Upcoming MitoClub Seminars 2025
MITO Club
Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Time: 12 pm.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Knorr, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Biochemistry
Seminar on "Organelle Morphogenesis: Condensates Shaping Autophagosomes and Autophagosome-like Mitochondria"
Place: CECAD Research Center, Lecture Hall, ground floor
Host: Elena Rugarli, University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics | CECAD
MITO Club
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Time: 12 pm.
Prof. Dr. Tatjana Kleele, ETH Zurich, Institute of Biochemistry
Seminar on "Organelle Morphogenesis: Condensates Shaping Autophagosomes and Autophagosome-like Mitochondria"
Place: CECAD Research Center, Lecture Hall, ground floor
Host: Elisa Motori, University of Cologne, Institute of Biochemistry | CMMC
Previous seminars in 2024
MITO Club
Date: Friday, 20.09.2024
Time: 12 pm.
Min Jiang School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China,
Seminar on "Decoding the Maternal Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA"
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing, Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Dusanka Milenkovic, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
MITO Club
Date: Thursday, 18.04.2024
Time: 12 pm.
Nora Voegtle, ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Seminar title: Surveillance of OXPHOS stoichiometry: A stop-and-go mechanism controls mitochondrial respiration
Host: Jan Riemer | University of Cologne, Institute for Biochemistry | CECAD
MITO Club
Date: Friday, 12.04.2024
Time: 12 pm.
Martin Picard | Mitochondrial PsychoBiology Lab, Columbia University, USA
Seminar title: Mitochondrial psychobiology in immune and brain cells
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Elena Rugarli, University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics | CECAD
MITO Club
Date: Monday, 18.03.2024
Time: 12 pm.
Martin Graef | Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences , USA
Seminar title: Mitochondria scaling and genome maintenance by autophagy
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Aleksandra Trifunovic, University of Cologne, Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Ageing | CECAD
MITO Club
Date: Thursday, 29.02.2024
Time: 3 pm.
Diana Stojanovski, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Seminar title: Mechanisms of mitochondrial disease linked to protein biogenesis dysfunction
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Elena Rugarli, University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics | CECAD
MITO Club
Date: Monday, 19.02.2024
Time: 12 pm.
Takumi Koshiba | Department of Chemistry, Fukuoka University, Japan
Seminar title: MicroRNAs target mitochondrial-mediated antiviral innate immunity by regulating mitochondrial dynamics and metabolic demand
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
Previous seminars in 2023
MITO Club
Date: 06.12.2023
Time: 11:30 am.
Alessandro Prigione | University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany
Seminar title: iPSCs and brain organoids in mitochondrial medicine
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Elena Rugarli, University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics | CECAD
MITO Club
Date: 22.11.2023
Time: 1 pm.
Lea Dietrich | Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics | Germany
Seminar title: Imaging cryo-mitos @work
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Ana J. García Sáez, University of Cologne
MITO Club
Date: 15.11.2023
Time: 2 pm.
Andreas Reichert | Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany
Seminar title: Mitochondrial inner membrane architecture and dynamics or 'How and why to get in shape?'
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Elena Rugarli, University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics | CECAD
MITO Club
Date: 08.11.2023
Time: 2 pm.
Timothy Wai| Institut Pasteur and CNRS UMR 3691, France
Seminar title: Mitochondrial membrane dysfunction and sequelae
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
MITO Club
Date: 18.10.2023
Time: 12 pm.
Marino Zerial | Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
Seminar title: Role of forces in membrane dynamics and tissue morphogenesis
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
MITO Club
Date: 31.05.2023
Time: 12 pm.
Stefan Jakobs | University of Göttingen | Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
Seminar title: Focusing on mitochondria with super-resolution microscopy
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
MITO Club
Date: 10.05.2023
Time: 12 pm.
Payam Gammage | Beatson Institute, UK
Seminar title: mtDNA mutations in cancer: context-specific drivers with therapeutic potential
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
MITO Club
Date: 15.03.2023
Time: 2 pm.
Inmaculada Martinez Reyes | Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Seminar title: Mitochondria in cancer and immunity
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
MITO Club
Date: 28.02.2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 12 pm.
Nils-Göran Larsson | Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Seminar title: The organization of the respiratory chain and its role in metabolism
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
Previous seminars in 2022
MITO Club
10.11.2022 (Thursday)
Aleksandra Filipovska | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Seminar title: Mitochondria as the nexus of metabolic regulation
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor | Time: 12 pm
Host: CRC 1218
PI Seminar
21.09.2022
Mauro Corrado, University of Cologne, Germany
Seminar title: Metabolic control of T cell immunity
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor | Time: 12 pm
Host: CRC1218
MITO Club
31.08.2022
Hauke Hillen, Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
Seminar title: Molecular basis of gene expression in human mitochondria
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor | Time: 11 am
Host: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing
MITO Club
20.06.2022
Oleh Khalimonchuk, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Seminar title: Touching base: Mechanisms linking mitochondrial membranes and processes
Place: Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing | Auditorium, ground floor | Time: 12 pm
Host: Lena Pernas, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing