Past seminars since 2016

Identification and characterization of two radical SAM enzymes involved in biosynthesis of the [Fe]-hydrogenase cofactor

Doctoral thesis defense

• Date: Jan 25, 2023
• Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Francisco Javier Arriaza Gallardo
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Seigo Shima
• Contact: shima@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Impact of osmotic stressors on the metabolic activity of Methylocystis sp. strain SC2

Doctoral thesis defense

• Date: Jan 13, 2023
• Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Kangli Guo
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: PD Dr. Werner Liesack
• Contact: liesack@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Characterization of SRP RNA circularization and Nudix hydrolase activity in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

Doctoral thesis defense

• Date: Nov 30, 2022
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Ruth Breuer
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The diverse functions and mechanisms of prokaryotic Argonaute proteins

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Sep 26, 2022
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Daan Swarts
• Wageningen University & Research, Laboratory of Biochemistry, The Netherlands
• Location: Hybrid
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Katharina Höfer
• Contact: katharina.hoefer@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Coevolution in the termite-protist symbiosis

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Sep 19, 2022
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Gillian Gile (Associate Professor)
• Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, USA
• Location: Hybrid
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
• Contact: brune@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Partners in slime: How mucus regulates microbial virulence

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jul 25, 2022
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Katharina Ribbeck
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biological Engineering, Cambridge, USA
• Location: Hybrid
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

How to catch a nematode if you were a mushroom

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Apr 11, 2022
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Yen-Ping Hsueh
• Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Regine Kahmann
• Contact: kahmann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The predation strategy of Myxococcus xanthus

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Apr 4, 2022
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Christine Kaimer
• Ruhr Universität Bochum, Department for Biology and Biotechnology, Microbial Biology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Andreas Diepold
• Contact: andreas.diepold@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Comprehensive phylogenetic study of ECF sigma factors

PhD Defense

• Date: May 4, 2020
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Delia Casas Pastor
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Why was a complement inhibitor used in the 2011 German EHEC outbreak?

SFB/Transregio TRR 174

• CANCELLED
• Date: Apr 30, 2020
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Würzner
• Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Hygiene und medizinische Mikrobiologie, Austria
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: carina.marek@biologie.uni-marburg.de

IMPRS Selection Symposium

• CANCELLED
• Start: Apr 20, 2020 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• End: Apr 22, 2020 12:00 PM
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

From stress to success: how actinobacteria exploit life without a cell wall

SFB/Transregio TRR 174

• CANCELLED
• Date: Apr 6, 2020
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Dennis Claessen
• Leiden University, IBL Microbial Sciences, Netherlands
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: carina.marek@biologie.uni-marburg.de

Structural and functional characterization of fungal cell wall proteins involved in adhesion and integrity sensing

PhD Defense

• Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Bernard Lutterbach
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini Symposium II & III 2020

• Date: Mar 2, 2020
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Learning from predatory bacteria: from `omics´ to molecular mechanisms

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Feb 24, 2020
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Simona Huwiler
• School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Coordination of cell wall homeostasis with cell division: Genes, suppressors and beyond

SFB/Transregio TRR 174

• Date: Feb 20, 2020
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: PD Dr. Sven Halbedel
• Robert Koch Institut, Division of Enteropathogenic bacteria and Legionella, Wernigerode
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: carina.marek@biologie.uni-marburg.de

Production and analysis of synthetic cascade variants

PhD Defense

• Date: Feb 17, 2020
• Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Daniel Gleditzsch
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Regulation of development by c-di-GMP in Myxococcus xanthus

PhD Defense

• Date: Feb 10, 2020
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sofya Kuzmich
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini Symposium I 2020

• Date: Feb 3, 2020
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Microfluidic single-cell cultivation: Concept, application and challenges

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jan 27, 2020
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Grünberger
• Universität Bielefeld, Technische Fakultät - AG Multiscale Bioengineering
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Development of molecular tools for research on red and green algae

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 20, 2020
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock
• Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Potsdam
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Breaching the Barrier: Quantifying Antibiotic Permeability across Gram-negative Bacterial Membranes

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 20, 2020
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mathias Winterhalter
• Jacobs University, Life Sciences & Chemistry, Bremen
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Kicking the"BolA" in Bacterial Survival and Virulence

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 13, 2020
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Cecília Maria Arraiano
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ITQB-Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Studying large multi-protein complexes using single-molecule localization microscopy

PhD Defense

• Date: Dec 20, 2019
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: David Virant
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Ulrike Endesfelder
• Contact: ulrike.endesfelder@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Identification and characterization of M23 peptidase VcsP involved in cell separation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

PhD Defense

• Date: Dec 19, 2019
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Jan Heering
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Mechanisms of microbiota-pathogen interactions

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Cancelled
• Date: Dec 16, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Barbara Stecher-Letsch
• Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut für Hygiene und Medizinische Mikrobiologie, München
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Regulation of type IV pili formation and function by the small GTPase MglA in Myxococcus xanthus

PhD Defense

• Date: Dec 2, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Anna Potapova
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini Symposia III and IV / 2019

• Date: Nov 25, 2019
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Understanding and Engineering Metabolic Feedback Regulation of Amino Acid Metabolism in Escherichia coli

PhD Defense

• Date: Nov 21, 2019
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Timur Sander
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Hannes Link
• Contact: hannes.link@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The stress-protectants and chemical chaperones ectoine and hydroxyectoine: enzymes, importer, exporter and transcriptional regulation

PhD Defense

• Date: Nov 18, 2019
• Time: 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Laura Czech
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Salmonella-microbiome interactions in the gut and their impact on transmission

Microbiology Seminar Series

• CANCELLED
• Date: Nov 18, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Denise Monack
• Stanford University, James H. Clark Center, USA
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Rolf Thauer
• Contact: thauer@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcription profiling

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Nov 11, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Susanne Häußler
• Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Dept. of Molecular Bacteriology, Braunschweig
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Exploration of Microbes in Animals, the Environment, and Beer

Special seminar

• Date: Nov 11, 2019
• Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Charles Moritz
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The bacterial stringent response in the context of root nodule symbiosis

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 28, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Kathrin Wippel
• Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Cologne
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Disulfide bond formation underpins antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacteria

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Oct 28, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Despoina Mevridou
• Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Andreas Diepold
• Contact: andreas.diepold@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Investigating and manipulating the reaction mechanism of reductive carboxylases

PhD Defense

• Date: Oct 17, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Gabriele Stoffel
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Bacterial "gap junctions" in cell-cell communication of multicellular cyanobacteria

SFB/Transregio TRR 174

• Date: Oct 14, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: PD Dr. Iris Maldener
• Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Faculty of 1000 at Max Planck Institutes

Special seminar

• Date: Oct 9, 2019
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Chris Murawski
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Visualizing Bacterial Physiology at High Resolution using Single-Molecule Tracking and Lattice-Light Sheet Microscopy

• Date: Oct 8, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Andreas Gahlmann
• Department of Chemistry, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics, Center for Cell and Membrane Physiology University of Virginia
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. L. Søgaard-Andersen
• Contact: sogaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

A passion for biochemistry and microorganisms

Special Event

• Date: Oct 7, 2019
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Transcriptional regulators in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: homologies and differences with bacterial regulators

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Sep 30, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. ir. Eveline Peeters
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bioengineering Sciences Department, Belgium
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Lennart Randau
• Contact: lennart.randau@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Characterization of swarm-colony development reveals the release of a distinct cell type facilitating dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus

PhD Defense

• Date: Sep 24, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Carolina Duarte de Freitas
• AG Ringgaard
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Characterization of DNA interference by a minimal Type I-F CRISPR-Cas system

PhD Defense

• Date: Sep 20, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Hanna Müller Esparza
• AG Randau
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Probing the cofactor specificity, pH effect, and temperature effect of archaeal ketol-acid reductoisomerase by cryo-EM

Special seminar

• Date: Sep 17, 2019
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ming-Daw Tsai
• Academia Sinica, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Taipei, Taiwan
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Lars-Oliver Essen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Powering LPS transport across the bacterial cell envelope with ABCs

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Sep 16, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Natividad Ruiz
• Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology, USA
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

STUDIES OF SINGLE-MOLECULE DYNAMICS IN MICROORGANISMS

PhD Defense

• Date: Sep 9, 2019
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Bartosz Turkowyd
• AG Endesfelder
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Transcriptional regulation by sigma factor phosphorylation controls polymyxin resistance and swarming behavior in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

PhD Defense

• Date: Sep 6, 2019
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Shankar Chandrashekar Iyer
• AG Ringaard
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium II/2019

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Aug 26, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Managing the bacterial chromosome

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Aug 19, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. David Sherrat
• University of Oxford, Dept. of Biochemistry
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Dynamics of bacterial biofilm predation

PhD Defense

• Date: Aug 13, 2019
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Lucia Vidakovic
• AG Drescher
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

From biofuels to biotherapeutics - Engineering metalloenzymes for a better future

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Aug 12, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Johannes Georg Rebelein
• University Basel, Department of Chemistry
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Protecting the offspring – Linking developmental pathways of Aspergillus fumigatus to toxic compounds

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 15, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sven Krappmann
• University Hospital Erlangen, Microbiology Institute - Clinical Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

How to get published in Nature Communications and other Nature journals

Special seminar

• Date: Jul 9, 2019
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Cesar Sanchez
• Senior Editor of Nature Communications
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Gert Bange and MPI PhD representatives

Specific integration and regulation of the prokaryotic-type protein synthesis machinery in chloroplasts of plants

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jul 8, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Felix Willmund
• TU Kaiserslautern, Juniorprofessor for Molecular Genetics of Eukaryotes
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Synthetic genomics: from genetic parts to genomes

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Jul 8, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Patrick Yizhi Cai
• University of Manchester, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, UK
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Anke Becker

Construction of enzyms with synthetic allosteric regulation to control metabolic pathways of Escherichia coli

PhD Defense

• Date: Jul 5, 2019
• Time: 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dominik Beuter
• AG Link
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Quorum sensing- and contact-dependent inhibition-based population control in synthetic microbial communities

PhD Defense

• Date: Jul 5, 2019
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Anne Löchner
• AG Sourjik
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Surfing in the storm: Revealing biochemical networks of Burkholderiales to deal with toxic compounds and heavy metals

Special seminar

• Date: Jul 4, 2019
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Seeger
• Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Sulfur incorporation into tRNA: Unique mechanistic features and functions in bacteria

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jun 24, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Patricia C. Dos Santos
• Wake Forest University, USA
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Replication control of multiple chromosomes in bacteria

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Postponed to 16:15 h
• Date: Jun 17, 2019
• Time: 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Marie-Eve Kennedy-Val
• Institut Pasteur, France
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Computational modeling of metabolism in a minimal cell

Special seminar

• Date: Jun 13, 2019
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Marian Breuer
• Maastricht University, The Netherlands
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Mechanosensing in cell membranes

Special seminar

• Date: Jun 13, 2019
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Haselwandter
• Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California Los Angeles
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Mass spectrometric exploration of the proteotype

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jun 3, 2019
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ruedi Aebersold
• ETH Zürich, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Timo Glatter
• Contact: timo.glatter@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The evolution and functions of gut microbiota in bees

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: May 20, 2019
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nancy Moran
• University of Texas, Department of Integrative Biology Graduate Resources, USA
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Defining species in the microbial world

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: May 20, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Howard Ochman
• University of Texas, Dept. of Integrative Biology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Synthetic Gene-Metabolic Circuits for Bioproduction, Biosensing and Biocomputation

Special seminar

• Date: May 13, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Mr. Amir Pandi
• Micalis Institute, INRA/AgroParisTech, France
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Microbial mediation of folivory

Special seminar

• Date: May 6, 2019
• Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Hassan Salem, Ph. D.
• Dept. of Biology, Emory University Atlanta
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Self-organization of the bacterial cell division machinery

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: May 6, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Martin Loose
• Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Self-Organization of Protein Systems, Klosterneuburg
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Andreas Diepold
• Contact: andreas.diepold@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Salmonella diarrhea: mucus barriers, hydrogen-fueled growth and DNA transfer in the gut

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Apr 29, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Hardt
• ETH Zürich, Institute of Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Cryo-EM gets sweet: Molecular insight into glycosylation

Special seminar

• Date: Apr 18, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Rebekka Wild
• Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Toward artificial cells: Engineering synthetic membranes, organelles, gene circuits and communication

Special seminar

• Date: Apr 17, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Henrike Niederholtmeyer
• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The burden of inherited interfaces: evolution of self-assembly after gene duplication

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Apr 15, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Georg Hochberg
• University of Chicago, Departments of Human Genetics & Ecology and Evolution
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The ParA/MinD family of ATPases make waves to position DNA, Cell Division, & Organelles in bacteria

Special seminar

• Date: Apr 5, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli
• Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Simon Ringgaard
• Contact: simon.ringgaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

"It-Ma(t)Ter(s)" Conference

• Start: Apr 1, 2019
• End: Apr 2, 2019
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: PhD Representatives

Unipolar growth of Brucella abortus in culture and inside host cells

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Mar 25, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Xavier de Bolle
• Unité de Recherche en Biologie des Micro-organismes, Brüssel
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Understanding and exploiting bacterial lifestyles

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Feb 25, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Whitchurch
• University of Technology, The Ithree Institute, Sydney
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Pathogen effectors hitchhike the host ubiquitination pathway

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Feb 18, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulla Bonas
• Martin Luther University, Institute of Biology, Dept. of Genetics, Halle (Saale)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Towards synthetic life: Establishing a minimal segrosome for the rational design of biomimetic systems

PhD Defense

• Date: Feb 7, 2019
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Daniel Hürtgen
• Group of Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik, MPI, Systems and Synthetic Microbiologie
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

### Cancelled ###

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Cancelled
• Date: Feb 4, 2019
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ruedi Aebersold
• ETH Zurich, Inst. f. Molekulare Systembiologie
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Timo Glatter
• Contact: timo.glatter@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

To be announced

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Jan 28, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Minimal metabolic engineering - getting the most bang for your buck

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 21, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nick Wierckx
• Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Graduate Students Mini Symposium I/2019

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 7, 2019
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Organelle-like structures in Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Ralstonia eutropha

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Dec 17, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Dieter Jendrossek
• Stuttgart University, Institute of Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

A protein complex formed by Ustilago maydis effectors is essential for virulence (PhD Defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Dec 14, 2018
• Time: 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Nicole Ludwig
• Group of Prof. Regine Kahmann - Department of Organismic Interactions
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

A new facet of vitamin B12: gene regulation by a novel and widespread family of adenosylcobalamin-dependent photoreceptors in bacteria

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Dec 10, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elias-Arnanz Montserrat
• University of Murcia, Department of Genetics and Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Salmonella persisters during infection

C A N C E L E D - SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Dec 10, 2018
• Time: 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Sophie Helaine
• Imperial College London, Department of Medicine
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

The ParC/ ParP system in the localization and segregation of chemotaxis signaling arrays in Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio parahaemolyticus (PhD Defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Dec 7, 2018
• Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Alejandra Alvarado
• Group of Simon Ringgaard, PhD - The intracellular organization and differentiation of bacteria
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium VI/2018

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Dec 3, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Understanding cell division and its regulation in the human pathogenic bacterium, Vibrio parahaemolyticus (PhD Defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Nov 28, 2018
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Samada Muraleedharan
• Group of Simon Ringgaard, PhD - The intracellular organization and differentiation of bacteria
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Frontiers in Microbiology 2018

Special seminar

• Date: Nov 22, 2018
• Time: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Frontiers in Microbiology 2018

Special seminar

• Date: Nov 21, 2018
• Time: 01:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

RocS drives chromosome segregation and nucleoid protection during cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Nov 19, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Christoph Grangeasse
• CNRS/Université de Lyon, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, France
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

ChAP1, a transducer of oxidant and small-molecule signals in the maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Nov 12, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Horwitz
• Institute of Technology Israel
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Mechanisms of co-translational folding and assembly of proteins studied by ribosome profiling

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Nov 12, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Günther Kramer
• Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Symposium: “Microbial Metabolomics”

Special Event

• Date: Nov 5, 2018
• Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. T. Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Darwin’s invertebrates: A transient anoxic microbial oasis

MPI Seminar

• Date: Nov 5, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Harold Drake
• University of Bayreuth, Department of Ecological Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
• Contact: brune@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Antigen 43-mediated biotin display and fabrication of bacteria-driven microswimmers (PhD Defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Nov 1, 2018
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Oliver Schauer
• MPI Marburg, AG Sourjik
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Structural and mechanistic insights into the guanine nucleotide exchange factor complex Mon1-Ccz1

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 22, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Stephan Kiontke
• Philipps University Marburg, Molecular Plant Physiology and Photobiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

The networking of microbiomes across plant generations

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 15, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Berg
• Graz University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Methylotrophic methanogens everywhere - ecology and physiology of novel players in global methane cycling

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 15, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tim Urich
• Universität Greifswald, Department of Bacterial Physiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Structural insights into effector kinases from pathogenic gram-negative bacteria

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 8, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Miroslaw Cygler
• University of Saskatchewan, Dept. Biochemistry, Canada and McGill University, Centre for Proteomics Research in Interactions and Structure of Macromolecues, Canada
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Establishment of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology for the study of effector families in the plant pathogen (PhD Defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Oct 4, 2018
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Mariana Schuster
• MPI Marburg, AG Kahmann
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Community transcriptomics reveals drainage effects on paddy soil microbiome across all three domains of life (PhD Defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Sep 27, 2018
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Rehab Abdallah
• MPI Marburg, AG Liesack
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Identification and characterization of RomX and RomY, two novel motility regulators in Myxococcus xanthus

PhD Defense

• Date: Sep 18, 2018
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dobromir Szadkowski
• MPI Marburg, AG Søgaard-Andersen
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Max-Planck-Tag 2018

Special Event

• Date: Sep 14, 2018
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

The role of M23 peptidases on cell division and cell shape in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 10, 2018
• Time: 02:40 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Jan Heering
• MPI Marburg, AG Ringgaard
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Regulatory circuits controlling the glycine betaine synthesizing pathway in Bacillus subtilis

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 10, 2018
• Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Bianca Warmbold
• Uni Marburg, AG Bremer
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Proteomics - a new tool for type II methanotroph research

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 10, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Anna Hakobyan
• MPI Marburg, RG Liesack
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium V/2018

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 10, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Heterogeneity of gene expression during biofilm formation in Escherichia coli

PhD Defense

• Date: Aug 29, 2018
• Time: 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Olga Lamprecht
• MPI Marburg, AG Sourjik
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Key proteins in the cell division of filamentous cyanobacteria

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Aug 20, 2018
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Mónica Vásquez
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Department, Santiago
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Genomics of uncultivable bacteria deciphers multilayered symbiotic system in the termite gut

MPI Seminar

• Date: Aug 20, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Yuichi Hongoh
• Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Sciences, Japan
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
• Contact: brune@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Transition of symbiotic lifestyles by gene loss or gain: Blattabacterium in cockroaches-lower termites and spirochetes in higher termites

MPI Seminar

• Date: Aug 20, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gaku Tokuda
• University of the Ryukyus, Center of Molecular Biosciences, Japan
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
• Contact: brune@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Establishing CO2 fixation pathways in Methylobacterium extorquens

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Aug 13, 2018
• Time: 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Martina Carrillo
• MPI Marburg, AG Erb
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Evolution of a Non-natural Carboxylase for Synthetic Photorespiration

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Aug 13, 2018
• Time: 02:40 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Marieke Scheffen
• MPI Marburg, AG Erb
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Influence of cardiolipin on the function of bacterial chemoreceptors

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Aug 13, 2018
• Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Nadja Sachs
• MPI Marburg, AG Sourjik
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Determination of the substrate recognition by fumarate adding enzymes

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Aug 13, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Iryna Salii
• Uni Marburg, AG Heider
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium IV/2018

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Aug 13, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Control of reactive intermediates in enzymes and enzyme complexes

PhD Defense

• Date: Aug 10, 2018
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Bastian Vögeli
• MPI Marburg, AG Erb
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

New techniques in ultra high throughput directed evolution screens

Special seminar

• Date: Aug 10, 2018
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Raoul G. Rosenthal
• Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Cambridge MA, USA
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

α-Ketoglutarate dependent dioxygenases - computational studies on reaction mechanisms

SFB 987 Sonderseminar

• Date: Jul 30, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tomasz Borowski
• Polish Academy of Sciences, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Poland
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Nitrogen recycling by Rhodobacteraceae as an important factor determining diatom's community composition in the oceans?

Special seminar

• Date: Jul 26, 2018
• Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Karsten Zecher
• Universität Münster, IMMB - AK Philipp
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

A CTP-binding protein links the ParABS chromosome segregation system to the bactofilin cytoskeleton in Myxococcus xanthus

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 23, 2018
• Time: 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Manuel Osorio Valeriano
• Uni Marburg, AG Thanbichler
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Shedding Light on CETCH: Linking synthetic carbon fixation pathways to the energy produced by light powered thylakoids

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 23, 2018
• Time: 02:40 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Tarryn Miller
• MPI Marburg, MPRG Erb
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Biofilm architectural breakdown in response to antibiotics facilitates community invasion

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 23, 2018
• Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Francisco Diaz Pascual
• MPI Marburg, MPRG Drescher
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Characterization of DNA interference by a minimal Type I CRISPR-Cas system

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 23, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Hanna Müller Esparza
• MPI Marburg, MPRG Randau
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium III/2018

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 23, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Bacterial warfare: antibiotic production and resistance in co-existing Streptomycetes

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 16, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sanne Westhoff
• Institute of Biology Leiden, Department of Biotechnology, Netherlands
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Mechanosensing with type IV pili in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jul 16, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Persat
• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, School of Life Sciences, Switzerland
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

High-throughput interaction profiling in bacteria

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jul 9, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Nassos Typas
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Unraveling the function of a stress sentinel in the bacterial envelope

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Jul 5, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Géraldine Laloux
• de Duve Institute, Brussels
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Bacterial chromosome organization

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jul 2, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Fabai Wu
• California Institute of Technology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Jessica Mötter
• Contact: moetter@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

A circuitous route to mitochondrial acylation in regulation of oxidative phosphorylation

SFB 987 Mercator-Fellow Seminar

• Date: Jun 25, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Dennis Winge
• University of Utah, Health Sciences Center, Division of Hematology, USA
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to compounds present in human gut (PhD defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Jun 20, 2018
• Time: 11:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Joana Gomes Martins Lopes
• MPI Marburg, AG Sourjik, Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Mechanisms of transmembrane signaling by sensors of two-component system

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jun 18, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Valentin Gordeliy
• Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Complex Systems
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Finally, archaea get their CRISPR-cas toolbox

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jun 18, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Anika Marchfelder
• University of Ulm, Department of Biology II
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Synthetic noise control in eukaryotic gene expression and signal transduction (PhD Defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Jun 8, 2018
• Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Max Mundt
• MPI Marburg, AG Sourjik, Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Natural products in microbial predator-prey interactions

MPI Seminar

• Date: May 28, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Pierre Stallforth
• Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e.V., Hans-Knöll-Institut, Chemie Mikrobieller Kommunikation, Jena
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Hannes Link
• Contact: hannes.link@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Viruses of Archaea: what we can learn from them

Special seminar

• Date: May 18, 2018
• Time: 10:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Susanne Erdmann
• (Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­no­lo­gy Syd­ney, Aus­tra­lia)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Exploring molecular landscapes inside cells with in situ cryo-electron tomography

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: May 14, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Ben Engel
• Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

High-resolution whole genome mapping of Sister Chromatid Contacts (Hi-SC2) in Vibrio cholerae

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: May 14, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Francois-Xavier Barre
• Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Evolution and Maintenance of Circular Chromosomes, Gif sur Yvette, France
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Bacterial ribosome heterogeneity: Novel aspects of selective translation

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: May 7, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Isabella Moll
• University Vienna, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Genetics, Epigenetics & Gene Regulation
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Activation of the bacterial stringent response

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: May 7, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kenn Gerdes
• University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Molecular tricks of methanogenic archaea

MPI Seminar

• Date: May 2, 2018
• Time: 09:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Tristan Wagner
• MPI, Group of Seigo Shima - Microbial protein structure
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Contact: tristan.wagner@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Physiology and cell biology of bacterial epithelia

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Apr 26, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Silvia Bulgheresi
• University of Vienna, Nematode-bacterium symbiosis, Austria
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Symbioses as sources of evolutionary innovation in insects

Special seminar

• Date: Apr 20, 2018
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth
• Department for Evolutionary Ecology, Institute for Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

From boom to bust - the dynamics of bacterial adaptation under prolonged resource limitation

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Apr 9, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Ruth Hershberg
• Institute of Technology Israel, Department of Genetics
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Unlocking the potential of synthetic biology - from DNA foundries to cell-free prototyping

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Apr 9, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Paul Freemont
• Imperial College London, Department of Medicine
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Genetic circuit design

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Mar 19, 2018
• Time: 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Chris Voigt
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

c-di-AMP signaling in Staphylococcus aureus: What makes, breaks and binds it

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Mar 19, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Angelika Grundling
• Imperial College London, Department of Medicine
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Deadly conversation between bacteria

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Mar 19, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Leo Eberl
• University of Zurich, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Adaptive genome evolution in the vascular wilt pathogen Verticillium

MPI Seminar

• Date: Mar 12, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ir. Bart P.H.J. Thomma
• Wageningen University & Research, Department of Plant Sciences, The Netherlands
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Regine Kahmann
• Contact: kahmann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

D-Amino acids shape the environmental microbial biodiversity

MPI Seminar

• Date: Mar 5, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Felipe Cava
• Umeå University, Department of Molecular Biology, Sweden
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Simon Ringgaard
• Contact: simon.ringgaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Self-assembly of a bacterial nanomachine: Flagella grow through an injection-diffusion mechanism

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Feb 26, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marc Erhardt
• Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie - Bakterienphysiologie
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

C A N C E L L E D Chemical interaction between iron-cycling microbes: news from the chat room

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Feb 26, 2018
• Time: 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Küsel
• Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Fakultät für Biologie und Pharmazie
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

The bacterial gut microbiota of wood- and humus-feeding termites: Diazotrophic populations and compartment-specific response of bacterial communities to environmental factors

PhD Defense

• Date: Feb 20, 2018
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Wanyang Wang
• AG Brune, Max-Planck.Institut
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Divorcing chromosomes still need rings: the role of an ancestral SMC protein in bacterial chromosome organisation and segregation

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Feb 19, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Tung Le
• John Innes Centre, Molecular Microbiology, Norwich, UK
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Meta-phenomic studies in a model plant-associated bacterium: Specificity traits consistent with legume-rhizobia coevolution are expressed during the early rhizosphere colonization

SFB 987 Mercator-Fellow Seminar

• Date: Feb 6, 2018
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Antonio Lagares
• Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Characterization of a Serine/Threonine kinase in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Time: 02:25 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Shankar Iyer Chandrashekar
• MPI, Department of Ecophysiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarm-colonies

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Carolina Duarte de Freitas
• MPI, Department of Ecophysiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Studies on catalytic mechanism of [Fe]-hydrogenase from methanogenic archaea

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Gangfeng Huang
• MPI, RG Microbial Protein Structure
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium II/2018

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

*** CANCELED *** Visualizing and quantifying the selfish uptake of high molecular weight polysaccharides by marine bacteria

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 29, 2018
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Greta Reintjes
• Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Bremen
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Microbe-Electrode-Interactions

SFB 987 Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 29, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Johannes Gescher
• Karlsruher Institute for Technology, Department of Applied Biology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

The design and realization of synthetic pathways for the fixation of carbon dioxide in vitro (PhD defence)

PhD Defense

• Date: Jan 23, 2018
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Thomas Schwander
• Group of Dr. T. Erb - Understanding and Building Metabolism
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

The seminar will start later (on 15:00 h) due to a snow storm in Munich "Architecture and biogenesis of an antibacterial speargun: the type VI secretion system"

Transregio TRR 174 Seminar

• Date: Jan 22, 2018
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Eric Cascales
• CNRS, Laboratory of Engineering of Macromolecular Systems, Marseille, France
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

How proteins control electrons: Protons

MPI Seminar

• Date: Jan 15, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Anne-Frances Miller
• University of Kentucky, Department of Chemistry
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buckel
• Contact: buckel@staff.uni-marburg.de

Regulation of peptidoglycan biosynthesis in Hyphomonas neptunium

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 8, 2018
• Time: 02:25 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sabine Rosskopf
• Universität / FB Biologie, AG Thanbichler
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Biochemistry of the key spatial regulators MipZ and PopZ in Caulobacter crescentus

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 8, 2018
• Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Yacine Refes
• Universität / FB Biologie, AG Thanbichler
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Shining light on the structural features of DNA repair in the PCSf

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Jan 8, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sophie Franz
• Universität / FB Biologie, AG Essen
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium I/2018

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jan 8, 2018
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: IMPRS
• Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Dormancy or growth under deep starvation conditions & Observing antimicrobial activities in single cells

SFB/Transregio TRR 174

• Date: Dec 11, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Leendert Hamoen
• University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Netherlands
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: TRR 174
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

SFB Mini Symposium

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Dec 4, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

How to distribute multiple chromosomes along the hyphal cell?

SFB/Transregio TRR 174

• Date: Nov 27, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. hab. Dagmara Jakimowicz
• University of Wrocław, Faculty of Biotechnology, Poland
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Martin Thanbichler
• Contact: thanbichler@uni-marburg.de

Structure-function analysis of Cmu1, the secreted chorismate mutase from Ustilago maydis (PhD defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Nov 24, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Xiaowei Han
• Group of Prof. Dr. Regine Kahmann - Molecular phytopathology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Using images to understand structure, function and dynamics of Type VI secretion systems

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Nov 20, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marek Basler
• Universität Basel, Biozentrum
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Andreas Diepold
• Contact: andreas.diepold@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

SFB Mini Symposium

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Nov 13, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Structure, function, assembly and engineering of bacterial microcompartments

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Nov 6, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Cheryl Kerfeld
• Michigan State University, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, USA
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Tobias Erb
• Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Cell differentiation specific inhibition of cell division guarantees the formation of diploid spores during development of Myxococcus xanthus (PhD defense)

PhD Defense

• Date: Nov 2, 2017
• Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sabrina Huneke-Vogt
• AG Sogaard-Andersen - Bacterial adaption and differentiation
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

Elucidating the lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic pathway in Myxococcus xanthus

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 23, 2017
• Time: 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Maria Perez Burgos
• MPI, Dept. of Ecophysiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. L. Søgaard-Andersen
• Contact: sogaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Structural variation of type I-F CRISPR RNA guided DNA surveillance

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 23, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Patrick Pausch
• LOEWE, Molecular Plasticity of Microbial Adaptation
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Gert Bange
• Contact: gert.bange@synmikro.uni-marburg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium VI/2017

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Oct 23, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

SFB Mini Symposium

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Oct 16, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Dissecting a Three-Protein Brain: The Chemsensory Array of E.

Special seminar

• Date: Sep 27, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Professor John S. Parkinson
• University of Utah
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Northern wetlands: a world of unique microbes with difficult characters

SFB Mini Symposium

• Date: Sep 25, 2017
• Time: 02:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Svetlana Dedysh
• Russian Academy of Sciences, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Moscow
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: PD Dr. Werner Liesack
• Contact: liesack@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Cell-wall remodelling drives engulfment during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Sep 25, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Robert Endres
• Imperial College London, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Solving the kinetochore structure of Schizosaccharomyces pombe with single molecules localization microscopy

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 11, 2017
• Time: 03:50 PM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: David Virant
• MPI / Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Ulrike Endesfelder
• Contact: ulrike.endesfelder@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Blue and infrared light-induced photoconversion of green-to-red fluorescent proteins as a new approach in single molecule localization microscopy

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 11, 2017
• Time: 03:15 PM - 03:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Bartosz Turkowyd
• MPI / Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Ulrike Endesfelder
• Contact: ulrike.endesfelder@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

About the creation and isolation of switching metabolic enzymes

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 11, 2017
• Time: 02:25 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dominik Beuter
• MPI / Dynamic Control of Metabolic Networks
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Hannes Link
• Contact: hannes.link@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Metatranscriptomics reveals drainage effects on paddy soil microbiome across all three domains of life

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 11, 2017
• Time: 01:50 PM - 02:25 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Rehab Abdallah
• MPI / Methanotrophic bacteria, and environmental genomics/transcriptomics
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: PD Dr. Werner Liesack
• Contact: liesack@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Chemotaxis towards autoinducer 2 mediates intra- and interspecies behaviors of Escherichia coli

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium

• Date: Sep 11, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM - 01:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Leanid Laganenka
• MPI / Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
• Contact: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Graduate Students Mini-Symposium V/2017

• Date: Sep 11, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall

C A N C E L L E D - Postponed to 20.11.2017

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Aug 28, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marek Basler
• Universität Basel, Biozentrum
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Dr. Andreas Diepold
• Contact: andreas.diepold@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

SFB Mini Symposium

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jul 17, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

All you never wanted to know about cooperative 2-electron transitions but should definitely dare to ask

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jul 3, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nitschke
• Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Marseille
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buckel
• Contact: buckel@staff.uni-marburg.de

SFB Mini Symposium

Microbiology Seminar Series

• Date: Jun 26, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: svenja.estor@staff.uni-marburg.de

Rhodopsins - the green light sensing component of the fungal eye

SFB Mini Symposium

• Date: May 29, 2017
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Terpitz
• Biozentrum Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Biotechnology and Biophysik
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Microbiology Seminar Series - SFB Mini Symposium

SFB Mini Symposium

• Date: May 29, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

Limnology and general microbiology diversity of methane oxidation in a large oligotrophic lake, Lake Constance

SFB Mini Symposium

• Date: May 29, 2017
• Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schink
• Universität Konstanz, Microbial Ecology
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: SFB 987
• Contact: nelli.pfeifer@staff.uni-marburg.de

In-House Career Day

• Date: May 29, 2017
• Time: 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Room: Lecture hall