Past Colloquia
Winter Semester 2024/25
| Date Series | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/11/24 RTG | Ingo Heilmann | Martin Potocký (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany, Prague, CZ) | Cracking the Secret(ion) Code: The Evolution and Role of Lipid-Protein Interactions in Plant Exocyst Complex |
| 26/11/24 RTG | Ingo Heilmann | Kateřina Schwarzerová (Charles University Prague, CZ) | ARP2/3 and how to make it visible |
| 03/12/24 RTG | Etienne Meyer | Florent Waltz (University of Basel, Switzerland) | High Resolution Investigation of Mitochondrial Molecular Architecture using Cryo-Electron Tomography |
| 20/01/25 CRC | Steffen Abel (IPB), Edgar Peiter | Ute Krämer (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) | The genetic basis of adaptive physiological traits in the extremophile Arabidopsis halleri |
| 11/02/25 15:00 Halle Biosciences Seminar (Biocentre Seminar Room) | Michael Zahn (Biocentre) | Sophia Gerasimova (Core Facility Genome Editing and Plant Transformation), Dominik Homann (Organic Chemistry, Weissenborn lab) | Introduction of the Core Facility Plant Transformation and Genome Editing; Nobel Applications and Characterisations of Unspecific Peroxygenases |
| 11/03/25 12:30 BC CRC | Panagiotis Kastritis | Roman Kouril (Palacky University Olomouc, CZ) | Mimicking the spruce-type photosystem II supercomplex in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 18/03/25 17:00 HS RTG | Rabe Klösgen, Bationa Bennewitz | Agnieszka Ludwików (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, PL) | Arabidopsis ABI1 PP2C signalling pathway and inhibitor design for crop improvement |
Summer Semester 2024
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/05/24 | Helmy Ibrahim, Klaus Pillen | Mats Hansson (Lund University, Sweden) | Identification of Erectoides dense spike genes in Scandinavian and Japanese barley collections |
| 21/05/24 | Sascha Laubinger | Stephan Wenkel (Umea University, Sweden) | MicroProteins, sORFs and other short proteins and their role in plant development |
| 04/06/24 | Sascha Laubinger | Paula Duque (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Lisbon, Portugal) | Fine-tuning early plant growth: Posttranscriptional control of ABA responses |
| 11/06/24 | Carolin Delker | Leah Band (University of Nottingham, UK) | Understanding hormone distributions that regulate root development – a systems biology approach |
| 18/06/24 | Panagiotis Kastritis | Rameez Arshad (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) | Supramolecular structures of thylakoid membrane protein complexes under different environmental conditions |
| 25/06/24 | Rabe Klösgen | Pontus Pettersson (Stockholm University, Sweden) | Biophysical investigations of the plant Twin-arginine translocase |
Winter Semester 2023/24
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/11/23 | Kristina Kühn | Christian Schmitz-Linneweber (Humboldt University of Berlin) | Granules in the chloroplast – Phase separation in plant organellar RNA metabolism |
| 05/12/23 | Martin Schattat | Iain Johnston (University of Bergen, Norway) | Avoiding mutational meltdown: dealing with damage to organelle DNA in plants and beyond |
| 19/12/23 | Martin Schattat | Tonni Grube Andersen (MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | The importance of barriers in a functional relationship |
Summer Semester 2023
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/04/23 | Etienne Meyer | Harvey Millar (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) | Stoking the Fire: tracking the transport, production and use of pyruvate as it fuels plant respiration |
| 18/04/23 | Kristina Kühn | Hélène Zuber (University of Strasbourg, France) | mRNA uridylation: a multitasking modification in plant RNA metabolism |
| 19/04/23 | Marcel Quint, Debora Gasperini (IPB) | Christian Fankhauser (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) | Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism |
| 23/05/23 | Rabe Klösgen | Ralf Oelmüller (University of Jena) | Response of the plant cell to degradation of its wall |
| 30/05/23 | Rabe Klösgen, Edgar Peiter | Markus Teige (University of Vienna, Austria) | Novel roles for Ca2+ as regulator of chloroplast development? |
| 13/06/23 | Debora Gasperini (IPB), Edgar Peiter | Alex Costa (University of Milan, Italy) | Long-distance turgor pressure changes induce local activation of plant glutamate receptor-like channels |
| 27/06/23 | Steven Dreissig | Amanda Souza Camara (IPK Gatersleben) | Rediscovering the chromonema |
| 04/07/23 | Edgar Peiter | Marc Knight (Durham University, UK) | Calcium signalling in response to stress in plants |
| 14/07/23 | Ingo Heilmann | Ana Laxalt (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina) | Phospholipase C in plant stress and development |
Winter Semester 2022/23
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29/11/22 | Rabe Klösgen | Mayank Sharma (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) | MFP1 and the coiled-coil saga of starch granule initiation |
| 13/12/22 | Dmytro Semchonok, Panagiotis Kastritis | Barry D Bruce (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) | Evolution of Photosystem I: Symmetry, Serendipity, and Speculation |
| 26/01/23, 14:00, Biology Greenhouse Lecture Halle | Sascha Laubinger | Gesa Hoffmann (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala) | Stress & Granules - the regulation of Cauliflower mosaic virus disease in Arabidopsis thaliana |
Summer Semester 2022
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/05/22 | Rabe Klösgen | Roland Lill (Philipps University Marburg) | Mechanisms of Fe/S protein biogenesis in mitochondria and cytosol of eukaryotes |
| 24/05/22 | Steven Dreißig | Piotr Ziolkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) | Many faces of the crossover control in Arabidopsis meiosis |
| 07/06/22 | Edgar Peiter | Patrick Bienert (Technical University of Munich, Freising) | Metalloids: The Yin and Yang for crop production and healthy nutrition – molecular mechanisms regulating metalloid efficiency |
| 14/06/22 | Kristina Kühn | Iris Finkemeier (University of Münster) | Shedding new light on protein modifications in plant metabolism |
| 28/06/22 | Edgar Peiter | Martina Ried (Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle) | Early signaling events in plant root endosymbioses |
| 13/09/22 | Katharina Bürstenbinder (IPB) | Doron Shkolnik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel) | Calcium-mediated mechanisms of plant response to salt stress during germination and seedling establishment |
Winter Semester 2021/22
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/12/21 | Martin Schattat | Tonni Grube Andersen (MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | Passage cells and the outer xylem pole: an overlooked highway for root communication? |
Summer Semester 2021
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/04/2021 | Ingo Heilmann | Till Ischebeck (University of Göttingen) | Identification of a lipid droplet-plasma membrane tethering complex in Arabidopsis |
| 13/07/2021 | Edgar Peiter | Axel Mithöfer (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena) | The same dance - different couples: Plant signaling in defense against herbivores and carnivory |
Winter Semester 2020/21
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/11/2020 | Kristina Kühn | Markus Schwarzländer (University of Münster) | Getting to grips with subcellular plant physiology |
| 16/02/2021 | Kristina Kühn | Ute Armbruster (MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm) | Regulation of Photosynthesis via thylakoid ion antiport |
| 23/02/2021 | Julia Grimmer | Daniel Gibbs (University of Birmingham, UK) | Build and destroy: roles for targeted protein degradation in plant development and stress response |
Summer Semester 2020
Due to the contact restrictions of the University to contain the COVID-19 pandemia, there were no Halle Plant Science Colloquium seminars in this semester.
Winter Semester 2019/20
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/10/2019 | Kristina Kühn | Jim Whelan (La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia) | Mitochondrial Signaling - Specific and Shared Pathways |
| 15/10/2019 | Marcel Quint | Günter Theißen (University of Jena) | MADS about the origin of novelties in land plants |
| 05/11/2019 | Ingo Heilmann | Ralph Hückelhoven (TUM Weihenstephan, Freising) | Mechanisms of ROP GTPase signalling in plant disease susceptibility |
| 26/11/2019 | Edgar Peiter | Marie Barberon (Université de Genève, Switzerland) | Plasticity of root permeability for nutrient acquisition |
| 10/12/2019 | Edgar Peiter | Tina Romeis (Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle) | Regulation and function of Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases as decoders of calcium changes during stress signalling and development in plants |
| 14/01/2020 | Marcel Quint | Karin Ljung (Umea Plant Science Centre, Umea, Sweden) | Auxin and cytokinin – the yin and yang of lateral root development |
| 21/01/2020 | Klaus Pillen | André Marques (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | Opening the black box: Meiotic adaptations in holocentric plants |
| 28/01/2020 | Klaus Pillen | Corinna Dawid (TUM Weihenstephan, Freising) | Metabolite profiling to identify factors contributing to barley pathogen resistance and to beer quality |
| 14/02/20 | Ivo Grosse | Elliot Meyerowitz (California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA) | Development and Cell Type: More than the Transcriptome |
| 18/02/2020 | Marcel Quint | Seth Davis (University of York, UK) | Species migration in plants is associated to quantitative genetic changes in the circadian clock |
Summer Semester 2019
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19/03/19 | Klaus Humbeck | Karin Krupinska (University of Kiel) | The responsiveness of plants to environment depends on genome coordination by WHIRLY proteins |
| 30/04/19 | Holger Deising | Armin Djamei (IPK Gatersleben) | Elucidating the effectome of a biotrophic fungus |
| 28/05/19 | Marcel Quint | Andrea Bräutigam (Bielefeld University) | Machine learning based functional annotation of transcription factors |
| 11/06/19 | Ingo Heilmann | Benedikt Kost (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) | Interplay between Rac/Rop signaling, regulatory lipids & membrane traffic during polar cell growth |
| 25/06/19 | Marcel Quint | Catalin Voiniciuc (Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle) | Deciphering Plant Polysaccharide Biosynthesis using Synthetic Biology |
| 02/07/19 | Edgar Peiter | Gabriel Schaaf (University of Bonn) | Inositol pyrophosphates: signaling at the interface between plant nutrition and defense |
Winter Semester 2018/19
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/10/18 (Thursday!) 13:00 | Edgar Peiter | Achim Dobermann (Director, Rothamsted Research, UK) | Visionary agricultural research |
| 16/10/18 | Ingo Heilmann | Eva Benkova (IST, Klosterneuburg, Austria) | Role of plant hormones in shaping the root architecture |
| 07/11/18 (Wednesday!) | Klaus Pillen | Thomas Lübberstedt (Iowa State University, Ames, USA) | Emerging avenues for utilization of exotic germplasm: Case study SCMV resistance in maize |
| 13/11/18 | Klaus Humbeck | Jos Schippers (RWTH Aachen University) | The moonlighting function of superoxide dismutase depends on a novel class of transcriptional co-activators |
| 20/11/18 | Marcel Quint | Henrik Johansson (Freie Universität Berlin) | Sensing light and smoke : A role for the BBX-HY5 module in signal integration |
| 04/12/18 | Ingo Heilmann | Sabine Müller (University of Tübingen) | More than one function - diversification of kinesin-12 function in plant cell division |
| 18/12/18 | Edgar Peiter | Ute Vothknecht (University of Bonn) | Calcium Regulation of Plant Organellar Metabolism |
| 15/01/19 | Sacha Baginsky | Thomas Pfannschmidt (Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies de Grenoble, France) | Novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis |
| 22/01/19 | Klaus Humbeck | Uwe Ludewig (University of Hohenheim) | Plant nutrition meets epigenetics |
| 05/02/19 | Sven-Erik Behrens | Annette Niehl (Julius-Kühn-Institut, Braunschweig) | Approaching virus-vector-host interactions from a cell biological and plant immunological perspective – experiences and future research challenges |
Summer Semester 2018
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/04/18 | Edgar Peiter | Rainer Hedrich (University of Würzburg) | Venus Flytrap - Plant on animal diet |
| 08/05/18 | Marcel Quint | Ive de Smet (VIB Gent, Belgium) | The dynamic phosphoproteome allows identifying novel abiotic stress signalling components |
| 26/06/18 | Holger Deising | Gero Steinberg (University of Exeter, UK) | Fungal cell biology: novel approaches to protect our crops |
| 26/06/18 | Holger Deising | Sarah Gurr (University of Exeter, UK) | Fungi on the move; a threat to human, plant and ecosystems health |