Events
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
Knowledge-Based Machine Learning to Extract Disease Mechanisms from Omics Data
Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Group Leader
Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University & Heidelberg University Hospital
Thursday, January 25, 11 AM
Host: Dr. Douglas McCloskey, Group Leader Team VPE, BioMed X Institute
Past Lunch Talks
| Date | Title | Speaker | Company / Institute | Host |
| 19 October 2023 | Mitochondrial Fitness: a Safeguard for Metabolic Homeostasis and Healthy Aging | David Sebastian Muñoz | University of Barcelona | 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) | Ibrahim Murathan Sektioglu |
| 15 June 2023 | Preparing the Battlefield – How Cells Maintain Their Vigilance Against Viral Intruders | Marco Binder | DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center) | 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) |
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 |
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) |