Institutsseminar
Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Infektionsimmunologie
Donnerstags 15 Uhr
Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, Raum 109/110 (Besprechungsraum)
Kontakt:
Dr. Elisabeth Seebach (Tel: +49 6221 56-34585)
Dr. Lan-Sun Chen (Tel: +49 6221 56-34783)
Wintersemester 2025/26
Thursdays 15:00 in the library 1.OG Room 109/110
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 09.10.2025 | Ania Rafalik (AG Thacker), Iris Breedijk (AG Cheaib) | Master Thesis Projects |
| 16.10.2025 | Prof. Dr. med. Hortense Slevogt (MHH, Dalpke) | Respiratory Tract Microbiomes and Mycobiomes: Antibiotic-Associated Fungal Overgrowth, Resistance Gene Accumulation, and Ecologic Dynamics in Pneumococcal Pneumonia. |
| 23.10.2025 | Paulina Schad (AG Dalpke) | PhD project – progress report |
| 30.10.2025 | Dr. Mastura Neyazi (AG Thacker) | PostDoc project introduction |
| 06.11.2025 | Ersthelferschulung | |
| 13.11.2025 | MID course | |
| 20.11.2025 | Marceli Zuk + Levent Pfeifer (AG Kurz) | Legionella typing via FT-IR and detection of volatile organics via GC-IMS. |
| 27.11.2025 | PD Dr. Veit Buchholz (DKFZ, Dalpke) | Stem-like lymphocytes at the origin of immune responses to infection and cancer. |
| 01.12.2025 (Monday) | Dr. rer. nat. Linda Hammerich (Berlin, Jordan) | Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy of GI-Tumors. |
| 11.12.2025 | Jayalakshmi Srinivasan (AG Cheaib) | PhD project – progress report |
| 18.12.2025 | Dr. Andrew Tony-Odigie (Physician Scientist program) | tba |
| Winter holiday break | ||
| 15.01.2026 | Lena Tomaschko (AG Dalpke) | Master Thesis Project |
| 22.01.2026 | Tim Ahrens (Orthopädie HD) / Dr. Elisabeth Seebach | Effect of Bioglas coatings on bone biology and bacterial colonization. |
| 29.01.2026 | ||
| 05.02.2026 | PD Dr. Sabrina Klein | tba |
| 12.02.2026 | Prof. Dr. Marianne Grognot (Aachen, Herz) | The Fast and the Furious: Bacterial pathogens’ swimming strategies with the example of two Vibrio species. |
| 19.02.2026 | Faschingsferien | |
| 26.02.2026 | Luisa Breitenbach (PhD student, AG Dalpke) | The role of RNase 7 in RNA-mediated skin immunity. |
Sommersemester 2025
Thursdays 15:00 in the library 1.OG Room 109/110
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 01.05.2025 | Tag der Arbeit | |
| 08.05.2025 | no seminar | |
| 15.05.2025 | no seminar | |
| 22.05.2025 | Dr. Elisabeth Seebach | Osteoimmunology meets biofilms. |
| 29.05.2025 | Christi Himmelfahrt | |
| 05.06.2025 | Dr. Andrew Tony-Odigie | Green Lab feedback |
| 12.06.2025 | Pfingstferien | |
| 19.06.2025 | Fronleichnam | |
| 26.06.2025 | Ersthelferschulung – no seminar | |
| 03.07.2025 | Richard Langi (Chen/Dalpke) | Master Thesis data |
| 10.07.2025 | Dr. Mastura Neyazi (Thacker) | PostDoc project introduction |
| 17.07.2025 | Sanya Middha (Seebach) | Master Thesis data |
| 24.07.2025 | Vivian Polenz (Jordan) | PhD Project introduction |
| Summer holiday break | ||
Wintersemester 2024/25
Thursdays 15:00 in the library 1.OG Room 109/110
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 03.10.2024 | Holiday | |
| 10.10.2024 | Dr. Patrick Schaal (AG Cheaib) | From Salmon Intestines to Human Lungs: Exploring Microbiome Dynamics Across Ecosystems. |
| 17.10.2024 | Prof. Dr. Stefan Jordan | Nutritional Microbiology and Immunology. |
| 24.10.2024 | Dr. Miriam Cordovana, Bologna (Zimmermann) | tba |
| 31.10.2024 | Holiday | |
| 07.11.2024 | PD Dr. Sabrina Klein | „Long-term suppressive therapy with dalbavancin in ventricular-assist device related infections caused by S. aureus” |
| 14.11.2024 | Timo Jenne (AG Bukau, ZMBH) | Activity control of the central ClpC/ClpP protease and its toxic deregulation by small molecules in Staphylococcus aureus. |
| 21.11.2024 | Richa Mishra (AG Thacker) | Cording in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: consequences for antibiotic therapy. |
| 28.11.2024 | Major course | |
| 05.12.2024 | Ivaneia Nunez (AG Dalpke) | Bacterial RNA sensing by TLR8 requires RNase 6 processing and is inhibited by RNA 2'O-methylation. |
| 12.12.2024 | Yue Gao (AG Kubatzky) | The effect of metabolic reprograming on osteoclastogenesis. |
| Winter Holiday | ||
| 16.01.2025 | Luisa Breitenbach (AG Dalpke) | Interaction of keratinocyte-derived RNase 7 and monocytes in human skin immunity. |
| 23.01.2025 | Prof. Dr. Philipp Weller (AG Kurz) | Untargeted benchtop volatilomics of microbial fermentation processes and cell cultures at trace levels - why the gas phase is so much more than just hot air. |
| 30.01.2025 | Richa Mishra (AG Thacker) | Cording in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: consequences for antibiotic therapy. |
| 06.02.2025 | Dr. Andrew Tony-Odigie (Medical Scientist Program) | Let the pathogen down: towards rebiosis of CF sputum. |
| 13.02.2025 | Xuelei Zhang and Jayalakshmi Srinivasan (AG Cheaib) | Microbial Taxa-Function Dynamics and Their Impact on Lung Development and Homeostasis in Health and Disease. (Xie) Deciphering the metabolic languages of microbial pathogens at the interface of cross-feeding and quorum sensing within the lung microbiota under cystic fibrosis conditions. (Srinivasan) |
| 20.02.2025 | no seminar (DZL local retreat) | |
| 27.02.2025 | Dr. Lan-Sun Chen (AG Dalpke) | tba |
| 06.03.2025 | Prof. Dr. Steffen Stenger, Ulm (Thacker) | TB or not TB: Antimicrobial mechanisms in human tuberculosis. |
| 13.03.2025 | Dr. My-Lan Pianka (Clinical Scientist Leave) | Impact of Fusobacterium nucleatum on inflammatory carcinogenesis in colorectal cancer. |
| 20.03.2025 | Paulina Schad (AG Dalpke) | tba |
| 27.03.2025 | Dr. Bachar Cheaib | tba |
| Summer Semester 2025 | ||
| 03.04.2025 | Dr. Dr. Michaela Herz | tba |
| 10.04.2025 | Dr. Elisabeth Seebach | Role of nucleases and cGAS/STING pathway in SA biofilm infections. |
| 17.04.2025 | Easter holidays | |
| 24.04.2025 | Easter holidays |
Sommersemester 2024
Thursdays 15:00 in the library 1.OG Room 109/110
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 15.04.2024 | Prof. Yasu Morita, UMass Amherst (Thacker) | Mycobacterial cell envelope biosynthesis and stress response: roles of inner membrane domain and phosphatidylinositol-anchored glycans. |
| 25.04.2024 | Prof. Dominik Niopek, HD (Seebach) | Engineering Precision Control of Protein Effectors for CRISPR Genome Editing and Beyond. |
| Summer Semester 2024 | ||
| 02.05.2024 | Luisa Breitenbach (AG Dalpke) | Interaction of keratinocyte-derived RNase 7 and monocytes in human skin immunity. |
| 09.05.2024 | Christi Himmelfahrt | |
| 16.05.2024 | Dr. Bachar Cheaib (DZL group leader) | Influence of endotracheal intubation methods on the respiratory microbiome in mechanically ventilated patients. |
| 23.05.2024 | Dr. Waldemar Kanczkowski, Dresden (Chen) | The role of innate immunity in adrenal dysregulation during systemic inflammation and sepsis. |
| 30.05.2024 | Fronleichnam | |
| 06.06.2024 | no seminar | |
| 13.06.2024 | no seminar | |
| 20.06.2024 | Christian Walter | Automation in microbiology diagnostics: Evaluation of machine-assisted interpretation of Gram stains from positive blood cultures. |
| 27.06.2024 | Dr. Katharina Höfer, Marburg (Kubatzky) | The best of two worlds: RNAylation covalently links RNA to proteins |
| 04.07.2024 | no seminar | |
| 11.07.2024 | Carlos Perez | MD Thesis: Role of cGAS in anti-biofilm immune response. |
| 18.07.2024 | no seminar | |
| Summer time break | ||
| 12.09.2024 | ||
| 19.09.2024 | ||
| 26.09.2024 |
Wintersemester 2023/24
Thursdays 15:00 in the library 1.OG Room 109/110
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 05.10.2023 | Dr. My-Lan Kha (Physician Scientist Program) | Impact of Fusobacterium nucleatum and Parvimonas micra on inflammatory carcinogenesis in colorectal cancer. |
| 12.10.2023 | no seminar | |
| 19.10.2023 | Paulina Schad (AG Dalpke) | Characterization of the role of RNase7 to RNA sensing response in human keratinocyte cell line. |
| 26.10.2023 | Dr. Lan-Sun Chen (AG Dalpke) | Bacteria-derived nucleic acids promote innate memory in macrophages by endosomal TLR stimulation. |
| 02.11.2023 | Dr. Vivek Thacker (Junior group leader) | Microphysiological models for infectious diseases. |
| 09.11.2023 | Sarah Zimmer (Chirurgie HD, Kha) | Signaling cascades in the development and therapy of gastric cancer. |
| 16.11.2023 | Prof. Alex Weber, Tübingen (Dalpke) | TLR-inflammasome-mediated release of naRNA-LL37 composite DAMPs re-defines sterile NETs as intentional but self-limiting drivers of inflammation. |
| 23.11.2023 | no seminar | |
| 30.11.2023 | no seminar | |
| 07.12.2023 | Yue Gao (AG Kubatzky) | Acod-1 immune metabolism in osteoclast formation. |
| 14.12.2023 | no seminar | |
| Winter and Christmas break | ||
| 18.01.2024 | restart seminar - new list | |
| 25.01.2024 | postponed | |
| 01.02.2024 | Dr. Stefan Weber (DZIF project) | Patient outcome in clinical TB. |
| 08.02.2024 | Prof. Katharina Kubatzky | Introduction on the “My Green Lab” certification program. |
| 15.02.2024 | Faschingsferien | |
| 22.02.2024 | Dr. Andrew Tony-Odigie (Medical Scientist Program) | Commensal bacteria and their metabolites in the cystic fibrosis milieu. |
| 29.02.2024 | Prof. Thomas Miethke, Mannheim (Dalpke) | Function and regulation of expression of the immune modulator TIR-containing protein C. |
| 07.03.2024 | no seminar | |
| 14.03.2024 | Ivanéia Nunez (AG Dalpke) | Deciphering the function of ribonuclease 6 on the processing of bacterial RNA for TLR8 activation. |
| 21.03.2024 | Dr. Elisabeth Seebach | Role of the cGAS/STING pathway and Type 1 IFNs during biofilm formation. |
| Easter Holidays | ||
| 15.04.2024 | Prof. Yasu Morita, UMass Amherst (Thacker) | Mycobacterial cell envelope biosynthesis and stress response: roles of inner membrane domain and phosphatidylinositol-anchored glycans. |
| 25.04.2024 | Prof. Dominik Niopek, HD (Seebach) | Engineering Precision Control of Protein Effectors for CRISPR Genome Editing and Beyond. |
Sommersemester 2023
Donnerstags, 15:00 Uhr, Gebäude 324, 1.OG, Zimmer 109/110
| Datum | Dozent | Inhalt |
| 20.04.2023 | Dr. Bachar Cheaib (DZL) | Tales or real worlds? Three examples from Environmental, Animal and human microbiomes |
| 27.04.2023 | Andrew Tony-Odigie (AG Dalpke) | Influence of the airway microbiome on immune responses and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in Cystic Fibrosis. |
| 04.05.2023 | Luisa Breitenbach (AG Dalpke) | The role of RNase 6 in RNA processing upstream of TLR8 activation. |
| 11.05.2023 | no seminar | |
| 18.05.2023 | Christi Himmelfahrt | |
| 25.05.2023 | Julia Körholz (Dresden) | One Gene many facets: SOCS1- haploinsufficiency and its relation to autoinflammation, autoimmunity and immunodeficiency? |
| 01.06.2023 | Pfingstferien | |
| 08.06.2023 | Fronleichnam | |
| 15.06.2023 | Prof. Katharina Kubatzky (Heidelberg) | Cellular ROS tolerance determines the effect of plumbagin on osteoclast formation – final project talk. |
| 22.06.2023 | Dr. Jochen Kurz (Hygiene) | Estimation of the disinfecting and mineralizing properties of photocatalytically active titanium dioxide. |
| 29.07.2023 | Dr. Lan-Sun Chen (AG Dalpke) | Bacteria-derived nucleic acids promote innate memory in macrophages by endosomal TLR stimulation. |
| 06.07.2023 | Giulia Pander, AG Uhl, Heidelberg (Kubatzky) | Innovative nanobody formulations. |
| 13.07.2023 | Dr. Christian Walter (Diagnostik) | tba |
| 20.07.2023 | Prof. Till Strowig, Braunschweig (Dalpke) | Exploring the microbiome to displace multi-drug resistant Enterobacteria from the gut. |
| 27.07.2023 | Dr. Niklas Weidner (Diagnostik) | Applications of NGS in Clinical Microbiology. |
Summer break in August | ||
| 07.09.2023 | PD Dr. Christian Keller, Marburg (Dalpke) | On vita-PAMPs and beyond: Sensing viability of the intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. |
| 14.09.2023 | no seminar | |
| 21.09.2023 | Dayoung Yu (AG Kubatzky) | Osteoclast metabolism: Gaq-mediated metabolic reprogramming and protein succinylation. |
| 28.09.2023 | no seminar, DGFI Meeting |
Wintersemester 2022 / 2023
Donnerstags, 15:00 Uhr, Gebäude 324, 1.OG, Zimmer 109/110
| Datum | Dozent | Inhalt |
| 13.10.2022 | Dr. Elisabeth Seebach (AG Kubatzky) | Interaction of bone marrow cells and macrophages in biofilm infections. |
| 19.10.2022 | ONLINE | Junior Group Selection meeting |
| 27.10.2022 | Vienna conference | |
| Herbstferien | ||
| 10.11.2022 | Calum Bridson (AG Boutin) | Oral microbiome and periodontitis. |
| 17.11.2022 | Prof. Christoph Stein-Thoeringer, Tübingen (Kha) | Translational microbiome research: The role of the gut microbiome in CAR-T cell immunotherapy as an example of clinically relevant microbiome sciences. |
| 24.11.2022 | Eva Körner (AG Dalpke) | Influence of antibiotics on the immune response. |
| 01.12.2022 | Dr. Lan-Sun Chen (AG Dalpke) | Bacterial nucleic acids and innate memory in macrophage. |
| 08.12.2022 | Sevinj Sultanli (AG Kubatzky) | Plumbagin and its effects on macrophage osteoclastogenesis. |
| 15.12.2022 | cancelled | |
| Winterferien | ||
| 12.01.2023 | Dr. Sabrina Klein (Diagnostik) | Gardnerella vaginalis in urine cultures of kidney transplant recipients. |
| 19.01.2023 | cancelled | |
| 26.01.2023 | Ivaneia Nunes (AG Dalpke) | Ribonuclease 6 and RNA-dependent TLR stimulation. |
| 02.02.2023 | Dr. Christina Mertens, AG Muckenthaler, HD | Role of iron during heart failure. |
| 09.02.2023 | Prof. Christian Gille, Heidelberg (Dalpke) | Cellular basis of infection suscebility in neonates. |
| 16.02.2023 | Dayoung Yu (AG Kubatzky) | Succinate in osteoclast formation. |
| 23.02.2023 | Dr. Vanessa Eichel | Creating a Smart Infection Control System – Use Case Infection Control of the “HiGHmed”- Project. |
| 02.03.2023 | Yue Gao (AG Kubatzky) | Immune metabolism in osteoclast formation. |
| 09.03.2023 | no seminar | |
| 16.03.2023 | My-Lan Kha (AG Dalpke) | Impact of Fusobacterium nucleatum and Parvimonas micra on inflammatory carcinogenesis in colorectal cancer. |
| 23.03.2023 | Dr. Ilia Platzman, MPI Stuttgart (Kubatzky) | Droplet-based microfluidics for immunological and antibacterial medical applications. |
| 30.03.2023 | Dr. Kaan Kocer (Diagnostik) | Genomic Modification of TonB and Emergence of Small-Colony Phenotype in Escherichia coli following Cefiderocol Exposure In Vitro. |
Osterferien | ||
| 20.04.2023 | Dr. Bachar Cheaib (DZL) | Tales or real worlds? Three examples from Environmental, Animal and human microbiomes. |
| 27.04.2023 | Andrew Tony-Odigie (AG Dalpke) | Influence of the airway microbiome on immune responses and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in Cystic Fibrosis. |