Here, we list public events and research seminars at the MPI-CBG and events targeted at the general public and the scientific community.
Information on internal seminars is available via the MPI-CBG Intranet. You can find further information on upcoming research seminars and scientific events happening at all Dresden research institutions via the Dresden Science Calendar.
Apr 14, 2026 14:30 - 16:00
Paulo von Petersenn: Computern das Denken beibringen - warum große Sprachmodelle so gut funktionieren
MPI-CBG - Auditorium
Apr 23, 2026 09:00 - 12:00
Dem Leben auf der Spur - Wie wird man Wissenschaftlerin?
MPI-CBG
Apr 28, 2026 14:30 - 16:00
Dr. Maximilian Wiesmann: Die Geburt künstlichen Lebens
MPI-CBG - Auditorium
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
Dresden research institutions open their doors to the public and share their science through a variety of lectures, experiments, guided tours, exhibitions, and films.
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
Apr 16, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Jeremy Gunawardena
Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Aida Maraj
Energy expenditure is essential to life but cellular information processing can take place without it. Bacterial gene regulation, for example, appears not to rely on it. We have, in consequence, adopted an equilibrium thermodynamic perspective for thinking about how genes work, even in eukaryotes. I will discuss theoretical results based on the "linear framework" that characterise the limits, or Hopfield barriers, to information processing at equilibrium and the challenges of undertaking compelling experiments to reveal the impact of energy expenditure in eukaryotic genomes. More broadly, I will suggest that this research programme shows how mathematical theory can sometimes get behind the data, to uncover a conceptual landscape that leads to new kinds of experiments and new ways of interpreting data.
Apr 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00
Thiago de Paiva
Peking University
CSBD SR Top Floor (VC)
Host: Local Organisers: Nikola Sadovek, Maximilian Wiesmann, Giulio Zucal
By Alexander’s theorem, every link in the 3-sphere can be represented as the closure of a braid. Lorenz links and twisted torus links are two well-studied families that admit explicit braid descriptions. In this talk, we introduce a natural generalization of these families that encompasses all links in the 3-sphere, yielding a simpler braid description for all links in the 3-sphere. This introduces a new perspective in knot theory.
Apr 16, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
Selvi Kara
Bryn Mawr College
CSBD SR Top Floor (VC)
Host: Local Organisers: Nikola Sadovek, Maximilian Wiesmann, Giulio Zucal
Flow-firing, introduced by Felzenszwalb-Klivans, is a 2D analogue of chip-firing: an integer flow on the edges of a cell complex evolves by repeatedly applying local rerouting moves around faces. In their original work, the only proven confluent family on the grid stabilized (independent of firing choices) into an Aztec diamond, a centered diamond-shaped patch of unit squares. In this talk I will explain how far this phenomenon extends. For a natural family of conservative “pulse” initial conditions, we prove a three-regime theorem: there is a small-support regime with unique stabilization to the Aztec diamond, an intermediate regime where stabilization occurs but the terminal state is not unique (though the Aztec diamond can still occur), and a large-support regime where confluence fails, including a range where the Aztec-diamond outcome is impossible.
May 7, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Daniel Fletcher
UC Berkeley, USA
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Stephan Grill
May 21, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Jacqueline Tabler
Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Stephan Grill
TBA
May 28, 2026 11:00 - 12:00
Raymond Goldstein
University of Cambridge, UK
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: Pierre Haas
Jun 11, 2026 00:00 - 00:05
Benjamin Schumann
TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
CBG Large Auditorium
Host: André Nadler
TBA
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