Cell Biology Seminar

Mondays - 11:15

Room C161, IZB, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern

ICB Seminars Spring Semester 2025

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Talk Title
03. March, 2025 Prof. Dr. Andrew Oates
(invited by Dr. Maciej Dobrzynski)		 EPFL "On timers and clocks in development"
17. March, 2025 Prof. Dr. Miriam Stoeber
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)		 University of Geneva Spatiotemporal logic of GPCR signal transduction
24. March, 2025 Prof. Dr. Maria Hondele
(Invited By Prof. Dr. Peter Meister)		 Biozentrum Basel DEAD-box ATPases as regulators of biomolecular condensates and membrane-less organelle
28. March, 2025
(Room C159)		 Prof. Dr. Maria Olmedo
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Towbin)		 Department of Genetics, University of Sevilla, Spain “Maintenance of cell quiescence during starvation in C. elegans”
07. April, 2025 Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Keil
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Towbin)		 Institut Curie Quantitative guiding of developmental cell fate transitions using Waddington landscapes
28. April, 2025 Prof. Dr. Kirsty Wan
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)		 Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter "Perspectives on multiciliary coordination across scales"
05. May, 2025 Dr. Girish Mali
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Eva Glünz)		 University of Oxford Chaperoning ciliary dynein motors from assembly to activation
12. May, 2025 Prof. Dr. Verdon Taylor
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)		 University of Basel Dynamic gene regulation at the post-transcriptional level
19. May, 2025 Prof. Dr. Katharina Sonnen
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)		 Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands Signalling dynamics in embryonic development and tissue homeostasis
26. May, 2025 Dr. Sophie Collier
(Invited by Dr. Michaela Bulloch)		 The University of Melbourne "Organellar inheritance in Plasmodium parasites"
20. June, 2025 Prof. Dr. Chenshu Liu
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Peter Meister)		 Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA "Nuclear Envelope Dynamics in C. elegans Oocyte Development"
Dr. Lenka Cernikova
(Invited by Prof. Dr. Carmen Faso)		 EMBL Hamburg "Chasing Giardia’s Membrane-Bound Compartments with Cryo-ET"

Friday, June 20th, 2025 - 11:15 - Baltzerstrasse 4, Room C161

Photo of Prof. Dr. Chenshu Liu

Prof. Dr. Chenshu Liu | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA | "Nuclear Envelope Dynamics in C. elegans Oocyte Development"

Chenshu received his Bachelor’s at the University of Science and Technology of China and his PhD from Columbia University. He fell in love with cell biology since he was an undergrad and learned everything C. elegans during his postdoctoral fellowship with Abby Dernburg at UC Berkeley. Chenshu opened the lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in 2024, focusing on the mechanisms and roles of nuclear envelope dynamics in meiotic quality control. Outside of the lab, Chenshu can be found collecting butterflies, listening to The Expanse, or spending time exploring the beautiful nature at Lehigh Valley with friends and family.

Monday, June 23rd, 2025 - 11:15 - Baltzerstrasse 4, Room C161

Photo of Dr. Lenka Cernikova

Dr. Lenka Cernikova | EMBL Hamburg | "Chasing Giardia’s Membrane-Bound Compartments with Cryo-ET"

Lenka Cernikova is a molecular cell biologist who blends fluorescence microscopy with cryo-electron tomography to reveal how membrane-bound compartments—ranging from clathrin-coated vesicles to autophagosomes—form and operate inside the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia. She earned her PhD at the University of Zürich under Carmen Faso and Adrian Hehl, charting PX-domain proteins and clathrin-mediated endocytosis in Giardia. That fascination with membrane dynamics led to an EIPOD fellowship and, presently, a DFG-funded postdoc in Jan Kosinski’s group at EMBL Hamburg, where she couples correlative light-and-electron microscopy with high-resolution tomography to capture autophagosome biogenesis and dissect the choreography of clathrin-coated vesicles across the parasite’s endomembrane system.