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| Meredith C. Schuman, Departments of Geography and Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland: "How does plant molecular diversity shape our ecosystems – and how can we know?", Jan 06, 2021 |
| Andrea Müller, Research Group Plant Defense Physiology, MPI-CE: "Ameisenpflanzen: Überleben durch Teamwork", Dec 17, 2020 |
| Dagny Grzech, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, MPI-CE: "Manipulate the metabolism", Dec 10, 2020 |
| Suhua Li, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "New strategy! How a wild tobacco battles stem-borers", Dec 03, 2020 |
| Elisabeth Adam, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Immer der Nase nach – Wie erforschen Wissenschaftler den Geruchssinn von Insekten? Scientists explain! Talk streamed live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgeq378P7PI", Nov 26, 2020 |
| Cecilia Heyworth, Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey, MPI-CE: "Red means stop! Are toxic animals honest with their colours?", Nov 19, 2020 |
| Francesco Trenti, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, MPI-CE: "The incredible chemistry of plants", Nov 12, 2020 |
| Yuko Ulrich, ETH Zürich: "Social behaviour and disease dynamics in ant societies", Nov 06, 2020 |
| William Christopher Carleton, Max Planck Research Group Extreme Events, MPI-CE: "Counting like an archaeologist", Oct 29, 2020 |
| Maike Laura Fischer, Department of Entomology, MPI-CE: "Stinken, spucken, stechen: Die Geheimwaffen der Wanzen", Oct 22, 2020 |
| Francesca Protti Sanchez, Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey, MPI-CE: "Don’t eat me, i´m toxic! How poison frogs avoid predation", Sep 03, 2020 |
| Florian Maik Schnurrer, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "Raupe Nimmersatt bitte zur Stuhlprobe!", Aug 24, 2020 |
| Lira Palmer, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, MPI-CE: "How plants can tell us about their chemistry", Aug 06, 2020 |
| Sinisa Prelic, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "The Amazing Apparatus - The Insects Antennae", Jul 27, 2020 |
| Axel Schmidt, Department of Biochemistry, MPI-CE: "Kampf dem Borkenkäfer – nur wie?", Jul 09, 2020 |
| Mohamed Omar Kamileen, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, MPI-CE: "Magic plant Iboga – Rituals and Therapy", Jun 25, 2020 |
| Franziska Eberl, Department of Biochemistry, MPI-CE: "Sprechende Pappeln und wie wir ihnen zuhören können", Jun 12, 2020 |
| Linus Naumann, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, MPI-CE: "Plant medicine meets biotech", May 28, 2020 |
| Sandra Vengadasalam, MPDL, Munich: "MPDL Roadshow - per video!", May 14, 2020 |
| Manuela Nowotny, Institute for Zoology und Evolutionary Research: "Processing of auditory signals in bushcrickets – from behaviour to neuronal encoding (postponed)", Apr 30, 2020 |
| Linus Naumann, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, MPI-CE: "Heilung, Gift und Rausch in der Pflanzenwelt (per Videostream in Facebook und Twitter)", Mar 26, 2020 |
| Jedrzej Szymanski, Network Analysis and Modelling, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK): "The wild metabolism of domesticated tomato - integrating multi-omic data to study fruit traits emergence in S. lycopersicum", Feb 13, 2020 |
| Sigrid Netherer, Institut für Forstentomologie, Forstpathologie und Forstschutz, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria: "Does drought stress predispose Norway spruce to attack by the European spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus?", Jan 30, 2020 |
| Tijs van den Bosch, Department of Microbiology, Radboud University, Netherlands: "The microbiome of cabbage pest Delia radicum harbors isothiocyanate hydrolases", Jan 23, 2020 |
| William Christopher Carleton, Huw S. Groucutt, Mathew John Stewart, Max Planck Research Group Extreme Events, MPI-CE: "Multidisciplinary perspectives on extreme events", Jan 23, 2020 |
| Axel Mithöfer, Research Group Plant Defense Physiology, MPI-CE: "Christian Ernst Stahl (1848-1919) - ein Jenaer Professor als Pionier der chemischen Ökologie", Jan 16, 2020 |
| Philip Wigge, Functional Plant Biology, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Großbeeren: "Temperature sensing in plants", Jan 09, 2020 |
| Philipp Zerbe, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA: "Diversity and function of diterpenoid metabolic networks in food and biofuel crops", Dec 19, 2019 |
| Laure Martinelli, Département de Biologie Biochimie, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France: "Pelargoniums and terpenoids: biosynthetic pathways to make scent", Nov 28, 2019 |
| Kenjii Fukushima, Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg: "Repeated evolution of phenotypes and genotypes in carnivorous plants", Nov 28, 2019 |
| Gerd U. Balcke, Department of Cell and Metabolic Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle/Saale, Germany: "Automated Annotation of Mass Spectrometry Features with mFAM Adds a New Level of Information to Systems Biology", Nov 14, 2019 |
| Heidi Appel, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, OH, USA: "The Aural Life of Plants", Oct 21, 2019 |
| Dieter Link, Max Planck Innovation: " Introduction to Max-Planck-Innovation - the techtransfer agency of MPG", Oct 17, 2019 |
| Jérôme Casas, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI), Université de Tours, France: "Insect physio-chemical ecology", Sep 26, 2019 |
| Christiane Bramer, Arbeitsgruppe Molekulare Evolution und Systematik der Tiere, Institut für Biologie, Universität Leipzig: "Toxic associations: Amazing defense strategies in true bugs", Aug 29, 2019 |
| Kai Geschuhn, Kirsten Heinrich, : "Open Access Workshop", Aug 21, 2019 |
| Meike Burow, DynaMo Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: "Fine-tuning of glucosinolate profiles", Jul 25, 2019 |
| Martina Rachel Crole, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa: "Straight from the ratite's mouth: senses and specialisations", Jul 15, 2019 |
| Huw S. Groucutt, Max Planck Research Group Extreme Events, MPI-CE: "Extreme events in biological, societal and earth systems", Jun 06, 2019 |
| Robert Anholt, Trudy Mackay, Clemson Center for Human Genetics, Clemson University, Greenwood, SC, USA
Human Genetics, Clemson University, Greenwood, SC, USA: "The Genotype-Phenotype Relationship: Lessons from Drosophila", May 31, 2019 |
| Nicolas Gompel, Lehrstuhl für Evolutionäre Ökologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: "The evolution of oviposition site choice in the fruit pest Drosophila suzukii", May 23, 2019 |
| Robert Last, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA: "Metabolic diversification at the tip of the trichome: the Solanaceae as a model system", May 21, 2019 |
| Angela Douglas, Department of Entomology and Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA: "Integrating genomic and metabolic explanations of insect microbiomes", May 08, 2019 |
| Pierre Jean Malé, Research Group Plant Defense Physiology, MPI-CE: "Ant-plant mutualisms: evolutionary origin and ecological consequences of cooperation", Apr 11, 2019 |
| Hugo Germain, Functional Genomic of Plant Pathosystems, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada: "Plant immunity: aren't we oversimplifying too much?", Mar 28, 2019 |
| Susanne Dobler, Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie, Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Hamburg: "Insects on cardiac glycoside plants - multiple adaptations can prevent toxic effects", Mar 21, 2019 |
| Angela Günther, Service Group Library, MPI-CE: "Großpilze in Jena", Feb 28, 2019 |
| Jacob C. (Bob) Douma, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands: "Plants preparing for attack: priming and cue reliability", Feb 14, 2019 |
| Hiroshi Maeda, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA: "Contribution of primary metabolic diversity to the evolution of plant specialized metabolic pathways", Jan 24, 2019 |
| Kirsten Heinrich, Service Group Library, MPI-CE: "NO DEAL and the consequences after January 1, 2019 (Elsevier, Springer, Nature, Wiley)", Dec 13, 2018 |
| Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology: "From man to maggot and back again: Memory enhancement across species", Dec 10, 2018 |
| Honour McCann, Massey University: "Emergence and Evolution of Plant Infectious Disease", Dec 10, 2018 |
| Sandra Irmisch, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada: "A novel anti-diabetic compound from plants: Biosynthesis, gene discovery, and metabolic engineering of montbretin A", Nov 23, 2018 |
| Vinzenz Handrick, Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Institut für Biologie, FU Berlin: "First insights on the regulation of gene clusters in plants", Nov 19, 2018 |
| Claude Becker, Genomics and epigenomics of plant-plant and plant-environment interactions, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria: "Plant and microbial genetic components in allelopathy", Oct 18, 2018 |
| Emil Hallin, University of Saskatchewan Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Center, Canada: "Characterizing plants in controlled environments with minimally invasive radiative probes", Oct 05, 2018 |
| Saskia Gablenz, Danny Kessler, Service Group Greenhouse, MPI-CE: "Eine neue Ära der Gewächshausbeleuchtung: LEDs in unseren Pflanzenanzucht-Anlagen", Sep 13, 2018 |
| Saskia Gablenz, Danny Kessler, : "A new age for greenhouse lighting. LED´s in our greenhouse facilities", Sep 06, 2018 |
| Maik Behrens, Taste Systems Reception & Biosignals, Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich: "Vertebrate bitter taste receptors", Aug 27, 2018 |
| Alexandra J. R. Carthey, Mammalian Trophic Interactions. Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: "Big smelly animals and the things they eat: the ecology of odour in mammalian trophic interactions", Aug 24, 2018 |
| Claudia Vickers, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland
Australian Institute for
Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: "From isoprene to metabolic engineering: Isoprenoid pathway flux regulation and synthetic biology flux control tools", Jul 31, 2018 |
| Guirong Wang, State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China: "Molecular basis of olfactory encoding in the agricultural pest insects", Jul 19, 2018 |
| Raimund Nagel, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology Iowa State University, Ames IA, USA: "Bacterial gibberellin biosynthesis - biochemistry and virulence", Jul 10, 2018 |
| Emmanuel Gaquerel, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University: "Deciphering cryptic chemical traits that mediate plants' ecological interactions", Jun 26, 2018 |
| Bettina Weber, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany: "Microbial surface communities: ecological and biogeochemical processes across spatial and temporal scales", Jun 18, 2018 |
| Roberto Solano, Jasmonate Signalling in Plants, Department of Plant Molecular Genetics, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid, Spain: "Jasmonate signaling in plants lacking jasmonates: Looking for the missing hormone", Jun 13, 2018 |
| Randolf Menzel, AG Neurobiologie, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin: "What does the waggle dance of the honeybee communicate?", Jun 01, 2018 |
| Jennifer Thaler, Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA: "Tritrophic Interactions and the Ecology of Fear", May 16, 2018 |
| Andrea Polle, Büsgen-Institut, Abteilung Forstbotanik und Baumphysiologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany: "Mycorrhizal reprogramming impedes poplar herbivores", May 08, 2018 |
| Johannes Felsenberg, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK: "Changing memory, on the fly - Revaluation of learned information in Drosophila", Apr 23, 2018 |
| Robert R. Junker, Departmen tof Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria: "The (chemical) ecology of plant-animal-microorganism interactions", Apr 19, 2018 |
| Shabnam Mohammadi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "Mechanisms of dietary adaptations in predators of toxic prey", Apr 10, 2018 |
| Andrew Durso, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry: "Toxin resistance & dietary sequestration in reptiles", Mar 06, 2018 |
| Paul B. Rainey, Department of Microbial Population Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany: "Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality", Feb 20, 2018 |
| Amy Eacock, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom: "Extraocular photoreception and colour plasticity in peppered moth caterpillars", Feb 15, 2018 |
| Christine Beemelmanns, Chemical Biology of Microbe-Host Interactions, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena: "Chemical and biological lessons from symbiotic microorganisms", Feb 15, 2018 |
| Lorian Schweikert, Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States: "New ideas in photoreception from the retina and skin of marine vertebrates", Feb 14, 2018 |
| Sarah Paul, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, United Kingdom: "How bright and how nasty? The role of parental and early life effects in determining defence", Feb 13, 2018 |
| Sara DeLeon, Institute for Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany: "Complexity in animal communication: pollution, sociality, and immunity", Feb 12, 2018 |
| Meredith C. Schuman, Youngjoo Oh, Erica McGale, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "Introduction to gas exchange, fluorescence, and photosynthesis measurements with IRGA (Infra-Red Gas Analyzer)", Jan 17, 2018 |
| Adria LeBoeuf, Department of Physics and Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel: "The Superorganism’s circulatory system: Collective control of development through socially transmitted fluids.", Jan 15, 2018 |
| Pierre Stallforth, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology: "Natural Products from Predator-Prey Interactions", Jan 11, 2018 |
| Andreas Thum, Institut für Biologie, Arbeitsgruppe Genetik, Universität Leipzig: "The neuronal and molecular fundamentals of learning and memory in Drosophila larvae", Jan 10, 2018 |
| Dani Lucas-Barbosa, Laboratory of Entomology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Netherlands: "Plant life-style determines defensive strategies against insect herbivores, and consequences for plant fitness", Dec 07, 2017 |
| Tina Romeis, Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, FU Berlin: "Function of CDPKs in systemic defence signalling upon microbial and herbivore attack", Nov 30, 2017 |
| Dietrich Ober, AG Biochemische Ökologie und Molekulare Evolution, Botanisches Institut und Botanischer Garten, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: "Pathway evolution in plant secondary metabolism - What we can learn of pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis", Nov 23, 2017 |
| Steffen Giessner, Rotterdam School of Management,Organisation & Personnel Management: "Diversity, discrimination, and respect at work", Nov 16, 2017 |
| Steffen Giessner, Rotterdam School of Management,Organisation & Personnel Management: "Respektvoller Umgang mit Verschiedenheiten & Diskriminierungsfreies Arbeitsumfeld", Nov 16, 2017 |
| Åsa Lankinen, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden: "Sexual selection and sexual conflict during pollen competition in a mixed-mating herb", Nov 09, 2017 |
| Renate Ellinger, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "Reden und Verstehen - psychologische Grundlagen der Kommunikation", Oct 17, 2017 |
| Christian Hettenhausen, Jianqiang Wu, Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China: "The parasitic plant dodder transfers biotic and abiotic stress-induced systemic signals among host plants", Sep 16, 2017 |
| Hannah Rowland, Hannah Rowland, MPI-CE: "Mimicry: the palatability spectrum and its consequences", Aug 24, 2017 |
| Laila Pamela Partida Martínez, Laboratorio de Interacciones Microbianas, CINVESTAV, Irapuato, México: "Deciphering the secrets of plant-microbe interactions in arid environments", Aug 17, 2017 |
| Robert Winkler, Laboratory of Biochemical and Instrumental analysis, CINVESTAV, Irapuato, México: "Approaching life's chemistry with ambient ionization mass spectrometry and MS data mining", Aug 16, 2017 |
| Patricia Fernandez , Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Delta del Paraná, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina: "Host selection and oviposition behavior of the specialist willow sawfly Nematus oligospilus", Aug 15, 2017 |
| Edgar Peiter, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: "Here, there and everywhere: calcium signals in biotic interactions", Aug 10, 2017 |
| Mario Schubert, Universität Salzburg, Austria: "to be announced", Aug 03, 2017 |
| Monica Scognamiglio, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "Metabolomics Studies of Allelopathic Interactions", Jul 13, 2017 |
| Stephan C. Schuster, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: "The air microbiome: A missing ecosystem?", Jul 10, 2017 |
| Georg Petschenka, Institute for Insect Biotechnology, University of Giessen: "Do predators spur the coevolutionary arms race between insects and plants?", Jul 06, 2017 |
| Jörn Piel, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland: "Ecology-guided metabolic discovery", Jun 15, 2017 |
| Pierre Jean Malé, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, MPI-CE: "Evolutionary ecology of ant-plant mutualisms in Amazonian rainforest", Jun 06, 2017 |
| Kenta Asahina, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla CA, USA: "Agonistic interaction as a strategic action choice process", May 19, 2017 |
| Christopher Potter, Center of Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA: "Neurogenetic Approaches Investigating Olfactory-Guided Drosophila Oviposition and Mosquito Repellents", May 19, 2017 |
| Etienne G. J. Danchin, Plant-Nematode Interactions, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Sophia Antipolis, France: "Contribution of horizontal gene transfers to the evolution of plant parasitism by nematodes and other invertebrates", May 18, 2017 |
| Anne Kriegel, labfolder GmbH: "An introduction to labfolder", May 04, 2017 |
| Paul Moorcroft , Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA: "Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Development of a Predictive Science of the Biosphere", Mar 14, 2017 |
| Rafael Cantera, Clemente Estable Institute of Biological Research, Montevideo, Uruguay: "Hypoxia and brain development in Drosophila", Mar 09, 2017 |
| Richard Lindroth, Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA: "Chemical ecology of Populus: molecules, herbivores and ecosystems", Mar 09, 2017 |
| Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly, Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement, Centre INRA, Paris, France: "Functional olfactomics in Spodoptera littoralis: from chemoreceptor characterization to genome editing", Feb 28, 2017 |
| Claudio Lazzari, UMR 7261 CNRS - Univ. François Rabelais: "In the heat of the night: How to feed on blood without perishing in the attempt", Feb 28, 2017 |
| Karin Groten, Research Coordination: "Overview of Third Party Funding Possibilities", Jan 26, 2017 |
| Adrian Pinto, University of Costa Rica, Biochemistry Department, Host-Microbe Symbiosis Research Group: "Microbial symbionts of leaf-cutting ants (Atta and Acromyrmex)", Jan 24, 2017 |
| Mario Blanco, Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Biología, director of the Lankester Botanical Garden at the University of Costa Rica: "Natural history of pollination of orchids in Costa Rica", Jan 24, 2017 |
| Klemens Störtkuhl, AG Sinnesphysiologie, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: "Olfaction in Drosophila: filling the gap between orientation and technical application", Dec 15, 2016 |
| Frank Schroeder, Schroeder Research Group, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: "Uncovering Structures and Functions of the “Dark Matter” in the Chemistry of Life", Dec 05, 2016 |
| Martin Heil, Ecología de Plantas, Departamento de Ingeniería Genética,CINVESTAV, Irapuato, México: "Immunity priming in beans and mammals: phenomena and mechanisms", Nov 29, 2016 |
| Silke Allmann, Department of Plant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: "The physiological importance of E-2-hexanal for plants and herbivores", Nov 18, 2016 |
| Holger Schielzeth, Department of Population Ecology, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: "Sex-specific genetic variance, transmission distortion and the study of a color polymorphism in grasshoppers", Nov 17, 2016 |
| Dieter Link, Max Planck Innovation: "Intellectual Property Rights", Nov 09, 2016 |
| Klaus Humbeck, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: "Epigenetic control levels during developmental and stress-responsive reprogramming of gene expression in plants", Nov 03, 2016 |
| Philipp Schlüter, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland: "Chemical mimicry and pollinator-driven ecological speciation in sexually deceptive orchids", Oct 24, 2016 |
| Heribert Hirt , Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: "Kinases, Stomates and Microbes: Multiple ways to enhance stress tolerance and pathogen resistance of plants", Oct 13, 2016 |
| Danny Kessler, Service Group Greenhouse, MPI-CE: "Die Blütengeheimnisse des wilden Tabaks", Oct 06, 2016 |
| Martin N. Andersson, Lund University, Sweden: "Gall midge and beetle odorant receptors", Sep 23, 2016 |
| Richard Newcomb, University of Auckland, New Zealand: "The origin of insect odorant receptors: the kiwi connection", Sep 23, 2016 |
| Virpi Ahola, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland: "Genetic basis of flight performance in the Glanville fritillary butterfly", Sep 05, 2016 |
| Ana Depetris-Chauvin, Centre National de la Recherche Scienti?que (CNRS), Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France: "Short-chain fatty acid perception: a case of chemosensory plasticity in Drosophila", Aug 04, 2016 |
| Sylvia Urban, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia: "Natural Products Studies: A Southern Hemisphere Perspective", Jul 29, 2016 |
| Eric Block, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Albany, NY, USA: "Fifty years of smelling sulfur: From the chemistry of garlic to the molecular basis for olfaction", Jul 28, 2016 |
| Carola Städele, School of Biological Sciences at Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA: "Flexibility in the nervous system: Neuromodulation of axonal spike initiation fine-tunes signal integration in a sensory neuron", Jul 20, 2016 |
| David Gang, Tissue Imaging and Proteomics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA: "Organization, structure and regulation of specialized metabolic networks: Modern approaches to long-term questions", Jul 07, 2016 |
| Christof Lenz, Research Group Mass Spectrometry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen: "Whole proteome characterization of environmental stresses in archaeal systems", Jun 23, 2016 |
| Claudia Voelckel, International Max Planck Research School, MPI-CE: "Wilde Kresse und Butterblumen – Vom pflanzlichen Umgang mit Wandel", Jun 16, 2016 |
| Andrew Durso, Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA: "Use of Nitrogen Stable Isotope Ratios and Labels in the Physiological Ecology of Reptiles", Jun 06, 2016 |
| Markus Grabenbauer, Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Universität Heidelberg: "Correlative light-, electron and cryo-electron microscopy", May 25, 2016 |
| Paolina Garbeva , Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands: "Sniffing into microbial interactions and communications", Apr 28, 2016 |
| Alexander Schiller , Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: "Signal Transduction with Inorganic and Supramolecular Chemistry", Apr 21, 2016 |
| Stefan Pentzold, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, MPI-CE: "Auf den Geschmack gekommen? - Wie Insekten ihre Lieblingspflanzen erkennen", Apr 14, 2016 |
| Rickard Ignell, SLU: "Chemical Ecology of Malaria Mosquitoes", Apr 06, 2016 |
| Martin Schäfer, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "Freund oder Feind – die Rolle von Cytokininen in der Pflanzenverteidigung", Mar 31, 2016 |
| Alan Slusarenko, Department of Plant Physiology, Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen: "How does the defense substance allicin from garlic kill cells?", Feb 17, 2016 |
| Jean-François Ferveur, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation CNRS-INRA-Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon, France: "Effect of food and pheromones on Drosophila larva and adult orientation", Feb 11, 2016 |
| Ian Kaplan, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA: "Insect attraction to induced plant volatiles: From ecological curiosity to agricultural applications", Feb 04, 2016 |
| Sheng Yang He, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA: "Basic principles of plant disease susceptibility: lesson from a model system", Jan 29, 2016 |
| Jeffrey Harvey, Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands: "Multi-trait mimicry of ants by a parasitic wasp", Jan 07, 2016 |
| Rieta Gols, Laboratory of Entomology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands: "Glucosinolates in wild cabbage and their interaction with insects", Jan 07, 2016 |
| Mark Patterson, Executive Editor, eLife, Cambridge, UK: "eLife - challenging conventions in scientific journal publishing", Dec 09, 2015 |
| Akiko Sugio, INRA Rennes, Frankreich: "Plant-aphid-symbiont interactions: what are the factors maintaining their association?", Dec 03, 2015 |
| Alan Carleton, Universität Genf: "Neural coding and plasticity in the mammalian olfactory system", Dec 02, 2015 |
| Sonja Bisch-Knaden, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Der Geruchssinn des Seidenspinners", Nov 19, 2015 |
| Grant R. Cramer, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA: "Early and Late Responses of Grapevine to Water Deficit: A Systems Biology Perspective", Nov 05, 2015 |
| Tobias Köllner, Department of Biochemistry, MPI-CE: "Über die Biochemie Herbivorie-induzierter Duftstoffe in Pappeln", Oct 22, 2015 |
| Karin Metzlaff, European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO), Brussels, Belgium: "Who represents plant scientists at European level – how can you have a say?", Oct 01, 2015 |
| Mohamed A. Farag, Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt
Cairo University, Egypt: "Metabolomics Gateway for Milestone Discoveries in the Post Genomic Era", Sep 30, 2015 |
| Marco Todesco, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: "The genetic basis of adaptation in plants: trade-offs, camouflage and micro RNAs", Sep 28, 2015 |
| Christian Paetz, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "Was ist NMR?", Sep 10, 2015 |
| Martín Aluja, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, México: "Overview of the Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL) and the BioMimic® Scientific and Technological Cluster: seeking a long-term strategic alliance between the Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology and INECOL", Sep 07, 2015 |
| William Foley, Animal-Plant Interactions, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia: "Heat stress, vertebrate browsers and secondary metabolites", Aug 28, 2015 |
| Mark Rausher, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA: "Reinforcement and Coevolution", Aug 06, 2015 |
| Yang Qu, Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: "Completion of the seven-step pathway from tabersonine to the anticancer drug precursor vindoline and its assembly in yeast", Jul 31, 2015 |
| Marcus Byrne, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa: "Science with balls – dung beetles as a model organism for studies of behaviour and physiology", Jul 23, 2015 |
| Rayko Halitschke, Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Justus Liebig University Gießen: "Herbivore-pollinator interactions in wild Solanum", Jul 16, 2015 |
| Richard Hofstetter, Forest Entomology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA: "Effects of the host plant on symbiotic associations of bark beetles", Jul 09, 2015 |
| Jeremy J. Heath, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA: "Thinking broadly and integratively: Hypotheses on the evolution of plant defense, mutualisms, and insect pheromones", Jul 08, 2015 |
| Jürgen Rybak, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Das Geruchssystem von Drosophila melanogaster – Gehirnanatomie eines kleinen Insekts", Jul 02, 2015 |
| Almut Kelber, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden: "How hawkmoths find flowers - a visual perspective", Jun 25, 2015 |
| Svenja Daschkey, Macrogen Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: "Next-Generation-Sequencing Applications in Plant and Insect Ecology", Jun 18, 2015 |
| Michiko E. Taga, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA: "Corrinoids in Communities: Nutrient Sharing in the Microbial World", Jun 15, 2015 |
| Erhard Strohm, Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Department for Zoology, University of Regensburg: "The secret tricks of the beewolves: how males and females of
a digger wasp increase their reproductive success", Jun 11, 2015 |
| Nicolas Montagné, Arthur de Fouchier, INRA/Université Pierre et Marie Curie: "Function and Evolution of Olfactory Receptors in Lepidoptera", May 27, 2015 |
| Hanna Heidel-Fischer, Department of Entomology, MPI-CE: "Kleine Beere - große Wirkung: Wer frißt Physalis am liebsten und warum?", May 21, 2015 |
| Cornelia Welte, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands: "Insights into the degradation of isothiocyanates by insect gut microbiota", Apr 30, 2015 |
| Frédéric Marion-Poll, CNRS; AgroParisTech, UFR Ecologie, Adaptations et Interactions: "What is bitter to flies?", Apr 23, 2015 |
| Rebecca J. M. Goss, Biomolecular/Organic Chemistry, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom: "Exploring and Exploiting Biosynthesis", Apr 22, 2015 |
| Manuel Lerdau, Departments of Environmental Sciences and Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA: "Impacts of ozone on plants at metabolic, ecological, and biogeochemical scales", Mar 23, 2015 |
| Jorge Alberto Zavala, Department of Biochemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina: "Induced defenses in developing seeds of field-grown soybean by stink bug (Nezara viridula) damage and its effects on insect behavior", Feb 27, 2015 |
| Roy Kirsch, Department of Entomology, MPI-CE: "Es war einmal vor 200 Millionen Jahren oder: Wie pflanzenfressende Käfer das Problem mit der Zellwand knacken", Feb 19, 2015 |
| Sebastian Fraune, Zoologisches Institut, Universität zu Kiel: "Cnidarian microbiome: assembly, coevolution and function", Feb 12, 2015 |
| Keram Pfeiffer, Fachbereich Biologie/Tierphysiologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg: "Integration of polarization, color, spatial direction, and time in the sky compass system of insects", Jan 12, 2015 |
| Jan Sölter, AG Neuroinformatik, Institut für Biologie - Neurobiologie, FU Berlin: "Functional and morphological clustering of neurons", Jan 05, 2015 |
| Beronda Montgomery, Michigan State University: "Phytochrome-dependent SIG-nificant Regulation of Photomorphogenesis and Nuclear-Plastid Coordination", Dec 16, 2014 |
| Andreas Römpp, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Gießen: "High-resolution mass spectrometry imaging", Dec 16, 2014 |
| Sybille Unsicker, Department of Biochemistry, MPI-CE: "Chemische Ökologie der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Schwarzpappeln und herbivoren Insekten", Dec 11, 2014 |
| Bernhard Misof, Forschungsmuseum König, Bonn: "Phylogenomics resolves the pattern and timing of insect evolution", Dec 04, 2014 |
| Volker Grimm, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig: "Linking individual-based and chemical ecology via modelling? Some first ideas", Nov 27, 2014 |
| Yue Lin, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig: "Trinity in biodiversity: a synthesis of metabolic scaling, niche, and neutral theory", Nov 27, 2014 |
| Thomas Riemensperger, Georg August Universität Göttingen, Schwann-Schleiden Forschungszentrum: "Inducing aversive learning through thermogenetic activation of Kenyon cell ensembles in Drosophila melanogaster", Nov 27, 2014 |
| Dieter Wicher, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Von zarten Düften in bewegten Lüften", Nov 20, 2014 |
| Jean-Christophe Simon, Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes (IGEPP), UMR, INRA-Agrocampus, Université Rennes, France: "Genomics of adaptation to host plant in the pea aphid complex", Nov 13, 2014 |
| Stefan Meldau, Research & Development, Molecular Physiology, KWS SAAT AG, Einbeck, Germany: "KWS: biotech and breeding for future demands in agriculture", Oct 24, 2014 |
| Karin Groten, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "Verborgene Interaktion - die Symbiose von Pilzen mit Pflanzenwurzeln", Oct 23, 2014 |
| Daniel Auwermann, ICUnet.AG: "How do Germans “tick”? Study & research in Germany", Oct 08, 2014 |
| Einat Zchori-Fein, Department of Entomology, Nematology and Chemistry, Agricultural Research Organization ARO, Israel
Department of Entomology, Nematology and Chemistry, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel: "Ecology and dynamics of bacterial symbionts in whiteflies", Oct 07, 2014 |
| Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly, INRA, Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris): "Olfaction in Lepidoptera: molecular mechanisms and plasticity", Oct 07, 2014 |
| Manfred Milinski, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie, Plön: "Der Duft der Gene - Was bei der Partnerwahl wirklich entscheidet", Sep 18, 2014 |
| Karin Faerber, Chemical Abstracts Service / SciFinder, ACS International, Ltd., Erkrath, Germany: "Get ready for the ICE Symposium 2014 - SciFinder insights in symposium topics and structure activity relationships discussed", Sep 04, 2014 |
| Deepa Agashe, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India: "Ecological and evolutionary determinants of resource use in a generalist insect", Aug 26, 2014 |
| Krushnamegh Kunte, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India: "Ecology, Molecular Genetics and Development of Wing Color Patterns in Papilio Swallowtail Butterflies", Aug 26, 2014 |
| Yoshitomo Kikuchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hokkaido Center (AIST Hokkaido), Hokkaido, Japan: "Evolutionary innovation through endosymbiosis in heteropteran insects", Aug 11, 2014 |
| Akos T. Kovács, Junior Research Group Terrestrial Biofilms, Institute of Microbiology, FSU Jena: "Microbial cooperation on surfaces: role of assortment", Jul 24, 2014 |
| David Giron, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI), Université François-Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France: "Coping with a senescing environment: when insects reveal to plants the secret of eternal youth", Jul 10, 2014 |
| Aleš Svatoš, Research Group Mass Spectrometry, MPI-CE: "Dopingtests mithilfe von Proteomanalytik", Jul 03, 2014 |
| Zhenhua Liu, Institute for Plant Molecular Biology (IBMP-CNRS), University of Strasbourg, France: "Stepwise duplication of cytochrome P450s shapes a novel phenolic pathway", Jul 01, 2014 |
| Duur K. Aanen, Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands: "Fungus-growing termites: Darwinian Agriculture?", Jun 26, 2014 |
| Jürgen Schiller, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Leipzig, Germany: "(Phospho)Lipid and Glycosaminoglycan Analysis by Mass Spectrometry and NMR Spectroscopy", Jun 12, 2014 |
| Daniel Veit, Technical Service, MPI-CE: "LED - Vollwertkost für Pflanzen?", Jun 05, 2014 |
| Meike Burow, DNRF Center of Excellence for Dynamic Molecular Interactions (DynaMo), University of Copenhagen, Denmark: "Cross-talk between glucosinolate biosynthesis and timing of flowering in Arabidopsis", May 22, 2014 |
| Nicole Joußen, Department of Entomology, MPI-CE: "Das juckt mich nicht! - Wie Insekten giftigen Insektiziden trotzen", May 08, 2014 |
| Celia Carlini, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Multifunctionalty of ureases: from virulence factors to defense proteins in plants", May 07, 2014 |
| Peter Biedermann, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis, MPI-CE: "Inzucht, Kinderarbeit, Ambrosia: Einblicke in Sozialverhalten und Pilzzucht heimischer Ambrosiakäfer", Apr 24, 2014 |
| Enric Frago, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands: "Insect symbionts as a hidden trophic level in insect-plant interactions", Apr 10, 2014 |
| Helga Pankoke, Fakultät für Biologie - Chemische Ökologie, Universität Bielefeld: "The role of iridoid glycosides and their hydrolysis in plant-insect interactions", Apr 03, 2014 |
| Babett Gläser, Büro der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Brüssel, Belgien: "Horizon 2020 - the new European programme on research funding", Mar 19, 2014 |
| Ewald Grosse-Wilde, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Insekten, Duefte und Evolution", Mar 18, 2014 |
| Heike Feldhaar, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research, Universität Bayreuth, Germany: "The extended immune phenotype: Role of antimicrobial secretions in the evolution of insect immune systems", Feb 13, 2014 |
| Franziska Beran, Department of Entomology, MPI-CE: "Schmeckt nicht, gibts nicht! Wie sich Insekten an die chemische Verteidigung ihrer Wirtspflanzen anpassen", Feb 06, 2014 |
| Ulrich Leischner, Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena: "Light-sheet microscopy of insects: recent resolution improvements and applications", Jan 16, 2014 |
| Christian Wurzbacher, Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research: "Towards an understanding of the uncultured – from fungi and other microbes", Jan 15, 2014 |
| Heiko Vogel, Department of Entomology, MPI-CE: "Insekten mit Superkräften (?) und aggressive Invasoren", Dec 12, 2013 |
| Marko Rohlfs, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen: "Evolutionary fungus-fungivore ecology", Dec 05, 2013 |
| Charalambos Neophytou, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: "Genetic variation of the oaks at the crossroads of their post-glacial migration", Nov 28, 2013 |
| Kirsten Küsel, Co-Director of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Friedrich Schiller University Jena: "News from iDiv", Nov 21, 2013 |
| Sylvia Cremer, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Klosterneuburg, Austria: "Use of antiseptic chemicals in collective disease defense of ant societies", Nov 12, 2013 |
| Martin Kaltenpoth, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis, MPI-CE: "Insektensymbiosen - Gemeinsam sind wir stark", Oct 10, 2013 |
| Stephen Trowell, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Black Mountain, ACT, Australia: "Chemosensing with worms, flies and machines - the CYBERNOSE® Project", Oct 02, 2013 |
| Meredith Schuman, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: ""Fünf Minuten vor der Zeit, ist der Pflanzen Pünktlichkeit (?)" - Die innere Uhr der Pflanzen", Sep 26, 2013 |
| Pinky Kain, Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA: "Identification of Cellular and molecular pathways for olfactory detection of DEET and improved insect repellents", Sep 19, 2013 |
| J. Chris Pires, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA: "Whole genome duplications and the origins of novelty: Novel mustard compounds spurred co-evolutionary arms race", Sep 16, 2013 |
| Christopher Frost, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA: "Plant inducible resistance and priming against insect herbivores in an unpredictable and changing world", Sep 05, 2013 |
| Katayoon Dehesh, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis CA, USA: "How Stressed Out Cells Signal for Help", Aug 29, 2013 |
| Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Braunschweig: "Key factors influencing fate and activity of bacterial inoculants and their effect on the indigenous microbial community in the rhizosphere", Jun 27, 2013 |
| Kimberly Falk, Moves Like Nature Company: "Making science move: how computer animation can be used to explain research", Jun 20, 2013 |
| Rainer Hedrich, Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: "Roots of Carnivory - new insight into the Darwin plant Dionaea muscipula", Jun 06, 2013 |
| Jaime Martinez-Harms, FU Berlin, Dept. Neurobiology: "Flower color divergence in Papaver rhoeas (Papaveracea) associated to its historical shift in pollinator", May 23, 2013 |
| Grit Kunert, Department of Biochemistry, MPI-CE: "Artbildung bei Insekten - Der Einfluß von Wirtspflanzen und natürlichen Feinden", May 16, 2013 |
| Emily I. Jones, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA: "The uninvited guests of flowers: how ambush predators affect pollinator foraging behavior", May 13, 2013 |
| Andreas Römpp, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Justus Liebig University Giessen: "Mass spectrometry imaging: principle, applications and latest developments", Apr 24, 2013 |
| Wilhelm Boland, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, MPI-CE: "Kulturgeschichte des Dufts", Apr 11, 2013 |
| Michael Kanost, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS, USA: "Regulation of hemolymph protease cascades in the immune system of Manduca sexta", Apr 04, 2013 |
| Jima N. Chandran, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France: "HRMAS-NMR based Metabolomics Approach For The Study of Human Tissues and Microorganisms", Mar 20, 2013 |
| Stephan H. von Reuß, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, MPI-CE: "Die chemische Sprache der Würmer", Mar 14, 2013 |
| Nicolaus von Wirén, Abteilung Physiologie und Zellbiologie, Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben: "Morphological adaptations of root systems to changing nutrient availabilities", Mar 07, 2013 |
| Arjun Sivasundar, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India: "Biodiversity and conservation research at the Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India", Feb 28, 2013 |
| Yulia Monakhova, Chemisches Veterinäruntersuchungsamt (CVUA) Karlsruhe: "NMR for targeted and non-targeted food analysis", Feb 07, 2013 |
| Nico Eisenhauer, Institut für Ökologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: "Plant diversity effects on soil organisms and functions - putting the story into perspective", Jan 24, 2013 |
| Fraz Hussain, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: "WRKY transcription factors involved in PR-1 gene expression in Arabidopsis", Jan 23, 2013 |
| Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Evolutionary, Ecological and Agricultural Functional Genomics, Biology Department, Duke University, Durham NC, USA: "A gain-of-function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature", Dec 14, 2012 |
| Gilles Laurent, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt/M.: "Building sparse memories for odors", Dec 13, 2012 |
| Ian T. Baldwin, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "eLife Open house; Introducing a new high-end journal for the life sciences", Dec 07, 2012 |
| Dominik Großkinsky, Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Graz, Austria: "News from old friends: A novel function of cytokinins in plant immunity", Dec 05, 2012 |
| Daniel Mietchen, EvoMRI, Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany: "Wikimedia as a Platform for Scientific Information", Nov 22, 2012 |
| Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY, USA: "Genetisch veränderte Organismen (GVO): Was wird in den USA angepflanzt und worüber sollten wir uns weniger (oder mehr) Sorgen machen?", Nov 15, 2012 |
| Frank Hochholdinger, Lehrstuhl für Crop Functional Genomics, Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz, Universität Bonn: "The Genetics of Root Formation", Nov 08, 2012 |
| Hans de Kroon, Phytotron Facility, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands: "Root responses to nutrients, neighbours and soil biota: a complex interplay explaining biomass production and plant species coexistence", Nov 05, 2012 |
| Steven Smith, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA, Australia: "Smoke signals: discovery of karrikins and their mode of action in plants", Oct 23, 2012 |
| Alain Tissier, Department of Cell and Metabolic Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle/Saale, Germany: "Of glandular trichomes in the Solanaceae: from terpenoid biosynthesis to development", Oct 18, 2012 |
| Richard Karban, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis CA, USA: "Volatile Communication in Sagebrush Affects Herbivory", Oct 17, 2012 |
| Cameron R. Currie, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA: "Ants, agriculture, and antibiotics", Sep 20, 2012 |
| Kevin Daly, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA: "Characterizing oscillatory activity and spike timing in the antennal lobe of the moth Manduca sexta and their role in olfactory acuity", Sep 03, 2012 |
| Stefan Meldau, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "Hormontherapie für Pflanzen", Jul 26, 2012 |
| Andrew Fidler, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand: "Using the wisdom of past experience: the detection of marine bioactive compounds using sensors crafted by natural selection", Jul 12, 2012 |
| Axel Mithöfer, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, MPI-CE: "Biologie von fleischfressenden Pflanzen", Jun 28, 2012 |
| Franziska Krajinski, Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe Pflanzen-Mikroben Interaktionen, MPI für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Potsdam: "Reprogramming root cells for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis", Jun 14, 2012 |
| Sara Agnolet, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "NMR-Based Metabolomics in Natural Product Research", May 31, 2012 |
| Karin Nordström, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden: "Salient feature tracking", May 24, 2012 |
| Jürgen Engelberth, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA: "Molecular, physiological, and ecological activities of green leaf volatiles", May 22, 2012 |
| Jérôme Pelloux, EA3900-BIOPI Biologie des Plantes et Innovation, Université de Picardie, Amiens, France: "Roles of PME/PMEI-mediated changes in pectins during plant development and plant-aphid interactions", May 10, 2012 |
| Michael Poulsen, Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: "From ants to termites: Exploring microbiomes of fungus-farming insects", May 03, 2012 |
| Ian T. Baldwin, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "Open Access is the future and eLIFE (rather than Nature) is the Journal for your Best Work!", Apr 25, 2012 |
| William C. Ratcliff, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN: "Experimental Evolution of Multicellularity", Apr 19, 2012 |
| Aleš Svatoš, Research Group Mass Spectrometry, MPI-CE: "Massenspektrometrie am Beispiel von Wein erklärt", Apr 12, 2012 |
| Silke Sachse, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Von der Antenne bis ins Gehirn - Duftkodierung im Insektengehirn", Mar 29, 2012 |
| Natalia Dudareva, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA: "Intriguing Aspects of Flux Regulation Towards Volatile Secondary Metabolites", Mar 22, 2012 |
| Monika Stengl, Department of Animal Physiology, University of Kassel, Germany: "Pheromone transduction in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta", Mar 13, 2012 |
| Jieun Shin, Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne: "TIME FOR COFFEE mediates between the circadian clock and jasmonate signaling by repressing MYC2 protein accumulation", Mar 09, 2012 |
| Wolfgang Miller, Laboratories of Genome Dynamics, Center of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria: "Bugs and drugs and speciation: The impact of Wolbachia on Drosophila development, sexual behaviour and speciation", Mar 01, 2012 |
| Zoltán Takáts, Imperial College London, UK: "Lipidomic profiling of biological tissues by imaging and in-vivo mass spectrometry", Feb 21, 2012 |
| Gerd Gäde, University of Cape Town, South Africa: "Metabolic regulation in insects by adipokinetic hormones: structures, mode of action, function", Feb 13, 2012 |
| Gábor Szöcs, Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: ""So ist es in Budapest!" - Hopes, efforts and some selected results of pheromone studies with agrozoological motivation", Feb 02, 2012 |
| José M. Jiménez-Gómez, Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Köln: "Next generation quantitative genetics", Jan 26, 2012 |
| Jan-Wolfhard Kellmann, MPI-CE: "Gentechnisch veränderte Nahrung: Weltweit, in Europa und in Deutschland", Jan 19, 2012 |
| Holger B. Deising, Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg: "Mechanisms of pathogenicity of the maize pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola", Dec 15, 2011 |
| Mario Stanke, Institut für Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Greifswald: "Structural Genome Annotation with AUGUSTUS", Dec 08, 2011 |
| Anke Hübenthal, Koordination Minerva-FemmeNet, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt: "Karriereförderung für Wissenschaftlerinnen in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Das Minerva-FemmeNet", Dec 01, 2011 |
| Georg Jander, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "Pflanzliche Sekundärmetabolite: Auf der Suche nach den Genen", Nov 24, 2011 |
| Bernd Schneider, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "Contributions of NMR Spectroscopy to Chemical Ecology", Nov 17, 2011 |
| Tarald Seldal, Sogn Fjordane University College, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Sogndal, Norway: "Part I: Characteristics of herbivore population cycles -
Part II: Lemming cycles along the Russian-Siberian tundra", Nov 10, 2011 |
| Gaétan Glauser, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland: "Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: application in plant science", Oct 26, 2011 |
| Suby Fan, Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing, China: "Application of Next Generation Sequencing in Animal, Plant & Microbe Research", Oct 13, 2011 |
| Arne Weinhold, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "Wie und warum wir transgene Pflanzen machen", Oct 13, 2011 |
| Hugh M. Robertson, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: "Evolution of the insect chemoreceptor superfamily", Oct 06, 2011 |
| Paul B. Rainey, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University at Albany, New Zealand, and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany: "Evolutionary transitions, life cycles and the emergence of multicellularity", Sep 29, 2011 |
| Fernando Guerrieri, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Lernen kann Ameisenfleiß erfordern", Sep 28, 2011 |
| Tobias Pöhlmann, Spin-off project "Intelligent siRNA", Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry (IOMC), Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), FSU Jena: "Cell specific gene silencing as key challenge - not only for therapeutic applications", Sep 08, 2011 |
| Judith Armitage, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom: "Protein positioning in bacterial chemotaxis and motility", Sep 01, 2011 |
| Frank Hünefeld, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum: "Sommervögel und Nachteulen - Schmetterlingsraritäten im Mittleren Saaletal", Aug 25, 2011 |
| Eran Pichersky, Biology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA: "Further adventures in terpene land: The tomato family of terpene synthases", Jun 27, 2011 |
| Victor Sourjik, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Heidelberg, Germany: "Sensing your environment: chemoeffector space in bacterial chemotaxis", Jun 23, 2011 |
| Laura Weingartner, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA: "Population-level analyses reveal contrasting patterns of molecular evolution on papaya X and Y chromosomes", Jun 22, 2011 |
| Axel Schmidt, Department of Biochemistry, MPI-CE: "Borkenkäfer-induzierte Verteidigungsstrategien der Fichte", Jun 16, 2011 |
| Tom Shimizu, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam, Netherlands: "Transfer functions of bacterial chemotactic signaling", Jun 09, 2011 |
| Werner Kühlbrandt, Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt/Main: "Electron Cryo-Microscopy of Membranes and Membrane Proteins", May 26, 2011 |
| Christian Kost, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, MPI-CE: "Gemeinsam sind wir stark - Einblicke in das Sozialleben von Bakterien", May 19, 2011 |
| Eric Warrant, Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden: "Seeing in the dark: Vision and visual orientation in nocturnal insects", May 12, 2011 |
| Andrej Shevchenko, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden: "Shotgun Lipidomics from Top-down to Bottom-up", May 05, 2011 |
| Brian H. Smith, Organismal, Integrative, & Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA: "Plasticity in early sensory coding for odors: Problems and perspectives", May 02, 2011 |
| Rafael Arango, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia: "Mechanisms of fungicide resistance in the banana pathogen Mycosphaerella fijiensis", Apr 28, 2011 |
| Jan-Wolfhard Kellmann, Forschungskoordination, MPI-CE: "Die hundertjährige Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm- und Max-Planck-Gesellschaft", Apr 21, 2011 |
| Chung-Mo Park, Graduate School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea: "Alternative splicing of transcription factors as a novel way of incorporating environmental signals into plant development", Mar 21, 2011 |
| Stephan H. von Reuß, Boyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA: "A Modular Library of Small Signaling Molecules from Nematodes", Mar 08, 2011 |
| Tina Keller-Costa, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "Dominance pheromones in fish social hierarchies: the case of the Mozambique Tilapia", Feb 17, 2011 |
| Laura Victoria Flórez Patino, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia: "Uptake of quasi-ellipsoidal polystyrene nanoparticles in human mesenchymal stem cells: understanding shape as a relevant and innovative feature", Feb 16, 2011 |
| Markus Knaden, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "Was Fliegen gerne riechen", Feb 10, 2011 |
| Richard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: "Olfactory genes, circuits and behaviours", Feb 09, 2011 |
| Peter Biedermann, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland: "Fungal Symbioses and the Evolution of Sociality in Ambrosia Beetles (Scolytinae)", Jan 27, 2011 |
| Sara Agnolet, Department of Basic Sciences and Environment/Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: "1H NMR- and HPLC-based metabolomics approaches combined with HPLC-SPE-NMR methods for the investigation of herbal remedies and medicinal plants", Jan 21, 2011 |
| Michal Jewginski, Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland: "Structural and conformational investigation of peptidomimetics - potential inhibitors of cathepin C", Jan 19, 2011 |
| Simon Baxter, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom: "Association mapping, comparative genomics and constructing linkage groups using next-generation RAD sequencing of a non-model organism", Dec 13, 2010 |
| Markus Ralser, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany: "The pentose phosphate pathway is a metabolic redox sensor", Dec 02, 2010 |
| Barbara Reinhold-Hurek, Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Universität Bremen: "Life in grasses: Interactions between diazotrophic endophytes and rice", Nov 18, 2010 |
| Hopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA: "From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptive change", Oct 20, 2010 |
| Gesine Schmidt, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany: "Haliclona viscosa -- the slimy sponge combines alkaloids with amino acids", Oct 14, 2010 |
| Alisha Anderson, Cybernose® Group, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIRO: "Flys, Moths, Worms and a Biosensor", Oct 07, 2010 |
| Norbert Stoppacher, Center for Analytical Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria: "Secondary metabolites of the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma atroviride: Profiling and structural characterisation by LC-MS/MS and GC-MS", Sep 30, 2010 |
| Stephan Sigrist, Institut für Biologie / Genetik, Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie/Pharmazie, FU Berlin, Germany: "Shedding light on synapse assembly in Drosophila", Sep 23, 2010 |
| Noam Sobel, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel: "Metrics for smell: Linking odorant structure to neural activity and perception in the olfactory system", Sep 21, 2010 |
| Jörg-Peter Schnitzler, Research Group 'Biological Processes', Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany: "Stable isotopes as tools to analyze regulation of isoprene and monoterpene biosynthesis", Sep 13, 2010 |
| Igor Emelianov, Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom: "Fusion-fission analysis of host-driven divergent evolution in a parasitic wasp", Sep 10, 2010 |
| Thomas Hartmann, Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, TU Braunschweig, Germany: "Ernst Stahl and the Origin of Plant Chemical Ecology", Sep 09, 2010 |
| Tom Baker, Center for Chemical Ecology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA: "Why Most Male Olfactory Receptor Neurons Are Tuned to the Most Abundant Sex Pheromone Components", Sep 02, 2010 |
| Martin van Bergen, Department of Proteomics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany: "Protein-stable isotope probing enables tracking of carbon flux in (microbial) communities", Aug 26, 2010 |
| Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY, USA: "Biosynthesis and defensive function of an Arabidopsis non-protein amino acid", Aug 24, 2010 |
| Elizabeth G. Pringle, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA: "Context-dependent interactions in a plant-ant-hemipteran symbiosis", Aug 18, 2010 |
| Taras Nechitaylo, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig: "Earthworm gut environment: microbial taxonomic and functional diversity", Jul 29, 2010 |
| Gregor Bucher, Göttingen Center for Molecular Biology and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute, Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany: "The red flour beetle Tribolium: An emerging insect model for functional genomics", Jul 02, 2010 |
| Michal Hocek, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Gilead Sciences & IOCB Research Center, Prague, Czech Republic: "New base-modified nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids. From novel cytostatics to functionalized DNA", Jun 25, 2010 |
| Steffen Reinbothe, Laboratoire de Génétique moléculaires des Plantes, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France: "Plant oxylipins: New insights into their biosynthesis and mode of actions", May 28, 2010 |
| Ullrich Jahn, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic: "Total Synthesis of Lipid Natural Products for the Solution of Biological Problems", May 21, 2010 |
| Heather L. Eisthen, Department of Zoology, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, USA: "Neural mechanisms of species-typical olfactory responses in salamanders", May 21, 2010 |
| Wolfgang Eisenreich, Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Department Chemie, TU München: "Isotopologue and metabolite profiling of reaction networks - Insights into carbon flux under prebiotic and biotic conditions", Apr 30, 2010 |
| Spencer Behmer, Texas A & M University, College Station TX, USA: "Why insects need to watch their cholesterol: basic and applied implications", Apr 30, 2010 |
| Jing W. Wang, Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego CA, USA: "Modules and Modulation: Neural Circuits Underlying Olfactory Behaviors in Drosophila", Apr 16, 2010 |
| Björn Rotter, GenXpro GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany: "New techniques for "in-depth" quantitative gene expression profiling and other services", Apr 12, 2010 |
| Timothy Sharbel, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben: "Sex and Agriculture", Apr 09, 2010 |
| Rafael Cantera, Departamento de Biología del Neurodesarrollo, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay: "A neuron can change shape rhythmically between day and night", Mar 19, 2010 |
| Takayuki Tohge, MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm: "The discovery of novel gene function by elucidation of the regulatory mechanisms of plant secondary metabolism", Mar 12, 2010 |
| Thomas Schmitt, Research Group on Chemical Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Universität Freiburg: "Evolution of chemical profiles in Hymenoptera", Mar 05, 2010 |
| Francois Mesnard, Université de Picardie "Jules Vernes", Faculté de Pharmacie, Amiens, France: "Use of analytical techniques for investigating plant metabolism", Mar 04, 2010 |
| Hassan Salem, Department of Botany, Miami University, USA: "Patterns of evolution and distribution of the symbiotic Nostoc cyanobacteria based on the nitrogen fixation (nif) genes", Feb 26, 2010 |
| Carsten Milkowski, Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: "Hydrolase-like acyltransferases - a matter of enzyme recruitment in plant evolution", Feb 12, 2010 |
| Andreas Römpp, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Giessen: "High resolution mass spectrometry imaging: new insights into biological structures on a molecular level", Feb 05, 2010 |
| Sailendharan Sudakaran, Newcastle University, UK: "Construction of antisense-expression bacterial strains for use in antibacterial screening", Jan 26, 2010 |
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Bentrup, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Salzburg: "Water ascent in plants and the role of new tools", Jan 26, 2010 |
| Florian Schiestl, Institut für Systematische Botanik, Universität Zürich, Schweiz: "Selection and preadaptation in the evolution of floral scent", Jan 22, 2010 |
| Liliana Avila, University of Antioquia, Columbia: "Antiviral compounds from Euphorbiaceae plants", Jan 15, 2010 |
| Ronald Pierik, Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands: "Mechanisms and consequences of plant-plant signaling in dense stands", Jan 13, 2010 |
| Abhishek Kumar, AG Cellular Genetics, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany: "Evolutionary genomics of multigene superfamilies", Dec 11, 2009 |
| Ivan Manzini, Department of Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics, Institute of Physiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany: "Information processing, modulation and regeneration in the olfactory system of larval Xenopus laevis", Dec 09, 2009 |
| Barbara Boine, Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand: "Can viruses be used as biocontrol agents for Botrytis cinerea?", Dec 08, 2009 |
| Jean-Christophe Simon, INRA, UMR 1099 BiO3P Biologie des Organismes et des Populations appliquée à la Protection des Plantes, Rennes, France: "Rapid ecological diversification through multiple host-plant shifts in pea aphids", Dec 04, 2009 |
| Ilona Grunwald-Kadow, Sensory Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany: "Insect CO2 sensory circuitry: mechanisms of development and divergence", Nov 27, 2009 |
| Gabriela Zurek, Bruker Daltonik GmbH: "Challenges in the investigation of metabolic changes using modern LC/ESI-TOF-MS", Oct 27, 2009 |
| Gerald Nyakatura, AGOWA GmbH Berlin, Germany: "NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING - New Possibilities in High Throughput Sequencing", Oct 23, 2009 |
| Martin Nawrot, Michael Schmuker, Neuroinformatics, Institute of Biology - Neurobiology, FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany: "Information processing in the antennal lobe of Apis mellifera", Sep 18, 2009 |
| Dieter Strack, Research Group Phenylpropanoid Metabolism, Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Halle/Saale, Germany: "Phenylpropanoid Metabolism in Brassicaceae: Biochemistry - Molecular Biology - Biotechnology", Aug 21, 2009 |
| Minoru Ueda, Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Japan: "Chemical Biology of "Sleeping Plants"", Aug 06, 2009 |
| Klaus Reinhold, Evolutionary Biology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany: "Two spotlights on the evolutionary ecology of variation: selection and variation of sexual signals & how to exploit variation during foraging", Jun 19, 2009 |
| Jörg Durner, GSF- National Research Center for Environmental and Health - Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology: "Nitric oxide signalling in plant defence", Jun 12, 2009 |
| Jean-Marc Devaud, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse: "Experience of a social signal modulates learning performance of honeybees: a new modulatory pathway involved ?", Jun 05, 2009 |
| Alberto Ferrus, Cajal Institute (CSIC), Spain: "Olfactory perception and the excitation/inhibition equilibrium", May 29, 2009 |
| Jing-Jiang Zhou, Centre for Sustainable Pest and Disease Management, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK: "Insect odorant-binding protein: are they needed?", May 27, 2009 |
| Johannes Steidle, FG. Tierökologie, Universität Hohenheim, Germany: "Life-long learning in parasitic wasps", May 22, 2009 |
| Robert Meagher, Center for Medical, Agricultural & Veterinary Entomology, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, FL, USA: "Migration of a North American Noctuid Pest: The Fall Armyworm Story", May 20, 2009 |
| Roslyn Gleadow, Monash University, Faculty of Science, Clayton, Australia: "Climate change impacts on plant defence chemistry: an integrated analysis", May 08, 2009 |
| Richard Ferrieri, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Medical Department, Upton, NY, USA: "Using short-lived radiotracers in plant biology to study signaling networks associated with cell-wall synthesis", May 07, 2009 |
| Dieter Spiteller, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, MPI-CE: "Living together/fighting each other: plants, insects and …microorganisms!", Apr 24, 2009 |
| Freddy Tjallingii, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands: "Plant penetration by aphid stylets, experimentally used as self penetrating electrodes", Apr 17, 2009 |
| Karin Metzlaff, European Plant Science Organisation, Brussels, Belgium: "EPSO – creating a future for plant research in Europe", Apr 03, 2009 |
| Teun Munnik, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) , University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: "Phospholipid Signaling in Plant Stress and Development", Apr 01, 2009 |
| Jeffrey Harvey, NIOO-KNAW Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands: "Interactions between generalist and specialist herbivores and their parasitoids on the invasive weed, Bunias orientalis: evolutionary constraints and opportunities", Mar 27, 2009 |
| Katrin Bohl, International Max Planck Research School, MPI-CE: "Comparing Network Motifs with Respect to their Ability to Control the Mitotic Spindle Assembly Checkpoint", Mar 27, 2009 |
| Sebastian Müller, Department of Biochemistry, MPI-CE: "Robust Identification of Structures in Molecular Biological Data Based on Ensemble-Clustering", Mar 27, 2009 |
| Steffen Priebe, International Max Planck Research School, MPI-CE: "Assessment of Network Inference Methods with Synthetic and Experimental Data", Mar 27, 2009 |
| Joanne Yew, Laboratory of Edward A. Kravitz, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA: "Understanding the chemical language of insects using mass spectrometry", Mar 12, 2009 |
| Margot Schulz, Institute of Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany: "The allelochemical benzoxazolinone - molecular backgrounds of its detoxification and degradation", Mar 11, 2009 |
| Michael Groll, Center for Integrated Protein Science, Department Chemie, TU München, Germany: "Microbial effector molecules increase virulence by proteasomal inhibition", Mar 06, 2009 |
| Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany: "Genes gone wild: intra- and intercellular travel of DNA", Feb 17, 2009 |
| Stefan Neumann, AG Massenspektrometrie & Bioinformatik , Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie, Halle, Germany: "Plumbing Metabolomics", Feb 13, 2009 |
| Jeffrey L. Feder, Univ. of Notre Dame, Paris, France, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany: "On the Scent of Speciation: Fruit Odor Discrimination and Sympatric Host Race Formation in the Apple Maggot Fly", Jan 30, 2009 |
| Colin Orians, Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA: "How plants resist herbivores: Advantages of a whole plant perspective", Jan 23, 2009 |
| Susanne Dobler, Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie, Biozentrum Grindel, University of Hamburg, Germany: "Coping with cardenolides in host plants: How many tricks are there to evolve tolerance or resistance?", Dec 18, 2008 |
| Nina Fatouros, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, Germany: "Perfume with side-effects - Direct and indirect recruitment of egg parasitoids by a butterfly pheromone", Nov 28, 2008 |
| Matthias Eberius, LemnaTec GmbH, Würselen, Germany: "Image based high throughput phenotyping of complete plants using multiple sensor systems", Nov 24, 2008 |
| Christoph Bruch, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany: "Copyright for Scientists - How to maximize the utility of scientific publications", Nov 19, 2008 |
| Johannes Kroiß, Department for Zoology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany: "Chemical attraction and deception – Intra- and interspecific communication in Hymenoptera", Nov 13, 2008 |
| Thomas Hummel, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Muenster, Germany: "Patterning the Drosophila olfactory system", Oct 30, 2008 |
| Johann M. Rohwer, Dept. of Metabolic Networks, Max Planck Inst. of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany, and Triple-J Group for Molecular Cell Physiology, Dept. Biochemistry, Stellenbosch Univ., South Africa: "Quantitative kinetic models for understanding plant cellular networks", Oct 11, 2008 |
| Manyuan Long, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, USA: "New Gene Evolution: From Patterns to Phenotypes", Oct 09, 2008 |
| Mary A. Bisson, Department of Biological Sciences, State University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA: "Effects of acetylcholine on blue-light response of dark-grown Arabidopsis seedlings", Oct 02, 2008 |
| Peter Mombaerts, MPI for Biophysics, Dept. of Molecular Neurogenetics, Frankfurt, Germany: "Targeting olfaction", Sep 30, 2008 |
| Wolfgang Rößler, Biozentrum, Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany: "Plasticity of olfactory circuits in social Hymenoptera", Sep 19, 2008 |
| Stella Christophoridou, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Greece: "NMR Methodologies for the Analysis of Minor Food Components", Sep 18, 2008 |
| Bernd Ctortecka, Rolf Kröncke, Max Planck Innovation, Germany, GRAMM, LINS & PARTNER, Germany: "Inventions, patents, software, licences, start-ups from Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH (MI) - Technologies from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)", Sep 16, 2008 |
| Kei Ito, Department of Computational Biology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan: "Anatomical and functional analyses of the primary sensory centers below the oesophagus", Sep 15, 2008 |
| Chung-Mo Park, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea: "Small interfering peptides (siPEPs) as a novel way of transcriptional control", Sep 12, 2008 |
| Kamel H. Shaker, Department of Organic Chemistry, Bayreuth University, Germany: "Natural Products from Corals", Jul 17, 2008 |
| Pierre Kempgens, Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, MPI-CE: "Cobalt-59 NMR Study of the Tetrahedral Cluster Co4(CO)12: Relaxation and Exchange", Jul 16, 2008 |
| Yvonne Arendt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany: "NMR-Based Screening for Identification of the Binding Surfaces of S100B and S100A13", Jul 10, 2008 |
| Ed Buckler, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA: "Analysis of Flowering Time Using a Massive Maize Mapping Panel", Jun 16, 2008 |
| Peter Constabel, Centre for Forest Biology, University of Victoria, Canada: "Poplars and Pests: Biochemical Diversity and Multiplicity in Herbivore Defense in Populus", Jun 13, 2008 |
| Klemens Störtkuhl, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, MPI-CE: "The smell of light: Photo-activation of the olfactory system in Drosophila larvae", Jun 02, 2008 |
| Richard G. Vogt, Dept of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Dept. Of Biological Sciences, Columbia SC, USA: "Molecular Diversity in Odor Detection", May 22, 2008 |
| Otto Schmidt, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia: "Self and non-self recognition in plants and animals", May 19, 2008 |
| Matthias Berth, DECODON GmbH, Greifswald: "Integration of Transcriptome and Proteome Data with Protecs", May 08, 2008 |
| Mario Thevis, German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Biochemistry - Center for Preventive Doping Research, Cologne, Germany: "Catching the Cheats – Determination of Known and Unknown Substances in Sports Drug Testing", Apr 25, 2008 |
| Manfred Ayasse, University of Ulm, Department of Experimental Ecology, Ulm, Germany: "The role of semiochemicals in the reproductive biology of insects and orchids", Apr 11, 2008 |
| Thomas U. Berendonk, University of Leipzig, Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Leipzig, Germany: "Genetic Diversity in freshwater: the phantom midge and Paramecium show unexpected patterns", Apr 04, 2008 |
| Erika Kothe, Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Phytopathology, FSU Jena: "Specific gene expression in ectomycorrhizal fungi", Mar 28, 2008 |
| Robert Junker, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg: "Floral scents are not only attractive signals", Mar 26, 2008 |
| Akos Vertes, nstitute for Proteomics Technology and Applications, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA: "Imaging of Primary and Secondary Metabolites in Live Plants by Mass Spectrometry", Mar 20, 2008 |
| Heinz Breer, nstitute for Physiology, University of Hohenheim: "The sense of smell: molecular basis of olfaction", Mar 14, 2008 |
| Kornelius Zeth, Dept. Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany: "Biomineralization and biomimetic mineralization using the Dps family cage architectures", Mar 11, 2008 |
| C. Giovanni Galizia, Neurobiology, Department of Biology, Konstanz University, Germany: "Olfactory Coding in Insects", Mar 07, 2008 |
| Aaron Socha, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA: "Antibiotics from Bacillus and Streptomyces spp. Isolated from Unique Microbial Ecosystems", Mar 07, 2008 |
| Mathias Boysen, Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Gentechnologiebericht der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: "Akzeptanz der Gentechnologie in Deutschland", Feb 29, 2008 |
| Emmanuel Hatzakis, University of Crete, Greece: "31P NMR Spectroscopy in food analysis. Determination of glycerol in wine and olive oil, moisture and phospholipids in olive oil", Feb 28, 2008 |
| Richard Newcomb, HortResearch, Auckland, New Zealand: "Insect odorant receptors: not just another family of GPCRs", Feb 27, 2008 |
| Torsten Meiners, Applied Zoology/Animal Ecology, Free University, Berlin, Germany: "Gimme shelter - How herbivore mothers utilize plant odours to protect their progeny", Feb 22, 2008 |
| Bruno Lapied, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, Université d'Angers, France: "How plant secondary compounds affect insect "health"", Feb 15, 2008 |
| M. Soledade C. Pedras, Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Canada: "Learning from nature: paldoxins for the treatment of plant diseases", Feb 08, 2008 |
| Meredith Schuman, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI-CE: "The landscape of defense: mechanisms and consequences of the production of terpenoid defense compounds in co-occurring accessions of Nicotiana attenuata", Feb 01, 2008 |
| Barbara Beltz, David C. Sandeman, Neuroscience Program, Wellesley College, USA: "Persistent neurogenesis in the arthropod central olfactory pathway", Jan 24, 2008 |
| David Liberles, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, USA: "Gene duplication, positive selection, and the functional evolution of genes", Jan 11, 2008 |
