Molecular Systems
Biology Seminars

The seminars are organised by the systems biology groups Axmann, Blüthgen, Herzel, Kollmann and Steuer at the Institute of Theoretical Biology, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin and Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Location: ITB Seminar Room, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin
Time: Friday 14:00
Funding: DFG, SFB618

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Friday 17th February 2012 - 14:00 Tim Beissbarth: Modelling drug resistance in breast cancer through network reconstruction based on longitudinal protein array data
Upcoming Seminars
Friday 24th February 2012 - 14:00 Ilka Diester - Optogenetic versus electrical stimulation in the motor cortex
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (Frankfurt/Main)
Friday 9th March 2012 - 14:15 Tal Dagan: Trends and barriers to lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Past seminars
Friday 3rd February 2012 - 14:00 Julia Rausenberger: Same photoreceptor - different action: dynamic network tunes phytochrome A's response profile.
Hochschule für Life Sciences Nordwestschweiz - Uni Freiburg [Host: Nils]
Friday 27th January 2012 - 14:00 Douglas B. Murray - Recent work on redox regulation in budding yeast
Keio University, Japan [host: Ralf]
Friday 13th January 2012 - 14:00 Hauke Busch + Melanie Boerries : Deciphering in vitro cell-cell communication between keratinocytes and fibroblasts using communication theoretic approaches
FRIAS, Uni Freiburg [host: Nils]
Friday 6th January 2012 - 14:00 Sarah Reece - Evolution of survival strategies: the circadian coordination of malaria infections
University of Edinburgh [host: Hanspeter]
Friday 16th December 2011 - 14:00 Ines Thiele - A community-generated reconstruction of the human metabolic network
University of Iceland [host: Ralf]
Friday 9th December 2011 - 14:00 Rolf Wagner: Non-coding RNAs in bacteria – versatile regulators for growth adaptation and viral defence
Professor, HHU Düsseldorf
Monday 28th November 2011 - 15:00 Deborah Marks - Protein Structure from High Throughput Sequencing
Harvard Medical School
Friday 25th November 2011 - 14:00 Chris Sander - Perturbation Cell Biology and Cancer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Friday 18th November 2011 - 14:00 Tim Kolmsee - The role of small regulatory RNAs and the codon-usage in the regulation of the RpoS-subunit of RNA polymerase in E. coli
Friday 11th November 2011 - 14:00 Ladislav Nedbal - On the dynamics of cyanobacterial bioenergetics
Brno [host: Ralf]
Friday 4th November 2011 - 14:00 Alexander Loewer
MDC Berlin [host: Nils]
Friday 21st October 2011 - 14:00 Steffen Waldherr - Dynamical robustness from biomolecular networks to interacting cell populations
Universität Stuttgart [host: Ralf]
Friday 14th October 2011 - 14:00 Rainer Machne and Stefan Mueller - Modelling a Photobioreactor: an open discussion
Universität Wien/ITB
Friday 7th October 2011 - 14:00 Pål Westermark - Cellular Aging and the Circadian Clock
Friday 30th September 2011 - 14:00 Rainer Machne - Metabolic feedback on chromatin structure may gate transcription during respiratory oscillations
[host: Ralf]
Thursday 28th July 2011 - 14:00 Alexander Shaw - Developing Models of the Mammalian Cell S Phase
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester [host: Ralf]
Friday 22nd July 2011 - 14:00 Stefan Müller - Towards quantitative models of cellular growth dynamics - Part I: gas-liquid mass transfer in bioreactors
Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria [host: Ralf]
Friday 15th July 2011 - 14:00 Morten Ernebjerg: Macroscopic Structure in Microbial Communities
Harvard Medical School [host: Nils]
Friday 15th July 2011 - 13:00 Jens Georg: A hidden layer of genetic information - Regulatory non protein-coding RNAs in Synechocystis PCC6803
ALU Freiburg, AG Hess
Friday 8th July 2011 - 14:00 Fernando de la Cruz: Conjugation
Universidad de Cantabria [host: nils+ilka]
Friday 1st July 2011 - 14:00 Rupert Mutzel: Long-term continuous cultivation of a microbial prey-predator couple: can we create artificial symbioses?
FU Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Mikrobiologie II
Friday 17th June 2011 - 14:00 Caroline Friedel - High resolution profiling of RNA synthesis and decay
University Heidelberg [host: Nils]
Friday 27th May 2011 - 14:00 Katja Tummler: Deterministic and Stochastic Approaches for Modeling Biological Systems
Vorstellung für Diplomarbeit
Friday 20th May 2011 - 14:00 Sabrina Hoffmann - Minimal flux modes: A conceptually new flux balance approach for the prediction metabolic fluxes
Charité Berlin [host: Ralf]
Friday 13th May 2011 - 14:00 Heinrich Huber - Collateral Benefit: Systems Models and Live Cell Imaging in Programmed Cell Death
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland [host: Nils]
Friday 6th May 2011 - 14:00 Paul Thaben - Bioinformatic analysis of a genomewide shRNA-Screen for regulators of the mamalian Clock
Charité [host: Pål]
Friday 29th April 2011 - 14:00 Lutz Brusch - Regulation of membrane identity in the endocytic pathway
TU Dresden [host: Nils]
Friday 15th April 2011 - 14:00 Mikael Huss - How predictable is transcription factor binding?
SciLifeLab Stockholm [host: Pål]
Friday 8th April 2011 - 14:00 Jens Timmer - Data Analysis and Modeling of Dynamic Processes in the Life Sciences
Institute of physics University of Freiburg [host: Nils]
Friday 1st April 2011 - 14:00 Karin Mitosch - Bistability in bacterial metabolism: the role of flux noise and how cells can stabilize their decisions
[host: Pål]
Friday 25th March 2011 - 14:00 Jaap Kaandorp - Computational modelling and analysis of spatio-temporal gene regulation and cell movement in embryogenesis
University of Amsterdam [host: Nils]
Friday 18th March 2011 - 14:00 Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Modular Analysis of Signaling Networks
EMBL-EBI [host: Nils]
Friday 11th March 2011 - 14:00 Guillaume Cogne - Constraint-based modeling and in silico analysis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii photoautotrophic metabolism
University of Nantes [host: Ralf]
Friday 4th March 2011 - 14:00 Natalie Stanford - Developing a minimal data approach to large-scale kinetic model construction in Sacchromyces cerevisiae
University of Manchester [host: Ralf]
Friday 25th February 2011 - 14:00 Magnus Rattray - Regulatory network inference using probabilistic gene regulation models
University of Sheffield [host: Nils]
Friday 11th February 2011 - 14:00 Hands-on tutorial on flux-balance analysis (FBA) with FASIMU
material for preparation: http://www.charite.de/sysbio/hoppe/FASIMU_Tutorial_files [host: Ralf]
Friday 4th February 2011 - 14:00 Jiří Jablonský - Current approaches in kinetic modeling: The light vs dark photosynthetic reactions in cyanobacteria
University of Rostock [host: Ralf]
Wednesday 2nd February 2011 - 14:00 Kevin Foster - Social Evolution in Microbes
St John's College Oxford [host: Ralf]
Friday 28th January 2011 - 14:00 Kevin Thurley - Intrinsically noisy Ca(2+) dynamics exhibit functional robustness - insights about cell-signalling from a new modelling technique combined with life-cell imaging
MDC Berlin [host: Nils]
Friday 17th December 2010 - 14:00 Alexis Webb - Heterogeneous oscillators benefit systems - Lessons from in vitro and in silico approaches
MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden [host: Hanspeter]
Friday 10th December 2010 - 14:00 Stefan Klumpp - Growth-rate dependent effects on gene expression in bacteria
MPI für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Potsdam [host: Nils]
Friday 3rd December 2010 - 14:00 Olaf Weiss - stochastic risk modelling in financial/insurance regulation - Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht
[host: Nils]
Friday 26th November 2010 - 14:00 Daniel Santa Cruz Damineli: Unraveling the structure of two-oscillator circadian systems using conflicting environmental cues
ITQB Lisboa, group of Andreas Bohn
Friday 19th November 2010 - 14:00 Christian Fleck - Pattern formation
Universität Freiburg [host: Nils]
Friday 12th November 2010 - 14:00 Wassim Abou-Jaoudé - Oscillations and bistability in the p53-Mdm2 network
INRIA France [host: Hanspeter]
Friday 5th November 2010 - 14:00 Matthias Selbach: Genome-wide parallel quantification of mRNA and protein levels and turnover in mammalian cells
MDC Berlin
Friday 22nd October 2010 - 14:00 Elke Dittmann: Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of cyanobacteria
Universität Potsdam
Friday 15th October 2010 - 13:00 Annegret Wilde: The function of regulatory RNA and the RNA chaperone Hfq in cyanobacteria
JLU Gießen
Friday 23rd July 2010 - 14:00 Katharina Nöh (FZ Juelich): Tools for Metabolome-based 13C Flux Analysis - Challenges and Future Perspectives
Title: tba
Friday 16th July 2010 - 14:00 Berenike Maier: Conotrolling molecular motors in bacteria
Uni Muenster [host: Ilka]
Friday 9th July 2010 - 14:00 Friedrich Simmel: Artificial molecular devices and reaction networks based on nucleic acids
TU Muenchen [host: Ilka & Nils]
Friday 2nd July 2010 - 14:00 Boris Kholodenko: Cell signalling dynamics in space and time
University College Dublin [host: Nils]
Friday 25th June 2010 - 14:00 Jens Rupprecht (MPIMP Golm): From systems biology to fuel - the potential of systems biology to improve biofuel production
Friday 11th June 2010 - 14:00 Katja Nowick: Evolutionary and functional characterization of transcription factors in primates
host: Hanspeter Herzel
Friday 21st May 2010 - 14:00 Peter Swain
University of Edinburgh [host: Marcus]
Tuesday 11th May 2010 - 16:30 Mans Ehrenberg: Theory of DNA sequence dependent variation of speed and accuracy of operon transcription
University of Upsala [host: Nils]
Friday 7th May 2010 - 14:00 Debora Marks: A system-level approach to microRNA regulation
Harvard Medical School [host: Hanspeter]
Friday 16th April 2010 - 14:00 Barbara Di Ventura
Uni Heidelberg [host: Markus]
Friday 9th April 2010 - 14:00 Frank Bruggeman: Eukaryotic transcription: A molecular ratchet prone to burst
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam [host: Nils]
Friday 26th March 2010 - 14:00 Marc Friedlaender: Discovery and profiling of small RNAs using deep sequencing
MDC, Berlin [host: Michael]
Friday 19th March 2010 - 14:00 Helge Roider: CpG-depleted promoters harbor tissue-specific transcription factor binding signals
MPI for Molecular Genetics [host: Hanspeter]
Friday 12th March 2010 - 15:00 Rebecca Rose: Structural characterization of macromolecular systems using native mass spectrometry
Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht University
Friday 12th March 2010 - 14:00 Steffen Klamt: Qualitative modeling of cellular signaling networks: Concepts, algorithms and application
MPI Magdeburg [host: Nils]
Friday 5th March 2010 - 14:00 Martin Falcke: Random and reliable: Stochasticity and robustness
MDC Berlin [Hanspeter]
Friday 26th February 2010 - 14:00 Carsten Carlberg: Systems biology approaches to nuclear receptor signaling
Université du Luxembourg [Nils]
Friday 19th February 2010 - 14:00 Alexander Skupin: Torwards signaling in Chlamydomonas - About the clock and the heat shock response
MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam Golm
Friday 12th February 2010 - 14:00 Tom Schneider: Molecular Information Theory
National Institutes of Health in Frederick, MD [host: Hanspeter]
Friday 5th February 2010 - 14:00 Christian Brettschneider: A sequestration feedback determines dynamics and temperature entrainment of the KaiABC circadian clock
Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University Berlin
Friday 29th January 2010 - 14:00 Szymon Kielbasa: LAST - an efficient algorithm for comparing large, repeat-rich sequences
MPI Molecular Genetics, Berlin [host: Ilka]
Friday 22nd January 2010 - 14:00 Anne Rediger: Characterization of hypothalamic G-protein coupled receptors which are involved in weight regulation
Charité Berlin
Friday 15th January 2010 - 14:00 Hanspeter Herzel: Diffusion as a non-stationary stochastic process
Institute for Theoretical Biology, Charité Berlin
Friday 8th January 2010 - 10:00 Workshop Managing and curating Biological Pathways
Friday 18th December 2009 - 14:00 Zoya Ignatova: Pausing the ribosomal traffic: an integrative view through molecular
Universitaet Potsdam [Nils]
Friday 4th December 2009 - 14:00 José Faro
Universidade de Vigo