Future Seminars & Events

Past seminars & events

The FMI seminars and events listed below are open to the public (no registration required).

The seminars normally take place at the FMI, on Fabrikstrasse 24, in our main seminar room 0.60/61.

Oct 19, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Towards reconstituting human embryonic development and organogenesis in vitro

  Seminar - Cantas Alev, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Oct 20, 2026 - 11:00-12:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LECTURE
Prof. Dr. Antonio Giraldez, Yale

  Friedrich Miescher Lecture - ChromGEM reveals the ultrastructure of active and silent chromatin during genome activation

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Oct 29, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Visual Methods in Biology - From exploring data to explaining discoveries

  Seminar - Helena Jambor, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Chur

Oct 29, 2026 - 14:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Shaping the chromatin landscape: how transcription factors direct nucleosome remodeling

  Thesis Presentation - Joscha Weiss

Nov 03, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LECTURE
Prof. Dr. Yuping Li, Biozentrum University of Basel

  Friedrich Miescher Lecture - Discovery and mechanistic characterization of bacterial immune arsenal against nucleus-forming jumbophages

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Nov 04, 2026 - 14:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

TriRhena Meeting

  Seminar - Gene Regulation Club 2026
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Nov 05, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Probing the Role of RNA Helicases in Modulating Stress Granules

  Seminar - Nina Ripin, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Nov 05, 2026 - 14:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

On the flexible representation of an aversive experience: from evaluation to memory reconstruction

  Thesis Presentation - Miguel Delgado

Nov 06, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

From synapses to collective behaviour

  Young Investigator Seminar Series - Michael Winding Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom

Nov 09, 2026 - 14:30 - Fab24 0.60/61

Evolutionary adaptations of brain computations: insights from Mexican cavefish

  Seminar - Germán Sumbre, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Paris, France

Nov 10, 2026 - 09:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Structural and functional organization of the olfactory bulb in larval zebrafish

  Thesis Presentation - Thesis defense Ruth Montano

Nov 12, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Regulation of mRNA translation during developmental transitions

  Seminar - Madalena Pinto, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Nov 13, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

High-throughput multimodal phenotyping of RBM20 variants: Towards precision therapy for dilated cardiomyopathy

  Young Investigator Seminar Series - Kai Fenzl, EMBL Heidelberg

Nov 17, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Tuners and controllers: how microRNA modulate dynamic gene expression in development and regeneration

  Seminar - Ximena Soto, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Nov 19, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Mechanism and regulation of selective tubulin mRNA decay

  Seminar - Markus Hopfler, Center for Genomic Regulation CRG, Barcelona, Spain

Nov 23, 2026 - 00:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Transcriptional and chromatin regulation of cranial neural crest cell development and reprogramming

  Thesis Presentation - Fiona Ross

Nov 23, 2026 - 00:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Clonal biology for deciphering embryonic development with single cell resolution

  Seminar - Igor Adameyko, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Nov 24, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LECTURE
Anja Groth, Copenhagen

  Friedrich Miescher Lecture -

Nov 26, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

RNA localization: Are we there yet?

  Seminar - Simone Heber, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Dec 04, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

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  Young Investigator Seminar Series - Raquel Fueyo, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin