Seminars 2025

Certificate of attendance available upon request. 
Please contact the CMMC Office at zmmk-koordinationsstelle[at]uni-koeln.de.

13/11/2025 11:00

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Lunch & Learn with QIAGEN: Solutions for all your RNA challenges 

Discuss with our experts:

  • Part 1: Foundations of RNA Purification: The Science Behind
    Explore the molecular principles that underpin RNA purification.
  • Part 2: From Principles to Practice: Workflow Optimization, Troubleshooting and ensuring RNA Quality
    Learn how to translate theory into robust laboratory practice.
  • Part 3: Navigating QIAGEN’s RNA Solutions: Finding the Perfect Fit for Your Application
    Discover QIAGEN’s portfolio of RNA purification technologies and tools.  

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 10:00 a.m.

Speakers: Dr. Yvonne Ponath - Research & Development and Dr. Katharina Rehklau – Global Product Management, QIAGEN Hilden

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room and Foyer (Building 66)
17/11/2025 12:00

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Automating NGS Library Preparation to Enhance your Research

Engage with the Experts: Join the Talks and Discussions

  • Automating NGS Library Prep on firefly® Higher Throughput, Lower Complexity, Superior Data Quality
    Jing Zhang, PhD - Field Application Scientist, SPT Labtech Ltd
  • Empowering NGS Research: NEB’s Library Prep Workflows Meet firefly® Automation
    Alicia He, PhD - Field Application Specialist, New England Biolabs 

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 9:00 a.m.

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room and Foyer (Building 66)
26/11/2025 10:30

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Shaping the Future of Discovery: From Live Organoid Imaging to Spatial Biology

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 9:00 a.m.

Speakers: Dr. Vanessa Augustin - Application Workflow Specialist  - Leica Microsystems

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room and Foyer (Building 66)
02/12/2025 13:00

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Proteomics and Beyond: Combining Protein- and Immuno-Profiling to reveal novel disease insights

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 10:00 a.m.

Speakers: Dr. Thomas Bauer - Sr. Regional Manager - Standard BioTools

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room and Foyer (Building 66)
09/12/2025 14:00 - 17:00

CMMC Seminar Series Advent Get-Together

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Exploiting deep learning to improve our understanding of thunderstorms over the Alps

Claudia Acquistapace – Dept. of Geosciences, University of Padua, IT
previously: JRG leader Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, DE

Join us afterwards for CMMC Advent Networking with coffee and cake from 2:45 - 5 p.m. 

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
11/12/2025 09:00

CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series

Novogene Exhibition Booth 

in the CMMC Foyer from 9:00 a.m.

Dr. Murat Seker - Account Manager (NRW and Saarland) – Novogene GmbH

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Foyer (Building 66)

Past Seminars 2025:

10/01/2025 12:00 - 15:00

CMMC EPI Club Seminar

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Aged cells co-opt the 3D genome to sustain their splicing program

Prof. Argyris Papantonis - Translational Epigenetics & Genome Architecture, University Medical Center Göttingen - DE

Host: Michal R. Schweiger & Alicja Pacholewska

Institute for Translational Epigenetics

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
10/02/2025 13:00 - 15:00

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Control of Membrane Growth by posttranslational mechanisms during Drosophila midblastula transition

Hans-Arno Müller - University of Kassel, Inst. for Biology, Developmental Genetics - Kassel, DE

Host: Andreas Wodarz

Institute I of Anatomy - RG Molecular Cell Biology

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
12/02/2025 11:00 - 13:00

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Tumor-associated macrophages enhance tumor innervation and spinal cord repair

Ilaria Decimo - Dept. of Diagnostics & Public Health, University of Verona - Verona, IT

Host: Elisa Motori

Institute of Biochemistry and CMMC

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
25/02/2025 09:00 - 16:00

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Company Exhibition 

Mahdi Rivandi - Regional Sales Manager - MedChemExpress

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Foyer (Building 66)
20/03/2025 11:30 - 13:00

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Immunoprecipitation and Western Blot Workshop

Speaker: Dr. Amy Turner - Scientific Marketing Specialist 

Freya Wedekind - Account Manager North West Germany - Chromotek GmbH - a part of Proteintech group

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
23/04/2025 11:30 - 13:30

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Introducing Inovarion - a Life Sciences R&D company specialized in the provision of highly skilled scientists

Speaker: Dr. Etienne Eschenbrenner - Business Research Manager - Inovarion

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
09/05/2025 12:00 - 13:00

CMMC EPI Club Seminar

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Human satellite DNA encodes megabase-scale transcription factor binding platforms

J. Matthew Franklin - Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics, Stanford University - Stanford, US

Host: Michal R. Schweiger & Alicja Pacholewska

Institute for Translational Epigenetics

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
14/05/2025 15:00 - 16:00

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A single-cell analysis of Hh and EGFR-RAS signalling: Independent signalling pathways prevent tumorigenesis

Katja Rust - Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Marburg - Marburg, DE

Host: Andreas Wodarz

Institute I of Anatomy - RG Molecular Cell Biology

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66
23/05/2025 12:00 - 13:00

CMMC EPI Club Seminar

Host: Michal R. Schweiger & Alicja Pacholewska

Institute for Translational Epigenetics

02/06/2025 14:00 - 15:00

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Mitotic polarity oscillation promotes epithelial tumor progression

Ulrich Tepass - Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto - Toronto, CA

Host: Andreas Wodarz

Institute I of Anatomy - RG Molecular Cell Biology

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66
05/06/2025 13:30 - 15:30

CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series

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Hidex Sense Beta plus - Intuitive Multilabel Microplate Reader for each Lab and Assay 

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 1:00 p.m.

Speakers: Kai Müller - Managing Director & Dr. Horst Lauersen - Account Manager - Hidex Deutschland Vertrieb GmbH

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room and Foyer (Building 66)
03/07/2025 15:00 - 19:30

CMMC Seminar Series Summer Edition

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Human-Elephant Interaction in a Northeastern Namibian Coexistence Landscape: Practices, Imaginaries, Knowledges

Michael Bollig - Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne - Cologne, DE

No registration needed. 

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
10/07/2025 16:00 - 18:00

CMMC Empowerment Meeting

Well-being and science - How do they go together?

Dr. Rainer Weber - Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy - Köln, DE

Host: Kasia Bozek & Simon Pöpsel

Institute for Bioinformatics & CMMC - Lab. for Chromatin Biochemistry

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
18/07/2025 14:00 - 15:00

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What is cytomegalovirus teaching us about immunity?

Chris Benedict - Center for Vaccine Innovation, Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, La Jolla Institute for Immunology - La Jolla, US

Host: Holger Winkels

Dept. III of Internal Medicine | Experimental Cardiology and CMMC -B12

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66
22/07/2025 14:00 - 15:30

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Comprehensive Whole-Brain Mapping of Functional, Structural, and Developmental Modules Underlying Neural Networks of the Drosophila Larval Brain

Volker Hartenstein - Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles - Los Angeles, US

Host: Andreas Wodarz

Institute I of Anatomy - RG Molecular Cell Biology

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
09/09/2025 13:30 - 14:30

CMMC EPI Club & CCG Seminar

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G-quadruplexes in human diseases

Prof. Sara Richter - Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua - IT

Host: Alicja Pacholewska & Robert Hänsel-Hertsch

Institute for Translational Epigenetics & CMMC - Lab “Structure and stability of the (Epi)Genome"

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
15/09/2025 12:00 - 13:00

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Cell Avidity: Next Generation Binding - Understanding the mechanism of action through cell-cell and cell-protein binding

Speakers: Justin Moser, PhD - Senior Field Application Scientist and Maurice Hendricks - Sales Manager Europe LUMICKS

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
15/09/2025 17:00 - 19:00

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Lipid Droplet Quality Control: Ferroptosis Suppressor Protein 1 Protects Stored Neutral Lipids From Oxidative Damage

Dr. Mike Lange, Depts. of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology and Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Host: Prof. Dr. Guenter Schwarz

Inst. of Biochemistry, Dept. of Chemistry (MNF) and CMMC

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66
24/09/2025 16:00 - 19:00

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Singleron Single Cell Day 2025 

with exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 3:00 p.m.

Speakers: Dr. Lei Zhu - German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Prof. Dr. Henner Farin - Georg-Speyer-Haus Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Prof. Dr. Victoria Ingham - German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Dr. Khalil Abou-El-Ardat - Singleron Biotechnologies

Please note: 

All registered participants for online participation will receive their personal inivitation link by email shortly before the event.

Registration has been closed on Tuesday, 18:00 PM CEST.

Online participation: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9-dyGJLqTSKPTG8KrXZgVg

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room and Foyer (Building 66)
08/10/2025 12:00 - 14:00

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Lunch & Learn: Inflammation, Diabetology & Beyond – Biomarkers Shaping the Future with PEATM Technology

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 9:00 a.m.

Speakers: Prof. Christian Herder - German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Düsseldorf and Dr. Sandra Hybsier - sFAS, Proteomic Sciences - Olink, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Seminar Room and Foyer (Building 66)
15/10/2025 10:00 - 14:00

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Company Exhibition - Reuse & Recycle

Hans Richter – Account Manager NRW Süd - Starlab GmbH

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC Foyer (Building 66)
15/10/2025 16:00 - 17:00

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Enhancing therapeutic efficacies of targeted lung cancer therapies via targeting DNA Topoisomerase II

Shi-Yong Sun - Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University - Atlanta, US

For those unable to attend in person, you can follow the talk via Zoom using the link below:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3216981228?pwd=WjFkTndsbjA1VGNHUXJiUjBBREFYdz09&omn=89179984704
Meeting ID: 321 698 1228
Passcode: p9WSdC

Meet the speaker:
If you would like to meet the speaker in person (1:1 meeting), there are still time slots available. Please book a meeting slot here:
https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/3f69c792-b3d1-4f9b-8fea-1a1dcf8c85c3/select

or contact Huaying Zhang (AG Bruns/Zhao) for any questions: huaying.zhang@uk-koeln.de

Host: Christiane J Bruns

Dept. of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplant Surgery

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66
21/10/2025 13:00 - 14:00

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Flow Cytometry Workshop: The Basics and Beyond!

Speakers: Dr. Marina Able - Scientific Marketing Specialist - Proteintech Germany GmbH

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66
28/10/2025 12:00 - 14:00

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Spatially resolved transcriptomics & multiomics at true single-cell resolution

Speakers: Dr. Florian Paasch - Key Account Manager Genomics and Dr. Sascha Deppermann - Senior Territory Manager - Takara Bio Europe

Host: Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66
04/11/2025 14:00 - 15:00

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Innate Immune Activation in Alzheimer’s disease

Michael Heneka - Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine - Esch-Belval, LU

Host: Christina Ising

CECAD Research Center and CMMC CAP 29

Location: CMMC Seminar Room (Building 66)
07/11/2025 09:00 - 10:00

CMMC EPI Club Seminar

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Locus-specific protein profiling identifies the bromodomain inhibitor JQ1 as a molecular glue targeting centromeres

Syliva Erhardt - Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, Zoology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Host: Michal R. Schweiger & Alicja Pacholewska

Institute for Translational Epigenetics

Location: CMMC - Seminar Room, CMMC‐Research Building / Building 66