Perspective Lectures in Molecular Medicine

 

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lectures (2018 - 2019)

• 21.02.2018 - Andrea Ballabio

  Andrea Ballabio Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Naples, Italy Location: UKF, Building 20, Hall 5, Audimax Time: 18:15h »The Awesome Lysosome« Download CV Download Abstract

• 09.04.2018 - Erika Holzbaur

  Erika Holzbaur Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Location: UKF, Building 20, Hall 5, Audimax Time: 18:15h »Autophagy dynamics in neuronal homeostasis and neurodegeneration« Download CV Download Abstract

• 25.10.2018 - Man-Wah Tan

  Man-Wah Tan Genentech Inc, Department of Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, CA, USA Location: UKF, Building 20, Hall 5, Audimax Time: 18:15h »Inspired by Nature: Engineering Natural Products and Antibodies to Treat Bacterial Infections« Link to lab webpage Download Abstract

• 03.12.2018 - Tony Hyman

  Tony Hyman Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden Location: UKF, Building 22, Hall 22-1, Paul-Ehrlich-Audience Time: 16:00h »Biomolecular condensates and their implications for physiology and disease« Link to lab webpage Download Abstract

• 12.12.2018 - Roland Lill

  Roland Lill Institut für Zytobiologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg Location: UKF, Building 20, Hall 5, Audimax Time: 18:15h »Biogenesis of iron-sulfur proteins in eukaryotes: A complex pathway for many different cellular functions« Link to lab webpage Download Abstract

• 13.02.2019 - Vivek Malhotra

  Vivek Malhotra Centre for Genomic Regulation (CGR) Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain Location: UKF, Building 20, Hall 5, Audimax Time: 18:15h »Building a Machine for Secretion of Bulky Collagens from Endoplasmic Reticulum« Link to webpage Download Abstract

• 16.05.2019 - Wade Harper and Brenda Schulman

  Wade Harper and Brenda Schulman Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany Location: UKF, Building 20, Hall 5, Audimax Time: 17:15h »Role of selective autophagy in cellular homeostasis and neurodegenerative disease« »Ubiquitin and mitosis: regulation by a molecular machine« Wade Harper: Link to webpage Download Abstract Brenda Schulman: Link to webpage Download Abstract

• 02.07.2019 - Reinhard Jahn

  Reinhard Jahn Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany Location: UKF, Building 20, Hall 5, Audimax Time: 18:15h »TBA« Link to webpage Download Abstract

 

 

Previous lectures (2002 - 2017)

 

• 25.04.2017 - Tamotsu Yoshimori

  Tamotsu Yoshimori Department of Genetics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan »INSIGHTS INTO MEMBRANE DYNAMICS OF AUTOPHAGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN DISEASES « Download CV Download Abstract Download Autobiography Download Publications

• 26.10.2017 - Rene Bernards

  Rene Bernards The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Location: University Hospital Frankfurt, Lecture Hall 22, Hall 1 » Finding new vulnerabilities of cancer cells for therapeutic benefit « Download CV Download Abstract

• 17.11.2017 - Trey Ideker

  Trey Ideker University of California San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA Location: Building 20 - 5 (Audimax) » Active Interaction Mapping Reveals the Hierarchical Organization of Autophagy « Download CV Download Abstract

• 01.12.17 - Claudio Joazeiro

  Claudio Joazeiro ZMBH, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Location: UKF, Building 23, Hall 3 » Ribosome-Associated Protein Quality Control (RQC) and Neurodegeneration « Download CV Download Abstract

• 03.05.2016 - Dirk Bumann

  Dirk Bumann Biozentrum Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland »Pathogen heterogeneity during infection: impact on disease progression and therapy« Download CV Download Abstract

• 01.06.2016 - Joan Massagué

  Joan Massagué Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA »Metastatic Colonization by Circulating Tumor Cells« Download CV Download Abstract

• 12.10.2016 - Ralph Nixon

  Ralph Nixon Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, NY, USA »The pathogenic role of defective endosomal-lysosomal function in Alzheimer's disease« Georg-Speyer-Haus, Lecture hall ground floor Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 42-44, Frankfurt Download CV Download Abstract

• 07.12.2016 - Dario Alessi

  Dario Alessi MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. »Disruptions on the highways of cellular signalling« Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Hörsaalgebäude 22-1, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 13.03.2015 - James P. Allison

  James P. Allison The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA »Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: New Insights, opportunities and prospects for a Cure« Download CV Download Publications

• 05.05.2015 - Wolfgang Baumeister

  Wolfgang Baumeister Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany »Electron Cryomicroscopy and Cellular Pathology« Download CV

• 08.06.2015 - David Vaux

  David Vaux Institute of Medical Research, Walter and Eliza Hall, Melbourne, Australia »Targeting IAP and Bcl-2 family proteins to treat cancer« Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 03.07.2015 - Tadatsugu Taniguchi

  Tadatsugu Taniguchi Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan »Recognition of self-derived molecules in the regulation of inflammation and anti-tumor immunity« Download CV Download Publications

• 12.03.2014 - Michael Reth

  Sharon Tooze Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, GB »Regulation of autophagosome formation in mammalian cells« Download CV Download Abstract Download Publications

• 12.03.2014 - Michael Reth

  Michael Reth Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, University of Freiburg, German »Sensing the unknown for antibody production: From the side chain theory to the dissociation activation model« Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 29.04.2014 - Volker Haucke

  Volker Haucke Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany »Spatiotemporal control of endocytosis - from mechanisms to synaptic function« Download CV Download Abstract

• 13.05.2014 - K. C. Nicolaou

  K. C. Nicolaou The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA »Total Synthesis of Rare Natural and Designed Molecules of Biological and Medical Importance« Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 18.11.2014 - Elena Conti

  Elena Conti Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany »the exosome complex in RNA processing and decay« Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 22.10.2013 - Susan Lindquist

  Susan Lindquist Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Massachusetts, USA »A rapid discovery platform for protein folding diseases« Download CV Download Publications Download Publications

• 02.09.2013 - Randy Schekman

  Randy Schekman Li Ka Shing Center, UC Berkeley, CA, USA »Cargo sorting into transport vesicles: Mechanism and relation to mammalian development« Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 08.05.2013 - Helmut Grubmüller

  Helmut Grubmüller Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Germany »Mechanoenzymatics: Conformational Dynamics of Biomolecules« Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 16.04.2013 - Eric Olson

  Eric Olson University of Texas Dallas, USA »The Molecular Circuitry of Heart Development, Disease and Regeneration« Download CV Download Publications Download Abstract

• 05.03.2013 - Rüdiger Klein

  Rüdiger Klein Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology Martinsried, Germany »Molecular principles of axon guidance« Download CV Download Abstract

• 22.05.2012 - Ronald BreakerRonald Breaker

  Ronald Breaker Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA »Antibiotics and Riboswitches« Download CV

• 13.03.2012 - Peter Walter

  Peter Walter Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco »The Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease« Download CV Download Publications

• 07.02.2012 - Reinhard Jahn

  Reinhard Jahn Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Göttingen, Deutschland »Signalling between neurons – how nerve cells speak to each other«

• 08.11.2011 - Axel Ullrich

  Axel Ullrich Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Martinsried, Germany »30 Years of Molecular Medicine: Oncogenomics towards Novel Cancer Therapies«

• 20.09.2011 - Raymond J. Deshaies

  Raymond J. Deshaies Ph.D.Professor, CaltechInvestigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California USA »Mechanisms, and regulation of cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases«

• 24.05.2011 - Ronald M. Evans

  Ronald M. Evans Howard Hughes Medical Institute La Jolla, CA, USA »Nuclear Receptors and AMPK – Resetting Metabolism«

• 25.01.2011 - Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

  Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Section on Organelle Biology, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA »Seeing Cells in Action with Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins« Download CV

• 16.11.2010 - Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl

  Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl Director Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany »Chaperone-assisted protein folding in health and disease« Download CV

• 21.09.2010 - Tim HUNT

  Tim Hunt Cancer Research UK, Herts, UK »New Elements in the Control of Mitosis: Fresh Light on Protein Phosphatases« Download CV <

• 06.07.2010 - Edmond H. Fischer

  Edmond H. Fischer Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA »The Origin of Reversible Phosphorylation« Download CV Download Publications

• 19.05.2010 - C. Ronald Kahn

  C. Ronald Kahn Joselin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA »Critical Nodes in Insulin Action and Insulin Resistance« Download CV

• 10.02.2010 - Inder M. Verma

  Inder M. Verma Salk Institute for Bioalogical Studies La Jolla, USA »Cancer: A Malady of Genes« Download CV

• 17.11.2009 - Philip Cohen

  Philip Cohen Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling College of Life Science, University of Dundee, UK »The Interplay between Protein Phosphorylation and Protein Ubiquitylation in Regulating the Innate Immune System« Download CV

• 23.06.2009 - Venki Ramakrishnan

  Venki Ramakrishnan MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK »Induced fit: A common strategy used by the Ribosome«

• 20.03.2009 - Susumu Tonegawa

  Susumu Tonegawa Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nobel Prize Medicine/Physiology 1987 »Neural Mechanisms for Memory« Download CV

• 12.03.2009 - Elizabeth Blackburn

  Elizabeth Blackburn Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco, USA Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstädter Preisträgerin 2009 »Responses of Cells and Organisms to Perturbing Telomere Maintenance«

• 10.02.2009 - Pascale Cossart

  Pascale Cossart Dept. Cell Biology and Infection, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France »The Bacterial Pathogen Listeria monocytogenes: the Rise of a Multifaceted Model«

• 25.11.2008 - Edward Dennis

  Edward Dennis University of California San Diego, USA »Eicosanoid Lipidomics and Phospholipase A2 – Role in Inflammatory Disease«

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  Peter Walter University of California San Francisco, USA »Protein Homeostasis in Health and Disease«

• 24.09.2008 - Anthony J. Pawson

  Anthony J. Pawson Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada »SH2 domains and tyrosine kinases - back to the future« Download CV

• 14.03.2008 - Tim Mosmann

  Tim Mosmann Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunolgy, University of Rochester, NY, USA »Significance of T Cell Diversity in Immune Responses« Download CV

• 03.03.2008 - Hidde Ploegh

  Hidde Ploegh Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA »Herpesviruses as Tools: Antigen Presentation and Protein Quality Control«

• 22.01.2008 - Josef Penninger

  Josef Penninger Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria »From Systems Genetics in Flies to Human Medicine« Download CV

• 27.11.2007 - Garret A. FitzGerald

  Garret A. FitzGerald Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA »Therapeutic Adventures in the Arachidonic Acid Cascade« Download CV

• 13.11.2007 - Matthias Kleiner

  Matthias Kleiner Präsident der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany »Wissenschaft im Wettbewerb«

• 05.06.2007 - Peter Mombaerts

  Peter Mombaerts The Rockefeller University, New York and Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany »Olfaction targeted« Download CV

• 14.03.2007 - Harry F. Noller

  Harry F. Noller Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, Sinsheimer Laboratories University of California - Santa Cruz, USA »Ribosome Structure and Dynamics: Caught in the Act«

• 09.11.2006 - Anthony Cerami

  Anthony Cerami Warren Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Ossining, NY, USA »TNF and Erythropoietin: The Lucifer and Gabriel Cytokine« Download CV

• 19.09.2006 - Aaron Ciechanover

  Aaron Ciechanover Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel »The Ubiquitin Proteolytic System - from a Vague Idea, through Basic Mechanisms and onto Human Diseases and Drug Targeting«

• 23.05.2006 - Roderick MacKinnon

  Roderick MacKinnon Rockefeller University/HHMI New York, USA »Structure and Function of Potassium Channels (K+)«

• 14.03.2006 - Craig Mello

  Craig Mello Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, USA »RNAi and Development in C. elegans« Download CV

• 24.01.2006 - Hans Clevers

  Hans Clevers University of Utrecht, NL »Wnt and Notch Signaling Pathways in Development and Cancer of the Gut« Download CV

• 13.12.2005 - Chris Dobson

  Chris Dobson University of Cambridge, UK »Protein Misfolding and Human Disease«

• 05.07.2005 - Adam Smith

  Adam Smith Nature Publishing Group »Role of Publishing at the Intersection of Academic and Industrial Science«

• 12.04.2005 - Rudolf Jaenisch

  Rudolf Jaenisch Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, UK »Nuclear Cloning, Stem Cells and Genomic Reprogramming«

• 08.02.2005 - Jean-Marie Lehn

  Jean-Marie Lehn University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg »Some Contributions of Supramolecular Chemistry to Life Sciences«

• 14.12.2004 - Kai Simons

  Kai Simons Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany »Lipid Rafts: An Organizational Principle in Cell Membranes«

• 06.07.2004 - Klaus Rajewsky

  Klaus Rajewsky Harvard Medical School, Center for Blood Research, Boston, USA »Modeling Human Diseases in the Mouse«

• 18.05.2004 - Joseph Schlessinger

  Joseph Schlessinger Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT »Cell Signaling by Tyrosine Phosphorylation: From the Bench to the Bedside«

• 20.04.2004 - Tony Hunter

  Tony Hunter The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla »The Many Roles of Protein Phosphorylation in Cellular Signaling«

• 29.01.2004 - Thomas R. Cech

  Thomas R. Cech Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder »Interdisciplinary Science for the 21st Century: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute«

• 09.12.2003 - Peter Carmeliet

  Peter Carmeliet Flanders Universität, Leuven (Belgien) »Genetics in Mice, Zebrafish and Humans to Unravel Angioge-nesis: Therapeutic Perspectives«

• 08.07.2003 - Salvador MoncadaSalvador Moncada

  Salvador Moncada The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, London »Nitric Oxide and Cell Respiration: Physiology and Pathophysiology«

• 13.05.2003- Helen Blau

  Helen Blau Stanford Universität, Palo Alto »Marrow-associated Stem Cells for Brain and Brawn«

• 14.03.2003 - Richard Lerner

  Richard Lerner Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla »Antibody Catalysis, Ozone, and Atherosclerosis: New Aspects of the Immune System«

• 11.02.2003 - Marco Baggiolini

  Marco Baggiolini Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland »Little, Big Chemokines: From Regulation of Leukocyte Traffic to Therapy of Inflammatory Diseases«

• 14.01.2003 - Svante Pääbo

  Svante Pääbo Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany »An Ape Perspective of Human Uniqueness«

• 03.12.2002 - Konrad Beyreuther

  Konrad Beyreuther ZMBH Heidelberg »Ageing without Alzheimer«

• 15.10.2002 - Karl Einhäupl

  Karl Einhäupl Neurologische Klinik, Charité, Berlin Vorsitzender des Wissenschaftsrats, Germany »Hochschulmedizin: zwischen Spitzenforschung und Massenuniversität?«

• 09.07.2002 - Robert Huber

  Robert Huber Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, München, Germany »Molecular Machines for Protein Degradation«

• 23.04.2002 - Günter Blobel

  Günter Blobel Rockefeller Universität, New York, USA »Protein Targeting«