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 in the schedule 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 RTG 2498 "Communication and Dynamics of Plant Cell Compartments",
the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "SNP2Prot - Plant Proteoform Diversity", both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Agri-Explore Graduate School within AgriPoly II, and Value Plant, both funded by the State of Saxony Anhalt and the European Union.
The seminar schedule is listed below and will be updated regularly. The association of talks with RTG 2498, CRC 1664, Agri-Explore and Value Plant is indicated as RTG, CRC, AE and VP, 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
Labs with a Plant Science focus at MLU:
- 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)
If speakers are hosted by further groups at MLU, UL, or IPB this is indicated in the schedule below.
Summer Semester 2026
| Date Time Place Series | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/04/26 17:00 HS CRC | Lennart Wirthmüller (IPB) | Romy Schmidt-Schippers (University of Bielefeld, Germany) | Dynamic mechanisms controlling transcription factors under hypoxia in plants |
| 14/04/26 | |||
| 21/04/26 12:30 BC AE | Edgar Peiter | Dale Sanders (University of York, UK) | Global Crop Nutrition in a Changing World: GM and Genomic Approaches |
| 28/04/26 | |||
| 05/05/26 12:30 BC CRC | Milton T. Stubbs | Andrea Mattevi (University of Pavia, Italy) | The Enzymology of a Metabolon |
| 12/05/26 CRC | Thorsten Langner | Johannes Debler (Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Perth, Australia) | t.b.a. |
| 19/05/26 RTG | Marc Knight | Julien Gronnier (Technical University of Munich, Germany) | t.b.a. |
| 26/05/26 | |||
| 02/06/26 17:00 HS RTG | Kristina Kühn and Etienne Meyer | Rita Groß-Hardt (University of Bremen, Germany) | t.b.a. |
| 09/06/26 AE | Edgar Peiter | Rob Roelfsema (Wuerzburg University, Germany) | t.b.a. |
| 16/06/26 CRC | Marcel Quint | Hannah Schneider (IPK Gatersleben, Germany) | t.b.a. |
| 23/06/26 | |||
| 30/06/26 16:00 HS CRC | Mariana Schuster (IPB) | Catalin Voiniciuc (University of Florida, USA) | SNPs for Superior Plant Enzymes: Exploiting Natural Variation, Directed Evolution, and AI Models |
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Winter Semester 2026/2027
| Date Time Place Series | Host | Speaker | Title |
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