
Seminars 2023
Certificate of attendance available upon request.
Please contact the CMMC Office at zmmk-koordinationsstelle[at]uni-koeln.de.
November 29, 2023 - 1.00 p.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (building 66)
Western Blot and Immunoprecipitation Workshop
Freya Wedekind - Proteintech Germany GmbH
hosted by Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
November 21, 2023 - 2.00 p.m. - CMMC Seminar Series

CMMC Seminar Room (building 66)
How mechanical force shapes the sweat glands?
Catherine Pei-ju Lu, Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine - New York US
hosted by Catherin Niemann - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne & Center for Biochemistry
November 14, 2023 - 10.00 a.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (building 66)
CANCELLED
chemagen & NGS User Meeting – new trends in molecular diagnostics
Revvity (previously affiliated with PerkinElmer Inc.)
Please note: this seminar will be held in English and German - see flyer for program
hosted by Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
November 03, 2023 - 2.00 p.m. - CMMC Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (building 66) / Lecture Hall Frauenklinik (building 47, entrance opposite of the CMMC research building)
The structure and function of G-quadruplexes
Sir Shankar Balasubramanian - Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambride
hosted by Robert Hänsel-Hertsch - CMMC-JRG10 - Lab. for Genome Biology
October 18, 2023 - 10.00 a.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Foyer (building 66)
Company Exhibition - Reuse & Recycle
Hans Richter - Starlab GmbH
hosted by Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
October 16, 2023 - 3.00 p.m. - CMMC Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (building 66)
Human kidney organoids reveal self-organizing principles of embryonic organogenesis and pathomechanisms
Yun Xia - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
hosted by Leo Kurian - Institute for Neurophysiology and CMMC-A 07
October 05, 2023 - 10.00 a.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (building 66)
Xenium in situ Analysis - the Resolution Revolution
Dr. Andrea Hamm-Baarke - 10x Genomics
hosted by Prof. Thomas Langmann - Clinic of General Ophthalmology / CMMC
September 14, 2023 - 1.15 p.m. - CMMC Seminar Series
Lecture Room ground floor, Building 74, Weyertal 115 c
Drosophila circadian rhythms: Adaptation and persistence to different environments
Ralf Stanewsky - Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology, University of Münster
hosted by Andreas Wodarz - Department of Anatomy
August 31, 2023 - 1.00 p.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (building 66)
Application of Synthetic Biology in Academics and Industry from GenScript Biotech
Dr. Eman Dey Mazumder - GenScript Biotech
hosted by Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
August 17, 2023 - 3.00 p.m. - CMMC Seminar Series - Summer Edition
CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
Please register!
Laura De Laporte - Advanced Materials for Biomedicine, RWTH Aachen, DE
Lykke Sylow - Molecular Metabolism in Cancer and Ageing, Univ. of Copenhagen, DK
hosted by Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - CMMC
August 09, 2023 - 11.00 a.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
June 22, 2023 - 1.00 p.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room
Please register: https://cmmc-registration.uni-koeln.de/cmmc-seminar-acarkan/
NanoString Seminar – Experience the Power of Spatial Biology
Dr. Adile Acarkan - https://nanostring.com/
hosted by Dr. Paul Bröckelmann - Clinic I of Internal Medicine and Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - CMMC
June 06, 2023 - 2.00 p.m. - CMMC / Epi-Club Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
Histone Methylation, Basal Transcription Factors and Cancer
Prof. Marc Timmers
Department of Urology German Cancer Consortium Center for Clinical Research University of Freiburg
hosted by Alicja Pacholewska - Institute for Translational Epigenetics, Michal Schweiger- Institute for Translational Epigenetics, Reinhardt Büttner - Institute for General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy and CMMC-A 03, Simon Pöpsel - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Robert Hänsel-Hertsch - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
June 06, 2023 - 9.00 a.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Foyer
Company Exhibition
Dr. Sascha Deppermann1 & Dr. Shantha Elter2 & Dr. Sabine Schriek3
1Takara Bio Europe S.A.S. & 2Enzo Lifesciences & 3MACHEREY-NAGEL GmbH & Co. KG
hosted by Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
June 05, 2023 - 3.00 p.m. - CMMC Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
Collective mechanisms for cell differentiation in early mammalian development
Christian Schröter - Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
hosted by Leo Kurian - Institute for Neurophysiology and CMMC-A 07
June 01, 2023 - 2.00 p.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room
Please register: https://cmmc-registration.uni-koeln.de/cmmc-seminar-radermacher/
Cell DIVE: An antibody-based hyperplexed imaging technique addressing spatial cell biology and function
Dr. Pablo Radermacher - Leica Microsystems
hosted by Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
April 03, 2023 - 3.00 p.m. - CMMC Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
Aberrant RNA metabolism in neurodegenerative disorders: alternative splicing as pathomechanism and therapeutic targe
Florian Krach - Department of Stem Cell Biology, University Hospital Erlangen - DE
hosted by Leo Kurian - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
March 29, 2023 - 3.00 p.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Webinar Series
Zoom Meeting - Please register: https://cmmc-registration.uni-koeln.de/cmmc-webinar-northeast/
Immunofluorescence Workshop: multiplexing and antibody labelling
Dr. Rebecca Northeast - Proteintech Germany GmbH
hosted by Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
February 27 - 3.00 p.m. - CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room and/or via Zoom - Please register: https://cmmc-registration.uni-koeln.de/cmmc-webinar-sony
Fundamentals of Advanced Spectral Cell Analysis using the New ID7000™ Spectral Analyzer
Markus Geilich - Sony Biotechnology
hosted by Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
February 07, 2023 - 3.00 p.m. s.t. - CMMC Hybrid Seminar Series
CMMC Seminar Room and/or via Zoom
Please register: https://cmmc-registration.uni-koeln.de/cmmc-webinar-greber/
Cardiac induction in human pluripotent stem cells - from basic principles to clinical application
Boris Greber - Catalent Cell and Gene Therapy, Langenfeld - DE
hosted by Leo Kurian - Institute for Neurophysiology and CMMC – A 07


















