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
1.12.2025	Lecture: Novel Layers Regulating Immune Cell Fate and Function 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: Embryo Self-Correction 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 and Malte Schütterle
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: Rafaella Jekabson and Mirjam Binner
16.2.2026	Rose Monday, no lecture, no progress reports
23.2.2026	Lecture: Rui Benedito Progress reports: Annemarie van Schaik and Elena Bekker
2.3.2026	Lecture: Organelle connectivity during cellular aging and metabolic adaptation Sabrina Büttner Progress reports & Coffee session: Amulya Venkatesha Hejjaji and Newsha Mortazavi
9.3.2026	Lecture: Kate Miroshnikova Progress reports: Nivedha Veerasubramanian and Sophie Hötte
16.3.2026	Lecture: Host-microbiota interactions in autoimmunity Martin Kriegel Progress reports: Pia Leipe and Ulrike Löschberger
23.3.2026	Lecture: Seraphine Wegner Progress reports: Allegra Angenendt and Anja Michelbach
30.3.2026	Lecture: Talin-mediated force coupling in eukaryotic cell-substrate adhesion Carsten Grashoff Progress reports: Ruoxuan Zhuang and Kai Broschewski