Time: Wednesdays 11:15 a.m. alternating with the IZS Collquium
Venue: Small Lecture Hall (Kleiner Hörsaal) of the IPM

• 22.04.2026
  Dr. Bettina Weber (Graz)
  Impact of cryptogamic communities on biogeochemical cycles in the Anthropocene

• 29.04.2026 
  Daniel Van Damm (VIB, Gent)
  Endocytosed vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress

• 06.05.2026 – special colloquium at 4:15 PM!
  Elizabeth Edwards (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
  Adventures in Anaerobic Bioremediation: Challenges to Characterizing Enzymes from Microbial Consortia

• 20.05.2026 
  Anastasia Poliakova (CSMS, Univ. Hamburg)
  Bridging botany and philology in the same project? Modern plant studies help reconstruct the provenance and material history of palm-leaf manuscripts

• 03.06.2026 
  Marco Thines (Evolutionary Analysis and Biological Archives, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt a. M.)
  Oomycete host-interactions through space and time

• 24.06.2026
  Cecilia Lara Mondragon
  TBA

• 08.07.2026 - Cancelled
  Jaishree Subrahmaniam
  TBA

• 22.07.2026 - Cancelled
  Karel Riha
  TBA

Time: Wednesdays, 17:00, alternating with the IPM Colloquium
Venue: Kosswig-Saal of the IZS (Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3)

• 15.04.2026
  Heribert Hofer (Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife Research; Institute for Biology, Freie Universität Berlin)
  The selfish sib: ecology and evolution of sibling rivalry and siblicide in spotted hyena
  Abstract

• 29.04.2026
  Anna Stöckl (Die Universität Konstanz)
  More than just a pretty flower: how visual patterns guide insect – plant interactions
  Abstract

• 10.06.2026
  Tanja Laske (LIV, Hamburg)
  Computational prioritization of defective viral genomes for innovative antiviral therapies
  Abstract

• 15.07.2026
  Magdalena Migalska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
  Unfolding the ontogenetic trajectories of adaptive immunity in salamanders
  Abstract

Venue: Small Lecture Room in the Olbersweg 24 building
TIME is noon at 12:00 unless otherwise stated, remote is OK, but we prefer in person/hybrid

• 24.04.2026
  Alexey Golikov  (Senckenberg) 
  "Deep-sea cephalopods and climate change: Introduction of the new DFG project ToughCephs" 
• 08.05.2026
  Till Harter  (Geomar) 
  "Comparative red blood cell physiology: uncovering novel cellular mechanisms to improve human health and predict the impacts of climate change on fishes" 
• 22.05.2026
  Gunnar Brune  
  "AI - Strategies and Storytelling"
• 05.06.2026
  Antonia Ahme (UHH/AWI Bremerhaven)
  "Phytoplankton and warming - a hot tale from polar day to polar night"
• 19.06.2026    now moved to 03.07.2026
  Emily Booms (IGB Berlin)
  "Ecoevolutionary dynamics of multiple species - a case study using microcosm experiments"
• 10.07.2026
  Frederik Alexander Bußmann (AWI Bremerhaven)
  "Dissolved Organic Matter: Characterization, Methods, and Ecological Significance "
• 17.07.2026
  Cédric  Meunier (AWI Helgoland)
  "Impact of global change on planktonic food webs "

Programme is coming - we will add more dates as and when we have confirmations from our invited speakers. 

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