps University of Marburg, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Host: Carsten Schultz
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Monday, 12 April 2010, 16:00
Problems in the correlation of languages and genes in Europe
James P. Mallroy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland
Host: Halldór Stefánsson
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Friday, 16 April 2010, 09:00
The 6th public MMPU research day
8 MMPU and guest speakers, Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, Heidelberg
Host: Andreas Kulozik and Matthias Hentze
BioQuant Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, room 041, EMBL Heidelberg

Monday, 3 May 2010, 16:00
How the ER gets into shape
Tom Rapoport, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Host: predocs, Johanna Scheuermann + Peter Blattman
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Jürgen Knoblich, IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Host: Anne Ephrussi + Stefano de Renzis
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 27 May 2010, 11:00
will be updated
Ben-Zion Shilo, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Host: Anne Ephrussi
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Monday, 31 May 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Charlie Boone, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada
Host: Anne-Claude Gavin
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Ron Vale, HHMI, Univ. of California, San Francisco CA, USA
Host: Thomas Surrey
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Wednesday, 9 June 2010, 11:00
to be confirmed
David Pellman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Michael Knop
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Wednesday, 9 June 2010, 16:00
to be confirmed
Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Host: Jan Ellenberg
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Monday, 14 June 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Stephen Quake, Dept. of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Host: Eileen Furlong
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 8 July 2010, 11:00
will be updated
Steve Wilson, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
Host: Francesca Peri
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Harvard University, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cambridge MA, USA
Host: Edward Lemke
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 13:00
will be updated
Orsolya Symmons, EMBL Heidelberg
Host: François Spitz
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 2 September 2010, 11:00
to be announced
Ron Milligan, The Scripps Research Institute, Dept. of Cell Biology, La Jolla CA, USA
Host: John Briggs
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Tuesday, 7 September 2010, 16:00
to be confirmed
Elliot Meyerowitz, California Inst. of Technology, Division of Biology, Pasadena CA, USA
Host: marcus Heisler
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Friday, 10 September 2010, 11:00
to be announced
Cori Bargmann, HHMI, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Host: Eileen Furlong + Anne Ephrussi
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Christine Guthrie, Dept. of Biochem. & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco CA, USA
Host: Lars Steinmetz
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 30 September 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Melissa J. Moore, Univ. of Massachusetts Med. School, Biochem. & Molecular Pharmacology, Worcester MA, USA
Host: postdocs, Jan Medenbach + Sebastian Glatt
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 7 October 2010, 13:00
will be updated
Ben Scheres, University Utrecht
Host: Marcus Heisler
Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Thursday, 14 October 2010, 16:00
to be confrmed
Pietro De Camilli, Dept. of Cell Biology, Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Host: Marko Kaksonen
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg

Monday, 18 October 2010, 16:00
to be announced
Steve McKnight, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, USA
Host: Eileen Furlong
Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg