CEF-Seminars
18 March 2010
Economou Tassos
University of Crete
Title to be announced
25 February 2010
Utz Fischer
University of Würzburg
"Molecular bodybuilding: how cells assemble RNA-protein complexes"
16 February 2010
Joint CEF/SFB seminar
Bob Sauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
"Allosteric protein machines: back to the future" [Poster]
28 January 2010
Katrin Rittinger
National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
"Structural basis of signalling in immunity" [Poster]
14 December 2009
Claudio Gualerzi
University of Camerino, Italy
"Dynamic and mechanistic aspects of mRNA translation initation site selection in bacteria" [Poster]
3 December 2009
Martin Grininger
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
"The Chemistry and Biology of Megasynthases" [Poster]
19 November 2009
Bojan Zagrovic
Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Split, Croatia
"Studying protein-protein interactions using computer simulations: from specific effects to protein ecology". [Poster]
30 October 2009
4th Symposium - Candidates for CEF Adjunct Investigatorships
Riedberg Campus
[Poster][Original call]
José Faraldo-Gomez
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
"Energetics, Dynamics and Attention to Detail: A Roadmap for Understanding Structure-Function Relationships in Molecular Biology"
Krishna Rajalingam
Goethe University, Medical School
"Non-apoptotic role of IAP signaling complexes"
Eva Schäfer
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
"Structure and Function of Respiratory Chain Supercomplexes"
Beatrix Süß
Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University
"Regulatory RNA: From non coding RNAs to engineered riboswitches"
Christine Ziegler
Max Planck Institut für Biophysik
"Stress response in Listeria monocytogenes"
8 October 2009
Volker Hagen
Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin
"Design, Photochemistry, and Application of Caged Compounds" [Poster]
16 September 2009
Arieh Warshel
University of South California, USA
"How do enzymes really work and how do they not work: what has been
learnt from Computer simulation studies?" [Poster]
10 September 2009
Antoine van Oijen
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
"Under the hood: single-molecule studies of multi-protein machines” [Poster]
16 July 2009
Martin Grininger
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried (joined MPI und CEF Seminar)
"Tracing the assembly of the 2.6 MDa fungal fatty acid synthase" [Poster]
18 May 2009
David Tollervey
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
"Some Cracking Results with RNA" [Poster]
16 April 2009
Jean-Louis Bessereau
Biology Department of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
"Unraveling a novel architecture at cholinergic synapses using C. elegans genetics " [Poster]
19 March 2009
Carol Robinson
University of Cambridge, England
"From micelles to masses" [Poster]
19 February 2009
Andreas Marx
University of Constance
"Chemical Biology of DNA Replication" [Poster]
28 January 2009
Ronald Kaback
University of California, Los Angeles/USA
"Lactose permease: crystals ain´t everything" [Poster]
22 January 2009
Walter Schubert
University of Magdeburg
"Human toponome project" [Poster]
3 December 2008
Vishva Dixit
Genentech San Francisco
"Ubiquitin editing and apoptosis" [Poster]
2 December 2008
Eva Wolf
MPI for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
"Structure-function analysis of circadian clock proteins of Drosophila melanogaster and the mouse" [Poster]
13 November 2008
3rd CEF Symposium and Assembly
[Poster]
Markus Bohnsack
Institute of Molecular Biological Science, Frankfurt University
"Biogenesis and nuclear export of the translation machinery"
Jens Bredenbeck
Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt University
"Multidimensional IR spectroscopy: Biomolecular dynamics, interactions and
signal propagation in realtime"
Alexander Gottschalk
Institute of Biochemistry, Frankfurt University
"Macromolecular assemblies atthe synapse - optogenetics and beyond"
Metello Innocenti
Institute of Biochemistry II, University Hospital, Frankfurt
"Actin dynamics in membrane protrusion and invagination"
Thomas Meier
Max-Planck-Institute of Biophyics, Frankfurt
"Switching the gears in ATP synthase rotor research"
10 November 2008
Rainer Heintzmann
King´s College, London
"Quo vadis? - Recent Developments in Microscopy" [Poster] [Abstract]
6 November 2008
Thomas Langer
University of Cologne
"Proteolytic control of mitochondrial membrane dynamics" [Poster]
30 October 2008
Alessandro Esposito
University of Cambridge
"Imaging biochemical pathways in the living cell" [Poster]
23 October 2008
Thomas Euler
Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg
"Cellular mechanisms of signal processing in the retina" [Poster]
9 October 2008
Thomas Oertner
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel
"Synapses: Caught in the act!" [Poster]
2 October 2008
Ernst Stelzer
European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg
"Light sheet based fluorescence microscopes (LSFM, SPIM, DSLM) reduce phototoxic effects by several orders of magnitude" [Poster] [Abstract]
18 September 2008
John Ladbury
University College, London
" Specificity in Intracellular Signalling is Complex and Time Consuming" [Poster]
11 September 2008
Andreas Zumbusch
University of Konstanz
"Ultrasensitive microscopy in live cells" [Poster]
1 August 2008
Ivo Tews
University of Heidelberg
"Vitamine B6 Biosynthesis: 3D structure of a 650 kDa protein complex" [Poster]
17 July 2008
Stefan Jakobs
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
"Diffraction-unlimited fluorescence microscopy: Tools to study mitochondrial architecture" [Poster]
10 July 2008
Petra Schwille
Technical University of Dresden
" From single molecules to artificial cells" [Poster]
16 June 2008
Andrew Woolley
University of Toronto
"Photo-switches for peptides and proteins" [Poster]
6 June 2008
Thomas Surrey
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
"Dynamic protein complexes of the mictrotubule cytoskeleton: from
single molecules to collective behavior" [Poster]
21 May 2008
John Hunt
Columbia University
"The ABC´s of structure-based function elucidation" [Poster]
30 April 2008
Thomas Sommer
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicin, Berlin
"The HRD Ubiquitin Ligase and Protein Quality Control in the Secretory Pathway" [Poster]
28 April 2008
Dirk Schiller
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Synthetic defects reveal dynamic interactions of the mitochondrial protein import motor with the translocase" [Poster]
18 April 2008
Achilleas Frangakis
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
"Image processing of cryo-electron tomograms of vitreous sections" [Poster]
11 April 2008
Ulrich Nienhaus
Ulm University
"Single-molecule FRET Studies of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics" [Poster]
03 April 2008
Edward Lemke
Scripps Research Institute" La Jolla, California
"Genetically Encoded and Single Molecule Tools to Study Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics" [Poster]
28 March 2008
Matthias Kneussel
Center of Molecular Neurobiology, University Hamburg
"Neuronal Live Cell Imgaging to study protein dynamics underlying synaptic plasticity" [Poster]
22 February 2008
Muhammad Zaman
University of Texas
"Quantitative analysis of cell-matrix interactions in regulating tumor invasion and metastasis" [Poster]
20 February 2008
2nd CEF Symposium and Assembly
[Poster]
Horst Vogel
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(Scientific Advisory Board, CEF)
"Investigating cellular signaling by micro- and nanotechnologies"
Clemens Glaubitz
Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Frankfurt University
"Biophysical Insight into Receptors and Multidrug Efflux Pumps"
José Faraldo-Gómez
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt
"Conformational variability and self-organiziation of modular scaffolding proteins"
18 February 2008
Jürgen Klingauf
Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
"Molecular events druing synaptic vesicle recycling" [Poster]
24 January 2008
Thomas Misgeld
Technical University Munich
"Studying axons in vivo" [Poster]
11 January 2008
Martin Pos
University of Zürich
"The AcrB Efflux Pump: Conformational Cycling and Peristalsis lead to Multidrug Resistance" [Poster]
14 December 2007
Victor Sourjik
Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Heidelberg
"Antennas and switches: Signal processing by macromolecular complexes in bacterial chemotaxis" [Poster]
16 November 2007
David Komander
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
"Deubiquitination in cytokine signalling" [Poster]
4 April 2007
Paola Fucini
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin
"Nascent chain ribosomal complexes studied by X-ray crystallography and NMR" [Poster]
23 March 2007
Seminars by candidates for the CEF Professorship in:
Associate Professorship in Large Synaptic Complexes
[Poster]
20 March 2007
Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Full Professorship in Molecular Membrane Biology
Full Professorship in Electron Cryo-Microscopy of Large Macromolecular Complexes [Poster]
13 March 2007
Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Associate Professorship in Developmental Biology
Associate Professorship in Quantitative Biology of Signalosomes
[Poster]
12 March 2007
Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Full Professorship in Advanced Light Microscopy
Associate Professorship in Research in Mitochondrial Biology
[Poster]
8 March 2007
Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Associate Professorship in Single Molecule Spectroscopy
Assistant Professorship in Research on Nuclear Complexes
[Poster]
7 March 2007
Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Associate Professorship in Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
Assistant Professorship in Research on Nuclear Complexes
Assistant Professorhsip in Mass Spectrometry
[Poster]
29 January 2007
Hemmo Meyer
Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"Role of the ubiquitin-dependent chaperone p97 during nuclear envelope biogenesis" [Poster]









