Home Newsroom Seminars & Events Doctoral thesis defenses Doctoral thesis defenses Drift selection and convergence in the evolution of a nonribosomal peptide Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 12, 2025 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sebastian Kaiser Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Engineering synthetic C1 and C2 assimilation in Escherichia coli Doctoral thesis defense Date: Dec 9, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Helena Schulz-Mirbach Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Towards a fundamental Golden Gate framework for synthetic chromosomes using scarless assembly methods and cloning pipelines Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 7, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Stijn Tobias de Vries Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Harnessing A-domain promiscuity for site-specific introduction of non-cognate amino acids into non-ribosomal peptides Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 7, 2025 Time: 10:15 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Max Schreiber Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Golden gate assembly-based non-ribosomal peptide synthetase engineering Doctoral thesis defense Date: Nov 4, 2025 Time: 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Adrian Podolski Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Pores that perform: Functionalizing synthetic membranes via engineered self-inserting nanopores Doctoral thesis defense Date: Oct 29, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Elisabeth Bobkova Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Biosynthesis and function of RXP-peptides and other microbial peptides Doctoral thesis defense Date: Sep 30, 2025 Time: 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Christian Schelhas Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Understanding c-di-GMP regulation and dynamics in Escherichia coli Doctoral thesis defense Date: Sep 15, 2025 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Xuanlin Chen Location: ZSM (Synmikro), Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 14 Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] RNAylated proteins as a platform to develop next-generation RNA therapeutics Date: Sep 12, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nurseda Yilmaz Demirel Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Evolutionary optimization of bacterial motility and chemotaxis pathways Doctoral thesis defense Date: Sep 10, 2025 Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Irina Lisevich Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Show more