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: Host-targeted strategies against hyperinflammatory respiratory viral diseases
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: Synaptic transmssion and synaptic vesicle recycling
Jürgen Klingauf

Progress reports:
Rafaella Jekabson and Mirjam Binner
16.2.2026 Rose Monday, no lecture, no progress reports
23.2.2026

Lecture: Single-Cell Functional Genetics & CardioVascular Biomedicine
Rui Benedito

Progress reports:
Pia Leipe and Ulrike Löschberger

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: Synthetic Biology from the Bottom-up: Controlling Cells & Tissues with Light
Seraphine Wegner

Progress reports:
Annemarie van Schaik and Elena Bekker
23.3.2026 Lecture: Host-microbiota interactions in autoimmunity
Martin Kriegel

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
13.4.2026

Lecture: Mitochondria in the aging heart
Karin Busch

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Gitanjali and Merieme Farjia

20.4.2026 Lecture:
Friedemann Kiefer

Progress reports:
Marie Didion and Robin Rexeisen
27.4.2026 Lecture:
Anna Ziegler

Progress reports:
Steven Reger and Anna Pawluchin
4.5.2026 Lecture: Myeloid C-type lectin receptors in immunity
Mariano Malamud Guillan

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Devila Prit and Lena Espeter
11.5.2026 Lecture:
Sarah Wickström

Progress reports:
Namitha Tharayil Jayalal and Sabrina Vinzens
18.5.2026 Lecture:
Roland Wedlich-Söldner

Progress reports:
Devika Rag Thulichery and Katharina Richter
1.6.2026 Lecture: New genes in old pathways - lymphangiogenesis revisted
Stefan Schulte-Merker

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Jiwon Kim and Shambhavi Dwivedi
8.6.2026 Lecture:
Timo Strünker

Progress reports:
Emily Leonhard and Nadine Al Haj
15.6.2026 Lecture:
Erez Raz

Progress reports:
 
22.6.2026 Lecture: Photofunctional compounds for theranostics
Carsten A. Strassert

Progress Reports: