CCR Lecture Series & Impromptu Seminars

Hind Medyouf
Georg-Speyer-Haus

"Harnessing the Tumor microenvironment to Enable Cancer Control"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Monday, December 2^nd 2024, 13:00
Host: Juliane Winkler

Stefanie K. Wculek
IRB Barcelona, Spain

"Novel functions of dendritic cells to induce anti-cancer immune memory and prevent cancer relapse"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Monday, December 2^nd 2024, 10:00
Host: Maria Sibilia

Arno Bourgonje
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

"Characterization of pre-diagnostic antibody repertoires in inflammatory bowel disease"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Wednesday, October 16^th 2024, 10:00
Host: Thomas Vogl

Christian Schürch
University of Tübingen

"Deconstructing Immune Mechanisms, Therapy Responses and Patient Outcomes by Highly Multiplexed Tissue Imaging"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, October 7^th 2024, 13:00
Host: Iros Barozzi

Ravid Straussman
Weizmann Institute of Science

"The intra-tumor microbiome and its effects on response to therapy"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Monday, September 2^nd 2024, 13:00
Host: Thomas Vogl

Alexander Kurilshikov
Department of Genetics
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)

"Genetic and environmental factors influencing the human microbiome"
Venue: CCR Lecture Hall, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Thursday, August 8^th 2024, 10:00
Host: Thomas Vogl

Lina Schmidt
Institute for Molecular Medicine
RWTH Aachen University

"Mapping Plasma Cell Distribution and Characteristics in Gnotobiotic Mice"
Venue: CCR Container, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Thursday, July 4^th 2024, 15:00
Host: Thomas Vogl

Carmen Abate
University of Bari Aldo Moro

"A journey into the sigma receptors' world: Focus on sigma-1 receptor, its ligands and their therapeutic potentials"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Wednesday, July 3^rd 2024, 12:30
Host: Petra Heffeter

Colinda Scheele
VIB-KU Leuven
Center for Cancer Biology

"Tracking the origin of cancer in space and time"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, June 14^th 2024, 14:30
Host: Gergely Szakacs

Kjetil Taskén
Oslo University Hospital
Institute for Cancer Research

"Tumor Immune Evasion Mechanisms, Immune Regulation and Regulatory T cells"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, June 10^th 2024, 13:00
Host: Petra Heffeter

Isaac P. Witz
Tel Aviv University

"The Janus-Faced Cancer Ecosystem – The Case of Brain Metastasizing Melanoma Cells"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, June 7^th 2024, 10:30
Host: Walter Berger, Maria Sibilia
Patronage: Vice Rector Michaela Fritz

Leeat Keren
Weizmann Institute of Science

"Life is better in color – multiplexed imaging for next generation pathology"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, May 27^th 2024, 13:00
Host: Juliane Winkler

Leila Akkari
Netherlands Cancer Institute

"Dissecting and Rewiring Immune Cell Heterogeneity in the Cancer Ecosystem: Myeloid Cells at Play"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, April 29^th 2024, 13:00
Host: Juliane Winkler

Hassan Fazilaty
Department of Molecular Life Sciences,
University of Zurich

"Oncoembryology: Characterization of Ectopic Embryonic Genetic Programs in Colon Cancer for Precision Targeting"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, April 22^nd 2024, 15:00
Host: Maria Sibilia

Joseph Schlessinger
Yale School Of Medicine
Cancer Biology Institute

"Cell Signaling By Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: From Basic Principles To Cancer Therapies"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, March 18^th 2024, 15:00
Host: Maria Sibilia

Leif S Ludwig
Max Delbrück Center

"Clonal Dynamics And Mitochondrial Genetics Via The Lens Of Single-Cell Multi-Omics"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, March 11^th 2024, 13:00
Host: Bernhard Englinger

Carlos Reyna
Oncology Data Science Basel group Novartis (NIBR)

"Computational Tools for Inferring Genetic Parameters from Noisy Sequesncing Data"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, February 19^th 2024, 09:30
Host: Thomas Vogl

Florian Greten
Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Georg Speyer Haus

"Cell Plasticity in Colorectal Carcinogenesis and Therapy"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, February 2^nd 2024, 13:00
Host: Maria Sibilia

Saverio Tardito
Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute

"Rethinking Our Approach To Cancer Metabolism To Deliver Patient Benefit"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, January 29^th 2024, 10:00
Host: Maria Sibilia

Marah Runtsch
Medical University Graz

"Unraveling Myeloid Cell Metabolism in Cancer and Inflammation"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, January 22^nd 2024 10:00
Host: Maria Sibilia

Alexandra (Sasha) Zhernakova
Professor of genome and exposome
University Medical Center Groningen

"Host and environmental factors shaping the gut microbiome"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Thursday, January 18^th, 2024, 10:15
Host: Thomas Vogl

Eleni M. Tomazou
St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI)

"Fusion driven sarcomas: From epigenetic profiling to developmental disease models"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, January 15^th, 2024, 13:00
Host: Maria Sibilia

Alexis Lomakin
Institute for Pathobiochemistry & Genetics,
Medical University of Vienna

"How does 'form-follows-function' in therapy-induced cancer cell senescence?"
Venue: CCR Lecture Hall, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Friday, November 3^rd 2023, 14:00
Host: Iros Barozzi

Chris McGinnis
Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Scholar,
Cancer Research Institute, Stanford University

"Interrogating immunomodulation for anti-metastatic immunotherapy"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, September 25^th 2023, 13:00
Host: Juliane Winkler

Juha Klefström
Finnish Cancer Institute,
Helsinki University Hospital & University of Helsinki

"Activating resident tumor immunity through MYC-directed synthetic lethal strategies"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, September 18^th 2023, 11:00
Host: Juliane Winkler

Nicholas McGranahan
Cancer Institute, University College London, UK

"Cancer Evolution Beyond the Genome"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, September 16^th 2023, 11:00
Host: Juliane Winkler

Peter Faller
Professor of Chemistry (University of Strasbourg)
and group leader at the Institute of Chemistry

"Cu-complexes as anticancer compounds: Insights in the reactivity with thiols, O2 and the production of reactive oxygen species"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, August 25^th 2023, 13:00
Host: Petra Heffeter

Sergio Andreu Sánchez
PhD student, Department Genetics/Pediatrics,
University Medical Center Groningen

"Phage display sequencing reveals that genetic, enviromental, and intrinsic factors influence variation of human antibody epitope repertoire"
Venue: CCR Lecture Hall, Borschkegasse 8a
Date: Monday, July 24^th 2023, 15.00
Host: Thomas Vogl

Wei-Chuan Shih
Cullen Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Houston

"Nanobiophotonic liquid biopsy"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, June 23^th 2023, 11:00
Host: Klaus Holzmann

Thomas Brunner
Biochemical Pharmacology
Dept. of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany

"How tumor-autonomous synthesis of immunospressive glucocorticoids contributes to immune evasion in colorectal and lung cancer"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, June 19^th 2023, 13:30
Host: Maria Sibilia

Balázs Györffy
Department of Bioinformatics,
Semmelweis University, Hungary

"Utilizing transcriptomic data to uncover robust cancer biomarkers"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Tuesday, May 16^th 2023, 13:00
Host: Gergely Szakacs

Douglas Hanahan
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
& Agora Translational Cancer Research Center, Lausanne

"Elucidating and abrogating immunosuppressive mechanisms embodied in the tumor microenvironment"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Thursday, May 04^th 2023, 16:00
Host: Maria Sibilia & Erwin Wagner

Dimitris Tsiantoulas
Medical University of Vienna
Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

"APRIL, a major regulator of cardiovascular diseases"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Thursday, April 20^th 2023, 14.00
Host: Thomas Vogl

Talya Dayton
EMBL Barcelona

“Decoding neuroendocrine cancers: insights into initiation, progression, and therapeutic vulnerabilities from human organoid models"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Tuesday, March 24^th 2023, 10:00
Host: Juliane Winkler

András Nagy
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

"Making the Unsafe Safe: Global Source for Off-the-Shelf Therapeutic Cell Products"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, February 3^rd 2023, 13.00
Host: Gergely Szakacs

Andreas Reinisch
Medical University Graz

"Genome engineering of hematopoietic stem cells to model clonal hematopoiesis and myeloid malignancies"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, November 18^th 2022, 11:00
Host: Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter

Mazda Jenab
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

"Diet, Lifestyle and Metabolic Dysfunction in Colorectal Cancer Development"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, October 28^th 2022, 11:00
Host: Andrea Gsur

Arno R. Bourgonje
University of Groningen, The Netherlands

"Multimodal discovery of biomarker signatures for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and beyond"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, October 07^th 2022, 15:00
Host: Thomas Vogl