Current schedule

Frisbi seminars are offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person seating in Mondi 2 as well as online streaming, always on Fridays at 15:00 unless mentioned otherwise. All information (including Zoom links) is sent out via regular emails to our mailing list: FriSBi@lists.ist.ac.at.

Please note that the following schedule contains both upcoming and former speakers, sorted by date. Affiliation is given in parentheses; institute name for external speakers, group name(s) (in alphabetical order if multiple) for internal speakers. External speakers are denoted in green.

Season 2024 / 2025

  • Sep 20: Karsten Kruse (University of Geneva) – Junctional force patterning drives organization of the chick auditory epithelium
  • Oct 11: Krishnan Iyer (Tkačik Group) – How cells can use the distributed architecture of their internal processing to track temporally varying, external molecular cues
  • Oct 25: Stephanie Ellis (Max Perutz Labs) – Fighting for function: how cell competition shapes development and growth control of epithelial barriers
  • Nov 8: Caren Norden (Gulbenkian) – The role of nuclear properties for their packing and movement in zebrafish neuroepithelia
  • Nov 22: Ivan Palaia (Šarić Group) – Dividing cells: how actin constricts the membrane
  • Nov 29: Zena Hadjivasiliou (The Francis Crick Institute) – Shaping morphogen gradients: From molecules to tissues and back
  • Dec 6: Nikola Čanigová (Sixt Group) – Adapting cell migration to overcome transitions into dense environments
  • Dec 13: Fabrizio Olmeda (Hannezo Group) – Scaling morphogen gradients: Insights from axolotl limb regeneration
  • Jan 24: Ralf Richter (Uni Leeds) – Molecular recognition across our cells’ sugary coat
  • Jan 31: Chen Yi (Alex) Zhang (Tkačik Group) – Correlational Information and non-local decoding
  • Feb 7: Alexis Benichou (Tkačik Group) – Statistical inference of circuit motifs in biological neural networks
  • Feb 14: Clementine Domine (UCL) – Learning Dynamics of the Rich and Lazy Regimes in Detail
  • Feb 28: Hervé Turlier (Collège de France) – Bridging Microscopy and Biophysical Models through Optimisation and AI
  • Mar 14: Alex Mietke (University of Oxford) – Mechanics, stability and self-organization of active surfaces in biology
  • Mar 20: Colinda Scheele (KU Leuven) – Natural tissue remodeling as driver for breast tumor initiation and treatment resistance
  • Mar 28: Philip Greulich (University of Southampton) – Quantitative Modelling in stem cell biology and beyond: what’s the point?
  • Apr 25: Takashi Hiiragi (Hubrecht)
  • May 9: Guy Amichay (Northwestern Uni)
  • Jun 6: Marianne Bauer (Delft Uni)
  • Jun 27: Silvia Santos (The Francis Crick Institute)