Biochemistry Seminar
The Biochemistry Seminar brings together research groups in the area of biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth. It is intended to foster collaborations between these groups and to give an opportunity for young researchers (Master Students, PhD students, Postdocs) to present their work and to discuss their results.
The Biochemistry Seminar takes place in H36 (NW III) on Thursdays at 9 am. Talks should be prepared to last about 30 min in order to allow for ample discussion during and after the seminar. Please find below all schedules seminars.
Biochemistry Seminar Series Summer 2025
Seminars will take place in H36 (NW III) and they will start at 9 am. (unless otherwise specified)
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
April 24, 2025 | tbd "tba" |
May 15, 2025 | Jonas Michl, Stemmann lab "tba" |
| June 5, 2025 | Julia Meyer, Hennig lab: "tba" |
| June 26, 2025 | Andreas Gagsteiger, Höcker lab: "tba" |
| July 17, 2025 | Tom Krebel, Möglich Lab: "tba" |
Biochemistry Seminar Series Winter 2024/2025
Seminars will take place in H36 (NW III) and they will start at 9 am. (unless otherwise specified)
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
November 7, 2024 | Constantin Höhn, Kuhn lab: "Elucidating the role of m6A and promoter proximal pausing as key mechanisms of transcriptional regulation" |
December 5, 2024 | Tamara Bosnjakovic, Hennig lab: "Describing NusG mediated in vitro condensation: implications for bacterial transcription" |
| January 9, 2025 | Lukas Ott, Möglich Lab: "Mechanism-Guided Discovery of a Rare Blue-Light Receptor Class" |
| February 6, 2025 | Olivier Laprévote, Höcker lab: "Step by step - Engineering Trp Repressor to Walk in a Tandem Gait" |
Biochemistry Seminar Series Winter 2023/2024
Seminars will take place in H36 (NW III) and they will start at 9 am. (unless otherwise specified)
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
October 17 (Tuesday at 2 pm in S137, NW III) | Jose Arcadiao Farias Rico, Center for Genomic Sciences at the National Autoinomous University of Mexico (hosted by Höcker lab): "Folding and evolution of proteins on the ribosome" |
November 16 | Stefanie Meier, Möglich lab: "Engineering of light-responsive histidine kinases" |
| December 14 | Nina Lang, Hennig Lab: "Understanding the RNA processing mechanism of the human RNA helicase DHX9" |
| January 11 | Simone Keß, Kuhn lab: "Dynamic regulation of developmental gene exwpression by enhancer RNAs during zebrafish development" |
| February 8 | Lukas Hassine, Höcker lab: "Studying the stability and folding bevahior of Synthetic Protein Chimeras" |
Biochemistry Seminar Series Summer 2023
The following dates are scheduled during the Summer Semester 2022/23.
Seminars will take place in H36 (NW III).
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
May 11, 2023 | Julian Beck, Höcker Lab: "A brief history of de novo TIM barrels" |
June 15, 2022 | Marco Payr, Hennig Lab (EMBL): "Real-time assembly dynamics of an mRNP translation repression complex" |
| July 13, 2023 | Andreas Pittroff, Kuhn lab: "Dynamic regulation of enhancer-promoter pairs during zebrafish development" |
Biochemistry Seminar Series Winter 2022/2023
The following dates are scheduled during the Winter Semester 2022/23. Please get in touch with me (Claus) in case you have questions or if you want to schedule or re-schedule a seminar.
Seminars will take place in H36 (NW III).
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
November 17, 2022 | Pascal Kröger, Höcker Lab: "Potentials of PotF: Characteristics, Engineering & Application" |
December 15, 2022 | Chengwei Yi, Möglich Lab: "Quantitative analysis of light-dependent Arabidopsis phytochrome B interactions" |
| January 19, 2023 | Seminar cancelled |
| February 16, 2023 | Pravin Japtap, Hennig Lab: "tba" |
BIOmac Seminar Series Winter 2019/2020
The following dates are scheduled during the Winter Semester 2019/20. Please get in touch with me (Claus) in case you have questions or if you want to schedule or re-schedule a seminar.
Seminars will take place in S135 (NW III).
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
November 7 | Sina Kordes, Höcker Lab: "Extending a de novo designed TIM-Barrel" |
November 28 | Julia Dietler, Möglich Lab: "Photo-controlled assembly of gold nanoparticles" |
December 18 1 pm (!!) S135 | Ferdinand Greiss, Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel): "Memory in a minimal cell under stochastic gene expression" |
| January 16 | Philipp Zuber, Biopolymers Department: "How do Transformer Proteins work? - Structural and thermodynamic basis of their conformational plasticity" |
| January 30 | Philipp Braaker, Begemann and Kuhn Lab: "CRISPRi-mediated eRNA knockdown at the neurog1 locus interferes wth primary neuron formation in zebrafish" |
BIOmac Seminar Series Summer 2019
The following dates are scheduled during the Summer Semester 2019. Please get in touch with me (Claus) in case you have question or you want to schedule or re-schedule a seminar.
Seminars will take place in S101 (FAN A).
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
April 25 | Felix Klatt, Kuhn Lab: "Activation of the human Mediator kinase Cdk8 by MED12" |
May 16 | Franziska Haumeier, Biopolymers: "Identification of genes involved in ulcerative colitis carcinoma" |
| June 6 | Jennifer Kaiser, Möglich Lab: "OptoRiboGenetics – manipulating protein-RNA interactions with light" |
| June 27 | Kilian Zuchan, Ullmann Lab: "How to split an electron pair inside a protein - On the energetics of electron bifurcation" |
| July 18 | Pascal Kröger, Höcker Lab: "Understanding and Tailoring Ligand Specificity in a Periplasmic Binding Protein" |
BIOmac Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2018/2019
The following dates are scheduled during the Fall/Winter Semester 2018/2019. Please get in touch with me (Claus) in case you have question or you want to schedule or re-schedule a seminar.
Seminars will take place in S135 (NW III).
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
October 18 | Robin Weinmann, Kuhn Lab: "Activation of the human Mediator kinases Cdk8 and Cdk19 by MED12" |
November 8 | David Golonka, Möglich Lab: "Optimization of a light regulated, plant phytochrome based protein-protein interaction system" |
| November 29 | Florian Gisdon, Ullmann Lab: "Interchange of serine and cysteine peptidase nucleophiles" |
| December 13 | Abhishek Anan Jalan, Höcker Lab: "Folding and Conformational Dynamics of a Chimeric Protein" |
| January 10 | Iana Kim, Kuhn Lab: "Planarians recruit piRNAs for mRNA turnover in adult stem cells" |
| January 31 | Franziska Haumeier, Biopolymers: "Identification of genes involved in ulcerative colitis carcinoma" |
BIOmac Seminar Series Summer 2018
The following dates are scheduled during the Summer Semester 2018. Please get in touch with me (Claus) in case you have question or you want to schedule or re-schedule a seminar.
Please note that seminars will take place in S135 (NW III).
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| April 12 | Vladyslava Gorbovytska, Kuhn Lab: "Does structure matter? - Structures of neuronal enhancer RNAs and their role in transcription activation" |
| April 26 | Renate Gelfert, Möglich Lab: "Engineering a light-switchable Cas9" |
| May 17 | |
| June 7 | Jan Zoller, Ullmann Lab: "Electrons, Protons, and States" |
| June 28 | Noelia Ferruz-Capapey, Höcker Lab: "A database for fragment-based protein design guided by evolutionary relationships" |
| July 12 | Vanessa Boritzki, Biopolymers: "Dopamine receptors - Highway to NMR" |
BIOmac Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2017/2018
The following dates are scheduled during the Winter Semester 2017/2018. Please get in touch with me (Claus) in case you have question or you want to schedule or re-schedule a seminar
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| October 5 | Josef Kynast, Biopolymers: "Conformational states of the reverse transcriptase from the yeast retrotransposon Ty3" |
| October 19 | Stefan Knauer, Biopolymers: "Deciphering the regulation of bacterial transcription by NMR" |
| November 9 | Jennifer Nack, Möglich Lab: "Light-regulated RNA binding for expression control" |
| November 30 | Francisco Lobos, Höcker Lab: "New tricks with old bricks: Designing functional protein fold chimeras." |
| December 14 | Florian Gisdon, Ullmann Lab: "Mechanistic insights into nonenzymatic protein deamidation" |
| January 11 | Felix Klatt, Kuhn Lab: "Structure and Function of the human Mediator kinase module" |
| February 1 | Julia Hennemann, Möglich Lab: "A blue light-regulated gene expression system" |
| February 22 | Horst Lechner, Höcker Lab: "Design of Artificial Enzymes for the Baylis-Hillman reaction" |
BIOmac Seminar Series Summer 2017
The following dates are scheduled during the Summer Semester 2017. Please get in touch with me (Claus) to schedule your seminar.
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| April 27 | Matthias Ullmann, Ullman Lab: "What can pH titration curves in proteins really tell you on proton transfer energies?" |
| May 4 | Thomas Wiegand, ETH Zurich: "Structural plasticity of a DnaB helicase studied by magnetic resonance spectroscopy" |
| May 18 | Philipp Zuber, Biopolymers: "Regulation of bacterial transcription by the transformer protein RfaH" |
| June 8 | Bruce Lichtenstein, Höcker Lab: "Optimization of a Bacterial Protein Carrier for Non-Native Cargo" |
| June 29 | Thessa Jakob, Biopolymers: "Structure determination and ligand binding of the hazel allergen Cor a 1" |
| July 26, Wednesday | Lisa-Marie Schneider, Kuhn Lab: "The role of enhancer RNAs in promoter-proximal pausing" |
BIOmac Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2016/2017
The following dates are scheduled during the Winter Semester 2016/2017. Please get in touch with me (Claus) to schedule your seminar. I am looking forward to a new series of exciting research talks!
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| October 20 | Kaspar Feldmeier, Höcker Lab: "Peptidase design: Turning scaffolds into enzymes" |
| November 10 | Florian Gisdon, Ullmann Lab: "Enhancing Proteolytic Activity of a Cysteine Protease" |
| December 8, (10am!) | Iana Kim, Kuhn Lab: "piRNAs - the secret of immortal worms" |
| December 22 | Franziska Haumaier, Biopolymers: "Tracking the tumor-associated gene b-raf and quinolone resistance in Helicobacter pylori by qPCR" |
| January 12 | Stephan Schwarzinger, ALNuMed/Biopolymers: "Chemometrics and Metabonomics – Recent developments at UBT" |
| February 2 | Saacnicteh Toledo-Patino, Höcker Lab: "Lego Protein (R)Evolution" |
| February 23 | Oxana Kempf, Bombarda Lab: "Fluorogenic peptidic substrates to study protease reactions: the case of phytochelatin synthase" |