talks life and health talks list

Talks, Life and Health - Talks List

November, 2026

November 2, 2026 | 5:15p.m.

Designing Impactful Drugs

Speaker

Ingo Hartung

Affilitation

Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Design, Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt

November 3, 2026 | 12:30p.m.

Synaptogenesis and Survival: How Kinetochore Proteins are Repurposed in Postmitotic Neurons

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwarz

Affilitation

Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA

November 4, 2026 | 1:00p.m.

Computational elements of ecological behavior

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Prof. Dr. Constantin Rothkopf

Affilitation

Institute for Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt

November 9, 2026 | 2:00p.m.

Epigenetic Networks of Aging

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner

Affilitation

Institute for Stem Cell Biology RWTH Aachen University Medical School

November 9, 2026 | 5:15p.m.

Tackling Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci: New Insights into the Mechanisms of Action of Polyketide Antibiotics

Speaker

Anna Müller

Affilitation

Institute for Pharmaceutical Microbiology, University of Bonn

November 10, 2026 | 10:00a.m.

READY FOR THE DATA JOURNEY - New pathways to RDM: Keynote presentation and interviews (in German)

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November 10, 2026 | 10:00a.m.

Tag der Forschungsdaten in NRW

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November 10, 2026 | 12:00p.m.

Decoding how short protein motifs shape cellular and viral interaction networks

Speaker

Ylva Ivarsson

Affilitation

Uppsala University, Sweden

November 10, 2026 | 1:00p.m.

THROUGH THE DATA PROTECTION JUNGLE - Your first aid kit to legal basics, consent forms and anonymisation techniques (in English)

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November 13, 2026 | 1:00p.m.

The Lipid Landscape of Neurodegneration

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Dr. Martin Giera

Affilitation

Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center

November 16, 2026 | 5:15p.m.

Small Molecule Inhibitors in Cancer Immunotherapy

Speaker

Jacek Plewka

Affilitation

Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

November 25, 2026 | 3:00p.m.

Somatic Mosaicism from Epileptogenesis to Gliomagenesis

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Jeong Ho Lee

Affilitation

Center for Brain Somatic Mutations, Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

November 25, 2026 | 4:00p.m.

Somatic Mosaicism from Epileptogenesis to Gliomagenesis

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Jeong Ho Lee

Affilitation

Center for Brain Somatic Mutations, Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

November 26, 2026 | 12:00p.m.

Mitochondrial protein biogenesis: A big challenge for eukaryotic cells

Speaker

Johannes Herrmann

Affilitation

RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau

November 26, 2026 | 1:00p.m.

Tissue Specific Regulation of Dendritic Cell Function: An Unexpected Role for Diet

Speaker

Barbara Schraml-Schotta

Affilitation

LMU München, Institute for Immunology

November 30, 2026 | 5:15p.m.

Structure and function of cobalamin-dependent Radical SAM methyltransferases

Speaker

Gunhild Layer

Affilitation

Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, University of Freiburg

Januar, 2027

Januar 12, 2027 | 12:00p.m.

Gut feeling: a short story about your microbes

Speaker

Thomas Clavel

Affilitation

RWTH Aachen