Home Newsroom Seminars & Events Seminar archive Past seminars since 2016 Past seminars since 2016 Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Phylogeny and metabolism of Endomicrobiaceae and Elusimicrobiaceae: Exploring reductive genome evolution in two host-associated lineages of Elusimicrobiota Doctoral thesis defense Date: Apr 3, 2025 Time: 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Undine Sophie Mies Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium II 2025 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Mar 10, 2025 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Investigating the regulation of the type III secretion system using optogenetic tools Doctoral thesis defense Date: Feb 21, 2025 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sebastian Großmann Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini-Symposium I 2025 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Feb 17, 2025 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] The crosstalk between type III secretion system and bacterial cell physiology in Yersinia Doctoral thesis defense Date: Jan 30, 2025 Time: 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Francesca Ermoli Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] From Assembly to Secretion: Deciphering the role of the dynamic components in the Type III Secretion System Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 10, 2024 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Corentin Florian Brianceau Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium XII - 2024 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Dec 9, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium XI - 2024 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Nov 18, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium X - 2024 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Oct 28, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Engineering of growth-coupled Escherichia coli biosensors Doctoral thesis defense Date: Oct 25, 2024 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Paul Alejandro Gomez Coronado Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Heterodisulfide reductase megacomplexes produced in a Class I CO2-reducing methanogen under Ni-sufficient and Ni-limited conditions Doctoral thesis defense Date: Oct 11, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Shunsuke Nomura Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Towards systematic approaches for validation of biological parts and testing of functions in yeast Doctoral thesis defense Date: Oct 2, 2024 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Adán Andrés Ramírez Rojas Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] The path and regulation of the type III secretion effector export Doctoral thesis defense Date: Sep 25, 2024 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Katherine Lapis Pintor Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of Type IV-A1 CRISPR-interference on gene expression and plasmid replication Doctoral thesis defense Date: Sep 24, 2024 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Mariana Sanchez Londono Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium IX-2024 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Sep 16, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Exploring and engineering enzymes for new-to-nature photorespiration Doctoral thesis defense Date: Sep 3, 2024 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Daniel Guy Henri Marchal Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Role of diffusible signals secreted by macrophages in chemotaxis of Escherichia coli Doctoral thesis defense Date: Aug 27, 2024 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Malay Shah Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium - VIII - 2024 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Aug 26, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Investigating the interchangeability of a central protein in Escherichia coli’s chemotaxis network Doctoral thesis defense Date: Aug 23, 2024 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Elif Elcin Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Emergent spatiotemporal structures in bacterial binary mixtures Doctoral thesis defense Date: Aug 20, 2024 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Silvia Espada Burriel Location: ZSM (Synmikro), Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14 Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Advancing chloroplast synthetic biology by developing high throughput prototyping capabilities and novel genetic tools Doctoral thesis defense Date: Jul 26, 2024 Time: 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: René Inckemann Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VII - 2024 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 1, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VI - 2024 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jun 10, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Molecular strategies applied by bacteriophage T4 for efficient hijacking of Escherichia coli Doctoral thesis defense Date: May 24, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nadiia Pozhydaieva Location: MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium V-2024 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: May 13, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Development and characterization of new tools for advanced SMLM imaging schemes Doctoral thesis defense Date: Apr 30, 2024 Time: 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Alexander Balinovic Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Biosyntheses of natural products from Proteobacteria Doctoral thesis defense Date: Apr 17, 2024 Time: 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jan Johannes Crames Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium IV-2024 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Apr 8, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Mapping of the differential exchange & dynamics of type IVa pilus machine components: Implications for function Doctoral thesis defense Date: Mar 13, 2024 Time: 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Memduha Muratoglu Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Uncovering transcriptional heterogeneity during Vibrio cholerae biofilm development Doctoral thesis defense Date: Mar 5, 2024 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Miriam Bayer Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium III-2024 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Mar 4, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Diversity, phylogeny, and metabolism of methanogens in the arthropod digestive tract Doctoral thesis defense Date: Feb 16, 2024 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Evgenii Protasov Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium II-2024 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Feb 12, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Regulation of dynamic front-rear cell polarity by the Frz chemosensory system in Myxococcus xanthus Doctoral thesis defense Date: Feb 12, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Franziska Müller Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium I-2024 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jan 22, 2024 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Evolution of essential complexity in Rubisco Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 15, 2023 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Luca Schulz Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Mechanisms of spatial organisation within bacterial cells Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 14, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Lara Connolley Location: ZSM (Synmikro), Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14 Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Evolutionary emergence and diversification of homo-oligomeric protein complexes Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 13, 2023 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Franziska Luisa Sendker Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium XI-2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Dec 11, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Role of SPFH proteins in aerobic respiration of Escherichia coli Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 24, 2023 Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: María Isabel Pérez López Location: ZSM (Synmikro), Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14 Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Insights into assembly of the type IVa pilus machine in Myxococcus xanthus Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 24, 2023 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Marco Herfurth Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium X-2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Nov 6, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Evolution of molecular innovations in cyanobacterial light-perceiving systems Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 2, 2023 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Niklas Steube Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium IX-2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Oct 16, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VIII - 2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Sep 18, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VII - 2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Aug 28, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Characterization of CdbS, a PilZ domain protein involved in chromosome organization and segregation during heat shock stress in Myxococcus xanthus Doctoral thesis defense Date: Jul 7, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Michael Seidel AG Sogaard-Andersen Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VI - 2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 3, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Engineering enzymes and pathways for alternative CO2 fixation and glyoxylate assimilation Doctoral thesis defense Date: Jun 16, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Pascal Pfister AG Erb Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium V - 2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jun 12, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Reprogrammierung nicht-ribosomaler Peptidsynthetasen unter Verwendung synthetischer Leucin Zipper Doctoral thesis defense Date: Jun 7, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nadya Abbood Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Insights into the versatile metabolism of the alphaproteobacterium Paracoccus denitrificans Date: May 26, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Katharina Kremer Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium IV-2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: May 8, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Determinants and evolution of metabolic interactions in synthetic microbial communities Doctoral thesis defense Date: Mar 30, 2023 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Giovanni Scarinci AG Sourjik Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Investigating the kinetochore complex in Schizosaccharomyces pombe using advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques Doctoral thesis defense Date: Mar 21, 2023 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ilijana Vojnovic AG Endesfelder, Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Enzymatic systems for synthetic formate assimilation Doctoral thesis defense Date: Mar 15, 2023 Time: 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Maren Nattermann AG Erb Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium III-2023 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Mar 13, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium II 2023 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Feb 13, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] A new factor in the regulation of polar flagellum synthesis in Vibrio parahaemolyticus Doctoral thesis defense Date: Feb 1, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Erick Eligio Arroyo Pérez Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium I 2023 Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Jan 16, 2023 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Comprehesive Analysis of the Cytoskeletal Protein Bactofilin in Caulobacter crescentus PhD Defense Date: Dec 12, 2022 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ying Liu Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Mathematical modelling of metabolism and enzyme-level regulation to understand and infer functional regulators of metabolism Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 25, 2022 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Niklas Farke Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Decoupling of growth and overproduction of chemicals in Escherichia coli Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 15, 2022 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Thorben Schramm Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Protein diffusion in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 14, 2022 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nicola Bellotto Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more]