Head-to-head seminars
Current invitation
on Tuesday, Mai 22nd, 2012, 9.15 am, we invite to the following talk:
From phenotype to mode of action: Natural product biology at HZI
Dr. Florenz Sasse, Department of Chemical Biology
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig
Lecture hall of the Institute for Microbiology & Biotechnology
Meckenheimer Allee 168, 53115 Bonn
Previous seminars
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP8:
Genome mining for secondary metabolites: what is the potential of the cyanobacterial phylum? - Dr. Muriel Gugger, Institut Pasteur, Paris (F)
Metagenomic discovery of proteusins, a new natural product family - Prof. Dr. Jörn Piel, University of Bonn
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP1:
The AAA+ protease complex - an important hub of regulatory and general proteolysis - Prof. Dr. Kürsad Turgay, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Modulators of Clp protease activity and function - Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, Universität Düsseldorf
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP2:
Bacterial Cell Wall Architecture: Strength by Design - Prof. Dr. Simon Foster, Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield (UK)
Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis: How Antibiotics cause Perturbations - Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Sahl, University of Bonn
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP7:
Novel lantibiotics from sequenced microbial genomes - Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bierbaum, IMMIP Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Actinomycete lantibiotics: an untapped clinical resource? - Prof. Dr. Mervyn Bibb, John Innes Centre, Norwich (UK)
Tuesday, Mai 10th, 2011:
Total synthesis of pestalone and related antimicrobial natural products - Prof. Dr. Hans-Günther Schmalz, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP5:
Wolbachia endobacteria of arthropods and filarial worms: do they have a cell wall? - Dr. Kenneth Pfarr, IMMIP Universitätsklinikum Bonn
The Wolbachia obligate endosymbiont as an anti-filarial nematode target - Dr. Barton Slatko, New England Biolabs (USA)
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010:
Understanding how novel alternatives to antibiotics work - Prof. Dr. Suzana K. Straus, Department of Chemistry, University of Bristish Columbia (CAN)
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP9:
Corallopyronin A: biosynthesis and bioactivity - Prof. Dr. Gabriele König, University of Bonn
Natural products from myxobacteria as synthetic challenges and biological tools - Prof. Dr. Markus Kalesse, Leibniz University Hannover
Monday, July 12th/ Tuesday, July 13th, 2010, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP2:
New antiinfective strategies – Daptomycin and antimicrobial peptides: very different molecules with similar mechanisms - Prof. Dr. Robert E.W. Hancock, University of Bristish Columbia (CAN)
The mysteries of daptomycin antibiotic activities - Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Sahl, University of Bonn
Tuesday, June 22nd , 2010, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP3:
Analysis of antibiotic peptide interaction with model membranes - a usefull approach to elucidate the mode of action? - Prof. Dr. Gerd Bendas, University of Bonn
Thermodynamics of melittin binding to lipid membranes - Dr. Gabriela Klocek, University of Basel (CH)
Tuesday, June 1st , 2010, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP4:
Functional organization of cell wall biosynthesis reactions in staphylococci - Dr. Imke Wiedemann, University of Bonn
Peptidoglycan synthesis: From enzyme activities to cell morphogenesis - Prof. Dr. Waldemar Vollmer, Newcastle University (UK)
Thursday, March 25th, 2010:
From anti-malarial agents to neurotoxins: Exploring the bioactive natural products of marine cyanobacteria - Prof. Dr. William Gerwick, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSD (USA)
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP9:
Corallopyronin - the first news of the biosynthesis - Dr. Till Schäberle, University of Bonn
Kirromycin biosynthesis - news of an ‘old’ antibiotic - Dr. Tilmann Weber, University of Tübingen
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010:
The unseen forces in plant defense and development: endophytic microbes - Dr. Anna Maria Pirttilä, Department of Biology University of Oulu (FIN)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP8:
Chemistry and Biology of Bacterial Lipopeptides - Dr. Harald Groß, University of Bonn
Diversity and Activity of Plant-associated Bacteria - Prof. Dr. Jos Raaijmakers, Wageningen University (NL)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009:
Immunobiology of Host Defence Peptides - Prof. Dr. Michael Yeaman, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Tuesday, June 23th, 2009 head-to-head seminar arranged by TP7:
Old and new lantibiotics - Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bierbaum, IMMIP Universitätsklinikum Bonn
The biosynthesis of actagardine - Dr. Antony Appleyard, Novacta Biosystems, Hertfordshire (UK)
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 head-to-head seminar arranged by TP6:
Riboswitches as antibacterial targets - Dr. Günter Mayer, Life & Medical Sciences - LIMES University of Bonn
Expanding roles for metabolite-binding riboswitch RNAs - Prof. Dr. Wade Winkler, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (USA)
Friday, March 27th, 2009, head-to-head seminar arranged by TP1:
Reprogramming of Clp-protease by acyldepsipepides - Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, AiCuris Wuppertal
Microtubules and bacterial cell division - Dr. Leendert Hamoen, University of Newcastle (UK)
