Seminar
CMBI Lecture Series
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December 4, 2025
Lena Barra, PhD
Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, GE
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Titel: Enzyme and natural product discovery in non-canonical biosynthetic pathways
When and Where: 8:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
December 4, 2025
Sebastian Falk, PhD
Max Perutz Labs Vienna, A
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Titel: Mechanistic Insights into RNA Interference: From Small RNA Biogenesis to Transcriptional Gene Silencing
When and Where: 10:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
December 4, 2025
Marie-Luise Winz, PhD
Joahnnes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, GE
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Titel: New players in Translation Quality Control - uncharted territories between RNA and Proteostasis
When and Where: 12:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
December 4, 2025
Patrick Pausch, PhD
Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Titel: CRISPR and beyond
When and Where: 14:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
December 5, 2025
Angelika Harbauer, PhD
Max-Planck-Institut, Martinsried, GE
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Titel: Neuronal power houses: Mitochondrial logistics, contacts and protein translation
When and Where: 8:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
December 5, 2025
Christoph Messner,PhD
Universitäts Spital Zürich, Zürich, CH
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Titel: Protein Functions in Health and Disease
When and Where: 10:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
December 5, 2025
Michael Traxlmayr,PhD
BOKU University, Vienna, A
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Titel: Innovative approaches in protein biochemistry to advance cancer immunotherapy
When and Where: 12:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
December 5, 2025
Eduard Stefan,PhD
University of Innsbruck, A
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Titel: Decoding and Perturbing Enzyme Functions
When and Where: 14:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
February 9, 2026
Andres Jäschke, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical and Bioorganic Chemistry at IPMB, GE
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Titel: On the Origin of the Genetic Code
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
Seminar Archive
October 20, 2025
Sonja Sucic, PhD
Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, A
Titel: Pharmacochaperoning of pathogenic variants in human SLC6 transporters
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host:
Juni 5, 2025
Aurélien De La Torre, PhD
CNRS - Université Paris Saclay
Titel: Designing cycloadditions to enable total synthesis
Krishna P. Kaliappan, PhD
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Dept. of Chemistry
Titel: Agonies and Ecstasies on Total Synthesis
The seminar is a joint event of the CMBI and the Institute of Organic Chemistry
When and Where: 16:30, L.01.220
Host: Thomas Magauer
April 7, 2025
Monika Cziferszky, PhD
Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A
Titel: New directions for metal-based drugs: lessons learned from mass spectrometry studies of metal complexes and biomacromolecules
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host:
November 4,2024
Karl Gademann, PhD
Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, CH
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Titel: Microbiome Metabolites – Syntheses and Surprises
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Thomas Magauer
October 21, 2024
Thomas Kietzmann, PhD
Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland
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Titel: The hypoxia response: Old features and new aspects
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Pidder Jansen-Dürr
October 25,2024
Terrance Snutch, PhD
Department of Psychiatry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Titel: Crossing the Valley of Death
When and Where: 12:15, M.EG.180
Host: Petronel Tuluc
October 28,2024
Marcel Kwiatkowski, PhD
Department of Biochemistry, University of Innsbruck, A
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Titel: Functional Proteo-Metabo-Fluxomics - Bridging the Gap between Metabolism and the Proteome
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
November 4,2024
Karl Gademann, PhD
Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, CH
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Titel: Microbiome Metabolites – Syntheses and Surprises
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Thomas Magauer
May 13,2024
Jens Wöhnert, PhD
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, D
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Titel: Structures of aptamers and riboswitches as windows into the conformational landscape of RNA
This seminar is a joint event of the CMBI and the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH)
When and Where: 15:00, L.EG.200
Host: Christoph Kreutz
May 3,2024
Hiroshi Abe, PhD
Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Japan
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Titel: Chemistry-based design of functional mRNA for therapeutic applications
When and Where: 13:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
May 3,2024
Werngard Czechtizky, PhD
Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Respiratory & Immunology, AstraZeneca, Sweden
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Binder Lecture: New Synthetic Modalities - Oligonucleotides and Peptides for early target validation, receptor mediated targeting, and their use as therapeutics
When and Where: 16:00, M.EG.180
Host: Marcel Kwiatkowski
April 8,2024
Simone Moser, PhD
Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy, University of Innsbruck, A
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Titel: Vom Herbstlaub inspiriert: das Gewand der Pharmakognosie in bunten Farben
When and Where: 17:15, M.EG.180 (please note that the room has been changed!!!)
Host: Ronald Micura
January 15,2024
Ulrich Stelzl, PhD
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Graz, A
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Titel: Protein interaction networks at amino acid resolution
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Eduard Stefan
January 29,2024
Valery Krizhanovsky, PhD
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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Titel: Senescent cells in aging and age-related disease
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Pidder Jansen-Dürr
November 20,2023
Susan Taylor, PhD
University of California, San Diego, United States
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Titel: New Frontiers in PKA Signaling
When and Where: 16:00, L.EG.220
Host: Eduard Stefan
October 30,2023
Teresa Kaserer, PhD
Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A
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Titel: Computational investigation of protein mutations – applications from cancer drug resistance to the development of novel therapies
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
October 16,2023
Andreas Marx, PhD
Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Germany
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Titel: Chemical Biology of Protein Modifications and the Enigmatic World of Human RNA Repair
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
October 2,2023
Gisbert Schneider, PhD
ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Zurich, Switzerland
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Binder Lecture: From screening to designing new molecules with machine intelligence
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.220
Host: Kathrin Thedieck
September 4,2023
Yury Polikanov, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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Titel: Structural basis of Cfr-mediated antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms for its evasion
When and Where: 14:00, L.EG.220
Host: Ronald Micura
June 12,2023
Bianka Siewert, PhD
Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy, University of Innsbruck, A
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Titel: Distribution, Ecological Function, and Pharmaceutical Use of Fungal Photosensitizers
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Andreas Koeberle
May 22,2023
Tsuyoshi Momose, PhD
Institut de la Mer de Villefranche,Villefranche-sur-Mer Cedex, France
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Epithelial tissue patterning in a jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica and the evolutionary origin of animal body axis
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Bert Hobmayer
May 8,2023
Sabine Fuchs, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrician for metabolic diseases, UMC-Utrecht, NL
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Prime Time
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Kathrin Thedieck
April 17,2023
Pascal Meier, PhD
Head of Cell Death and Immunity Team, Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Using cell death to mobilise the immune system against cancer
When and Where: 16:00, L.EG.200
Host: Eduard Stefan
February 23,2023
Alpaslan Tasdogan, PhD
Institute for Tumor Metabolism, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, G
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Targeting Metabolic Liabilities in Cancer Metastasis
When and Where: 14:00, Audimax MUI, Fritz-Pregl-Straße 3
Host: Kathrin Thedieck
January 30,2023
Christian Gruber, PhD
Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, A
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Design of nature-inspired circular peptides for GPCR drug discovery
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Mariana Spetea
January 16,2023
Jacek Jemielity, PhD
Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, PL
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Chemical modifications of mRNA for therapeutic applications
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Ronald Micura
November 14,2022
Natalia Ivleva, PhD
Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, G
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Raman Microspectroscopy for Environmental Analysis
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Christian Huck
October 3,2022
Daniel Abankwa, PhD
Full professor in Cellular Tumour Biology, Université du Luxembourg, L
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Inhibition of Ras signalling complexes
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Eduard Stefan
June 13,2022
Joern Dengjel, PhD
Department of Biology, Université de Fribourg, CH
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Kinases and phosphatases regulating protein turnover by autophagy
When and Where: 16:00, L.EG.200
Host: Kathrin Thedieck
April 4,2022 - cancelled !!!
Veronika Sexl, PhD
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Austria
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CDK6 – novel insights from an old kinase
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Eduard Stefan
March 14,2022
Maria Mittelbrunn, PhD
Head of Immunometabolism and Inflammation Lab
Miguel Servet Researcher, Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre
Associate Professor, Molecular Biology Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
ERC Researcher, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Spain
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How does time-dependent deterioration of T cells contribute to tissue senescence and whole body aging?
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Pidder Jansen-Dürr
March 21,2022
Attila Szücs, PhD
Eötvös Loránd University · Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Budapest, Hungary
Shaping the integrative properties of differentiating neurons using optogenetics and the dynamic clamp
When and Where: 17:15, L.EG.200
Host: Jerome Mertens
October 8, 2021
Susanne Wegmann, Ph.D., Dipl.-Ing.
Protein Actions in Neurodegeneration, DZNE, Berlin, GE
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The phases of tau proteins and their role in tau (patho)biology
When and Where: 11:00, L.01.220
Host: Jerome Mertens
September 6, 2021
Barbara Bakker, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Systems Biology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, NL
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Living on the edge: unravelling the acute and patient-specific failure of metabolic networks in mitochondrial fatty-acid oxidation disorders
When and Where: 11:00, L.EG.200
Host: Kathrin Thedieck
September 9, 2021
Christine Sers, Ph.D.
Institute of Pathology, Charité Berlin, GE
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Stress response dependent vulnerabilities of KRAS and BRAF mutant colorectal cancer
When and Where: 11:00, L.EG.200
Host: Kathrin Thedieck
April 19, 2021
Lars Dölken, Ph.D.
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, DE
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scSLAM-seq and GRAND-SLAM reveal core features of the intrinsic immune
response in single virus-infected cells
When and Where: 17:00, Zoom meeting ID: 826 4803 4280, Passcode: 671337
Host: Ronald Micura
May 18, 2020 --- postponed - date to be announced
Christofer Tautermann, Ph.D.
Head of Computational Chemistry 3 (CMD) at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Germany
The importance of drug/target residence time - elucidation of mechanisms by molecular dynamics methods
When and Where: 17:00, L.EG.200, CCB, Innrain 80-82
Host: Klaus Liedl
May 4, 2020 --- postponed - date to be announced
Jerome Mertens, Ph.D.
Institute of Molecular Biology, Genomics, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Direct neuronal reprogramming to study aging and disease
When and Where: 17:00, L.EG.200, CCB, Innrain 80-82
Host: Bert Hobmayer
March 23, 2020 --- canceled due to Corona restrictions!
Martin J. Warren, Ph.D.
Prof of Biochemistry and Royal Society Industry Fellow, School of Biosciences, Stacey Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Vitamin B12 and the relationship between microbial wars and human health
When and Where: 17:00, L.EG.200, CCB, Innrain 80-82
Host: Bernhard Kräutler
January 27, 2020:
Robert Konrat, Ph.D.
Professor, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria
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Seminar title: Molecular Ambiguity in Structural Biology and Biomedicine
When and Where: 17:00, Lecture hall M.EG.180, CCB, Innrain 80-82
Host: Klaus Bister
January 13, 2020
Norbert Polacek, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland
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The stressed ribosome: from molecular to cellular consequences
When and Where: 17:00, L.EG.200, CCB, Innrain 80-82
Host: Ronald Micura