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.

Sep 16, 2026 - 09:30 - Fab24 0.60/61

Characterizing the nucleosome occupancy in mouse and human spermatozoa by single-molecule chromatin footprinting

  Thesis Presentation - PhD defense of Devico Haojun Shi

Sep 16, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Invasion, replication, and silencing of an endogenous retrovirus

  Seminar - Julius Brennecke, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Sep 22, 2026 - 10:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Title tbd.

  Thesis Presentation - Benedetta Zattera

Sep 25, 2026 - 11:00 -

Modulation of neural function following experience in alternate social realities

  Young Investigator Seminar Series - Frederic Roemschied, European Neuroscience Institute, Goettingen, Germany

Sep 28, 2026 - 13:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

UV-Damage-induced Epigenetic Changes in Organismal Resilience and Aging

  Seminar - Jan Padeken, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Oct 02, 2026 - 14:00 - Fab24 0.59

Circuit Neuroscience Seminars
Title TBD.

  Seminar - Blake Richards, The Neuro, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Oct 06, 2026 - 13:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Title tbd.

  Seminar - Zhihao Zheng, Princeton University, USA

Oct 08, 2026 - 09:00-16:00 - Fab24 0.57 Cafeteria

Roadshow: Transnetyx, transnetyx.com

  Other - Daniel Gercke, Transnetyx, Inc. Transnetyx provides automated genotyping, genetic quality control, and microbiome testing services to research institutions worldwide. We help researchers save time, reduce laboratory workload, ensure reproducibility, and focus more on science.

Oct 09, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Title tbd.

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

Oct 19, 2026 - - Fab24 0.60/61

Title TBD.

  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
Dr. Antonio Giraldez, Yale

  Friedrich Miescher Lecture -

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

FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LECTURE
Dr. Yuping Li, Biozentrum Basel

  Friedrich Miescher Lecture -

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

TriRhena Meeting

  Seminar - Gene regulation club 2026