
Seminars 2025
Certificate of attendance available upon request.
Please contact the CMMC Office at zmmk-koordinationsstelle[at]uni-koeln.de.
CMMC Empowerment Meeting
Well-being and science - How do they go together?
Dr. Rainer Weber - Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy - Köln, DE
Institute for Bioinformatics & CMMC - Lab. for Chromatin Biochemistry
CMMC EPI Club Seminar

Human satellite DNA encodes megabase-scale transcription factor binding platforms
J. Matthew Franklin - Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics, Stanford University - Stanford, US
Institute for Translational Epigenetics
CMMC Seminar Series

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
Institute I of Anatomy - RG Molecular Cell Biology
CMMC Seminar Series
Mitotic polarity oscillation promotes epithelial tumor progression
Ulrich Tepass - Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto - Toronto, CA
Institute I of Anatomy - RG Molecular Cell Biology
CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series
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
Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
CMMC Seminar Series

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
Dept. III of Internal Medicine | Experimental Cardiology and CMMC -B12
Past Seminars 2025:
CMMC EPI Club Seminar

Aged cells co-opt the 3D genome to sustain their splicing program
Prof. Argyris Papantonis - Translational Epigenetics & Genome Architecture, University Medical Center Göttingen - DE
Institute for Translational Epigenetics
CMMC Seminar Series

Control of Membrane Growth by posttranslational mechanisms during Drosophila midblastula transition
Hans-Arno Müller - University of Kassel, Inst. for Biology, Developmental Genetics - Kassel, DE
Institute I of Anatomy - RG Molecular Cell Biology
CMMC Seminar Series

Tumor-associated macrophages enhance tumor innervation and spinal cord repair
Ilaria Decimo - Dept. of Diagnostics & Public Health, University of Verona - Verona, IT
Institute of Biochemistry and CMMC
CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series

Company Exhibition
Mahdi Rivandi - Regional Sales Manager - MedChemExpress
Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series

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
Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
CMMC Novel Technologies Seminar Series

Introducing Inovarion - a Life Sciences R&D company specialized in the provision of highly skilled scientists
Speaker: Dr. Etienne Eschenbrenner - Business Research Manager - Inovarion
Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne