Cell Biology Seminar

Mondays - 11:15

Room C161, IZB, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern

ICB Seminars Spring Semester 2026

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Talk Title

23. Februrary, 2026

Dr. Hermes Gadelha
(invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

University of Bristol

"Animating Matter: Reaction–Diffusion Motion Patterns from Molecular Motors to Cilia and Robots"

09. March, 2026

Dr. Romain Levayer
(invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)

Institut Pasteur

"Toward a predictive understanding of epithelial cell death: from collective effects to single cell decision"

16. March, 2026

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Aumeier
(invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)

University of Geneva

"Motors shaping the microtubule network"

23. March, 2026

Prof. Dr. Pedro Beltrao
(invited by Ana Maria Stavridi)

ETH Zurich

TBA

13. April, 2026

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Kleele
(invited by Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)

ETH Zurich

“How mitochondrial remodeling drives cellular metabolism and function”

20. April, 2026

Prof. Dr. Gaudenz Danuser
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)

Institute of Human Biology, Roche

TBA

27. April, 2026

Dr. Manu De Rycker
(invited by Dr. Gaelle Lentini)

University of Dundee

TBA

04. May, 2026

Dr. Hans-Georg Sprenger
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

"Exercise-Sensitive Metabolites and Their Role in Metabolic Reprogramming"

11. May, 2026

Dr. Gautier Courbon
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)

University of Toronto

"Cryo-EM in tuberculosis drug discovery: from bedaquiline to next-generation inhibitors"

18. May, 2026

Prof. Dr. Dirk Fasshauer
(invited by Mathi Funk)

University of Lausanne

TBA

Monday, March 9th, 2026 - 11:15 - Baltzerstrasse 4, Room C161

Photo of doctor Romain Levayer

Dr. Romain Levayer | Insitut Pasteur | "Toward a predictive understanding of epithelial cell death: from collective effects to single cell decision".

Romain did his bachelor studies in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. After a long hesitation between evolution, ecology and developmental and cell biology, a long internship working on C. elegans early development (in Pr. Seydoux lab, John Hopkins University) definitely pushed him toward cell and developmental biology side. His interest for quantitative approaches brought him to an interdisciplinary master (AIV, Paris) where he started being interested by morphogenesis. He then joined the laboratory of Thomas Lecuit (IBDM, Marseille, France) to start his PhD working on epithelial morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryo and the role of the modulation of cell-cell adhesion. He then moved to Switzerland in the group of Eduardo Moreno for his postdoc (IZB, University of Bern) working on cell competition. He eventually moved back to Paris in December 2016 to start his research group in the Institut Pasteur.