Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Renowned international scientists are invited to the colloquium to present and discuss their current research. The lecture series is open to the public and is mainly aimed at interested people from the fields of microbiology, medical microbiology and immunology.
The colloquium is jointly organized by the Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections" (CMFI) and the Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine of the University of Tübingen.
Thursdays, 12:30–2:00 pm
Lecture Hall 3M07, Geo- und Umweltforschungszentrum (GUZ)
Schnarrenbergstr. 94–96
D-72076 Tübingen
Dates
INTERN CMFI Meeting
08.05.2025
INTERN CMFI Meeting
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Arnaud Kengmo Tchoupa, Birgit Schittek, Effie Bastounis
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INTERN CMFI Meeting
15.05.2025
INTERN CMFI Meeting
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Andreas Peschel, Nicolas Bézière, Hannes Link
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Systems immunological assessment of vaccine responses in cancer patients
22.05.2025
Systems immunological assessment of vaccine responses in cancer patients
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Florian Wimmers
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Public goods impact S. aureus proliferation in the context of the nasal microbiome
05.06.2025
Public goods impact S. aureus proliferation in the context of the nasal microbiome
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Simon Heilbronner
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The many faces of Cutibacterium acnes: from acne to anti-aging
26.06.2025
The many faces of Cutibacterium acnes: from acne to anti-aging
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Holger Brüggemann
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Unraveling Bacterial Adaptive Evolution to Innovate Next-Generation Antimicrobial Strategies
03.07.2025
Unraveling Bacterial Adaptive Evolution to Innovate Next-Generation Antimicrobial Strategies
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Christoph Ernst
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The Core Facility for Genomics & QBiC
10.07.2025
The Core Facility for Genomics & QBiC
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Nicolas Casadei, Oleksandra Karpiuk, Morgana Oquendo, Stefan Czemmel
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Mapping the in vitro metabolic interaction network of a nasal microbiota community
24.07.2025
Mapping the in vitro metabolic interaction network of a nasal microbiota community
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Karl Kochanowski
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Contact
Leon Kokkoliadis
Public Relations Management
Tel: +49 7071 29-74707
E-Mail: leon.kokkoliadis@uni-tuebingen.de
Past Events of the Colloquium
Joint Microbiological Colloquium Winter Term 2019/20 - Winter Term 2020/21
04.02.2021
Joint Microbiological Colloquium Winter Term 2019/20 - Winter Term 2020/21
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
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Bacterio-modulators to harness the antimicrobial activity of the macrophage metabolite itaconat
18.02.2021
Bacterio-modulators to harness the antimicrobial activity of the macrophage metabolite itaconat
5:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Karine Auclair
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Beyond Toxin Transport: Novel Role of ABC Transporter for Enzymatic Machinery of Cereulide NRPS Assembly Line
25.02.2021
Beyond Toxin Transport: Novel Role of ABC Transporter for Enzymatic Machinery of Cereulide NRPS Assembly Line
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Imrich Barák
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Emergence and evolution of agricultural plant pathogens
08.04.2021
Emergence and evolution of agricultural plant pathogens
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Honour McCann
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Molecular mechanisms in bacterial cell division
15.04.2021
Molecular mechanisms in bacterial cell division
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Jan Löwe
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Mechanical forces govern interactions of host cells with intracellular bacterial pathogens
21.04.2021
Mechanical forces govern interactions of host cells with intracellular bacterial pathogens
5:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Effie Bastounis
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Approaches towards innovative antibiotics from myxobacteria
22.04.2021
Approaches towards innovative antibiotics from myxobacteria
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Rolf Müller
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All's fair in love and war: The Type VI Secretion System of Acinetobacter
29.04.2021
All's fair in love and war: The Type VI Secretion System of Acinetobacter
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Mario Feldman
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Acetogenic bacteria: a treasure chamber for biochemists and biotechnologists
06.05.2021
Acetogenic bacteria: a treasure chamber for biochemists and biotechnologists
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Volker Müller
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Chemical labeling strategies to elucidate natural product structure and function
10.05.2021
Chemical labeling strategies to elucidate natural product structure and function
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Chambers Hughes
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To sit, to move, to race, to seed - a bacterial polar master decision maker
20.05.2021
To sit, to move, to race, to seed - a bacterial polar master decision maker
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Kai Thormann
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Bacterial lectins as targets for pathoblockers
27.05.2021
Bacterial lectins as targets for pathoblockers
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Alexander Titz
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Learning from Trees - Modeling, Simulation, and Computational Population GeneticsInference of Microbial Genome Evolution
09.06.2021
Learning from Trees - Modeling, Simulation, and Computational Population GeneticsInference of Microbial Genome Evolution
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Franz Baumdicker
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Finding the perfect match: Improving murine colonization and infection models by using mouse-adapted Staphylococcus aureus strains
17.06.2021
Finding the perfect match: Improving murine colonization and infection models by using mouse-adapted Staphylococcus aureus strains
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Silva Holtfreter
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Swiss army knife natural product enzymes
24.06.2021
Swiss army knife natural product enzymes
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Jörn Piel
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Pathogenesis of enteric infection in the age of microbiome research
01.07.2021
Pathogenesis of enteric infection in the age of microbiome research
5:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Andreas Bäumler
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The Molecular Treasure Hunt – An ‘Omics-based Approach to Find New Bioactive Compounds
15.07.2021
The Molecular Treasure Hunt – An ‘Omics-based Approach to Find New Bioactive Compounds
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Tilmann Weber
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Hope or hype? Dolosigranulum pigrum's role in healthy upper respiratory tract microbiota
30.09.2021
Hope or hype? Dolosigranulum pigrum's role in healthy upper respiratory tract microbiota
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Silvio Brugger
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The implementation and application of whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 to inform the COVID-19 public health response in Scotland
21.10.2021
The implementation and application of whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 to inform the COVID-19 public health response in Scotland
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Matthew Holden
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Antibiotic resistance: mechanisms and novel therapeutics
28.10.2021
Antibiotic resistance: mechanisms and novel therapeutics
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
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Metabolism and the Cell Cycle: Revisiting old Dogmas/Dynamic intravital microscopy of immune function in solid tumors
11.11.2021
Metabolism and the Cell Cycle: Revisiting old Dogmas/Dynamic intravital microscopy of immune function in solid tumors
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Jennifer Ewald & Bettina Weigelin
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On translational stress and post-translational regulation
18.11.2021
On translational stress and post-translational regulation
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Jürgen Lassak
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– VERSCHOBEN – How bacteria generate functional diversity – From cell differentiation to virulence and back
02.12.2021
– VERSCHOBEN – How bacteria generate functional diversity – From cell differentiation to virulence and back
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Urs Jenal
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– CANCELED– Exploring the molecular architecture of photosynthetic organelles with cryo-electron tomography
09.12.2021
– CANCELED– Exploring the molecular architecture of photosynthetic organelles with cryo-electron tomography
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Ben Engel
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Identifying microbiome contributions to xenobiotic metabolism and toxicity
16.12.2021
Identifying microbiome contributions to xenobiotic metabolism and toxicity
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Michael Zimmermann
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Diets and the gut microbiome: an energy-balance perspective/Molecular imaging of infections: towards pathogen-specific imaging
13.01.2022
Diets and the gut microbiome: an energy-balance perspective/Molecular imaging of infections: towards pathogen-specific imaging
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Reiner Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg & Nicolas Bézière
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Staphylococcal adherence to skin via the conserved Aap protein
20.01.2022
Staphylococcal adherence to skin via the conserved Aap protein
4:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Paul Fey
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Harnessing the power of the microbiome for precision medicine approaches in inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer
10.02.2022
Harnessing the power of the microbiome for precision medicine approaches in inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Lukas Mager
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Occurrence and role of neurotransmitter-producing bacteria of the skin microbiome
25.04.2022
Occurrence and role of neurotransmitter-producing bacteria of the skin microbiome
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Friedrich Götz
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Tropodithietic acid – a multifunctional antibiotic in marine Rhodobacteraceae
28.04.2022
Tropodithietic acid – a multifunctional antibiotic in marine Rhodobacteraceae
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Thorsten Brinkhoff
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Genomic and Informatic Frontiers in Marine Natural Products Research
02.05.2022
Genomic and Informatic Frontiers in Marine Natural Products Research
11:00 am
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
William Gerwick
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How bacteria generate functional diversity – From cell differentiation to virulence and back
05.05.2022
How bacteria generate functional diversity – From cell differentiation to virulence and back
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Urs Jenal
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Potassium transporters and channels in bacterial survival
19.05.2022
Potassium transporters and channels in bacterial survival
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Inga Hänelt
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From commensalism to pathogenicity: Interactions of Candida albicans with the host
02.06.2022
From commensalism to pathogenicity: Interactions of Candida albicans with the host
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Bernhard Hube
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CANCELED - Mechanism of cell wall transporters involved in teichoic acid synthesis
09.06.2022
CANCELED - Mechanism of cell wall transporters involved in teichoic acid synthesis
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Camilo Perez
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The evolution of glyphosate resistance in bacteria - a journey from Gram-positive to Gram-negative species
23.06.2022
The evolution of glyphosate resistance in bacteria - a journey from Gram-positive to Gram-negative species
3:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Fabian Commichau
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Charting the molecular architecture of photosynthetic organelles with cryo-electron tomography
30.06.2022
– 30.06.2022
Charting the molecular architecture of photosynthetic organelles with cryo-electron tomography
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Ben Engel
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The evolution of coagulation in the Staphylococcus genus and the adaptation of microbiologists to a changing climate
14.07.2022
– 14.07.2022
The evolution of coagulation in the Staphylococcus genus and the adaptation of microbiologists to a changing climate
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Amy Pickering
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Cryo-Electron Tomography contributes to our understanding of bacterial interactions with their environment
21.07.2022
Cryo-Electron Tomography contributes to our understanding of bacterial interactions with their environment
12:30 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Ariane Briegel
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The plant-derived antibiotic Rhodomyrtone and its multiple activities
17.10.2022
The plant-derived antibiotic Rhodomyrtone and its multiple activities
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Supayang Voravuthikunchai
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Exploring metabolic heterogeneity to find new antibacterial strategies
20.10.2022
Exploring metabolic heterogeneity to find new antibacterial strategies
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Mattia Zampieri
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Understanding and exploiting microbial modulation of soil matter and metabolism over magnitudes of scales
27.10.2022
Understanding and exploiting microbial modulation of soil matter and metabolism over magnitudes of scales
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Geertje Van Keulen
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Exploring and Exploiting Chemical Interactions in the Microbial World
03.11.2022
Exploring and Exploiting Chemical Interactions in the Microbial World
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Thomas Böttcher
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Reproducibility of antibiotic resistance evolution
10.11.2022
Reproducibility of antibiotic resistance evolution
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Camilo Barbosa
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Mechanism of cell wall transporters involved in teichoic acid synthesis
01.12.2022
Mechanism of cell wall transporters involved in teichoic acid synthesis
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Camilo Perez
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The gut microbiome in T cell-based cancer immunotherapies: Approaching clinical relevance
08.12.2022
The gut microbiome in T cell-based cancer immunotherapies: Approaching clinical relevance
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium,
Online
Christoph Stein-Thoeringer
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- intern - Computational Microbiology at QBiC
15.12.2022
- intern - Computational Microbiology at QBiC
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Sabrina Krakau
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Purpose-driven creativity of Legionella: The steps before virulence factor phospholipases come into play
12.01.2023
Purpose-driven creativity of Legionella: The steps before virulence factor phospholipases come into play
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Antje Flieger (RKI)
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Molecular secrets of 7th pandemic V. cholerae
19.01.2023
Molecular secrets of 7th pandemic V. cholerae
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Melanie Blokesch (EPFL)
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How can 2D nanomaterials be used in fighting bacterial infections?
26.01.2023
How can 2D nanomaterials be used in fighting bacterial infections?
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Ivan Mijakovic
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Single-cell biology of bacterial pathogens in host tissues
02.02.2023
Single-cell biology of bacterial pathogens in host tissues
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Dirk Bumann
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Cell-wall recycling in bacteria and the nexus to antibiotic resistance
23.03.2023
Cell-wall recycling in bacteria and the nexus to antibiotic resistance
11:15 am
12:45 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Shahriar Mobashery (University of Notre Dame, USA)
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High-throughput microfluidics: new methods to advance the study of microbial interactions
13.04.2023
High-throughput microfluidics: new methods to advance the study of microbial interactions
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Tobias Wenzel (UC Chile)
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Bioinformatic help in the search for new antibiotics
27.04.2023
Bioinformatic help in the search for new antibiotics
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Thomas Dandekar
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Beetle-microbe symbioses: Endless forms most functional
11.05.2023
Beetle-microbe symbioses: Endless forms most functional
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Hassan Salem
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- CANCELED - Novel virulence factors and secretion mechanisms of intracellularly adapted Salmonella enterica serovars
15.06.2023
- CANCELED - Novel virulence factors and secretion mechanisms of intracellularly adapted Salmonella enterica serovars
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Tobias Geiger
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Staphylococcal manipulation of macrophage responses
06.07.2023
Staphylococcal manipulation of macrophage responses
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Volker Winstel (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover)
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What can we learn from viral photosynthesis?
13.07.2023
What can we learn from viral photosynthesis?
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel (TU Kaiserslautern)
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Understanding the molecular mechanism of phosphonate breakdown in bacteria
19.10.2023
Understanding the molecular mechanism of phosphonate breakdown in bacteria
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Ditlev Egeskov Brodersen
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BacPROTACs – antibiotics of the future?
26.10.2023
BacPROTACs – antibiotics of the future?
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Tim Clausen
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Physiological in vitro models for studying infection and treatment of uropathogenic E. coli in the urogenital tract
09.11.2023
Physiological in vitro models for studying infection and treatment of uropathogenic E. coli in the urogenital tract
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Christoph Dehio
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How do gram-negative bacteria build their outer membrane?
30.11.2023
How do gram-negative bacteria build their outer membrane?
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Antonio Calabrese
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What is in the air? Microbial communities at the amazon rainforest atmosphere
07.12.2023
What is in the air? Microbial communities at the amazon rainforest atmosphere
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Luciano F. Huergo
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The tumor microbiome and its effects on the tumor immune landscape and response to immunotherapy
14.12.2023
The tumor microbiome and its effects on the tumor immune landscape and response to immunotherapy
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Stephan Spahn
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Using systems microbiology to combat infectious disease
18.01.2024
Using systems microbiology to combat infectious disease
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Manuel Banzhaf
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Development of smart DNA probes for multiplexed super-resolution microscopy
25.01.2024
Development of smart DNA probes for multiplexed super-resolution microscopy
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Florian Schüder
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Investigating the history and evolution of plague through ancient genomics
01.02.2024
Investigating the history and evolution of plague through ancient genomics
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Maria Spyrou
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Mechanisms of cell contact-dependent prey killing by Myxococcus xanthus
08.02.2024
Mechanisms of cell contact-dependent prey killing by Myxococcus xanthus
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Christine Kaimer
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Drug screening and drug target identification using yeast
18.04.2024
Drug screening and drug target identification using yeast
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Yoko Yashiroda
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Drug-microbe interactions - learning mechanisms from large data approaches
25.04.2024
Drug-microbe interactions - learning mechanisms from large data approaches
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Ana Brochado
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Assault, Siege, Trojan Horses or Gentle Disarmament: Molecular Strategies to Fight Bacterial Infections
16.05.2024
Assault, Siege, Trojan Horses or Gentle Disarmament: Molecular Strategies to Fight Bacterial Infections
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Mark Brönstrup
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The effect of tRNA structure and codon context on translation efficiency and fidelity
13.06.2024
The effect of tRNA structure and codon context on translation efficiency and fidelity
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Kelly T. Hughes
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Intestinal microbe-mucosa crosstalk in health and disease
20.06.2024
Intestinal microbe-mucosa crosstalk in health and disease
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Annika Hausmann
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Shedding light on the “unknome”: Novel approaches to discover the functions of unknown proteins
11.07.2024
Shedding light on the “unknome”: Novel approaches to discover the functions of unknown proteins
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Jörg Stülke
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Flavin-dependent decarboxylation of cysteine residues
18.07.2024
Flavin-dependent decarboxylation of cysteine residues
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Thomas Kupke
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Evolutionary genomics of microbial pathogens
24.10.2024
Evolutionary genomics of microbial pathogens
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Felix Key
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From strings of nucleotides to collective behavior: “Lessons from Vibrio cholerae and its phages”
05.12.2024
From strings of nucleotides to collective behavior: “Lessons from Vibrio cholerae and its phages”
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Kai Papenfort
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The uncharted sweet side of our microbiota
23.01.2025
The uncharted sweet side of our microbiota
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Joint Microbiological Colloquium
Rob van Dalen
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