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Seminars

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology hosts weekly seminars with guest speakers from all over the world.

Seminars usually take place wednesdays between 2 pm and 3.30 pm in the seminar room (1.052 and 1.053) in the central building, but exceptions prove the rule. All times, dates and topics can be found here.

Seed evolution, a maternal story

May 2026
  • Date: May 27, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Enrico Magnani
  • IJPB, INRAE Centre IdF, Versailles Cedex, France
  • Location: Central Building
  • Room: Seminar Room
  • Host: Duarte Dionísio Figueiredo

Leveraging Transcription Activator-Like Effectors (TALEs) to Identify Pseudomonas-Infected Plant Cells in the Spatial Context of Plant Immunity

May 2026
  • Date: May 29, 2026
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Haseong Kim
  • ZMBP, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • Location: Central Building
  • Room: Seminar Room
  • Host: Caroline Gutjahr

Repurposing Nature's Molecular Machines as Precision Tools for Plant Genome Engineering // How Cellular Context Shapes Brassinosteroid Signaling During Root Development

June 2026
  • Date: Jun 1, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Goezde Demirer & Trevor Nolan
  • Chemical Engineering and Division of Biology & Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
  • Location: Central Building
  • Room: Seminar Room
  • Host: Daniel Dunkelmann

Tunnel mission: Plant virus movement through plasmodesmata

June 2026
  • Date: Jun 10, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jens Tilsner
  • University of Saint Andrews, UK
  • Location: Central Building
  • Room: Seminar Room
  • Host: Marco Incarbone
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