Seminars
The MIMOL department organizes external speaker seminars every 2nd and/or 4th Monday of the month (at 12.15pm or 4pm).
If you are interested to attend a seminar, please send an email request to either , or to ask to be added to the email list.
At present the seminars will take place via Zoom or live.
UP COming talk :
4TH DECEMBER 2023, 12.15pm - ROOM P.BOYMOND
Speaker : Dr THIBAULT MAYOR
Department of BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
TITLE: Proteins in time: Unravelling the Secrets of Insolubility upon Aging and Chaperone Interactions
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Provisional title/topic | Host | Contact |
| 2023 | |||||||
| 16 January | 12:00 | D60 | |||||
| 30 January | 12:00 | P. Boymond |
Wolfram R.Zückert |
University of Kansas School of Medicine, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA |
«An Emerging Dichotomy between Lipoprotein Sorting and Secretion Pathways in Borrelia Spirochetes» |
Patrick Viollier | |
| 13 February | 12:00 | P. Boymond | |||||
| 27 February | 12:00 |
CMU – Auditoire Alex-F. Müller (A250) |
Dr. Lucie Etienne |
Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI) INSERM U1111 - CNRS UMR5308 - Université Lyon |
Functional diversification of the antiviral immunity in bats and primates | Mirco Schmolke | https://lsetienne.wordpress.com |
| 13 March | 12:15 | S4/S5 | Zemer Gitai | Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, USA | Combatting bacterial pathogenesis: from single-cell sequencing to novel antibiotics | Kimberly Kline | |
| 27 March | 12:15 | P.BOYMOND | Dr. Axel Innis | Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (IECB) University of Bordeaux | The bacterial ribosome as a small molecule sensor | Kimberly Kline | |
| 3 April | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | Prof Shu-Sin Chng |
Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science National University of Singapore |
Bacterial lipid trafficking and outer membrane homeostasis |
Patrick Viollier | |
| 17 April | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | |||||
| 30 May | 11:00 | Alex-F. Müller (A250) |
Benjamin Liffner |
Absalon Lab Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Indiana University School of Medicine |
Investigating development of malaria parasites in the mosquito using expansion microscopy | Amandine Guérin | |
| 31 May | 11:30 | Franceschetti |
6 different speakers |
MIMOL DEPARTEMENT | MIMOL-MINI-SYMPOSIUM | ||
| 15 May | 12:15 | P. Boymond | |||||
| 5 June | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | |||||
| 19 June | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin |
Dr. Raphaël Rachedi |
Equipe de la Professeure Amel Latifi Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (LCB) – CNRS – Marseille |
New insights into the regulation of heterocyst formation and patterning in diazotrophic cyanobacteria |
Gaël Panis | |
| 6 September | 10:00 | A04.3018 |
Dr. Jessica Kajfasz |
Research Assistant Professor University of Florida, College of Dentistry, USA |
«Exploring the role of metal trafficking in the pathophysiology of Streptococcus mutans» | Cristina Colomer Winter | |
| 11 September | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin |
Dr Abderrahman Hachani |
Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (University of Melbourne) |
A novel screening platform reveals clinical mutations in Staphylococcus aureus that promote intracellular persistence | Martina Valentini | |
| 25 September | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | Free | ||||
| 9 October | 12:15 | P. Boymond | Audrey Reuter |
INRAE Centre de Recherche Clermont-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
Targeted-antibacterial-plasmids (TAPs) combining conjugation and CRISPR/Cas systems achieve strain-specific antibacterial activity | Patrick Viollier | |
| 23 October | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | Pre Leann Tilley | Bio21 Institute (University of Melbourne) | Malaria parasites: Sexual morphogenesis, mitotic mayhem and metabolic hijacking | Mathieu Brochet | |
| 30 October | 14:00 | J-L. Reverdin | Dr Jérémie LE PEN | The Rockfeller University, New York, USA | From nematodes to humans: a journey through host-virus interactions | Dominique Soldati-Favre | |
| 6 November | 12:15 | P. Boymond | Free | ||||
| 20 November | 12:15 | P. Boymond |
Dr. Luis Miguel RODRIGUEZ-R |
Department of Microbiology and Digital Science Center (DiSC), University of Innsbruck, Austria |
A Census-Based Microbial Ecology with Genome-Resolved Metagenomics | Roberto Sierra | |
| 4 December | 12:15 | P. Boymond |
Thibault Mayor |
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of British Columbia |
Proteins in time: Unravelling the Secrets of Insolubility upon Aging and Chaperone Interactions | Martine Collart | |
| 13 December | 15:00 | Alex-F. Müller (A250) | Dr. Franziska Hentzschel | Centre for Infectious Diseases, Parasitology Heidelberg University Hospital |
A non-canonical Arp2/3 complex is essential for male DNA segregation and Plasmodium development in the mosquito | Lorenzo Brusini | |
| 29 January | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | |||||
| 12 February | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | |||||
| 26 February | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | Prof Debby Van Riel |
Erasmus MC, Department of Viroscience Rotterdam, Netherlands |
TBA | Caroline Tapparel | |
| 11 March | 12:15 | P. Boymond | |||||
| 25 March | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | Philippe Bastin | Institut Pasteur | Mathieu Brochet | ||
| 15 April | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | Prof. Dr. Markus Seeger | Institute of Medical Microbiology University of Zurich |
Thierry Soldati | ||
| 22 April | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin | Dr Molly Ingersoll |
Institut Cochin & Institut Pasteur |
Mucosal immunity to infection in the bladder | Kimberly Kline | |
| 29 April | 12:15 | P. Boymond | |||||
| 13 May | 12:15 | P. Boymond | |||||
| 27 May | 12:15 | P. Boymond | |||||
| 10 June | 12:15 | P.Boymond | Till Voss | Head of Malaria Gene Regulation Lab Deputy Head of Department Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology |
TBA | Mathieu Brochet |