
Prof. Bénédicte Manoury
“Title to be announced”
Date: POSTPONED
original date: November 09th, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Veit Hornung


Dr. Marco Binder
DKFZ Heidelberg - Research group Dynamics of early viral infection and the innate antiviral response
“to be announced"
Date: November 14th, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Florian Schmidt
Prof. Ann Rothstein
Rheumatology - UMass Chan Medical School - MA, USA
“Tissue specific initiating factors in nucleic acid-driven autoinflammation"
Date: December 14th, 2022 / rescheduled
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Veit Hornung



Prof. Daniel Depledge
Medical University of Hannover Institute of Virology
“Deciphering viral epitranscriptomes through nanopore sequencing”
Date: October 19th, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Andreas Pichlmair
Dr. Christian Zierhut
“Chromatin regulation of innate immune self-DNA sensing and cell fate during genotoxic stress.”
Date: July 13th, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Axel Roers


Prof. Yasmine Belkaid
“Microbiome control of host immunity.”
Date: June 22nd, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Rayk Behrendt
Prof. Rune Hartmann
“Two novel cGAS like receptors recognize viral infection in insects and induce an antiviral response via the STING-NFκB axis.”
Date: May 18th, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Stefan Bauer


Prof. Gilmar Salgado
“HnRNPA1 and G-quadruplexes regulatory role in KRAS expression.”
Date: May 11th, 2022
Time: 11:00 (UTC+2)
Hybrid: Bonn, BMZ II, Seminar room EG.405 & Zoom
Host: Prof. Katrin Paeschke
Prof. Philippe Pasero
“Crosstalk between replication stress and inflammation in oncogene-induced senescence.”
Date: April 27th, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Katrin Paeschke


Prof. Kathrin Leppek
“Transcript-specific translation by the ribosome.””
Date: January 19th, 2022
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Gunther Hartmann
Prof. Yanick Crow
“Human type I interferonopathies - 10 years on.”
Date: December 16th, 2021
Time: 14:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Zoom
Host: PD Dr. Rayk Behrendt


Prof. Ronald van Rij
“Biogenesis and (antiviral) functions of piRNAs in vector mosquitoes.”
Date: November 22nd, 2021
Time: 15:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Beate Kümmerer
Prof. Nan Yan
“The STING signaling pathway in health and disease.”
Date: October 27th, 2021
Time: 15:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Axel Roers


Dr. Tugce Aktas
“Taming the repetitive transcriptome with RNA binding proteins.”
Date: September 20th, 2021
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Min Ae Lee-Kirsch
Prof. Jan Rehwinkel
“Nucleic acid sensing by innate immune receptors - a journey from ADAR1 via cGAS to vaccination”
Date: July 12th, 2021
Time: 14:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Stefan Bauer


Prof. Andrea Ablasser
“Sensing DNA as a danger signal inside cells.”
Date: June 23rd, 2021
Time: 15:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Karl-Peter Hopfner and Prof. Veit Hornung
Dr. Olivia Majer
“Compartmentalized signaling control of endosomal TLRs maintains immune tolerance to self-nucleic acids.”
Date: May 17th, 2021
Time: 15:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Veit Hornung


Dr. Moritz Gaidt
“A novel self-guarded sensing pathway of viral infection.”
Date: April 22nd, 2021
Time: 17:00 (UTC+2)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Veit Hornung
Prof. Jayanta Chaudhuri
"Regulating Programmed Double Strand Breaks in B cells (and a touch of flu)"
Date: March 22nd, 2021
Time: 14:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Katrin Paeschke


Prof. Franklin Zhong
"The NLRP1 inflammasome: lessons from human genetics and LEGO-like filament assembly"
Date: February 25th 2021
Time: 14:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Veit Hornung
Prof. Søren Riis Paludan
"Activation of cGAS-STING signaling: How to leave the ER?"
Date: January 28th 2021
Time: 14:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Zoom
Host: Dr. Rayk Behrendt


Dr. Marco Hein
"Functional single-cell genomics of virus-host systems."
Date: December 17th 2020
Time: 15:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Zoom
Host: Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung
Dr. Eirini Trompouki
"Repetitive Elements Trigger RIG-I-like Receptor Signaling that Regulates hematopoietic stem cell development and regeneration"
Date: November 26th 2020
Time: 12:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Zoom
Host: Dr. Eva Bartok


Patricia Müller
"Light-Inducible Oligonucleotides"
Date: January 29th, 2020
Time: 10:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Bonn, BMZ I, Lecture Hall 2
Host: Prof. Dr. Gunther Hartmann
Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
"Viral manipulation of RNA decay"
Date: November 27th, 2019
Time: 10:00 (UTC+1)
Location: Bonn, Building 10, Seminar Room 4
Host: Prof. Dr. Gunther Hartmann


Markus Hafner, Ph. D.
"Integrative Analysis of RNA Binding Protein Targets and Funtion"