Compiled by the Helmholtz Graduate School ‘Molecular Cell Biology’ (HGS-MCB). © HGS-MCB, 2008

Conferences and events

4 – 5 December
Brain Tumor 2008

10 – 9 December
Berlin Brain Days 2008

Fri. 12 December
100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize

Talks

Mon. 1 December
12:00
Skyroom CCR, Hessische Str. 3-4, 10115 Berlin
Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Lecture Series
Circadian Medicine
Dieter Kunz (Charité)

Mon 1 December
14:00
HU Inst. for Theoretical Biology, Seminar room
Invalidenstr. 43
Bernstein Center for Computational Neurosciences
Learning in populations of spiking neurons: how to find strength in numbers
Walter Senn (Department of Physiology, University of Bern)

Mon. 1 December
17:15
HU Dept. of Chemistry, Walter-Nernst-Haus, Marie-Curie-Hörsaal 0’06 Brook-Taylor-Str. 2
GDCh-Kolloquium
Koordinationschemie mit Radikalliganden: Wo sind die Valenzelektronen in Komplexen?
Prof. Dr. Karl Wieghardt (MPI für Bioorganische Chemie)

Tues. 2 December
9:00
DRFZ, Seminarraum 1/2, Charitéplatz 1
Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
Gene expression of follicular dendritic cells and analysis of their ontogenetic development
Gordon Wilke

Tues. 2 December
18:15
Campus Charité Mitte, Virchnow-Lecture-Room, Anatomy, CCM
Charité Neuroscience Colloquium 2008
Functions of monocytes and roles in inflammation
Frédéric Geissmann (INSERM, Necker-Enfants Malades Research Institute (IFR94), University of Paris-Rene-Descartes Medical School, France)

Tues. 2 December
17:00 – 20:00
DRFZ, Seminarraum 1/2, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Avrion-Mitchison-Preis für Rheumatologie 2008
Welcoming address and introduction of the Mitchison Prize winner: Prof. Andreas Radbruch). Scientific Lecture by Mitchison Prize awardee:
The proteosome inhibitor bortezomib depletes plasma cells & protects mice with lupus-like disease from nephritis
Kirsten Neubert (Erlangen)
Albrecht Hasinger Lecture 2008
Epigenetics in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Prof. Steffen Gay (Zürich)

Tues. 2 December
17:15
HU Dept. of Biology, Chausseestr. 117, 10115 Berlin, R. 551 (top floor)
Molecular Biological – Biochemical Colloquium
High resolution fluorescence microscopy:
Structured Illumination, Pointillism & Image Inversion Interferometry
Dr. Rainer Heintzmann (King’s College London)

Thurs. 4 December
09:00
MDC, Gläsernes Labor, R. 203, Robert Rössle Str. 10
PhD Lecture Series Molecular Cell Biology
Signalling in embryonic stem cells
Daniel Besser (MDC)

Thurs. 4 December
18:50
Charité Mitte, Lecture Hall, 3rd Fl., Bonhoefferweg 3, Charitéplatz 1
Berlin School of Mind and Brain: Distinguished Lecture Series
The coordinates of attention – visual attention and its spatial and temporal coordinates
Patrick Cavanagh (Department of Psychology, Harvard Univ. / Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS, Paris)

Tues. 9 December
9:00
DRFZ, Seminarraum 1/2, Charitéplatz 1
Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
CTLA-4 (CD152) regulates longevity of CD28null T-lymphocytes
Marion Rudolph

Tues. 9 December
16:00
MDC.C, Dendrit II+III
Robert Rössle Str. 10
MDC Seminar
Engineering the T-lymphocyte immune response against cancer
Cyrille J. Cohen (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)

Tues. 9 December
17:15
HU Dept. of Biology, Chausseestr. 117, 10115 Berlin, R. 551 (top floor)
Molecular Biological – Biochemical Colloquium
Designer nucleases: a novel tool to modify the genome of complex organisms ad libitum
Prof. Toni Cathomen (Institut für Virologie, Charité, Berlin)

Weds. 10 December
10:00
FMP, Seminarraum (EG)
FMP Lecture Series for Doctoral Students
Peptidases as regulators of peptide activity
W. E. Siems

Weds. 10 December
16:15
FU Dept. of Biology, Mikrobiol., Alte Bibliothek, Königin-Luise-Str. 12-16
Fold or Die: Protein quality control by DegP
Tim Clausen (IMP, Wien)

Wedn. 10 December
17:00
Klinik & Hochschul-ambulanz für Psychiatrie & Psychotherapie, big conf. room, groundfloor, Eschenallee 3
Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium der Klinik & Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie & Psychotherapie
Long-lasting effects of desynchronizing deep brain stimulation
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Tass (Institut für Neurowissenschaften und Biophysik – Medizin, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Wedn. 10 December
17:00
HU Dept. of Chemistry, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, Walter-Nernst-Haus, Marie-Curie-Hörsaal 0’06Chemisches Institutskolloquium
Wie entsteht Neues?
Prof. Dr. Henning Hopf (TU Braunschweig)
Coffee from about 16:30 in room 0´138

Wedn. 10 December
17:00
MPI für Infektionsbiologie, Seminar room 01 + 02, Campus Charité Mitte
Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie Talk
Von der Grundlagenforschung zur Verbesserung der Gesundheitsversorgung – Mbeya Medical Research Programme – ein Erfolgreiches Beispiel der biomedizinischen Forschung in Afrika
PD Dr. Michael Hoelscher (NIMR Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Tanzania)

Wedn. 10 December
19:00
Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Luisenstraße 58/59, 10117 Berlin
Albrecht-von-Graefe-Gedächtnisvortrag:
Chancen und Herausforderungen der molekularen Medizin
Günter Stock (Präsident der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Fri. 12 December
16:00
MDC.C, Axon I+II
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Neurogenesis from glial cells: new views on reactive gliosis and repair
Prof. Magdalena Götz (GSF – National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany)

Mon. 15 December
12:00
Skyroom CCR, Hessische Str. 3-4, 10115 Berlin
Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Lecture Series
Non-visual photoreception and the entrainment of circadian clocks and sleep rhythm
Henrik Oster (Max-Planck Institute, Göttingen)

Mon. 15 December
12:00
FU Dept. Chemistry & Biochem., Lise-Meitner-Hörsaal, Thielallee 63
Lise-Meitner-Kolloquium der Biochemie
Progress in the molecular genetics of gliomas
Prof. Dr. med. Guido Reifenberger (Institut für Neuropathologie Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

Mon. 15 December
16:30
Wine and Cheese
MDC.C, Dendrit II+III
Wollenberger Seminar
Getting to the heart of PKD1
Jens Fielitz (MDC)
beta-catenin downregulation attenuates ischemic cardiac remodeling through enhanced resident precursor cell differentiation
Laura Zelarayan (MDC)

Tues. 16 December
9:00
DRFZ, Seminarraum 1/2, Charitéplatz 1
Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
Plasma cell environment and survival in the spleen of NZB/W mice
Katrin Moser

Tues. 16 December
17:15
HU Dept. of Biology, Chausseestr. 117, 10115 Berlin, R. 551 (top floor)
Molecular Biological – Biochemical Colloquium
Genes gone wild: intra- and intercellular travel of DNA
Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock (MPI für Mol. Pflanzenphsiologie, Golm)

Tues. 16 December
16:00
FMP, Seminarraum (EG)
FMP Seminar Series
CXCR7: a true chemokine receptor
Marcus Thelen (Inst. for Research in Biomedicine, Switzerland)

Weds. 17 December
10:00
FMP, Seminarraum (EG)
FMP Lecture Series for Doctoral Students
Blood-brain barrier – structure, function and regulation
I. Blasig

Thurs. 18 December
16:15
MPIIB, Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal, Charité Mitte
Berlin Life Science Kolloquium
Antibodies, Fc-receptors and Sugar
Falk Nimmerjahn (Friedrich Alexander Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Upcoming PhD defences

1 December, Monday, 16:15
Heike Brylka: Funktionelle Analyse des Zinkfinger-Transkriptions-faktors Bcl11b während der Entwicklung des Hippocampus
Raum 34.16/17 des Instituts für Chemie und Biochemie, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin

2 December, Tuesday, 14:15
Alejandra Maria Pérez Sastre: Molecular mechanisms of thrombin-induced early and late-phase of ERK1/2 hosphorylation in vascular smooth muscle cells
Seminarraum 121 des Instituts für Chemie und Biochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin

2 December, Tuesday, 16:15
Stefan Jehle: Solid-state NMR as a tool in structural biology: Applications to αB-crystallin
Lesesaal des Instituts für Biologie, Königin-Luise-Str. 12-16, 14195 Berlin

3 December, Wednesday, 14:00
M. Sc. Mahesh Darna: Changing the copy number of neurotransmitter transporter per vesicle – sorting versus expression under regime of day-night cycle
Semiarraum 121 des Instituts für Chemie und Biochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin

3 December, Wednesday, 14:00
Michael Stephan Rohe (MDC, AG Willnow):
Role of SORLA in the brain and its relevance for Alzheimer disease
Raum 25.20 des Instituts für Chemie und Biochemie, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin

5 December, Friday, 14:15
Daniela Fliegner: Geschlechtsunterschiede bei drucklast-induzierter Myokardhypertrophie im Mausmodell – Einfluss von Östrogenreptor ß
HU Dept. of Biology, Chausseestr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Room 523 (3. court yard, top floor)

8 December, Monday, 10:15
Agnes Kisser: The essential role of the deubiquitinating enzyme UBPY in T cell development and function
Raum 12.12 des Instituts für Chemie und Biochemie, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin

8 December, Monday, 16:00
Kim Christian Jasch: Genexpression in primär kutanen B-Zell-Lymphomen mittels custom-made Microarrays
Sternsaal at the Institute of Anatomy, Campus Charité Mitte (Waldeyerhaus), Through Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin

8 December, Monday, 16:30
Martin Rothe: Direkter ex vivo Nachweis autoreaktiver T-Helferzellen bei Patienten mit progressiver systemischer Sklerose (PSS)
Sternsaal, Inst. of Anatomy, Charité Mitte (Waldeyerhaus), thr. Luisenstr. 56, 10115 Berlin

9 December, Tuesday , 14:15
Rouven Klug: Untersuchungen zur Identifizierung und Charakterisierung der EF-Tu Kinase
Lise-Meitner-Hörsaal des Instituts für Chemie und Biochemie, Thielallee 63, 14195 Berlin
Upcoming PhD defences:

9 December, Tuesday, 17:30
Jan Ebersohn: Histologische Veränderungen des linken Ventrikels und der Niere nach experimenteller Reduktion einer definierten Anzahl von Nephronen und das protektive Potential einer ACE-Hemmung im Rattenmodell
Big conference room, 1st floor, across from the Dean’s office at Campus Benjamin Franklin

9 December, Tuesday, 18:00
Oliver Krysiak: Regulation der Aktivität des fms-like-Thyrosinkinaserezeptor-1-Promoters
Big conference room, 1st floor, across from the Dean’s office at Campus Benjamin Franklin

11 December, Thursday, 11:30
Susan Brandenburg: Regulatorische T-Zellen und die Rolle von IL-2
HU, Bettenhaus, Charité, Conf. Room C, 01.011, Groundfloor, Luisenstr. 64, 10117 Berlin

12 December, Friday, 13:30
Martin Stöckl: Giant vesicles. An ideal tool to study lateral phospholipid distribution and domain dependent protein membrane interactions
HU Dept. of Biology, Invalidenstr. 42, Room 312 (Central lab), 10115 Berlin

12 December, Friday, 15:30
Katrin Baumann: DNA-Methylierungsmuster im foxp3 Gen in humanen CD4+ FOXP3-exprimierenden T-Zellen
Teaching Building, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Course room 2 (2.0102)

12 December, Friday, 16:00
Corinna Schnöller: Einfluss eines Nematodenimmunomodulatros und einer Nematodeninfektion auf zwei Allergiemodelle
Course room, Molecular Parasitology, Philippstr. 13, House 14, 10115 Berlin

15 December, Monday, 10:15
Kathrin Klass: Interaktionspartner der α-Untereinheit des stimulatorischen G-Proteins, Gαs
Raum 121 des Instituts für Chemie und Biochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin

17 December, Wednesday, 17:00
Kai Höhlig: Mechanisms of B cell-mediated suppression of autoimmune diseases
Course room, Molecular Parasitology, Philippstr. 13, House 14, 10115 Berlin