CeMiSt Lectures and Talks

20.06.2023
Three talks on on interactions of plasmids, phages and bacteria presented by:
*Alison Buchan, Dr, Carolyn Fite Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
*Mathias Middelboe, Professor of Marine Viral Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen
*Paul Fogg, Dr, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow, University of York, Department of Biology and York Biomedical Research Institute

24.02.2022
CeMiSt lecture by Prof Jos Raaijmakers, head of the Microbial Ecology Department at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Professor at the Institute of Biology at Leiden University, on the genomic & functional characterization of beneficial microorganisms associated with roots of wild relatives of crop species grown in the center of origin.

14.10.2022
The three talks address different aspects of the ecological roles of natural products or secondary metabolites or specialized metabolites, given by:
 Joseph Pawlik, Frank Hawkins Kenan Professor of Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington
 Paul Jensen, Professor of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
 Manuel Liebeke, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Bremen

01.10.2021
CeMiSt Lecture by Manuel Liebeke, head of the Metabolic Interactions group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany, on Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Fluorescence Microscopy, powerful tools to address the technical challenge of linking metabolite production to symbiont and host cells in mixed communities and study spatial metabolomes of symbioses in situ.

22.10.2020
CeMiSt invited talk by Professor Jennifer Martiny, University of California, Irvine, on her recent research showing how traits can help predict the response of soil microbiomes to global change treatments, as well as the applicability of this framework to microbiomes in other environments.

29.11.2019
CeMiSt Lecture by Laura V. Flórez, Evolutionary Ecology Department, Institute for Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on symbiotic microorganisms and their effects on key aspects of animal and plant biology, including defense against natural enemies.

15.03.2018
1st CeMiSt international symposium:
* Multi-omics of the soil microbiome by Janet K. Jansson, Chief Scientist, Biology Pacific Northwest, National Laboratory US
* Extreme drug discovery: Obtaining novel pharmacophors from extreme environments by Marcel Jaspars, Professor, University of Aberdeen
* Gene clusters in fungi: Functional and genomic analysis by Claudio Scazzocchio, Visiting Professor, Imperial College London