Excursion to Wacker Biotech

Career course

IMPRS Microscopy Course

Science course
  • Start: Apr 8, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 12, 2024 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Veit Grabe, Tobias Engl
  • Head of Microscopic Imaging Service Group, Head of Research Group Chemistry of Insect Microbe Interactions
  • Location: MPI-CE
  • Room: A1.041, B2.021

Olfaction in the Anthropocene

Basic lecture

Good scientific practise

Transferable skill course

Career strategies accompanying the doctorate building potential – tapping professional pathways

Career course
  • Date: Mar 1, 2024
  • Speaker: Dr. Simon Golin
  • Dr. Simon Golin, Berlin, heads the consultancy company golin wissenschaftsmanagement. For more than 30 years now he has been involved with not-for-profit management – with a focus on science, education and the foundation sector. Amongst other things, he has been managing director of the “Deutscher Studienpreis” at the Körber foundation, secretary general of the German National Ethics Council and secretary general of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
  • Room: Seminar room A1.009 and A1.011

Saltational evolution - a case study in Capsella

Basic lecture

IMPRS Microscopy Course

Science course
  • Start: Feb 26, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 1, 2024 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Veit Grabe, Tobias Engl
  • Head of Microscopic Imaging Service Group, Head of Research Group Chemistry of Insect Microbe Interactions
  • Location: MPI-CE
  • Room: A1.041

Molecular and chemical interaction ecology

Science course
This course is part of the international MSc. Evolution, Ecology and Systematics programm at Friedrich Schiller University.

Graphic design for scientists

Transferable skill course

Excursion to Jena Bioscience

Career course

How biomathematics can help us understand chemical defense and counter-defense

Basic lecture

TBA

Basic lecture

Graphic design for scientists

Transferable skill course

Building bridges in science: Practice empathy, listen actively and become an ally

Transferable skill course

Mini lecture series "Plant-insect coevolution"

Science course
This is a 4h mini lecture series compiling topics from insect-plant coevolution. [more]

Introduction to mass spectrometry

Science course

Social behaviour in clonal ant colonies

Basic lecture

How to find plant biosynthetic genes

Basic lecture

Chemical diversity in plants: Why do plants have so many metabolites? An eco-evolutionary perspective

Basic lecture
  • Date: Sep 25, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nicole van Dam
  • Director of research of the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops
  • Location: online via zoom

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Transferable skill course

Microbial symbioses as driving forces of evolutionary innovation in insects

Basic lecture

Grant proposal writing

Career course

Mini lecture series "Plant natural products"

Science course

Evolutionary ecology of a shared color polymorphism in orthopterans

Basic lecture
  • Date: May 8, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Holger Schielzeth
  • Prof. for Molecular Population Ecology at FSU Institute of Ecology
  • Location: online via zoom

Details of intra- and intermolecular protein communication - a matter of life and death

Basic lecture
  • Date: Apr 24, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ute A. Hellmich
  • Prof. for Biostructural Interactions at FSU Institute of Organic Chemistry & Macromolecular Chemistry
  • Location: online via zoom

Introduction to basic statistics and R

Science course

Academic writing

Transferable skill course

Strong and positive during the doctorate

Transferable skill course

Good scientific practise

Transferable skill course

IMPRS course 'Data visualisation with R'

Transferable skill course

Response of the plant cell to degradation of its wall

Basic lecture
  • Date: Feb 20, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ralf Oelmüller
  • Head of Plant Physiology at FSU, Schleiden Institute
  • Location: online via zoom

What does it mean to smell green? A look at green leaf volatiles from a biochemist’s perspective working in Chemical Ecology

Basic lecture
  • Date: Jan 30, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: John D'Auria
  • Head of Research Group Metabolic Diversity at IPK Gatersleben
  • Location: online via zoom

The basics of light and fluorescence microscopy

Science course
  • Start: Jan 30, 2023 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jan 31, 2023 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Veit Grabe
  • Head of Microscopic Imaging Service Group
  • Location: MPI-CE
  • Room: A1.041

Where to apply for research funding - an overview of postdoc funding programs

Career course

Chemically mediated interactions between predators and prey

Basic lecture

Mini lecture series "Insect chemical ecology"

Science course
This is a new mini lecture series compiling seven topics from insect chemical ecology. The seven lectures takes place from 2-3pm on Dec 6,7,8,9,13,14, and 15. [more]

Graphic design for scientists

Transferable skill course

Olfactory learning, memory and plasticity in Drosophila

Basic lecture

Speed reading in science

Transferable skill course

Rethinking the arisal of diversity in host-associated microorganisms

Basic lecture

"Speed informing" with MPI-CE alumni

Career course
MPI-CE alumni will share insights into their career paths within the "speed informing" concept. Each alumnus/alumna will rotate between groups of doctoral researchers for 15 minute Q&A sessions.

SIRIUS and beyond: Turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information

Basic lecture
  • Date: Sep 12, 2022
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sebastian Böcker
  • Head of Department of Bioinformatics at FSU "Institute of Computer Science"
  • Location: online via zoom

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Transferable skill course

After two years of COVID-19 pandemic: What have we learned about the origin of the causative agent SARS-CoV-2?

Basic lecture
  • Date: Jul 11, 2022
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Günter Theißen
  • Head of Department of Genetics at FSU "Matthias Jakob Schleiden Institute"
  • Location: online via zoom

Using evolutionary game theory to understand ecological interactions

Basic lecture

Adobe Illustrator

Transferable skill course
  • Start: Jun 20, 2022 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 21, 2022 04:00 PM
  • Speaker: Veit Grabe
  • Location: MPI-CE
  • Room: TBA

Taking the next step in science: How do you know if you're good enough?

Basic lecture

Workshop in organic chemistry for non-chemists

Science course

Introduction to basic statistics and R

Science course
  • Start: Apr 25, 2022 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 29, 2022 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Grit Kunert
  • MPI-CE statistics trainer
  • Location: MPI-CE
  • Room: TBA

Optimal defence allocation in roots

Basic lecture
  • Date: Apr 4, 2022
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nicole van Dam
  • Head of Molecular Interaction Ecology at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
  • Location: online via zoom

Transcriptome and genome sequencing: theoretical and practical considerations and examples from the bench

Science course
  • Date: Mar 24, 2022
  • Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: online via zoom

Academic writing

Transferable skill course

Good scientific practise

Transferable skill course

Basidiomycetes in microbial communication

Basic lecture
  • Date: Feb 21, 2022
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Erika Kothe
  • Head of "Microbial Communication" Group at FSU Institute for Microbiology
  • Location: online via zoom

The basics of light and fluorescence microscopy

Science course
  • Start: Feb 7, 2022 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Feb 10, 2022 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Veit Grabe
  • Head of Microscopic Imaging Service Group
  • Location: MPI-CE
  • Room: A1.041

Data visualization

Transferable skill course

Plant transformation workshop

Science course

Division of labor and disease dynamics in ant societies

Basic lecture
  • Date: Jan 24, 2022
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Yuko Ulrich
  • Group Leader Lise Meitner Research Group Social Behavior, MPI-CE
  • Location: online via zoom

Microbial symbioses as driving forces of evolutionary innovation in insects

Basic lecture
  • Date: Dec 13, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Martin Kaltenpoth
  • Director of Department of Insect Symbiosis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
  • Location: online via zoom

Data visualization

Transferable skill course

Overview research funding

Career course

Academic writing - how to create good texts

Transferable skill course

Widerlegen, aber richtig!

Transferable skill course

Sensing the rhizosphere via cellooligomers

Basic lecture
  • Date: Nov 8, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ralf Oelmüller
  • Professor of Plant Physiology, Schleiden Institute, Friedrich Schiller University
  • Location: online via zoom

Polymorphisms in natural population

Basic lecture
  • Date: Oct 25, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Holger Schielzeth
  • Professor of Molecular Population Ecology, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University
  • Location: online via zoom

Molecular and chemical interaction ecology

Science course
This course is part of the international MSc. Evolution, Ecology and Systematics programm at Friedrich Schiller University. It consists of a two hour lecture on Thursday (10.15 -12.00 am) and a one week block course in February 2022 (21-25.2.). Please register by Oct 18 by sending an email to: imprs@ice.mpg.de.

How plants make drugs

Basic lecture
  • Date: Oct 18, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sarah O'Connor
  • Director of Department of Natural Product Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
  • Location: online via zoom

How the nose can guide you to food and mating partners: some case studies in insects

Basic lecture

Ethical acting in science - "How does science work?"

Transferable skill course
Registration via email (imprs@ice.mpg.de) on Aug 31st, 2021, 11am [more]

Fundamentals of mass spectrometry

Science course

The neuroscience of senses

Basic lecture
  • Date: Jun 28, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Manuela Nowotny
  • Professor of Animal Physiology, Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Location: online via zoom

Adapting to plant life: Can microbial diversity help reset our perspectives and generate new hypotheses?

Basic lecture
  • Date: May 3, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Matthew Agler
  • Junior Research Group Plant Microbiosis, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Tropane and granatane alkaloid biosynthesis – A chemical biology story from a biochemist’s perspective

Basic lecture
  • Date: Apr 12, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: John D'Auria
  • Metabolic Diversity Group, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben
  • Location: online via zoom

How biomathematics can help us understand chemical defense and counter-defense

Basic lecture
  • Date: Mar 8, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stefan Schuster
  • Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biosciences, Friedrich Schiller University
  • Location: online via zoom

CASP14 and AlphaFold2

Basic lecture
  • Date: Feb 22, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sebastian Böcker
  • Chair for Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Location: online via zoom

Dissecting olfactory circuits in insects

Basic lecture
  • Date: Feb 15, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Silke Sachse
  • Olfactory Coding Research Group, MPI for Chemical Ecology
  • Location: online via zoom

Advancing from advisee to advisor: Learning how to mentor the next generation of scientists

Basic lecture
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