Seminar

CMBI Lecture Series

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You can meet the speaker after the seminar at the informal get together. Else, students, post-docs and CMBI scientists can arrange to meet with the speakers by contacting cmbi@uibk.ac.at     

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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's work »

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

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