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Lunch Talk Series

In the “Lunch Talk Series“, group leaders from the BioMed X Institute and the Postdoc Network of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) invite renowned life scientists to share their research and foster scientific exchanges.

Next Talk

Dr. Jan Korbel

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, February 6, 11 AM

Host: Dr. Douglas McCloskey, Team VPE

Past Lunch Talks

Date Title Speaker Company / Institute Host
31 October Ingestible sensor development for gut health monitoring at OnePlanet Research Center Dr. Rachel Armstrong OnePlanet Research Center Khulan Sergelen
19 September From Oncology to Cardiology: Spatial Omics Technologies for Topographic Biomarker Discovery Dr. Denis Schapiro University of Heidelberg Mojca Frank Bertoncelj
11 July 2024 Unconventional T Cells in Gut Homeostasis and Disease Francesco Strati University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy DKFZ Postdoc Network (PDN)
16 May 2024 Tissue and Subnuclear Neighborhoods Uncovered by High-Resolution, Multiplexed Protein Imaging Xavier Rovira Clavé Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (ICB), Spain Alexandros Drainas
28 March 2024 Continuous Biosensor with Single-Molecule Resolution for Industrial Food Process Monitoring and Beyond Junhong Yan Helia Biomonitoring. The Netherlands Khulan Sergelen
25 January 2024 Knowledge-Based Machine Learning to Extract Disease Mechanisms from Omics Data Julio Saez-Rodriguez Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany Douglas McCloskey
19 October 2023 Mitochondrial Fitness: a Safeguard for Metabolic Homeostasis and Healthy Aging David Sebastian Muñoz University of Barcelona, Spain Gorjana Rackov
7 September 2023 A novel role of IL-10 in preventing T-cell exhaustion and maintaining anti-tumor immunity Martina Seiffert DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center), Germany Ibrahim Murathan Sektioglu
15 June 2023 Preparing the Battlefield – How Cells Maintain Their Vigilance Against Viral Intruders Marco Binder DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center), Germany DKFZ Postdoc Network (PDN)
9 February 2023 Mechanical Functions and Multifunctionality in Biological Ceramics Shahrouz Amini Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany Khulan Sergelen
15 December 2022 Benchmarking computational methods for single cell and spatial transcriptomics data Mark Robinson University of Zurich, Switzerland Mojca Frank Bertoncelj
17 November 2022 Yin Yang of coding and noncoding transcriptomes in healthy and diseased liver cells Claudia Kutter Karolinska Institute, Sweden DKFZ Postdoc Network (PDN)
20 October 2022 Engineering human neurons: Building preclinical models to study treatments for
mental disorders
Moritz Mall German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) &
Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR), Germany
Ebru Ercan-Herbst/Gorjana Rackov
15 September 2022 Not so nice to C you again: mesenchymal tissue priming drives flares in chronic inflammation Markus Hoffmann University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein &
University of Lübeck, Germany
Mojca Frank Bertoncelj
30 June 2022 Dimethyl fumarate inhibits tumor growth and metastasis formation
in NF-κB dependent tumors
Karsten Gülow University Hospital Regensburg, Germany Gorjana Rackov
19 May 2022 Size matters: How does the planarian flatworm know it has grown enough Hahn Vu EMBL, Heidelberg DKFZ Postdoc Network (PDN)