| hybrid: presence seminar in EPFL room SV1717, also streamed via Zoom | with sandwiches provided for attendees in the room!
Calendar, Fall Semester 2025
| September 8 | Andre Levchenko | Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA) |
| September 15 | Gianluca Amadei | University of Padova (IT) |
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September 24 SPECIAL WEEKDAY and TIME: Wed, 10:45 a.m. |
Kevin Gardner | City University of New York, NYC, NY (USA) |
| September 29 | Taekjip Ha | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA) |
| October 6 | Joachim Krug | University of Cologne (D) |
| October 27 | Lukasz Bugaj | U Penn, Philadelphia, PA (USA) |
| November 3 | exception – no seminar | |
| November 10 | exception – no seminar | |
| November 17 | exception – no seminar | |
| November 24 | exception – no seminar | |
| December 1 | exception – no seminar | |
| December 8 | exception – no seminar | |
| December 15 | exception – no seminar | |
| December 22 | to be announced | |
| EXTRA OUT-OF-SEMESTER DATES: | ||
| January 12, 2026 | Serena Carra | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT) |
| February 9, 2026 | Megan C. King | Yale University (USA) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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- taking place (almost) every Monday at 12:15 p.m. (Swiss time – CET) during semesters
- in EPFL room SV1717 whenever feasible, but streamed as well via Zoom (always)
- with sandwiches provided to attendees in the room
- invited speakers selected by a standing IBI faculty committee (see below), based on inputs collected from institute colleagues (suggestions most welcome!)
- speaker lineup aiming as much as possible for balanced gender representation
- talks streamed globally, accessed via ‘Zoom’ web-conferencing platform (one-time registration required)
- integral part of PhD student education: attendance during first doctoral year is a graduation requirement in the EDBB doctoral program (download your attendance record sheet here – pdf, 69 kB)
- Prof. Giovanni D’Angelo | IBI
- Prof. Sahand Rahi | IPHYS & IBI
Calendar, Spring Semester 2025
| March 17 | Martin Zanni’s talk is moved to May 5, 2025 (see below) | |
| March 24 | James P. Sáenz | Technical University Dresden (D) |
| March 31 | Ji-Joon Song | KAIST, Daejeon (KOR) |
| April 7 – 15′ later this time, i.e. at 12:30! | Mauro Mobilia | University of Leeds (UK) |
| April 28 | David Juncker | McGill University, Montreal (CAN) |
| May 5 | Martin T. Zanni | University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI (USA) |
| May 12 | Miki Ebisuya | EMBL Barcelona (ES) & TU Dresden (DE) |
| CHANGE OF DATE/TIME: May 20, 14:15 | Pranam Chatterjee | Duke University, Durham, NC (USA) |
| May 26 | Roman Stocker | ETHZ, Zurich (CH) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
Calendar, Fall Semester 2024
| Oct. 21 – to be rescheduled | ||
| October 28 | no seminar today, exceptionally | |
| November 4 | Franck Perez | Institut Curie, Paris (FR) |
| November 11 | Alba Diz-Muñoz | EMBL, Heidelberg (DE) |
| November 18 | Vincenzo A. Gennarino | Columbia University, New York City, NY (US) |
| November 25 | Pere Roca-Cusachs Soulere | IBEC & Universitat de Barcelona (ES) |
| December 2 | no seminar today, exceptionally | |
| December 9 | John Briggs | MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich (DE) |
| December 16 – to be rescheduled |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
Calendar, Spring Semester 2024
| February 26 | Patricia Bassereau | Institut Curie, Paris (FR) |
| March 4 | Rahul Roy | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IN) |
| March 11 | Philipp Gut | Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne (CH) |
| March 18 | Steve Shih | Concordia University, Montreal (CAN) |
| March 25 | Marcus B. Noyes | New York University, NYC (US) |
| April 8 | no seminar today, exceptionally |
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| April 15 | Winfried Römer | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg (DE) |
| April 22 | Jörg Enderlein | Georg-August University, Göttingen (DE) |
| April 29 | Emma Rawlins | University of Cambridge (UK) |
| May 6 | Alessandro Cellerino | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (IT) |
| May 13 | Guillermina Ramirez-San-Juan | EPFL, Lausanne (CH) |
| May 27 | Michael Murrell | Yale University, New Haven, CT (US) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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Calendar, Fall Semester 2023
| September 25 | Philippe Girard | Swissmedic – Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, Bern (CH) |
| October 2 | Minisymposium on Metabolism (program – pdf, 559 kB)
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| October 9 | Ning Jenny Jiang | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (USA) |
| Oct. 30 – to be rescheduled | ||
| November 6 | Wanda Kukulski | University of Bern (CH) |
| November 13 | Mohammad Lotfollahi | Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK) |
| November 20 | Ricardo A. Fernandes | University of Oxford (UK) |
| November 27 | Andrew Kruse | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA) |
| December 4 | Angela Steinauer | EPFL, Lausanne (CH) |
| December 11 | Arnaud Krebs | EMBL, Heidelberg (DE) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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Calendar, Spring Semester 2023
| February 20 |
Yuksel Temiz | Microqubic AG (CH) |
| February 27 | Zuzanna S. Siwy | University of California, Irvine, CA (US) |
| March 6 |
exception: no seminar on this date | |
| March 13 | Aleksandra Walczak | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (FR) |
| March 20 | Jochen Guck | |
| March 27 | Bonnie L. Bassler | Princeton University, NJ (US) |
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April 17 – not April 3! |
Christian Dallago | TU Munich & NVIDIA Corp. (DE) |
| April 24 | Katrine Ter-Borch Gram Schjoldager | University of Copenhagen (DK) |
| May 1 |
Sonja-Verena Albers | University of Freiburg (DE) |
| May 8 |
exception: no seminar on this date | |
| May 15 | Pushkar Lele | Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (US) |
| May 22 – to be rescheduled | ||
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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Calendar, Fall Semester 2022
| September 26 | Paul S. Cremer | Penn State University, University Park, PA (US) |
| October 3 |
Edmund K. Waller | Emory University, Atlanta, GA (US) |
| October 10 |
James J. Moon | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US) |
| October 31 | Martina Seiffert | German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Heidelberg (DE) |
| November 7 |
Prisca Liberali | University of Basel & Friedrich Miescher Inst. for Biomedical Research, Basel (CH) |
| November 14 | Danny Porath | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL) |
| November 28 | Priscilla Briquez | Universitätsklinikum Freiburg (DE) |
| December 5 |
Shukry J. Habib | University of Lausanne (CH) |
| December 12 | James Hackett | EMBL, Rome (IT) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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Calendar, Spring Semester 2022
| March 7 | Yan Yu | Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) |
| March 14 | Michael Nash | ETH Zurich (CH) |
| March 21 | Josué Sznitman | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (IL) |
| March 28 | Sonia Contera | University of Oxford (UK) |
| April 4 |
Wouter Karthaus | EPFL, Lausanne (CH) |
| April 11 | James M. Finley | University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA) |
| April 25 | Francesca Bottanelli | Freie Universität Berlin (DE) |
| May 2 | Eileen Gentleman | King’s College London (UK) |
| May 9 – to be rescheduled |
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| May 16 | Pablo Navarro Gil | Institut Pasteur, Paris (FR) |
| May 23 | Milena Schuhmacher | Max Planck Institute, Dresden (DE) |
| May 30 | CANCELLED |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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Calendar, Fall Semester 2021
| September 27 | Montserrat Bárcena | Leiden University Medical Center (NL) |
| October 4 |
Denis Migliorini | University of Geneva (CH) |
| October 11 |
Emmanuel Levy | Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (IL) |
| October 18 | exception: no seminar on this date |
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| October 25 |
Chan Cao | EPFL, Lausanne (CH) |
| November 1 | Tobias Erb | Max Planck Institute, Marburg (DE) |
| November 8 | Ulrich Lorenz | EPFL, Lausanne (CH) |
| November 15 | Martin Hof | Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (CZ) |
| November 22 |
Morgan Huse | Sloan Kettering Institute, New York City, NY (USA) |
| November 29 | Stephanie Xie | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto (CAN) |
| December 6 | Mounia Lagha | Institute of Molecular Genetics, Montpellier (FR) |
| December 13 | Rebecca Pompano | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (USA) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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Calendar, Spring Semester 2021
| March 1 |
Sachdev Sidhu | University of Toronto (CAN) |
| Christian Heinis | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| March 8 |
Anne Bertolotti | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (UK) |
| David Suter | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| March 15 |
Charna Dibner | University of Geneva (CH) |
| March 22 | Canan Dağdeviren | MIT (USA) |
| Selman Sakar | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| March 29 |
Yuri Korchev | Imperial College (UK) |
| Georg Fantner | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| April 12 | Todd Hyster | Cornell University (USA) |
| Ardemis Boghossian | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| April 19 | Suzie H. Pun | University of Washington (USA) |
| April 26 | Viola Vogel | ETH Zurich (CH) |
| Li Tang | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| May 3 |
Jacob Corn | ETH Zurich (CH) |
| May 10 | Steven Gygi | Harvard University (USA) |
| Yimon Aye | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| May 17 | Claude Loverdo | CNRS Laboratoire Jean-Perrin (F) |
| Anne-Florence Bitbol | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| May 31 | Caroline Arber | University of Lausanne (CH) |
| June 7 | Lydia Robert | CNRS Laboratoire Jean-Perrin (F) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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Calendar, Fall Semester 2020
| September 28 | X. Tracy Cui | University of Pittsburgh (USA) |
| October 5 | Christopher J. Clarke | Stony Brook University (USA) |
| Giovanni D’Angelo | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| October 12 | Klaus Eyer | ETH Zurich (CH) |
| Bruno Correia | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| October 19 | Polly Fordyce | Stanford University (USA) |
| Christoph Merten | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| October 26 | Darrell J. Irvine | MIT (USA) |
| Li Tang | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| November 2 | Flavia Vitale | University of Pennsylvania (USA) |
| Stéphanie P. Lacour | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| November 9 | Ed Boyden | MIT (USA) |
| Suliana Manley | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| November 16 | Ovijit Chaudhuri | Stanford University (USA) |
| Dominique Pioletti | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| November 23 | KC Huang | Stanford University (USA) |
| Anne-Florence Bitbol | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) | |
| November 30 | Daniel Gaffney | Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK) |
| December 7 | Mauri A. Kostiainen | Aalto University (SF) |
| Maartje Bastings | EPFL (Lausanne, CH) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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