Halle Plant Science Colloquium
Interdepartmental colloquium of University groups working on any aspect of functional plant biology
The talks take place on Tuesdays:
- at 12:30 in Large Biochemistry Lecture Hall, Kurt Mothes Strasse 3, Weinberg Campus (BC)
or - at 17:00 in lecture hall E.02, Theodor Lieser Strasse 9, Campus Heide Süd (HS),
unless noted otherwise below.
If you would like to meet the speaker in person, please contact the respective host in advance.
The colloquium is an integral part of and supported by the Research Training Group 2498 "Communication and Dynamics of Plant Cell Compartments" and
the Collaborative Research Centre 1664 "SNP2Prot - Plant Proteform Diversity", both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
The seminar schedule is listed below and will be updated regularly. The association of talks with RTG2498 and CRC1664 is indicated as RTG and CRC, respectively.
If you would like to receive announcements by email, please notify plant.nutrition@landw.uni-halle.de.
Colloquium speakers and talks from previous semesters are listed here.
Host groups
- Microbial Biotechnology (Sven-Erik Behrens)
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Jörg Degenhardt)
- Phytopathology and Plant Protection (Holger Deising)
- Bioinformatics (Ivo Große)
- Plant Biochemistry (Ingo Heilmann)
- Plant Physiology (Klaus Humbeck)
- Biosynthesis of active substances (Björn Junker)
- Botany (Ralf Bernd Klösgen)
- Cell Physiology (Kristina Kühn)
- Plant Genetics (Sascha Laubinger)
- Plant Nutrition (Edgar Peiter)
- Plant Breeding (Klaus Pillen)
- Crop Physiology (Marcel Quint)
- Plant Organelle Shape and Dynamics (Martin Schattat)
Summer Semester 2025
| Date Series | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/04/25 Halle Biosciences Seminar (Biocentre Seminar Room) | Michael Zahn (Biocentre) | Annette Meister (Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Stubbs lab); Asat Baischew (Institute of Pharmacy, Sinz lab) | The formation and electron microscopic characterization of artificial and native lipid-bilayer nanodiscs; Unveiling the Role of the Intrinsically Disordered N-Terminus of the Neuropeptide Y2 Receptor by Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry |
| 08/04/25 17:00 HS CRC | Sascha Laubinger | Holger Puchta (KIT, Karlsruhe) | Applying CRISPR/Cas to plants: From gene editing to genome restructuring |
| 29/04/25 12:30 BC CRC | Marcel Quint | Christina Weinberg (MLU, Halle) | Unraveling biology using non-coding RNAs |
| 06/05/25 | |||
| 13/05/25 12:30 BC CRC | Mariana Schuster (IPB) | Jiorgos Kourelis (Imperial College London, GB) | Pikobodies: What does it take to bioengineer NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions |
| 20/05/25 | |||
| 27/05/25 12:30 BC RTG | Kristina Kühn | Morgane Michaud (CEA Grenoble, Cell & Plant Physiology Laboratory, France) | How is mitochondrial lipid transport regulated in response to phosphate starvation in Arabidopsis thaliana? |
| 03/06/25 | |||
| 10/06/25 Halle Biosciences Seminar (Biocentre Seminar Room) | Michael Zahn (Biocentre) | t.b.a. | t.b.a. |
| 17/06/25 | |||
| 24/06/25 | |||
| 01/07/25 12:30 BC RTG | Martin Schattat | Jaideep Mathur (University of Guelph, Canada) | t.b.a. |
| 08/07/25 |
Winter Semester 2025/26
| Date Series | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|