The Kjeldgaard Lecture series is a series of lectures by internationally renowned scientists in all fields of genetics and molecular, structural and cellular biology. The lecture series is organised by the Seminar Committee at the department.
Samir El Andaloussi
Karolinska Inst.
TBA
Verena Ruprecht
QBio Research Unit, University of Innsbruck, AT
TBA
Hervé Le Hir
Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure Paris, FR
Lighting and dimming the EJC illuminate mRNPs
Simon Alberti
Professor of Cellular Biochemistry at BIOTEC Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, DE
Biomolecular condensates: molecular insights and implications for disease intervention
Stefan Raunser
Prof. DR., Director, Structural Biochemistry Max Planck Institute of Molecualr Physiology, Dortmund, DE
Structural insights into the function of actin and its interactions with friends and foes
Fei Chen
Dr., Harvard Dept. of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Core Faculty member at the Broad Institute Cambridge, MA, USA
Measuring, modeling, and reprogramming tissue organization
Timothy Ryan
Tri-Institutional Professor Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY
Metabolic Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in Brain Function
Philipp W. Messer
Professor, Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, NY
Population-Scale Genetic Engineering with CRISPR Gene Drives
Ben Engel
Prof. Dr., Head of Research Group Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH
Environmental structural biology: Exploring the molecular architecture of bioenergetic organelles
Magnus Nordborg
Scientific Director Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology Vienna, Austria
Towards an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism
Niko Geldner
Professor, The Geldner Lab, Department of Plant Molecular Biology Université de Lausanne, CH
Root Barriers: Walking the Line between Protection and Exchange
Clemens Plaschka
Senior Group Leader, IMP, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
How to export messenger RNA
Kai (Jack) Zhang
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, Connecticut, US
High-resolution in situ structures of mammalian respiratory supercomplexes
Mikko Taipale
Professor, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, CA
Protein (mis)localization in human genetic disorders
Joanna Rorbach
Group Leader, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE
Recent insights into the mechanisms of protein synthesis in human mitochondria
Phillip Zamore
University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Distinguishing self from non-self in the male mouse germline
Geoffrey Pitt
Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, US
Expanding the roles of Na channel auxiliary subunits
Bruno Lemaitre
Global Health Institute (EPFL) Lausanne, CH
Layers of immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response
Ewan Birney
Deputy Director, EMBL, Cambridgeshire, UK
AI modelling of Healthcare trajectories and Danish and UK history with genetics.
Malcolm Bennett
Plant Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
Lessons from underground: discovering how roots sense soil stresses
Schraga Schwartz
Schwartz Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovet, Israel
The secret building blocks of RNA: From decoding to therapeutic harnessing
Anne Bertolotti, Ph.D., FMedSci
Joint Head of the Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Therapeutic manipulations of phosphatases and kinases controlling protein quality control systems: From the bench, to the clinic and back
Steve Finkbeiner
Gladstone Institute, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
Disentangling complex biology to create blueprints for CNS disease interventions with stem cells, robotics and AI
Myriam Charpentier
Cell and Developmental Biology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Integration mechanism of nuclear calcium signaling in plant
Professor Erin Schuman
Max-Planck Institut for Brain Research, Germany
Protein synthesis at the synapse
Professor Katja Petzold
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Title: RNA structural switching and its impact on function revealed by NMR
The lecture series was named after the founder of the department Niels Ole Kjeldgaard (1926-2006).
