Home Newsroom Seminars & Events Seminar archive Past seminars since 2016 Past seminars since 2016 Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Insights into the electron transport proteins essential for nitrogen fixation Doctoral thesis defense Date: Apr 25, 2025 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Holly Addison Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Bridging Geochemistry and Biochemistry - From non-enzymatic methane formation pathways to the evolutionary dawn of enzymatic nitrogen fixation Doctoral thesis defense Date: Jan 30, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Leonard Ernst Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Establishing the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast as a platform for photosynthesis engineering Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 6, 2024 Time: 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Tanguy Chotel Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] A novel regulatory module important for cell cycle regulation in the stalked budding bacterium Hyphomonas neptunium Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 29, 2024 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jannik Harberding Location: ZSM (Synmikro), Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14 Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Establishing the fast-growing bacterium Vibrio natriegens as a next-generation chassis for synthetic biology Doctoral thesis defense Date: Mar 22, 2024 Time: 03:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Daniel Stukenberg Location: ZSM (Synmikro), Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14 Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of the mechanisms behind the establishment of curved cell shape in Rhodospirillum rubrum Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 18, 2023 Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sebastian Pöhl Location: ZSM (Synmikro), Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14 Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] The impact of differential temperatures (30°C versus 45°C) on the methanogenic community in Philippine rice field soil Doctoral thesis defense Date: Mar 9, 2023 Time: 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Xin Li AG Liesack Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of SRP RNA circularization and Nudix hydrolase activity in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 30, 2022 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ruth Breuer Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Comprehensive phylogenetic study of ECF sigma factors PhD Defense Date: May 4, 2020 Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Delia Casas Pastor Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] IMPRS Selection Symposium CANCELLED Start: Apr 20, 2020 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany) End: Apr 22, 2020 12:00 PM Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Structural and functional characterization of fungal cell wall proteins involved in adhesion and integrity sensing PhD Defense Date: Mar 10, 2020 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Bernard Lutterbach Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium II & III 2020 Date: Mar 2, 2020 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Production and analysis of synthetic cascade variants PhD Defense Date: Feb 17, 2020 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Daniel Gleditzsch Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Regulation of development by c-di-GMP in Myxococcus xanthus PhD Defense Date: Feb 10, 2020 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sofya Kuzmich Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium I 2020 Date: Feb 3, 2020 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Identification and characterization of M23 peptidase VcsP involved in cell separation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus PhD Defense Date: Dec 19, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jan Heering Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Regulation of type IV pili formation and function by the small GTPase MglA in Myxococcus xanthus PhD Defense Date: Dec 2, 2019 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Anna Potapova Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposia III and IV / 2019 Date: Nov 25, 2019 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] The stress-protectants and chemical chaperones ectoine and hydroxyectoine: enzymes, importer, exporter and transcriptional regulation PhD Defense Date: Nov 18, 2019 Time: 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Laura Czech Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Investigating and manipulating the reaction mechanism of reductive carboxylases PhD Defense Date: Oct 17, 2019 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Gabriele Stoffel Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Faculty of 1000 at Max Planck Institutes Special seminar Date: Oct 9, 2019 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Chris Murawski Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of swarm-colony development reveals the release of a distinct cell type facilitating dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus PhD Defense Date: Sep 24, 2019 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Carolina Duarte de Freitas AG Ringgaard Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of DNA interference by a minimal Type I-F CRISPR-Cas system PhD Defense Date: Sep 20, 2019 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hanna Müller Esparza AG Randau Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] STUDIES OF SINGLE-MOLECULE DYNAMICS IN MICROORGANISMS PhD Defense Date: Sep 9, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Bartosz Turkowyd AG Endesfelder Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Transcriptional regulation by sigma factor phosphorylation controls polymyxin resistance and swarming behavior in Vibrio parahaemolyticus PhD Defense Date: Sep 6, 2019 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Shankar Chandrashekar Iyer AG Ringaard Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium II/2019 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Aug 26, 2019 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Dynamics of bacterial biofilm predation PhD Defense Date: Aug 13, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Lucia Vidakovic AG Drescher Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Construction of enzyms with synthetic allosteric regulation to control metabolic pathways of Escherichia coli PhD Defense Date: Jul 5, 2019 Time: 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dominik Beuter AG Link Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Quorum sensing- and contact-dependent inhibition-based population control in synthetic microbial communities PhD Defense Date: Jul 5, 2019 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Anne Löchner AG Sourjik Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium I/2019 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jan 7, 2019 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium VI/2018 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Dec 3, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] The role of M23 peptidases on cell division and cell shape in Vibrio parahaemolyticus Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Sep 10, 2018 Time: 02:40 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jan Heering MPI Marburg, AG Ringgaard Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Regulatory circuits controlling the glycine betaine synthesizing pathway in Bacillus subtilis Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Sep 10, 2018 Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Bianca Warmbold Uni Marburg, AG Bremer Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Proteomics - a new tool for type II methanotroph research Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Sep 10, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Anna Hakobyan MPI Marburg, RG Liesack Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium V/2018 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Sep 10, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Establishing CO2 fixation pathways in Methylobacterium extorquens Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Aug 13, 2018 Time: 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Martina Carrillo MPI Marburg, AG Erb Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Evolution of a Non-natural Carboxylase for Synthetic Photorespiration Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Aug 13, 2018 Time: 02:40 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Marieke Scheffen MPI Marburg, AG Erb Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Influence of cardiolipin on the function of bacterial chemoreceptors Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Aug 13, 2018 Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nadja Sachs MPI Marburg, AG Sourjik Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Determination of the substrate recognition by fumarate adding enzymes Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Aug 13, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Iryna Salii Uni Marburg, AG Heider Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium IV/2018 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Aug 13, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] A CTP-binding protein links the ParABS chromosome segregation system to the bactofilin cytoskeleton in Myxococcus xanthus Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 23, 2018 Time: 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Manuel Osorio Valeriano Uni Marburg, AG Thanbichler Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Shedding Light on CETCH: Linking synthetic carbon fixation pathways to the energy produced by light powered thylakoids Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 23, 2018 Time: 02:40 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Tarryn Miller MPI Marburg, MPRG Erb Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Biofilm architectural breakdown in response to antibiotics facilitates community invasion Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 23, 2018 Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Francisco Diaz Pascual MPI Marburg, MPRG Drescher Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of DNA interference by a minimal Type I CRISPR-Cas system Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 23, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hanna Müller Esparza MPI Marburg, MPRG Randau Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium III/2018 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 23, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of a Serine/Threonine kinase in Vibrio parahaemolyticus Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Feb 5, 2018 Time: 02:25 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Shankar Iyer Chandrashekar MPI, Department of Ecophysiology Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarm-colonies Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Feb 5, 2018 Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Carolina Duarte de Freitas MPI, Department of Ecophysiology Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Studies on catalytic mechanism of [Fe]-hydrogenase from methanogenic archaea Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Feb 5, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Gangfeng Huang MPI, RG Microbial Protein Structure Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium II/2018 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Feb 5, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Regulation of peptidoglycan biosynthesis in Hyphomonas neptunium Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jan 8, 2018 Time: 02:25 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sabine Rosskopf Universität / FB Biologie, AG Thanbichler Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Biochemistry of the key spatial regulators MipZ and PopZ in Caulobacter crescentus Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jan 8, 2018 Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Yacine Refes Universität / FB Biologie, AG Thanbichler Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Shining light on the structural features of DNA repair in the PCSf Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jan 8, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sophie Franz Universität / FB Biologie, AG Essen Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium I/2018 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Jan 8, 2018 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Mechanisms and regulation of bacterial cell wall growth Date: Jul 25, 2016 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Waldemar Vollmer Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, UK Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: wiebke.wlotzka@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more]
