Bringing together invited speakers and student researchers in one weekly series, BioEngineering Talks creates a shared space for science, exchange, and community.
Semester Mondays | Invited Speaker 12:15 p.m. | Student Seminar 1:15 p.m.
Hybrid: in person in EPFL room SV1717 and streamed via Zoom | lunch provided
Calendar, Fall Semester 2026
- Held on Mondays during the semester in EPFL room SV1717, with live streaming via Zoom
- Invited Speaker at 12:15 p.m. | Student Seminar at 1:15 p.m.
- Lunch provided between the two talks
- Invited speakers are selected by a standing IBI faculty committee based on suggestions from institute members, with the program aiming for balanced gender representation
- The series is an integral part of PhD education. Attendance during the first doctoral year is a graduation requirement for EDBB students. Attendance sheet to print HERE
- The BioEngineering Student Seminar Series is an official course for which students can register and earn credits. Register HERE and download the attendance sheet HERE
Prof. Yoon Seok Kim and Prof. Florian Schueder
Calendar, Spring Semester 2026
| February 23 — SPECIAL SESSION with two talks, back-to-back: | ||
| Matthias Altmeyer | University of Zurich (CH) | |
| Jonathan Pritchard | Stanford University, CA (USA) | |
| March 23 | Imre Berger | University of Bristol (UK) |
| March 30 | Koichiro Uriu | ISCT, Tokyo (JPN) |
| April 20 | Arben Merkoçi | ICN2, Barcelona (ESP) |
| April 27 | Médéric Diard | University of Basel (CH) |
| May 4 | Klára Hlouchová | Charles University, Prague (CZE) |
| May 11 | Nikita B. Gudimchuk | Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU) |
| May 18 | John Hickey | Duke University, Durham, NC (USA) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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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) |
| Nov.3 – Dec. 22 | exceptionally, no seminars | |
| 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, New Haven, CT (USA) |
details: click on a name for talk title, abstract, speaker’s short bio etc.
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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