Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht zu allen öffentlichen wissenschaftlichen Vorträgen und Veranstaltungen, sowie zu Veranstaltungen für die Öffentlichkeit am MPI-CBG. Nicht-öffentliche Vorträge werden im Intranet des Instituts bekanntgegeben. Umfassende Information zu Vorträgen und Workshops an weiteren Dresdner Wissenschaftseinrichtungen finden Sie im Dresden Science Calendar.
Feb 18 - Jun 17, 2026 13:30 - 14:30
TDA reading seminar
Hybrid: CSBD, Oxford
May 12, 2026 09:00 - 12:00
Prospective candidates for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program visit Dresden to interview and present their science publicly.
MPI-CBG - CSBD SR Top Floor
May 19, 2026 14:30 - 16:00
Dr. Tamina Lebek: Zellen im Gespräch
MPI-CBG - Auditorium
Jun 9, 2026 14:30 - 16:00
Dr. Meline Macher: Ungleiche Nachbarn in der Zelle
MPI-CBG - Auditorium
Jun 22 - Jun 25, 2026 09:00 - 16:00
A workshop bringing researchers together to present and discuss recent advances in the theory and use of discrete Laplacians
MPI-CBG
Jun 26 - Jun 27, 2026 17:00 - 00:00
Dresdner Forschungseinrichtungen öffnen ihre Türen für die Öffentlichkeit und präsentieren Wissenschaft in Form von Vorträgen, Experimenten, Führungen, Ausstellungen und Filmen.
MPI-CBG
Aug 10 - Sep 18, 2026
A 6 Week Intensive on Combinatorics in Algebraic Statistics and Game Theory
MPI-CBG
Aug 24 - Aug 25, 2026
Celebrating 25 years at the MPI-CBG in Dresden
MPI-CBG
Sep 15, 2026 14:30 - 16:00
Johanna Lattner: Wenig Sauerstoff, große Wirkung – Wie sich Plazentazellen spezialisieren und neues Leben ermöglichen
MPI-CBG - Auditorium
May 20, 2026 14:00 - 15:00
Gerald Lerchbaumer
University of Toronto, Canada
CBG SR 4
Host: Rita Mateus
Cell adhesion is essential for shaping tissues during animal development, yet how adhesion is tuned to support different morphogenetic movements remains unclear. We used optogenetics in the Drosophila embryo to address this question by enhancing clustering of E-cadherin, a core component of adherens junctions. Increasing E-cadherin clustering enriches E-cadherin at junctions and reduces its mobility, consistent with enhanced adhesion strength. This approach allows targeted manipulation of cellular adhesive properties in vivo and makes it possible to address questions that were previously difficult to test directly. By analyzing animal development while increasing cell adhesion throughout the epithelial tissue, we found that this causes a strong reduction in cell rearrangements during epithelial morphogenesis and disrupts convergent extension of the embryonic axis. To further understand these effects, we adapted a vertex model to include adhesion-dependent friction between cells. The model predicts that stronger adhesion increases resistance to neighbor exchange and thereby limits tissue remodeling. To test this idea, we analyzed different morphogenetic movements in the fly and their dependence on cell adhesion. We found that enhanced E-cadherin clustering strongly slows morphogenetic processes that depend on both cell shape change and cell rearrangement, while movements that rely primarily on apical constriction can still proceed. Together, these findings suggest that E-cadherin clustering is an important regulator of tissue mechanics and that tuning adhesion is critical for morphogenetic events that require dynamic cell-cell rearrangements
May 21, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Jacqueline Tabler
Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Stephan Grill
TBA
Jun 11, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Benjamin Schumann
TU Dresden
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: André Nadler
Alterations in glycoprotein expression and composition are an undisputed corollary of developmental processes, host-pathogen interactions and cancer formation. Consequently, some of the most important tumor biomarkers are heavily glycosylated. Understanding cellular glycoproteome changes is paramount but hampered by experimental limitations. Protein glycosylation is mediated by the activities of >200 glycosyltransferases mainly located in the secretory pathway. Since these transferases are interdependent through compensation and competition, traditional methods of molecular cell biology fail to fully address the complexity of glycoprotein biosynthesis. Furthermore, workflows in mass spec-glycoproteome analysis are often restricted to isolated cell lines that do not adequately reflect the interactions within tissues or between tumor and microenvironment. Thus, we lack strategies to understand 1) the protein substrate specificities of individual glycosyltransferases and 2) which glycoproteins are made by cells in response to their microenvironment. We also 3) miss chemical probes to investigate and disrupt cancer-relevant glycosylation. Here, I describe our development of chemical “Precision Tools” to dissect cellular glycosylation. We employ bump-and-hole (BH) engineering to render glycosyltransferases receptive to a chemically modified nucleotide-sugar substrate that carries a bioorthogonal tag and is not used by wildtype transferases. Engineering individual transferases allows differential profiling of their protein substrate specificities. We found that establishing cellular BH systems required innovation in the delivery of corresponding nucleotide-sugarsto the secretory pathway. We have also taken initiative in the development of small molecule inhibitors against cancer-relevant glycosylation enzymes. Thus, chemical Precision Tools allow us to profile protein glycosylation as a key player in cancer biology.
Sep 17, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Takashi Hiiragi
Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Augusto Ortega Granillo and Jonathan Jackson
Sep 24, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Merixtell Huch
Oct 29, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Katharina Sonnen
Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Rita Mateus
Nov 5, 2026 00:00 - 00:05
Anne-Claude Gavin
University of Geneva, Switzerland
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Martin Buitrago Arango and Koichiro Takenaka
TBA
Nov 12, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Madeline Lancaster
University of Cambridge
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Claudia Gerri
Dec 3, 2026 11:00 - 12:30
Martin Beck
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Alexander von Appen
Dec 10, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
David Pellman
Harvard Medical School, USA
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Alexander von Appen