Lectures and progress reports

CiM-IMPRS students meet for a weekly lecture in which their supervisors provide basic knowledge and insights into recent developments in biology, biomedicine and imaging. Additionally, students give progress reports about their PhD projects in order to discuss scientific aims and results as well as exercising presentation skills.


Lectures: Mondays, 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Progress reports: Mondays, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Auditorium of the Multiscale Imaging Center (MIC), Röntgenstr. 16

Please note: Each progress report is 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion.

Date Topics and speakers
3.11.2025 Lecture: Myeloid cell clearance in health and disease
Noelia Alonso Gonzalez

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Hannah Barz and Sanjay Sunil Kumar 
10.11.2025

Lecture: Self-Organisation in Cellular Systems
Milos Galic

Progress reports:
Annika Diebels and Vinayak Sivaramakrishnan

17.11.2025

Lecture: Timing neutrophils: from production to effector function
Carlos Silvestre Roig 

Progress reports :
Maximilian Gottschling and Carina Brune

24.11.2025

Lecture: Atherosclerosis - an inflammatory disease
Oliver Söhnlein 

Progress reports:
Nishita Gattani and Malte Schütterle

1.12.2025

Lecture: 
Angelika Rambold

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Ashley Suraj Hermon and Federica Olocco

8.12.2025

Lecture: KCa3.1 channels in lung cancer progression and therapy
Albrecht Schwab

Progress reports:
Sebastian Togatorop and Shantanu Madiwale

15.12.2025

Lecture: 
Mauricio Rocha

Progress reports:
Eymen Oruc and Leon Schmidthuis

12.1.2026

Lecture: 
Stephan Ludwig

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Nelly Drobjazko and José Ignacio Bernales Schnettler

19.1.2026

Lecture: S100-alarmins: “complex” players of inflammation
Johannes Roth

Progress reports:
Kevin Joseph Dilip and Hunki Lee

26.1.2026

Lecture: Developmental and stem cell biology of the early mammalian embryo
Ivan Bedzhov

Progress reports:
Luca Farinola

2.2.2026

Lecture: Cell signaling live: microscopy approaches to reveal cell and membrane dynamics 
Florencia Sanchez

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Shahrzad Majari-Kasmaei and Kavan Thakkar 

9.2.2026 Lecture:
Jürgen Klingauf

Progress reports:
16.2.2026 Rose Monday, no lecture, no progress reports
23.2.2026

Lecture:
Rui Benedito

Progress reports:

2.3.2026

Lecture: Organelle connectivity during cellular aging and metabolic adaptation
Sabrina Büttner

Progress reports & Coffee session:

9.3.2026 Lecture:
Kate Miroshnikova

Progress reports:
16.3.2026 Lecture: Host-microbiota interactions in autoimmunity
Martin Kriegel

Progress reports:
23.3.2026 Lecture:
Seraphine Wegner

Progress reports:
30.3.2026 Lecture: Talin-mediated force coupling in eukaryotic cell-substrate adhesion
Carsten Grashoff

Progress reports: