Talks and Seminars in Bonn

Just finishing your PhD and wondering whether the DFG offers funding for your next career step in academia? Either after your PhD in Germany to move on to another host institution – or after your PhD in an international context to realise your next research project in Germany? The Walter Benjamin Programme offers both options for early postdocs. In our talk, you will get first-hand information about the DFG funding organisation, the aim of the Walter Benjamin Programme, its eligibility requirements and the type, the scope and the duration of the funding. We will explain how the DFG arrives at a funding decision and give you tips on how to prepare a proposal. We will be happy to answer your questions during and after the talk. We invite PhD candidates and early postdocs of all disciplines from all countries as well as research support staff.

Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - Caesar Seminar Series Speaker: Itai Cohen, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Title:

Speakers: Lilly Pitshaporn Leelaarporn, PhD; Julia Taube, PhD; Ana Soriano-Arroquia, PhD Title: “Postdoc Perspectives: Research, Careers & Life After the PhD”

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Caraveo-Piso Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA Mechanisms of Brain Resilience in Neurodegeneration Hosts: Joachim Schultze & Sach Mukherjee

The GBM Lunch is aimed at a wide audience, both in terms of professional scope and the level of expertise of the participants. Following the lecture there will be an opportunity for Q&A. Marisela Rodriguez (Emerging Pharma Discovery Consulting) Methods Workshop: A practical tool that simplifies scientific database research The volume of curated, open-source scientific data is enormous. Yet it is fragmented across numerous databases that were never designed to communicate with each other. We have a fundamental data access problem in scientific research that hinders our ability to design better experiments and decisions. In this seminar, we will showcase a practical solution to tackle this problem.

The 2026 TRA Workshop on Data Management and Data Science Across Disciplines The programme addresses a broad range of topics, including: • Data science methods and cross-disciplinary workflows • Research data management infrastructures and support services in Bonn and beyond • Data management in large-scale projects and Clusters of Excellence • High Performance Computing (HPC) and data-intensive research • Commercialization, knowledge transfer, and research-based entrepreneurship • Open Science and the future of accessible and reusable research

Speaker: Prof. Chenqi Xu, Deputy Director: Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director: Key Laboratory of Multi-Cell Systems; Executive Chief Editor: Cell Research Title: Cholesterol metabolism in T-cell immunity: from mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities Host: Veronika Lukacs-Kornek

Join us for our next Job Talk Industry Jan Gaede - Medical Solution Lead UCG After the talks we will have pizza and drinks for more discussions. Please register for better planning

The GBM Lunch is aimed at a wide audience, both in terms of professional scope and the level of expertise of the participants. Following the lecture there will be an opportunity for Q&A. Thorben Cordes (TU Dortmund University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology) "Single-molecule spectroscopy of membrane transporters: From quantiative dynamic structural biology to biochemical function" Chair: Claus Seidel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

Speaker: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Björn Krüger, Klinik und Poliklinik für Epileptologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn Title: From Movement to Meaning: AI for Behaviour, Emotion and Digital Biomarkers in Neurology Bitte melden Sie sich an unter: epi.event@ukbonn.de

Emerging Technologies meet ThemeNights Hannes Beckert Microscopy Core Facility Vanessa Barabasch Histology Core Facility

Meet spatial biology enthusiasts in Bonn and connect! Scientific Talks Martin Giera, Leiden University Medical Center: The Lipid Landscape of Neurodegeneration