SEMINAR & TALKS

iRTG Seminar Series


Time: Thursdays, 14 to 15:30



Location: W3-1-152 and online

UPCOMING TALKS



  • May 1 - Public holiday

    Cancelled due to public holiday

  • May 8 - Georg Langebrake & Srdan Vujinovic

    Progress reports of Nav05 (Georg) & Sig04 (Srdan)


    Chair: Oda

  • May 15 - online: María Jesús García Bianco & Marie Ziegler

    Progress reports of Nav07 (María Jesús) & Neu04 (Marie)


    Chair: Sonam

  • May 22 - no seminar (announcement CoE)

    Cancelled due to the announcement regarding the outcome of the Cluster of Excellence "Navisense" application

  • May 29 - Public holiday

    Cancelled due to public holiday

  • June 5 - Introduction to LaTeX

    2 hour introduction to LaTeX by Julia from student council Physics


    Please bring your Laptop

  • June 12 - Alisha Ameerjan & Max Manackin

    Progress report by Sig06 (Alisha) & Neu02 (Max) 

  • June 19 - Ümmügülsüm Güzelsoy & TBD

    Progress report by Sig04 (Gül)


    Chair: TBD

  • June 26 - tbd

    tbd

  • July 3 - Maryam Khazani & tbd

    Progress report from Sig06 (Maryam)

  • July 10 - Guest talk: Humberto Fernandez

    Guest talk from Humberto Fernandez from the International centre for translational eye research (https://icter.pl/people/humberto-fernandes-phd/)


    Host: Karl Koch

  • July 17 - Excursion to WHV+Picnic

    Excursion to Wilhelmshaven + Picnic


    Host: Nathalie

  • July 18 to September 5 - Summer break

    iRTG seminar summer break from July 18 to September 5

  • September 11 - Guest talk: Valeria Marasco

    Guest talk by Valeria Marasco

    (Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)

    https://valeriamarasco.blog/about/


    Host: Miriam

  • September 29-30 - Autmn meeting (UOL)

    Our SFB autumn meeting takes place in the BIS hall of the UOL. 

Past guest talks & lecture series



  • Guest talks

    • Sercan Sayin (University of Konstanz) "The Rules of Collective Locust Marching"
    • Alina Sigaeva (KTH Stockholm) "Mapping cellular redox metabolism with quantum-based sensing and spatial proteomics"
    • Reinhard Klenke (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, DE) "Spatial distribution of roosts of the greater mouse-eared bat and temporal trends in the movement of individuals between roosts"
    • Sissel Sjöberg (Lund University) "Extreme diel flight altitude changes in migratory birds"
    • Richard Holland (Prifysgol Bangor University, UK) "A (different) trivial question with a non trivial answer: do pigeons integrate familiar visual landmarks in to their navigational map?"
    • Lukas Anneser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH) "Molecular, functional, and behavioral analysis of neuromodulatory networks in zebrafish telencephalon"
    • Christian Damsgaard (Aarhus Universiteit, DK) "Neural anoxia tolerance supported the evolution of sharp vision in birds"
    • Anna Stöckl (University of Konstanz, DE) "Dynamic processing in insect vision: from single photons to flight control"
    • Barbara Helm (Swiss Ornithological Institute, CH) "Bird migration: ancient timers meet environmental change"
    • Kristen Ruegg (Colorado State University, USA) "The Bird Genoscape Project: Harnessing the Power of Genomics to Advance Migratory Bird Conservation"
    • Basil el Jundi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO) "The neurobiology of the monarch butterfly compass"
    • Shaked Ron (Israel Institute of Technology, IL) "Neural respresentation of Head-direction across brain areas in quails"
    • Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen, DE) "Discovering novel feature-selective retinal circuits through model-guided search of natural stimulus space"

  • Lecture series

    1. Introduction to magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates (Henrik Mouritsen)
    2. Spectroscopy methods to measure magnetic field effects in proteins (Christiane Timmel/Stuart Mackenzie)
    3. Spin dynamics of cryptochrome proteins (Peter Hore)
    4. Optical microscopy techniques in biophysics (Christoph Lienau)
    5. Magnetic-particle-based magnetoreception (Michael Winklhofer)
    6. Purifying cryptochrome proteins (Rabea Bartölke)
    7. Ultrafast optical spectroscopy in biology and chemistry (Antonietta de Sio)
    8. Modelling cryptochrome proteins (Ilia Solov'yov)
    9. The genetics of bird migration (Miriam Liedvogel)
    10. Using virus techniques to study bird behaviour (Constance Scharff/Ezequiel Mendoza)
    11. Cryptochrome molecules and their interaction partners (Karl Koch)
    12. Processing of light and magnetic stimuli in the retina (Karin Dedek)
    13. Electrophysiological methods and magnetic stimulation (Martin Greschner)
    14. Brain pathways for magnetoreception (Dominik Heyers/Onur Güntürkün)
    15. Orientation in fish (Gabriele Gerlach)
    16. Navigation in bats (Nachum Ulanovsky)
    17. Magnetoreception in bats (Oliver Lindecke)
    18. Designing behavioural experiments to study magnetoreception (Henrik Mouritsen)
    19. Studying migration and navigation in free-flying birds (Heiko Schmaljohann)
    20. Unraveling the navigational phenotype - a variance partitioning approach (Sandra Bouwhuis)
    21. Models of animal movement, collective motion and swarming (Bernd Blasius)
    22. Introduction to High-Performance Computing (Stefan Harfst)
    23. The geomagnetic field as a cue for spatial orientation in insects (Pauline Fleischmann)