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
26.10.2026 Lecture: Initial infection by viruses is like a PhD
Mario Schelhaas 

Progress reports:
Greta Tellkamp and Arian Seyed Sadri 
2.11.2026

Lecture: Regulation of small GTPases in signaling and trafficking
Daniel Kümmel

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Eymen Ece Oruc and Nishita Gattani
9.11.2026

Lecture: 
Erez Raz

Progress reports :
Sebastian Togatorop and Rakshana Balaji
16.11.2025

Lecture: 
Xiaoyi Jiang

Progress reports:
Arpita Halder and Stefan Nienhaus
23.11.2026

Lecture: Immune cell trafficking and migration
Tim Lämmermann

Progress reports:
Merina Tony and Hannah Barz
30.11.2026

Lecture: 
Michael Ziller

Progress reports:
Vinayak Sivaramakrishnan and Diya Manoj
7.12.2026

Lecture: Beyond the Vessel Wall: Endothelial Cells as Regulators
of Health and Disease
Dorothee Bornhorst-Ohmstede

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Maximilian Gottschling and Eda Samiloglu Tengirsek
14.12.2026

Lecture: Building and breaking epithelial barriers
Stefan Luschnig

Progress reports:
Ashley Suraj Hermon and Alexa Bonnefon
11.1.2027

Lecture: 
Luise Erpenbeck

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Tim Cebulla and Leon Schmidthuis
18.1.2027

Lecture: 
Bart Jan Ravoo

Progress reports:
Dekai Dong and Kieran Reidy
25.1.2027

Lecture: 
Diana Khoromskaia

Progress reports:
Abhimanyu Saju Manju and Carina Brune-Hallner 
1.2.2027

Lecture:
Mara Pitulescu

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Malte Schütterle and Iryna Levkovych
8.2.2027 Rose Monday   
15.2.2027

Lecture: Mathematical models for transport networks
Benedikt Wirth

Progress reports:
Igor Orsine de Almeida and Shahrzad Majari Kasmaei
22.2.2027

Lecture:
Maria Bohnert

Progress reports:
Kavan Thakkar and Jose Ignacio Bernales
1.3.2027

Lecture:
Christos Gatsogiannis

Progress reports & Coffee session:
Sanskruti Wani and Pia Leipe
8.3.2027

Lecture:
Maik Christian Bischoff

Progress reports:
Luca Farinola and Kevin Joseph Dilip
15.3.2027

Lecture:
Stefanie Grosswendt 

Progress reports:
Georgii Dolgalev and Nelly Drobjazko
22.3.2027

Lecture: Modulation of chronic inflammation in skin diseases
Kerstin Steinbrink 

Progress reports:
Annika Diebels