Talks and Seminars in Bonn

Prof. Dr. Iqbal Hamza Institution: University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Pediatrics, 670 W. Baltimore Street, HSF III, 8th Floor, USA “Heme homeostasis and tolerance in health and disease” Diskussionsleitung: Prof. Dr. Diana Imhof

Speaker: Simon T. Schäfer (TU Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy) Titel: "Organoids as Decoders of the Logic and Function of Neuro-Immune Circuits" Prof. Schäfer’s work centers on developing innovative stem-cell–derived systems that form three-dimensional models mirroring the human brain’s architecture and function. His laboratory uses these model systems to expand possibilities for personalized studies of human-specific neurological disorders and to discover new approaches that may support brain regeneration.

Talk plus round table discussion afterwards Unlocking the immune system with engineered living bacterial therapeutics by Jonathan Koltula (CEO of LagunaBio, the California-based startup working on immunotherapy against cancer)

Dr. Eloísa Herrera González de Molina Research Professor, Generation and Regeneration of Bilateral Neural Circuits Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH), Alicante, Spain Vortrags-Titel: “Building and rebuilding the binocular circuit”

Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) talk Charley Wu, W3 professor of computational cognitive science at TU Darmstad “Generalization Guides Exploration Across Development, Social Contexts, and Memory”

Prospects: Germany’s largest independent research funding organisation offers funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. Join our online talk and get to know the DFG and its funding portfolio for postdocs. We offer an overview of all funding instruments for the time after your PhD as well as specific focus talks on the Walter Benjamin Programme, the Emmy Noether Programme and the Heisenberg Programme. We will also provide advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process and answer your questions. PhD candidates and postdocs of all disciplines are welcome to join!

We are looking forward to the talks of: • Jochen Kursawe (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland): Oscillations as windows into cell behaviour and cell mechanics • Paul Bürkner (Computational Statistics, TU Dortmund): Amortized Mixture and Multilevel Models

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. Mikel Garcia-Marcos (Boston University, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine) The secret life of G proteins

Prof. Dr. med. Frank Winkler Neurologische Klinik, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg ‘Epilepsie und Hirntumore: über eine verhängnisvolle Beziehung (und wie man sie nutzen kann)’ Bitte melden Sie sich an unter: epi.event@ukbonn.de

At BFB annual meeting you can meet scientists from Bonn from a wide variety of fields and topics. Get in contact and expand your horizon. The focus will be on introducing new members and presentations by junior researchers. Several prizes will be awarded. Poster session Talks from new BFB members Speed Dating with new members Short presentations IID Talks Publication Prize, PhD Award Award Poster Prizes and Short presentation Pub Quiz

We would like to bring the Organoid Community in Bonn together in an interactive format, in which we offer all researchers working on organoids (or related topics, including organotypic cultures or tissue explants) the chance to either briefly introduce themselves with a single slide (aka flash talk), or give a short presentation if you already have some data. This way, we will all learn what is currently going on in the organoid field in Bonn.

Emerging Technologies meet ThemeNights Speaker: Julien Gagneur (TMU Munich) Title: Where does it hurt (in your genome)? This seminar aims to promote the exchange between Core Facilities, students, scientists and PIs on new technological developments in the life sciences. The speakers will facilitate a supra-regional exchange of information on the latest technological developments and their applications. The seminar is organized by by the Vice Deans Office for Scientific Infrastructure of the Medical Faculty by TRA Life and Health, the Bonner Forum Biomedizin and the Postdoc Orgateam of the Immunosensation Cluster.

We aim to delve into a comprehensive array of topics, including but not limited to: • Modelling of Cellular Pathways • Modelling of the Tumor Microenvironment • Modelling of Organoids • Infectious Disease Modelling • Mathematical Biology • Single-Cell Analysis • Bioinformatics/Omics Analysis

Keynotes by Cori Bargmann, Edvard Moser, Maude Baldwin, Rosa Paolicelli and Zach Knight. As every year, our meeting also includes a student-organised Young Investigator Symposium, this year featuring a Career/Q&A Session with Leonie Welberg (senior editor at Nature Neuroscience), which is open for every attendee. In addition to two poster sessions, up to 16 slots for talks selected from the submitted abstracts are available.

University of Bonn is hosting Naturalistic Neuroscience – from perception to action and back on 28-29 May 2026. This two-day symposium will spotlight substantive research, novel neurotechnology, and theoretical underpinnings in this field. In addition to a series of distinguished keynote talks, participants will have the opportunity to present their work through oral or poster presentations, and to visit local naturalistic neuroscience and virtual reality facilities. We expect registration to open in February 2026. Stay tuned and contact nn2026@uni-bonn.de to receive further updates directly from the organisers.