CCR Lecture Series & Impromptu Seminars
![Alexander Kurilshikov Alexander Kurilshikov](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/8/csm_2024-08-08_Kurilshikov_Alexander_8d264694e6.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 8th 2024, 10:00
Host: Thomas Vogl
![Lina Schmidt Lina Schmidt](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/5/csm_2024-07-04_Schmidt_Lina_2e103191af.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 4th 2024, 15:00
Host: Thomas Vogl
![Carmen Abate Carmen Abate](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/b/csm_2024-07-03_Abate_Carmen_6770d3b106.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 3rd 2024, 12:30
Host: Petra Heffeter
![Colinda Scheele Colinda Scheele](/fileadmin/_processed_/9/c/csm_2024-06-14_Scheele_Colinda_5db0a7e8cf.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 14th 2024, 14:30
Host: Gergely Szakacs
![Kjetil Taskén Kjetil Taskén](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/3/csm_2024-06-10_Tasken_Kjetil_0234ca059d.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 10th 2024, 13:00
Host: Petra Heffeter
![Isaac P. Witz Isaac P. Witz](/fileadmin/_processed_/5/2/csm_2024-06-07_Witz_Isaac_44a61b03ad.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 7th 2024, 10:30
Host: Walter Berger, Maria Sibilia
Patronage: Vice Rector Michaela Fritz
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CCR Lecture Series
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 27th 2024, 13:00
Host: Juliane Winkler
![Leila Akkari Leila Akkari](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/2/csm_2024-04-29_Akkari_Leila_ec40465f54.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 29th 2024, 13:00
Host: Juliane Winkler
![Hassan Fazilaty Hassan Fazilaty](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/f/csm_2024-04-22_Fazilaty_Hassan_22cbfb6442.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 22nd 2024, 15:00
Host: Maria Sibilia
![Joseph Schlessinger Joseph Schlessinger](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/8/csm_Schlessinger_Joseph_3982cc3c4f.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 18th 2024, 15:00
Host: Maria Sibilia
![Leif S. Ludwig Leif S. Ludwig](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/d/csm_2024-03-11_Ludwig_Leif_45d1ea130b.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 11th 2024, 13:00
Host: Bernhard Englinger
![Carlos Reyna Carlos Reyna](/fileadmin/_processed_/9/3/csm_DSC_0734_f6d04db18e.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 19th 2024, 09:30
Host: Thomas Vogl
![Florian Greten Florian Greten](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/3/csm_Greten_Florian_4711617453.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 2nd 2024, 13:00
Host: Maria Sibilia
![Saverio Tardito Saverio Tardito](/fileadmin/_processed_/f/5/csm_2024-01-29_Tardito_Saverio_d7ca364068.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 29th 2024, 10:00
Host: Maria Sibilia
![Marah Runtsch Marah Runtsch](/fileadmin/_processed_/0/d/csm_Runtsch_Marah_99a42a2076.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
Marah Runtsch
Medical University Graz
"Unraveling Myeloid Cell Metabolism in Cancer and Inflammation"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, January 22nd 2024 10:00
Host: Maria Sibilia
![Alexandra Zhernakova Alexandra Zhernakova](/fileadmin/_processed_/9/c/csm_Zhernakova_Alexandra_22a31b99b0.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 18th, 2024, 10:15
Host: Thomas Vogl
![Eleni M. Tomazou Eleni M. Tomazou](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/1/csm_Tomazou_Eleni_0f32344b7d.png)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 15th, 2024, 13:00
Host: Maria Sibilia
![Alexis Lomakin Alexis Lomakin](/fileadmin/_processed_/7/0/csm_2023-11-03_Lomakin_Alexis_20a7ae6129.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 3rd 2023, 14:00
Host: Iros Barozzi
![Chris McGinnis Chris McGinnis](/fileadmin/_processed_/6/9/csm_2023-09-25_McGinnis_Chris_41e95ec572.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 25th 2023, 13:00
Host: Juliane Winkler
![Juha Klefström Juha Klefström](/fileadmin/_processed_/f/2/csm_2023-09-18_Klefstroem_Juha_0011066077.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 18th 2023, 11:00
Host: Juliane Winkler
![Nicholas McGranahan Nicholas McGranahan](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/3/csm_2023-10-16_McGranahan_Nicholas_f66a9afac3.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
Nicholas McGranahan
Cancer Institute, University College London, UK
"Cancer Evolution Beyond the Genome"
Venue: Lecture Hall B1, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Monday, September 16th 2023, 11:00
Host: Juliane Winkler
![Peter Faller Peter Faller](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/0/csm_2023-08-25_Faller_Peter_a5bfef50ee.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 25th 2023, 13:00
Host: Petra Heffeter
![Sergio Andreu Sánchez Sergio Andreu Sánchez](/fileadmin/_processed_/6/b/csm_2023-07-24_Sanchez_Sergio_1e898f511d.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 24th 2023, 15.00
Host: Thomas Vogl
![Wei-Chuan Shih Wei-Chuan Shih](/fileadmin/_processed_/6/a/csm_Wei-Chuan_Shih_76f5f22029.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
Wei-Chuan Shih
Cullen Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Houston
"Nanobiophotonic liquid biopsy"
Venue: Lecture Hall B2, Borschkegasse 4a
Date: Friday, June 23th 2023, 11:00
Host: Klaus Holzmann
![Thomas Brunner Thomas Brunner](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/0/csm_Thomi_Brunner_fa7134b4c8.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 19th 2023, 13:30
Host: Maria Sibilia
![Balázs Györffy Balázs Györffy](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/d/csm_2023-05-16_Gyoerffy_Balazs_2333b93bc2.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 16th 2023, 13:00
Host: Gergely Szakacs
![Douglas Hanahan Douglas Hanahan](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/4/csm_2023-05-04_Hanahan_Douglas_2ddaa03281.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 04th 2023, 16:00
Host: Maria Sibilia & Erwin Wagner
![Dimitris Tsiantoulas Dimitris Tsiantoulas](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/0/csm_2023-04-20_Tsiantoulas_Dimitris_e8519c6ed5.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 20th 2023, 14.00
Host: Thomas Vogl
![Talya Dayton Talya Dayton](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/d/csm_2023-03-24_Dayton_Talya_9030fb16f4.jpg)
CCR Impromtu Seminar
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 24th 2023, 10:00
Host: Juliane Winkler
![Andras Nagy Andras Nagy](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/c/csm_2023-02-03_Nagy_Andras_007e604967.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 3rd 2023, 13.00
Host: Gergely Szakacs
![Andreas Reinisch Andreas Reinisch](/fileadmin/_processed_/6/8/csm_2022-11-18_Reinisch_Andreas_bc09128951.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 18th 2022, 11:00
Host: Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter
![Mazda Jenab Mazda Jenab](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/7/csm_2022-10-28_Jenab_Mazda_bf9d964034.jpg)
CCR Lecture Series
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 28th 2022, 11:00
Host: Andrea Gsur
![Arno R. Bourgonje Arno R. Bourgonje](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/3/csm_2022-10-07_Bourgonje_Arno_904dd88d6e.jpg)
CCR Impromptu Seminar
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 07th 2022, 15:00
Host: Thomas Vogl